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by pyre 10y ago
How would you then resolve the following scenarios: 1) I need to have two applications running on the same host with different Python versions. E.g. Python 2.6 and Python 2.7. apt would only support one of the Python 2.x line installed at
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by pyre 10y ago
Your post says that someone must be either "all for deserts" or "all against deserts." It's unclear why people seem to want to force this false dichotomy.
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by pyre 10y ago
Maybe comparable was the word the parent post was searching for.
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by pyre 10y ago
You're rebutting someone that merely said that the industry is "far from a small market" which was in response to someone claiming it was a "tiny" market. Pointing to one of the largest companies operating a web bus
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by pyre 10y ago
You're missing the use-case where you want to use a wildcard certificate and an EV certificate. You can't get an EV wildcard certificate.
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by pyre 10y ago
> People in the former complain that it is too "antiseptic" or "artificial", occasionally gawk at the latter and chastise everyone for not living in misery, always from the comfort of a city where the vast infrastruct
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by pyre 10y ago
> I actually think if you cut off the trackpad I'd find the typing position more awkward. I guess you could picture the TrackPoint like this: http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/4796.jpg
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by pyre 10y ago
As much as you say that, I miss TrackPoint from my days sporting a ThinkPad. I know there are other people that agree. Once you get used to it, it's pretty nifty. You don't even need to take your hands too far away from your keybo
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by pyre 10y ago
"Parts of Michigan" is disingenuous because we are specifically talking about Novi, MI which is in SE Michigan rather than places like (e.g.) Houghton, MI.
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by pyre 10y ago
> I admire what some supermarkets in Australia did when they introduced info on price per 100g for all weighable items. They do this in Canada too, though I have seen instances where two comparable products are measured in different unit
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by pyre 10y ago
At the same time, you can be amazing at your job without being amazing at toy-problem-brain-teaser questions.
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by pyre 10y ago
Well, potential researchers will also have to weigh the possibility that they spend all of the time and effort to research other possibilities for it only to find out that after all of the licensing fees, etc they won't even be able to
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by pyre 10y ago
It's possible for there to be platform -specific bugs / quirks even in the same engine.
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by pyre 10y ago
> "Microsoft has changed their stance" don't seem to be in touch with reality I would say that porting MSSQL to Linux, open-sourcing .NET and ChakraCore (amongst other things) is definitely a change from the "Linux &
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by pyre 10y ago
I was just presenting other situations where an employer might give someone hiring preference. Is it just the idea that someone was getting hiring preference that isn't 100% tied to skills that is the issue? Or is it specifically bec
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by pyre 10y ago
If he had decided to give preference to (e.g.) Syrian refugees because he felt a sense of wanting to help, would you have the same response? If he gave preference to a veteran out of Patriotism or an ex-con out of a belief in "second c
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by pyre 10y ago
Here's a good example of C&D letter that isn't written with going on the "all out offensive" in mind: https://brokenpianoforpresident.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/...
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by pyre 10y ago
Do you have statistics on the number of times that the pilot has to take control because the auto-pilot is unable to cope or is doing the wrong thing? Focusing just human-caused accidents vs. machine-caused accidents ignores this.
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by pyre 10y ago
The fact that something is illegal means that there is a risk in doing it, and a cost in hiding it. It's not quite the same situation as if colluding were completely legal and above-the-board.
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by pyre 10y ago
The same way that competition ensures things like Net Neutrality because consumers vote with their wallets?
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by pyre 10y ago
If this sort of thing becomes common enough at the local-/start-level, I can see it becoming a legal battlefield for the companies that stand to benefit from driverless cars.
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by pyre 10y ago
> Yes. I regularly fly in planes, which I have no control over, and which spend most of their time on autopilot. Those planes with their auto-pilot system still have a means for the pilots to intervene. That's not quite the same as
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by pyre 10y ago
See "Brownshirts"[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung
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by pyre 10y ago
Says "GunboatDiplomat"[1]... ;-) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunboat_diplomacy
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by pyre 10y ago
Please don't Reddit-ify HackerNews.
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by pyre 10y ago
They do not need to be evenly distributed across the country. It could be a specific regional area. The stat could also just mean "installed and is used." It's possible that there are a lot of Indians that use it to communica
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by pyre 10y ago
Depends on your use-case. If you only want to stop communications during a specified period of time (e.g.) during a "secret" conversation, then this is useful. If you have any apps installed that might be polling the 'net for
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by pyre 10y ago
You're missing things like (e.g.): - Tractors that have technical measures to prevent 3rd party repairs or replacement parts. Circumventing those measures is a DMCA violation, even if all you're trying to do is repair a tractor th
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by pyre 10y ago
You really can't think this way when accepting input from users.
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by pyre 10y ago
I'm just saying that it's never a sure thing, not that the opposite is always true.

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