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by pi18n 14y ago
Thanks for the link, I hadn't seen the second one. I felt like I almost understood what they are for, and the constructors for the arrow datatype aren't very cryptic, but then it hits the code examples, which has stuff like y <- r
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by pi18n 14y ago
Secure boot is fantastic for users IFF they can change the master keys on the hardware. But you would have to be a complete idiot to trust that Microsoft or Apple would allow that for any longer than it takes to make the hardware ubiqui
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by pi18n 14y ago
Most information on Monads start out with IO, which I agree isn't helpful. I found one that explained it with Maybe and Either, and that was where I began to understand it. I think Maybe is the easiest to grasp for people who work in proced
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by pi18n 14y ago
I don't want to make math and computer science sound unimportant -- it's an important distinction because pure math is not supposed to be patentable. But for whatever reason if you include a hypothetical machine it is suddenly patentable.
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by pi18n 14y ago
So I lose the bet, but it's still mathematics that shouldn't be patentable in the first place.
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by pi18n 14y ago
If you read the claims they are apparently infringing upon, it's all math with a thin veneer of "on a magnetic storage medium". It's literally mathematical signal processing. I would bet a few dozen bucks that it is obvious to anyone studyi
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by pi18n 14y ago
I'd be fine if people signed up with these to try it, but they should use a permanent address if they want to continue using it. I would have no sympathy at all if they lost their account.
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by pi18n 14y ago
xugle, it seems your account got caught by the reapers. I found your comment to be informative, so it must have been some sort of mistake.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I think for many people it's going to be hard to fulfill the following: > ... except for those inventions that either: (1) relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer’s business, or actual
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by pi18n 14y ago
Perhaps that particular situation cannot occur, but similar situations can and do occur. The point of the anecdote is that it is possible to commit a very serious crime without any mens rea or even realization.
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by pi18n 14y ago
This is not a helpful comment. The anecdote is not suggesting that everyone who commits an accidental crime is trafficking Tylenol One. It's a story about how a small action can turn out to be a felony. This has been true in other cases tha
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by pi18n 14y ago
Yes that was it. I didn't know it was a contentious word at the time.
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by pi18n 14y ago
It's hard to see something so objectively unethical defended by unethical people, and know that they are economically successful.
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by pi18n 14y ago
What is DNT? A way for advertisers to get another bit of information about you.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Making it a viable option would be simple, convincing people that they need it would be the trick.
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by pi18n 14y ago
This is a practical use case for Bittorrent.
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by pi18n 14y ago
You're thinking of the FBI and CIA... unless you were under the impression that nail clippers and bottles of water were actually dangerous?
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by pi18n 14y ago
> And besides, as it stands now, you can buy from other stores, for example, Cydia. Of course, you have to jailbreak your phone, but that is legal in the US, so there is no argument any more. > If you want to keep your warranty, you
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by pi18n 14y ago
I guess it depends on the audience and the intent of the tutorial. Other posts on his blog include things like "let's have a look into the Objective-C runtime" and "let's unwind the stack on multiple threads to get a nice crash report", so
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by pi18n 14y ago
When the singularity happens, some douche will already have a patent on it and ruin it for everyone.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I have nightmares about neural implants being available but out of my ability to pay for them. And I am fortunate enough to be able to afford food and shelter. Poverty is a serious problem that should be solved. Food, shelter, healthcare, a
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by pi18n 14y ago
I got a torrent for some of the Coursera classes because I hated using their crap website. But those were offered for free in the first place so I don't feel very bad about it.
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by pi18n 14y ago
I've seen it asserted (I think by Falkvinge himself) that the model of paying a bit per view would be heavily abused on the internet, which I don't doubt. It would be interesting to see how many Swedish authors routinely borrow their own bo
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by pi18n 14y ago
How is it possible for these nutbars to get influential positions overseeing the very field they are nutty in? There are a bunch of US examples as well, so I'm assuming it's a global phenomenon. It doesn't make any sense, and honestly there
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by pi18n 14y ago
I think that comment did more harm than good. The problem appears to be that Ubuntu users trusted them to not do things like the shopping lens, and the statement that "you implicitly trust us anyway, so it's okay for us to get your data in
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by pi18n 14y ago
All device permissions should be opt-in from a checklist on first launch, and there should be an option to make your device pretend to opt-in but use fake data. "Can such-and-such app use your location?" "Sure, I am in the middle of the Pac
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by pi18n 14y ago
That's a nonanswer; the majority of users does not know what the hell that is, and the people that do are going to think twice about disabling system-wide security to run some app.
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by pi18n 14y ago
Can devs sign apps with a self-signed root? If that's not possible, it's a closed garden already. And even if it is we can't be certain that they won't change it to App Store only in the future.
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by pi18n 14y ago
A greyhat should write a virus that hijacks computers and makes them Tor exit nodes. Anyone can run it voluntarily and claim ignorance. And people that get hijacked would have been hijacked by something anyway, so they will at least be supp
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by pi18n 14y ago
Then it is fine to charge the ISPs with distribution as well. Oops, now you broke the internet.

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