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by olefoo 13y ago
I'm always amused by 'entrepreneurs' whose focus is on getting funded rather than building a business.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Except that Judge Learned Hand is an American judge, dealing with American cultural norms and political ideals. British law may have rather different ideas as to what constitutes legal obligations. As with many things, power defines the lim
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by olefoo 13y ago
Much like TCP/IP, HTTP and a plethora of other internet standards; it would have not been adopted had anyone maintained an active claim of ownership. The way to make money off a standard is to sell it's complements ( think Cisco or SUN sell
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by olefoo 13y ago
Ah, beg to differ. The young lady in question is of the duskier race and therefore the prosecution was not arbitrary; but according to long and traditional standards designed to maintain the social hierarchy without which society would crum
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by olefoo 13y ago
Very nice. Simple, straightforward, to the point. If you included large icons for each of the exercises ( similar to http://thenounproject.com/noun/exercise/#icon-No318 ) and used large type relative to the screen size ( so that someon
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by olefoo 13y ago
In the US at least the state DOT's have that information and have a GIS office that would make it available for a nominal fee. You'd still need to check a lot it in cities. Big worry would probably be liability; if your database of overpass
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by olefoo 13y ago
I'm mildly surprised that requiring trucks to file travel plans has not become a more widespread practice. What with terrorism concerns, and the widespread use of GPS monitors on trucks it's both feasible and plausible. It seems like major
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by olefoo 13y ago
It could be that the under- and unemployed are heavily overrepresented in online forums. It's one of the few places where they can be treated as equals. And also, given the nature of the site, many people here are taking risky financial mov
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by olefoo 13y ago
You would need a printer that can do selective sintering of metal dust. And I'm fairly sure you could build a gun that had an extended duty cycle. http://gpiprototype.com/services/dmls-direct-metal-laser-sin...
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by olefoo 13y ago
Well, at least you have the stones to own your pettiness. And in so far as they are aiming at different market segments, the two companies aren't direct competitors. If you're looking for an in town runabout that's all electric and that you
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by olefoo 13y ago
Well, if we're going full Godwin; it might be good for you and all those of us who are US Citizens to reflect on the fact that our country is currently the one running the most notorious concentration camp on the planet and has admitted to
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by olefoo 13y ago
To be powerful in a corrupt society is a sign of corruption is it not? When you live in a world where the highest levels of society are literally "above the law", torture as policy is considered acceptable, might makes right, and democracy
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by olefoo 13y ago
And that's awesome if they can talk about it like intelligent people, but drive by downvotes are more the domain of some other news site. Of course, it's probably because I mentioned status... which is the third rail of Bay Area niceness; I
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by olefoo 13y ago
I've driven one. They're fun, they tilt to the curve. And they're more practical for a single city-dweller. Also, whoever downvoted me... can we keep this civil please? That HACKER news is becoming a place where people downvote mentions of
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by olefoo 13y ago
Meh, Teslas are boring status mobiles now. If you like your electric cars to be interesting and exciting. Order an Arcimoto [1] instead. 1. http://www.arcimoto.com/
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by olefoo 13y ago
Only after we have explored every other possible solution. This is America, and no socialism is possible; unless you are a homeland security contractor.
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by olefoo 13y ago
The equation is something like: ( (gross_revenue + interest_on_capital) - cost_of_care ) = profit In other words, the greater throughput, the greater profit.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Mr. Burns is falling down on the league tables then, CEO's should be earning at least 500 times the average workers wage http://go.bloomberg.com/multimedia/ceo-pay-ratio/ Clearly he is undercompensated.
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by olefoo 13y ago
What we need to do is to get a standard cease and desist letter that tells service providers that selling our personal information without notification, auditing powers and compensation is not permitted, and is a violation of our right of
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by olefoo 13y ago
My immediate reaction to seeing the multiple occurrences of "She must have done something to deserve it." in this thread was "Because, Racism!". But on second thought, it's probably just the reflexive servility of the average american. The
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by olefoo 13y ago
You're assuming that the laws should always be enforced. Remember that governments, even governments that are wealthy and technologically advanced do go crazy and engage in genocide against their subjects under color of law. It has happened
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by olefoo 13y ago
sslstrip attacks could be made to work, all sorts of things are possible if you own the network. If you have your target picked out, and know the stack he's using and what his home network policies are, you can flash an official looking hel
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by olefoo 13y ago
I think you meant mutually exclusive? As for, "human solutions to human problems" the agonistic form of most western legal systems, where professionals advocate for their clients and present opposing views to someone who is supposed to be a
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by olefoo 13y ago
Money and self-deception work just as well in Iceland as in Britain or the US of A. This is a human problem that must be solved by human means. It is tempting when looking at the corrupted nature of our current institutions to think of tech
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by olefoo 13y ago
Not quite, a linux system of ~2010 has several advances over a Unix system/V from the late 1970's it's a late 1960s muscle car compared to the Model A of PDP-11. Same basic technology under the hood, but refined and much better understood.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Useless, in the sense that they are less than adequately effective; a reasonably able locksmith can open most barrel locks in seconds. If a criminal puts it in mind to acquire the skills, opening the locks is a small part of thievery, getti
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by olefoo 13y ago
Managing Projects with Make 3rd edition http://oreilly.com/openbook/make3/book/index.csp This is the definitive reference to the software that lifts you from writing software to building software systems. See also http://bost.ocks.org/mi
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by olefoo 13y ago
I had two, almost simultaneous reactions to this. On the one hand "oooh, that's useful, I need another set for loaning to cat-sitters." On the other hand, "Keys are worthless now!" The gripping hand is that keys have been worthless for quit
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by olefoo 13y ago
Any news channel whose announcers are so visibly aroused by the prospect of bombing countries that they actively demonize has lost any claim to seriousness, sorry, that's the way it is.
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by olefoo 13y ago
So the technical solution is to have our news reading environment be aware of which items we've seen, and only alert us when new information on a topic we've expressed an intent to follow comes in. So imagine that CNN tries to reinvent them

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