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by nsmartt 13y ago
Do keep in mind that the parent was specifically referring to assault weapons, which are presumably much more rare than other firearms, and also very rarely used in crime. I have no statistics, and I have no clue how many baseball bat dea
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by nsmartt 13y ago
Commenting on internet forums and engaging in debate is at least better than clicking "like". In terms of conversation, the "like" button is DH3, where comments and debate can potentially be DH4 or higher ( http://www.paulgraham.com/disagre
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by nsmartt 13y ago
Offering women free public repositories will expose more women to the open-source community. The idea is, of course, that they will slowly become more comfortable with the community and begin to open their work. This could go either way, bu
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by nsmartt 13y ago
I'm curious. What e-cigs are you using?
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by nsmartt 13y ago
I disagree, simply because Open Sans is, well, open.
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by nsmartt 13y ago
Libertarians and Republicans have very little in common. This is blatantly false.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
> They aren't blank, they're forwarded to your followers. I meant that there's no easy way to determine which reblogs have actual responses and which are just raw reblogs. The concept of a reblog is great, but the execution isn't.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
> That's pretty much against the hacker mindset. I see how you would think so, but I lean in the opposite direction. If all programs in X language are written in the same style, you never have to pause to think about how to style somet
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by nsmartt 14y ago
Most reblogs are blank. I agree that replying on your own blog isn't a mistake. I'd just amend that Tumblr almost gets it right.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
Most people don't object to providing their identity, but those who do are silenced if there is no anonymous option. It's not worth silencing them, IMO.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
Visibility is low for actual replies on Tumblr. It doesn't properly facilitate discussion. I can quickly discern that there are 4k+ notes on a post, but I have no indication of how many are reblogs vs licks, let alone reblogs with actual re
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I agreed with you until the last line. Weeding out intentionally bad commentary must never be done at the cost of quality commentary.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
From what I hear, it's supposed to be a codename, but it's been suggested that the name is acceptable enough to keep by this point.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
If I ever knew this, I'd long forgotten it. Thank you.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
By comparing the indexed public keys with github accounts. Should a user have both a pseudonymous account and an account tied to his or her real name, this would compromise the identity of the pseudonymous account. Edit: To be clear, this w
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by nsmartt 14y ago
> Most people use real names on Github, or freely discuss their locality on Reddit... Maybe most, but not all. It isn't an issue for everyone, but that doesn't mean it isn't an issue at all. > Seriously, if you can design a honeypo
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by nsmartt 14y ago
A lot of the comments here are along the lines of "My identity is public anyway." That response is ridiculous. Should you have been operating under a pseudonym, this would be a way to tie that pseudonym to your real name. I should be told
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by nsmartt 14y ago
Agreed. I also dislike that I have to click a button (with text that probably isn't accurate anyway) to see the next result. A list of possibilities would be much preferred.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
Even if this isn't true, your friends with unlocked phones could be leaking your otherwise private posts to anyone who sees their phone.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I meant that it can be called a learning experience to justify further development. Besides, Rust is genuinely useful. I can't be the only one who is interested in (eventually) using it as my go-to language for my projects.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
Until recently, Servo has been labeled as an experiment, and they've claimed that it isn't intended to replace Gecko. I'm skeptical about this claim, but it does suggests that replacing Gecko isn't its primary objective. If nothing else, th
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I can't see Mozilla abandoning Rust. If nothing else, it's valuable as a learning experience for all involved.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I really want to use AeroFS, but I have a few criticisms. a) One of its goals is privacy, but it asks for my first and last name. Why is this needed? I could always lie, but I'd much prefer a single field (e.g. display name) that doesn't ex
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by nsmartt 14y ago
>none of my close friends use facebook I'd say you're lucky. Most of my friends use Facebook. I refuse, so I'm out of touch with most of them. I figure if we aren't willing to keep in touch in other ways, our friendship isn't holding up
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by nsmartt 14y ago
This is the kind of thing that should be automated anyway. Write a script to do everything you're doing in the process of setting up your system, and you won't ever have to do it by hand again.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
This is much better than my half-baked response.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I'm not opposed to e-books at all. I just submit that they are not the death of physical books, and it would be a shame if they were.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
I was thinking more along the lines of accidental data loss than everyone having to worry about remote wipes all the time. I should've made that more clear.
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by nsmartt 14y ago
E-books are still an inferior technology to physical books in some ways. I can't, for example, draw a diagram in the margins of an E-book. I can write notes and highlight, but it basically stops there. With Amazon (not sure about other prov
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by nsmartt 14y ago
This seems to be a mistake. I'm pretty sure the namesake mentioned is in reference to the book title, not the boy's name.

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