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by oinksoft 13y ago
I understand that you can't seek psychiatric help, or else you lose your clearance. And other fun stuff like that. In any case I know quite a few "decent human beings" who would not be able to get a security clearance.
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No .. the US is hacking/spying on every worthwhile entity. And so is everybody else. It doesn't mean a thing about who the "enemy" is. This is the status quo; it's Spy vs. Spy. Example: http://intelnews.o
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by oinksoft 13y ago
It's precisely where we're going. I thought I had to get my ears checked when I heard Obama talking about having 100% security at the expense of privacy and convenience. A nation demanding 100% security is a police state in the si
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Sr. got an airport named after him? Reminds me when they renamed National to Reagan National. I thought Nixon National would be catchier if the bar's that low.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Brilliant. It's sad it lends itself so easily to spin, "The Chinese Turned Him!" I expect that is what Americans will be told to believe.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Why not just stand up and cool off? The focus of the story is privacy on the internet, and predictably it gets huge play on this website.
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Q&A with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: 'I do not expect to see home again'(guardian.co.uk)
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by oinksoft 13y ago
In my experience, it's vastly more likely that a mobile device loses reception, power, etc. than it is that my paper suddenly goes up in flames. I'd probably have bigger problems to deal with if that were to happen. Paper relies o
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Yea, definitely! That's why, like I said in another comment, for local routes I don't really use a map unless it's some place I haven't been before. If I know how to get to the road the place is on, and can figure out wh
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Sure, there's no problem with you and I agreeing to disagree. I'm of the opinion that the mind operates like a sort of muscle, and that you can be in or out of shape for a particular thing, mentally. As the mapping example goes, a
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Regarding mapping, note I said I don't rely on point-A-to-B directions for local trips. For long trips where I am not familiar with my destination, I typically plug it into Google Maps (that might change now, though I know of no appr
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by oinksoft 13y ago
As somebody who seldom carries a mobile phone, figures out local directions with an address and paper map, etc., this editorial resonates strongly with me, and the author illustrates his point beautifully. His expression, "diminished s
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Different degrees of intrusion. Even with my blinds open, I expect there to be no wholesale video surveillance recording me, and I don't expect my activities to be visible to somebody on the other side of the world. There are many larg
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by oinksoft 13y ago
You posted this comment, word-for-word, in another thread, three minutes ago .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5845339
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by oinksoft 13y ago
In Stalin's USSR, that was not true. Generally there were folks (or even a lone soul) in every village answering to the state, expected to keep that area toeing the party line. Absurd meetings on party ideology would be held in the mos
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Several of your examples are hard real-time systems. Garbage collectors, schedulers, etc. are a no-go in such environments, so you won't see much Python or JavaScript there, but that doesn't discount the value of those languages. Note that
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Let's not pretend that Google's open source products in any way follow an open development process. Do you notice anything in common about the recent committers? http://code.google.com/p/dart/source/list http://code.google.com/p/closure-
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Go is not a service, it is a language and runtime with open-source implementations. If Go is worthwhile, it will survive even Google shutting down. I don't see why you would find Go under Apache to be bad news.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Sure, but of course there are other options. Both liberal capitalism and national socialism/state communism (Soviet) are highly centralized forms of government, whereras anarcho-syndicalism is decentralized and highly capitalist, and anarch
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I'll try: I don't think it is fair to criticized parent for expressing his broad opinion on economics in this particular case. There is a wide body of political and economic thought which believes that capitalism in general is a system desi
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Yes. Idempotency is just one property of the GET request, what parent described would be a DELETE request (these too are idempotent). So I could have been more precise and funny with that joke, I guess.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Well per the HTTP standard, GET requests should be idempotent. I kid, but imagine seeing pompous development advice stapled to official justification for some internet sleuthing!
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by oinksoft 13y ago
You're assuming the necessity of a great, essentially imperialistic power in the world. The source of the scathing criticisms you will often see coming from outside of the United States is the observation that misery was visited by some ali
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by oinksoft 13y ago
Sure, but you'd hope he wouldn't deny that the other eye is out.
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by oinksoft 13y ago
as far as global hegemons go, the U.S. is the most benevolent such entity in the history of the world. Well, that's some real comfort. You heard it here, better than the Roman and British empires! The reference point should be a
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by oinksoft 13y ago
A pacifist would agree with you. In one of the founding documents of modern pacifism, the likes of which inspired Gandhi[1], Leo Tolstoy wrote CATECHISM OF NON-RESISTANCE. .. Q. Can a Christian give a vote at elections, or take part
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by oinksoft 13y ago
(2008)
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I agree regarding the trajectory of the KDE and GNOME projects, but XFCE has made huge strides in the past five years and stands as a great model of evolutionary rather than revolutionary development (to borrow from Nimzowitsch's vocabulary
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by oinksoft 13y ago
I think the zsh-vs-bash debate is centered on minimalist vs. full-featured. For instance, the git completion example is very ugly in zsh to me. I know what git commands do, and I'd much prefer for the completion to take 1-2 lines total than
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by oinksoft 13y ago
The announcement is posted at http://gopollgo.com/ Congratulations on the acquisition, OP.

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