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by sfk 12y ago
Synopsis: The plant is endangered, but we like it that way, since we control the IP.
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by sfk 12y ago
s/industry/echo chamber/
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by sfk 12y ago
Greenspun claims that Gates had a $1000000 trust fund. It does not sound like middle class at all: http://philip.greenspun.com/bg/
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by sfk 12y ago
Chronically positive persons can be devastating, too, especially if the "negative" persons do all the actual work.
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by sfk 12y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_demonstrations_in_East_G...
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by sfk 12y ago
He can also fly Aeroflot. Highly unlikely to be ordered down by anyone.
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by sfk 12y ago
I think having a dedicated TV with cable is optimal: 1. Computers and Internet are for work (HN being an exception), TV is for entertainment. It makes sense to keep things separate, even physically separate. 2. If I watch
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by sfk 12y ago
"If we were talking about innovations that got more output from less energy, then holding output constant while lowering energy consumption would be what everyone hoped to see. Why should human capital be different?" Wow. I'm
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by sfk 12y ago
From what I've read, Ada can do this.
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by sfk 12y ago
Germany is really a special case: Around 1990 the first world western part merged with the second world eastern part, while giving all citizens of the eastern part around 2/3rd (I think, correct me if I'm wrong) of the western lev
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by sfk 12y ago
The website IS well designed! It is literally the only website I've seen this year which makes me want to purchase something! Sure, more information would not hurt, but the overall style is perfect for the target audience.
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by sfk 12y ago
In Europe customers have the right to return online purchases within one or two weeks. It is possible that a previous "customer" damaged the DVDs and returned them. In that case, excellent online stores would sell the items in a
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by sfk 12y ago
Efficient for whom? Starbucks and Mc Donalds sell worse and more expensive products than local places. Amazon is cheap, but I'm constantly getting damaged books (bent pages, water damage, single pages that are printed in light gray ins
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by sfk 12y ago
That, and for all we know, bitcoin was started by $FRIENDLY_GOV in the first place.
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by sfk 12y ago
Sure, provided that you are independently rich.
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by sfk 12y ago
Many European states (e.g. the Netherlands) have been surveillance states for a long time. People seem happy with it: As long as you live a standard life, get a mortgage, a house, children, pay taxes to support the ever growing police stat
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by sfk 12y ago
Wow. I wonder what low-life downvoted this entirely innocent comment. Now continue with this one, surely you'll manage -60, especially if you have a voting ring. Quick, it will likely be the only accomplishment you'll achieve tod
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by sfk 12y ago
Why would you take it off the front page? At the very least this is useful information about how the WOS works.
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Broken by Design: MongoDB Fault Tolerance(hackingdistributed.com)
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by sfk 12y ago
I'm always amazed that I hardly ever program in Lisp and yet these short snippets are more readable than any other language.
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by sfk 12y ago
I think the ban should stay regardless of safety. One big issue here is noise and visual pollution.
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by sfk 12y ago
I share your sentiment, and this quote (attributed to Margaret Thatcher) may be relevant: "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
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by sfk 12y ago
LGTM, and your response time to "support" requests is certainly great! I'll leave my grumpy comment, so that the context does not get lost.
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by sfk 12y ago
And a lot of sites survive just fine. I don't think "at least it loads" is something to be proud of, especially when the topic is performance.
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by sfk 12y ago
And the website takes more than 30s to load...
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by sfk 12y ago
ad nauseam
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by sfk 12y ago
Is it possible to prevent timing attacks, control secure wiping of memory etc. in Eiffel?
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by sfk 13y ago
Comparing this voicing of disapproval to Mc Carthyism is completely disingenuous, and I'm surprised that you do not know better. In the 1950s it was the government who harassed innocent citizens. You cannot escape the government, bec
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by sfk 13y ago
Politicians should be held to extremely high moral standards, hence the outrage. If you read the link you'll see that Knuth himself only wrote two letters to government officials. Most people do not have time to become full time activi
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Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002)(www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu)
523 points by sfk 13y ago|173 comments

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