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811.
by revscat 12y ago
One of the most common objections to UFOs-as-extraterrestrials that I see is that the distances between solar systems, and the amount of time required to travel between them is so large, even at light speed, that any such visitors are simpl
812.
The Financial Disclosure Forms the NSA Said Would Threaten National Security(news.vice.com)
3 points by revscat 12y ago|0 comments
813.
by revscat 12y ago
I understand that, I'm just curious as to the mechanism that they are using.
814.
by revscat 12y ago
If you take a look at the source of the .gifv link from their blog posting it looks like this is exactly what they are doing: <video height="370" width="660" autoplay="" loop="" muted="&
815.
by revscat 12y ago
The prosecution and charges brought against Aaron Swartz would lead me to believe that you are quite wrong.
816.
by revscat 12y ago
I just erased a moderately long reply and am going to offer up as rebuttal a single title. Myst.
817.
by revscat 12y ago
"If you write software using this API that infringes patents, we ain't liable for that crap. It's all you, baby. Have fun."
818.
by revscat 12y ago
And this is where platform evangelism/favortism morphs from the merely annoying to the (potentially) dangerous.
819.
by revscat 12y ago
The links to the tutorials themselves do not appear to be working.
820.
New Tweets per second record, and how (2013)(blog.twitter.com)
6 points by revscat 12y ago|0 comments
821.
Mysterious Phony Cell Towers Could Be Intercepting Your Calls(popsci.com)
86 points by revscat 12y ago|19 comments
822.
by revscat 12y ago
He was a white male. These things tend towards non-fatal resolutions when this is the case.
823.
by revscat 12y ago
I am not a scientist, but this objection seems rather short-sighted. The threat posed by global warming is to the ecosystem as a whole. If the smaller-scale (but still large) systems are negatively affected, but the system as a whole is sav
824.
by revscat 12y ago
tl;dr: "The scientists found that the more the marijuana users reported consuming, the greater the abnormalities in the nucleus accumbens and amygdala. The shape and density of both of these regions also differed between marijuana user
825.
by revscat 12y ago
This iceberg is still there, and it is right in our faces. The drug war has made a lot of people very, very wealthy at the expense of millions of first-time drug offenders who have been slapped with punishments far outweighing their crimes.
826.
by revscat 12y ago
Yes, the surface justifications for the surveillance programs of the NSA/GCHQ/etc. are one of public safety and national security, but I think the evidence increasingly points to strategies whose primary intent is to protect the
827.
by revscat 12y ago
I have. I found my current position after a recruiter contacted me on LinkedIn.
828.
by revscat 12y ago
It makes you wonder what exactly was said or done, doesn't it.
829.
by revscat 12y ago
Never had this problem, and with one exception everyone I text with has an iPhone.
830.
by revscat 12y ago
> Contrary to what many HN hipsters seems to believe, PHP is quite a capable language, and HHVM / Hack is really pushing things forward. This attitude really frustrates me. I'm a developer with over 20 years of experience. I d
831.
by revscat 12y ago
> Although that's unlikely to be good law today. Can you explain further here? It seems to me that maximizing shareholder value is, at least today, the exclusive purpose for which corporations exist. The law seems to require this.
832.
by revscat 12y ago
FTA: > "Women are the niggers of gender," the email said. "If you killed yourself, I wouldn’t even fuck the corpse." You're ok with that? We should just expect the target of that email to "get over it?"
833.
by revscat 12y ago
> At risk of being reductionist, it is kind of hard to understand why anyone would feel compelled to signal their likes and group-identities to strangers in such an overt way. But I'm probably revealing more about my own personality
834.
by revscat 12y ago
That pre-compilation step, though... How does that play with the IDE? I'm looking into various (more) modern ORM/DB-talky-to-things, and checked out jOOQ but was turned off by that pre-compilation step. I like having my errors bri
835.
by revscat 12y ago
> I cannot agree more. At this moment I have an interface open with the following signature: public interface ClientBenefitOrder extends Internationalizable<ClientBenefitOrderDisplay>, CBMEntity, Enableable<OfferCategorie
836.
by revscat 12y ago
I don't read it that way. One way of viewing nouns in English is as a hierarchy. At the top of the hierarchy you have "thing", and as you descend the pyramid you get more and more specific. "What is that thing?" -&g
837.
by revscat 12y ago
It's good to see some actual code in practice. I'm pleased to see how readable Swift is compared to Objective-C. Good job.
838.
by revscat 12y ago
In some ways, yes. But, in the case of the Macintosh, Apple took what was available and made it successful in the consumer space. They helped to usher in a new market. The same can be said of the iPod, although not to as dramatic an extent
839.
by revscat 12y ago
> The tradition of innovation is there -- see Microsoft Research, one of the best funded institutes... Microsoft has produced tablet PCs, smartphones, voice and handwriting recognition, mapping, and so on. I don't see how you can cl
840.
by revscat 12y ago
Mind if I ask why?

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