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by rosser 7y ago
You could sail a barge through the holes in their privacy policy.
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by rosser 7y ago
Because the wolves were part of their equilibrium. We broke that, by removing them.
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by rosser 7y ago
> Because NSA can't legally "spy" on US citizens, they would be happy to allow UK, or say NZ, to access those backdoors and record everything US citizens do. This is, modulo using the hypothetical backdoors under general
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by rosser 7y ago
> Furthermore, burning rice hulls to produce electricity and RHA, generates more energy than required for the overall process. I don't have access to the paper, but assuming I'm reading that correctly, the notion of burning r
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How America Lost Faith in Expertise (2017)(foreignaffairs.com)
3 points by rosser 7y ago|5 comments
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CBP databases for travel surveillance and profiling(papersplease.org)
1 points by rosser 7y ago|0 comments
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by rosser 7y ago
> The article just shows that if you insist on an absurdly strict definition you end up with nonsense. I've sometimes caricatured this kind of argument as: 1. "Blue" is Pantone™ 292. 2. The sky is not Pantone™ 292.
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by rosser 7y ago
I would try to think of it less as a matter of "incidental features... that can silently disable parallelism", than one of "operations that are incompatible with parallel execution". Writing anything [0], locking rows (e
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by rosser 7y ago
I still think the new span of the Bay Bridge should have been named the Emperor Norton Memorial Bridge.
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by rosser 7y ago
> How would you suggest to structure a small group screening? The first thing that comes to mind is a viewing/discussion format. It will take longer, but it will go deeper, too.
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by rosser 7y ago
Or Infinite Jest . Disclosure: My (unfinished) copy of GEB was given to a friend as a gift, and my (unfinished) copy of IJ taunts me as I type.
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by rosser 7y ago
Honestly, more than anything, this reminds me of the time Uber flounced off PostgreSQL because its performance sucked when used incorrectly. When you (the general "you", please) use a tool wrong, you can look kinda a fool for blam
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by rosser 7y ago
I don't think it's an attempt to get you to install messenger so much as it's a cheap tactic to drive engagement, generally. I do have Messenger installed on a device, and it also shows unread notifications for conversati
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by rosser 7y ago
> how useful is it to go to a lawyer? If nothing else, an informed, independent perspective should be able to help you better understand your situation, or see/know to ask about factors which you might not.
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by rosser 7y ago
I'm not a Constitutional or 1A scholar, but I believe the test remains whether the speech is substantially likely to result in "imminent lawless action". Whether you wanted people to get trampled, or just thought it was a l
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by rosser 7y ago
> It's an inefficiency that shouldn't exist. I completely agree. I think it's an absurdity that shouldn't exist. My point in sharing my anecdote was to validate the prevalence of the absurdity that my comment's
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by rosser 7y ago
It's "theirs" in that they're the ones with absolute discretion over its disposition. It's a turn of phrase, and not meant to be taken strictly literally.
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by rosser 7y ago
I was once dating a woman who had vertically contracted Hepatitis C during her birth. We had an accident before I had completed my normal vaccination course. The first-line treatment in those cases is a dose of immunoglobulin containing the
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by rosser 7y ago
I've ha-ha-only-seriously described Hollywood as a complicated, interrelated set of financial instruments which as a by-product also produces movies for a while now.
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by rosser 7y ago
https://archive.fo/UvEKU works for me.
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by rosser 7y ago
Yeah, that kind of "process" probably invites code rot. It's subtle, insidious, and yes, sometimes, shockingly quick to set in.
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by rosser 7y ago
> The Empress Splendor tree belongs to the genus Paulownia. There are many different species of Paulownia and only one is classified as invasive, the Paulownia tomentosa ( http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/plants/pr
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by rosser 7y ago
Maintaining that kind of code is often less about dealing with lingering bugs, than it is about making sure that it's kept in sync with changes to the rest of the kernel that might be relevant. If some kernel structure that the FDD dri
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by rosser 7y ago
One of the plot elements of the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome was a group of orphans, is my guess. EDIT: Nope, or only indirectly. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20595137
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by rosser 7y ago
I don't think dueling anecdotes are very useful without some context management. I won't ask after the particulars of your background with this stuff, because that might be asking you to admit to a crime. Please consider reading m
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by rosser 7y ago
I've been working with ayahuasca for about a decade now, off and on, myself, have done a number of dietas , and been the guy blowing smoke on people who are falling apart in ceremony or helping them to and from the bathroom or whateve
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by rosser 7y ago
Seriously. This is the "anti-drug" argument I just don't get how people fall for. An acquaintance-of-a-friend dropped and then stabbed his roommate 57 times. Of course these stories can readily be found, but they just pale
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by rosser 7y ago
Their effects are largely a result of what you're trying to get out of them, and how earnestly you pursue those ends. People who want those things, and mean it, tend more often to find them, in my own experience.
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by rosser 7y ago
I didn't ask, but in the conversations we had on the topic, I never got the sense that was a thing that mattered to them.
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by rosser 7y ago
A friend used to work for an organization whose function was to buy books from NYT-reporting sellers for purposes of inflating the sales numbers of a given title, to manipulate it onto the bestseller list. They were usually paid by the publ

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