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by pkinsky 12y ago
Voting with your vote, in the US, means choosing between the Democratic and Republican wings of the Capitalist Party.
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by pkinsky 12y ago
>First, 17 countries? WTF? Why is he deliberately limiting the sample to predominantly caucasian countries? The US certainly has its faults, but it comes in at #3 on the UN's Human Development Index. Why not show data from the top 2
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Peter Watts: The Scorched Earth Society [pdf](rifters.com)
63 points by pkinsky 12y ago|11 comments
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by pkinsky 12y ago
In case B, the NSA might not hand a briefcase of schematics to US companies for economic gain. But they have used stolen data to influence trade negotiations for the benefit of US companies. In both cases, the military could be said to have
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by pkinsky 12y ago
How is the PLA hacking American companies and accessing designs different from the NSA hacking Huawei and accessing source code? Their justifications differ, but not their actions.
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by pkinsky 12y ago
Even if we assume that each page only loads a single ad, which either succeeds or fails, the perception of a site being unreliable hurts the company running it. Household names like Disney and Sony might be able to live with that, but they&
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by pkinsky 12y ago
It's possible to build a website that renders itself unusable if an ad fails to load, to prevent browsers with AdBlock enabled from viewing your content. The problem with this approach is that if a single ad fails to load for any reas
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>Bad days always happen, mistakes are always made, nothing ever goes according to plan. If you don't fail some of the time, you're not taking big enough risks. Jason's post attracts people that understand this to work for
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Just tried with facebook, got this message: Sorry, we don't support facebook.com/ links yet.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
There's a nice overview here: http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/core/futures.html
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Monadic composition of futures for nonblocking servers is the way to go, but in javascript? With no for comprehension syntax? With no ability to express the asynchronous nature of your code via the type system using Future[T]? Node.js does
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I wonder if Twitter will be able to use the data from Twitter's competitors transiting Gnip's firehose for their own analytics/machine learning/relevance purposes. (From a legal standpoint that is, I'm sure they hav
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>But Mr. Obama carved a broad exception for “a clear national security or law enforcement need,” Read: unless we really want to.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
You state that the actions taken by Condoleeza Rice in the political sphere are not sufficient cause to blackball her. If contributing to launching a war of aggression and the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians is not sufficient
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by pkinsky 13y ago
You're most likely right, but if they were to say that outright it would be much harder for her to exercise said influence.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
'Witch hunt' normally refers to hounding someone for minor or imagined offenses. Condoleezza Rice actively participated in launching a war of aggression, an offense which was deemed worthy of the death penalty at the Nuremberg tri
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by pkinsky 13y ago
After the outrage generated by Brendan Eich's $1000 donation to prop 8, I would hope Dropbox associating with one of the people behind the Iraq war draws a similar response. If anyone's deserving of ostracization, it's war cr
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I thought the whole point of HFT was to wait for a buyer to signal interest in buying X, and then buy X before that buyer and sell it to him at a slightly higher price. If this is true, then in your scenario you would still have your house
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>The US doesn't start invasions and pretends it's someone else's military. Drone strikes come to mind. Didn't the US claim that bombings in Yemen where the work of the local government? That said, the order of magnitu
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Meta: augmented reality, google glass done right.
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Preorders open for William Gibson's latest book, The Peripheral(amazon.com)
1 points by pkinsky 13y ago|0 comments
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Would you take the same position if this guy had contributed money to a less socially acceptable cause? Would you defend a CEO with a history of donating to the KKK anti-interracial-marriage fund as the public face of Mozilla?
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by pkinsky 13y ago
It's a dead drop. If this was cold war era Moscow, they'd use a drainage ditch or a loose brick. Hotmail is just the digital equivalent.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Does the same logic apply to companies dealing with Taiwan, in (probable) convention of Chinese law? Huawei has no responsibility to follow US export law.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
We would be able to transfer heavy industry and resource extraction to space, using robotic factories! That would solve all the problems , starting with scarcity! Pollution is bad in a biosphere, but why shouldn't we strip-mine the
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I recently started taking Trubrain's supplements, a subscription piracetam-based nootropic stack with a hefty convenience markup. If I decide to stick with it for more than a few months I'll probably start mixing my own.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
How does google feel about non [Java, Python, C] languages? Could I use Scala to solve interview questions?
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Asynchronicity is great, but javascript doesn't provide the tools to do it properly. > (...) try writing a function call that requires information from two separate HTTP API responses; I basically need to draw a diagram of what happ
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I chose Scala/Play framework for the same reasons. Java might be awful, but the JVM is a beast. >Though my tip though for the long term replacement of javac is Scala. I'm very impressed with it! I can honestly say if someone ha
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that. Nothing seems to have changed.

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