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by reality_czech 10y ago
Isn't this kind of like arguing over which brand of hot dog has more pink slime and factory floor sweepings? They all do. Anyway, ME is likely to be a much higher value target for hackers. A compromise there would compromise millions
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by reality_czech 10y ago
"Luckily," we don't have to choose between being afraid of firmware and afraid of C and C++. The shitty Management Engine and other firmware code will be written in C or C++ by terrible coders. The UEFI source code is over
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Morality existed for millions of years before religion. It exists because humans are a social species and we need ways to cooperate. Morality doesn't need a justification any more than objects falling downward needs a justification.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Falling back on religion doesn't get you anywhere. Which religion, and which timeframe? Is it the Christianity of late 19th century America, where homosexuality and sex outside marriage were considered mortal sins? Or is it somethin
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by reality_czech 10y ago
If the pointy haired bosses ever decide to upgrade our "nuculur" systems from DOS to the "more modern" Windows 95, we're all done for. All the folks who are whining about how we should be using USB sticks should Goo
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by reality_czech 10y ago
The university will hire him to clean the college at night.
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by reality_czech 10y ago
You could easily reduce agriculture water use by 10% just by banning the growth of super-thirsty crops like rice. The farmers would just shift to growing something else. And what orifice exactly did you pull "there is no impact to re
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Hi, I'm Troy McLure. You may remember me from such articles as "Beans: The Forgotten Fruit" and "Making your Millions on Mt. Gox".
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by reality_czech 10y ago
It's important to use an incompatible dialect of every language and toolchain that your company uses. If you just use the vanilla project, the company might be tempted to adopt outside open source projects rather than reinventing the
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I agree that the death penalty is not to be taken lightly, but that is different from arguing that it should not be used at all. There are lots of examples of crime bosses, murderers, and drug kingpins escaping from prison, but no instance
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by reality_czech 10y ago
This may surprise you, but humans aren't computer programs. They generally come with individual consciences and can decide what is right and wrong. It is insulting (almost a Godwin's law violation) to compare murder with the &qu
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I love the pseudo-ancient Greek diction. The phrasing, the vocabulary, and the abundance of nested clauses do really remind me of translations of Aristotle. The only way this could be better is if he replaced the references to modern thin
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Everyone understands that the government and the criminal justice system is imperfect. We have them anyway, because the alternatives are worse. Sending an innocent man to jail for life is not fundamentally different from executing him. Y
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by reality_czech 10y ago
Poor people are among the most overweight because food is so cheap in the US. I don't see why implementing Basic Income would magically make food expensive or make people have to "eat ramen or possibly Soylent." Anyway, the
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by reality_czech 10y ago
I remember there was some text on the goatse.cx website that used to read "if the image above offends you, simply don't look at it." Below the... shock image. Yeah.
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by reality_czech 11y ago
http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2014/11/06/it-must-be-fed/
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by reality_czech 11y ago
1. WWII ended 71 years ago, not 40. 2. WWII munitions still kill people. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/how-ma... 3. However you feel about them morally, illegal drugs are extremel
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by reality_czech 11y ago
I agree that there are a lot of government loans for education-- another thing that ought to stop. The government shouldn't be a loan shark for young people.
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by reality_czech 11y ago
"You can major in gameboy if you know how to bullshit."
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by reality_czech 11y ago
I agree with this 100%. Student loan debt should not be treated specially. It should just be normal debt that you can discharge through bankruptcy. At that point, the incentives of schools and the incentives of students would be aligned.
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by reality_czech 11y ago
I'm glad that Mozilla has finally given up on Firefox OS for phones. Maybe it's time for Canonical to do the same, and focus on improving Ubuntu.
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by reality_czech 11y ago
Thanks for the correction.
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by reality_czech 11y ago
Good realization. Now take it one step forward, and realize that C++11 was just a "spit shine" over C++98 (although spit isn't the bodily fluid I'd use to describe it). It's all part of the marketing machine to se
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by reality_czech 11y ago
I think it's absolutely inarguable that the germs from the Old World devastated the New World after first contact. All at once, the New World got malaria, yellow fever, smallpox, the list goes on. Meanwhile, the only disease that we
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by reality_czech 11y ago
Apple is just generating some buzz.
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by reality_czech 11y ago
In the grim dystopian present, writing an app is basically purchasing a lottery ticket. Developers are locked in a race to the bottom selling apps for one or two dollars and giving a third of the proceeds to the platform owner.
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by reality_czech 11y ago
"Honestly" is used to add emphasis, to convey a sense of frankness and immediacy, and sometimes to suggest that the writer finds the statement to be an unpleasant but necessary truth. I think it's likely that you know all th
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by reality_czech 11y ago
Normally if you have too much overhead with a channel, you just send more at a time. For example if you are using a channel to distribute out work, send 100 items at a time rather than 1. Then you do fewer channel read and write operation
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by reality_czech 11y ago
Yes, I'm sure that Sun's legal department went through the trouble of creating a brand new license, and never checked whether it was incompatible with the GPL... despite the fact that their biggest competitor in the market was GPL
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by reality_czech 11y ago
At the time Spark was started, Java didn't have lambdas or closures, making the equivalent Java code for functional-programming-style ML code much more verbose. Whether the same decision would be made today is an open question (and pr

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