scaryspooky

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by scaryspooky 9y ago
If the requirement is written in to law then the US Constitution (or other such documents granting exclusive use to an idea) must be amended to void any patent which prevents competition to meet that requirement. Volvo[1] is the a good stew
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
oop it was not. perhaps prototypical.
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
Except the entire founding of the US was based on violent "free speech" advocating the overthrow of an oppressive government. So up until fairly recently it was the norm to view speech, even violent speech, as aligning with the U
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
Private prisons have 7% state and 18% federal of the total population. Blaming private prisons for the problems of US corrections as a whole is disingenuous. https://www.aclu.org/issues/mass-incarceration/privati
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
So they can make a new account and get all of those features back. This lawsuit is a giant waste of resources.
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
I have never had an easier job writing an MPEG-TS parser than when I used Erlang. It was incredibly easy and concise.
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
That was exactly my point. Small changes make larger impacts than asking to nuke everything.
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
You start saying 'software engineer' and end with programmer. Clarify your terms. There is a huge difference between willing to take on liability for your faults versus slinging code.
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
I think the founders of what now is CS would be lumped in with the very, very bright but still novice programmers. Most of the field has nothing to do with actual hardware anyway.
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
What's your point?
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
And how, if we try to throw out the entire system, do you expect that to happen when it is clearly against the interest of the two major parties? That's why I said the push shouldn't be to burn down the whole system, it should be
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
My vote could be considered completely pointless every year, because I do not vote for either of the 2 major parties. So should I just give up and quit voting? Should a Republican in New York just give up voting? What about a Democrat in
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
The US was not designed as a direct democracy, though. Bemoaning the design only when 'your side' loses is a problem that should be relegated to young children. I haven't voted for the winner for quite a few elections now b
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
> the crisis of representational democracy This is only a crisis if you're the loser, though, which seems a bit like sour grapes.
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
None of the pictures I've seen of facebook or Google offices provide any motivation to work in the office. They're crowded noise factories to me.
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
By the same reasoning that the federal government can regulate crop production even if the specific product isn't sold between states (Wickard v. Filburn). I'm sure the same argument could be crafted that intrastate flights affec
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
You cannot be an environmentalist and also for prevention of forest fires, however given the mismanagement of the forests we're now in a very dangerous situation where the forests are too dense and fires will be too hot so recovery fro
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by scaryspooky 9y ago
Except there is very little "free market" about the medical device industry, which is heavily regulated and also able to abuse the patent system.
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
Subtitles are different than Closed Captioning.
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
QT has direct bindings to the host platforms C code. How you express layout of a view is very, very different than how you directly use OS APIs.
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
You can buy a used iphone cheap and get ting. As a bare minimum of needing a phone to get a job anymore this is one of the cheapest options.
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
Uh, no. Ting supports iPhones and they have $6/mo plus pay as you go. That isn't an "expensive ongoing payment" at all. https://ting.com
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
Funny you call it a right click...
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
So turn off notifications, disable the giphy plugin, and use it as a repository of questions to answer when you finally get out of the zone? I guess I didn't bother to enable notifications or install the "app", so I treat sla
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
So we've moved past the 'forever in beta' phase to the 'deprecated at launch' phase?
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
The breadth and depth of federal law and regulation itself supports the uneven application. Those who have money can find a lawyer. The remainder of us are chattel kept only for cleaning the toilets of the wealthy.
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
If you're blocking an enteance or exit that is not being peaceful and does result in arrest.
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
They should have negotiated their own terms better.
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
Democracy Now is certainly not an unbiased news source.
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by scaryspooky 10y ago
Maybe he is trying to beat the current executive order record holder? Trump did just kick him out of the Whitehouse.

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