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by silentOpen 12y ago
Gravity.
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by silentOpen 12y ago
An excellent reason for us to not attempt to hasten its arrival lest we be stuck in a terrible intermediate state.
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by silentOpen 12y ago
Or people might not choose to exhibit borderline behavior out of rationality . That is, in the recent past, there were consequences for borderline behavior but the leverage of any single actor was no where near the leverage you are proposi
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by silentOpen 12y ago
You're still not paying attention to the words I have written. The word you are missing is ubiquitous . It's not about a single location -- it's about all locations.
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by silentOpen 12y ago
That is not a realistic scenario. Not everyone kisses people of the same gender. Not everyone wears religious head garb. Not everyone vomits in the street. A free society is one where people are free to question social norms, express themse
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by silentOpen 12y ago
It isn't tracking that is bad but suspicionless , ubiquitous tracking. Your server analogy is badly flawed because it is analogous to your cop/intersection example. A more appropriate analogy would be universal connection&#x2
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by silentOpen 12y ago
You do have a right not to be followed everywhere you go. Ubiquitous ANPR is essentially a police officer/power broker tailing every car without suspicion. This is more than a violation of visible privacy.
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by silentOpen 12y ago
FTA: At a news conference on Thursday devoted largely to combating terror threats from the Islamic State, Mr. Comey said, “What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to hold themselves
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by silentOpen 12y ago
Two things: 1. Hashes don't "sign" things (not directly anyway) 2. Hashes aren't unique in theory or practice (using a 256-bit hash on every 257-bit number will generate 2^256 collisions by the pigeonhole principle).
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by silentOpen 12y ago
Entanglement.
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by silentOpen 12y ago
You're missing that OCaml isn't stuck in 1999. OCaml now has an excellent package manager, cool new features, lots of system libraries, and a growing community. What do you find out-dated about it? Check out http://www.
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by silentOpen 12y ago
I think you'll find that language 'power' is actually better modeled by a bounded semilattice which happens to be an idempotent commutative monoid. It's all very simple, you see...
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by silentOpen 12y ago
Download fast and break (other people's) things.
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by silentOpen 13y ago
Yes. With the exception of telephony, each of those industries also delivers material/entertainment/comfort value. Telephony is just voice communication and benefits from a network effect and natural monopoly. Facebook has a far
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by silentOpen 13y ago
It's kinda sorta specified in English prose. I wouldn't call that formal , though.
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by silentOpen 13y ago
History is a narrative. Teaching is a narrative. Media is a narrative. Examining the root causes rather than the narrative fabric is rational. Most governmental actors are either intentionally or ignorantly not rational in this respec
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by silentOpen 13y ago
It doesn't have to be only a distraction. There could be hostage negotiations happening between governments right now.
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by silentOpen 13y ago
He should publish the terms of the sale if he wants us to believe that this privacy stance will be hard to change.
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by silentOpen 13y ago
Don't put non-let expressions at the top level?
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by silentOpen 13y ago
Charity is an experimental FP language. < http://pll.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/charity1/www/home.html >
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by silentOpen 13y ago
And there is nothing inherently carbon-intensive about manufacturing dollar bills. In fact, manufacture of dollar bills sequesters carbon into the notes and the organic byproducts from their manufacture. Practically speaking, nearly all the
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by silentOpen 13y ago
Nit: kM -> km; meters are abbreviated 'm', usually.
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by silentOpen 13y ago
And the post you replied to never stated nor implied what you claim. Straw troll is made of straw.
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by silentOpen 13y ago
> there is no facial DB consisting of every citizen for them to draw from Yet. > if they are scanning license plates then there is obviously enough people pulling a runner to justify investment in newer, more expensive tools for an ol
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by silentOpen 13y ago
It's happened to me on the Chromium blog as well when attempting to correct a factual error. Gotta love fauxpen source!
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by silentOpen 13y ago
Just like I negotiate with my hospital for medical care payment.
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by silentOpen 13y ago
Conveniently, opam uses the same upgrade description format as apt < http://www.mancoosi.org/cudf/ > which should make integration achievable.
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by silentOpen 13y ago
As always, it depends on the job. For some systems, OCaml is superior; for others, Haskell is superior. One big question informing the choice is "do I want to program primarily lazily or primarily eagerly?" Another is "is tim
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by silentOpen 13y ago
Except it's no longer accurate (e.g. native backtraces work just fine). Would someone really think that OCaml sucks and maintain an accurate page about that fact for 6 years? That sort of nonsensical dedication should at least prompt y
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by silentOpen 13y ago
JS is worse than a competently designed and implemented language. This is because it was not competently designed and implemented.

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