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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Han Solo: "Then we'll do it real quiet like". Return of the Jedi.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
The discovery of arrays was one of the most amazing moments in my young programmer education. That and if/then and gosub/return. Paradigm changers!
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
"The only relevant question is whether encryption/Tor/whatever is or is not currently an evidence for/against being an evildoer, and how strong that evidence is." I think we need to be careful not to argue law from
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Isn't this basically a protectionism move designed to strengthen local social networks?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
It's not unusual, but it's still a massive conflict of interest. The drug companies are clearly incentivized to hire laboratories that just happen to come up with the "right" results. Alternatively, they can just hire a
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I'm feeling more attuned than usual to the fact that I inhabit a filter bubble. Thus I observe the preponderance of anti-car posts on Hacker News and wonder, what's the other side of this issue? What are the arguments in favor of
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
But if the employer could pay less for labor in the U.S. then perhaps they would have kept the jobs here. That's what I meant by asking if the minimum wage is "too high". This isn't related to supply-side economics. Just
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
There is a wide range of issues for which there are different legitimate ways of interpreting the same evidence. The humanities, for crying out loud, are generally philosophical rather than empirical---how you interpret James Joyce is much
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
What I don't understand is why these huge numbers of unemployed workers (which must depress wages to the minimum) aren't like catnip to labor-intensive industries. It's like having our own little China/Vietnam/Bangl
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Given the current impossibility of even _defining_ consciousness, this idea makes me uneasy. How well do we actually understand the correlation between brain activity and consciousness?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Maybe, but it would also be a huge blow against the power of congress, which could only strengthen the executive. Without consistent leadership, congress would be even more feckless than ever.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
This is telling organizations developing standards to basically pretend IPv4 doesn't exist and is no longer in use. At least that's how I read it. Seems a bit premature.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Is anxiety a failure mode? Or is it somehow exactly what's needed to tell us that something's missing?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
This general idea is brilliant. Think what it does for discoverability of application functionality. I'm sure Chrome (where I'm typing this) has a multitude of useful shortcuts that I'm not aware of but that my keyboard could
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
And maybe pool some money and hire a designer?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I really dig how laptop input devices are in flux right now. There's this trackbar thing, and then there are RGB keyboards like on the Razer Blade Pro. Here would be my ideal input configuration: * Touchbar with haptic feedback to make
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
The article doesn't make an important distinction: the computing power required for AI applications like Siri (massive) far outstrips the computing power available on a lightweight drone or "Terminator" weapon. Highly sophist
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Cool look. Funny that resources are still "wheat" and the robber is still a robber. Why not more theme-appropriate things like "titanium" and "space pirate"?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I always thought DNS had enough redundancy built-in that this sort of thing wouldn't really have much effect. But here I am unable to access websites, simply because name resolution isn't working. If my local DNS server were cachi
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
But the mobile experience sucks :-(
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Interesting points, but I don't see how you can argue that FISA decisions do not have force of law. It's a _court_ applying and interpreting law, which we all know (Roe v. Wade, Brown v. the Board, etc.) can have as sweeping and d
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
The difficulty I see with MBTI is that the categories were decided in advance, whereas they should be determined based on the data. In other words, MBTI treats human personality as a classification problem (which of these categories do you
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I'm just not so sure the EME is so horrible. If companies want to deliver their content encrypted then they will do so.
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
It's not an individual firm that will decrease the supply, but the market as a whole. Largely this will occur as companies go out of business or shut down their LED operations because they're not profitable. Eventually when few en
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I thought this article described a Linus rant in which he exploded at others for not following his fifteen year-old instructions regarding a macro?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I'm also excited about the possibilities MIR opens up. As I recall, non-lexical lifetimes depended on MIR. Does anybody know what the current ETA is for that feature?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
I wonder about this. Without the profit motive / investor dollars, would anything ever get done?
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
So IPv6 is the Brasilia of Internet real estate :-)
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Feels like real estate. The move to IPv6 could be seen as a socialist land redistribution scheme, since it imposes a cost upon the entire system (by requiring network upgrades) in order to make cheap "real estate" continually avai
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by pc2g4d 10y ago
Is this for real? It seems like this should be a massive scandal.

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