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by rob05c 13y ago
Eventually, you probably will stop relying on these things and do everything with the keyboard I read so much about why Tiling is Great because the Mouse is Awful. I think the mouse has its place. For writing code and text I have my hands
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by rob05c 13y ago
Does anyone know who designates essential personnel? (5 mins of Google didn't return an answer) Could the President designate all federal employees as "essential," to circumvent the budget requirement? (Yes, this would be a p
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by rob05c 13y ago
Just speculating, but perhaps the IT person(s) responsible for maintaining the site are nonessential, and considered a simple placeholder safer than leaving the full site online and unattended?
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by rob05c 13y ago
I stand corrected. I've updated my post to note more common federal positions.
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by rob05c 13y ago
The broken window fallacy is only applicable in an economic environment where there is sufficient labor demand and insufficient product supply. America produces more than enough goods for everyone, but there aren't enough jobs. Besides
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by rob05c 13y ago
There are too many legal plants anyway؟
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by rob05c 13y ago
Holy mother duck! If I were roughly the size of a barge, I still wouldn't take meth to lose weight. I think you'd be trading your mind for your body.
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by rob05c 13y ago
Right. But many people have neither the time nor money for prescriptions. Especially when OTC medicines claim to work. Especially in lower income states like Mississippi. I grew up in rural blue-collar America. My father had health insuranc
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by rob05c 13y ago
Better yet, legalize or prescriptionize less destructive amphetamines, so people have no reason to use meth. (yes, I just coined a neologism. You can thank me later.)
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by rob05c 13y ago
Pseudoephedrine is the most effective chemical we have to alleviate flu-like symptoms. The alternatives such as phenylephrine simply don't work. I believe in cognitive liberty, but meth will mess you up. If I believed any drug should b
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by rob05c 13y ago
In my experience, Managers often mistake Cowboy Coders for Rockstars. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CowboyCoder
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by rob05c 13y ago
A great idea, but the biggest kickstarters have only raised a small fraction of what the wealthy and corporations spend on lobbying and elections. Unfortunately, the money simply isn't there. http://elections.nytimes.com&#x2
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by rob05c 13y ago
SCOTUS takes their existing prejudices and filters them through the Constitution like a sieve, refusing to consider consequences in a mad form of Rule Deontology. I don't care what the Constitution says. The constitutional provisions f
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by rob05c 13y ago
> as bad as >> you need to look at motivations and intent Sorry to wax philosophical, but that's only true if you're a Deontologist. I am not. :)
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by rob05c 13y ago
> matters of state election law Yep. There are actually a very few cities which use Instant-runoff voting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting_in_the_Un... Unfortunately, the people who have to pass la
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by rob05c 13y ago
I don't think the Executive Branch is overly powerful. Hear me out! Anything significant has to be approved by both houses of Congress, and our Judicial system can overrule all three of them (Something that should never go away). Winst
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by rob05c 13y ago
I wasn't really trying to suggest Rank Voting is the best system. Just that First Past the Post is the worst.
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by rob05c 13y ago
IMO the real problem is America's Electoral system. Because there is no rank voting, the choices are the warmongering party, the slightly-less-warmongering party, or wasting your vote. Even if the President had more power than it does
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by rob05c 13y ago
Well said. When atrocities are occurring, the question isn't "why now?" the question is "Why haven't we done anything about this?"
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by rob05c 13y ago
I used to do distance running. I figured out that both apple and grape juice have approximately double the calcium, potassium, magnesium (electrolytes), and calories as Gatorade. So I started drinking juice diluted with 50% water. Way more
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by rob05c 13y ago
You would, but the person shaking Edward's hand would not. To stretch the analogy, scissors are dangerous, but they're also very useful. I prefer a language that lets me put away the scissors when I don't need them, so I don&
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by rob05c 13y ago
C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. — Steve Taylor http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/
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by rob05c 13y ago
> the disjointed ramblings of a mad man. "keeping a map of all your thoughts has a freezing effect on the mind." "you will be IMMOBILIZED for the duration of your commitment" Sounds like he went mad in the attempt.
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by rob05c 13y ago
I concur. When I read Al Jazeera or China Daily, I don't do it because I trust them, or by any means think they're objective. I read them to get an idea of how other parts of the world perceive events. You could say I read them be
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by rob05c 13y ago
I completely agree, about the codes of conduct bit. Any software developer who's taken part in any of this, who's an ACM member, should be ousted for gross violations of the ACM Code of Ethics http://www.acm.org/ab
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by rob05c 13y ago
I agree. I'd rather not use a service at all which I find morally objectionable, than just deny them revenue and keep using it. Adblock does kind of feel like stealing to me.
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by rob05c 13y ago
I quit reading TechCrunch/CrunchGear after they published an article about how human rights violations in China were a good thing. I forget what their argument was. I used to check their site multiple times a day. I decided not to give
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by rob05c 13y ago
That's why my projects use RIPEMD rather than SHA. I prefer my encryption algorithms to not be developed by an organization that has a vested interested in them being broken.
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by rob05c 13y ago
Ah, I misunderstood your project page. Lua doesn't use multiple OS threads. I didn't know that. That's really disappointing. Parallelism really is important. It sounds like it's possible, just really awkward: http:&#x
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by rob05c 13y ago
His implementation uses libtask, which says it schedules coroutines with "a single kernel thread." Looking at his code, he doesn't appear to extend this. Go provides microthreads, which are both concurrent and parallel, and e

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