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by spot 14y ago
Long before, and fully independent of, anything Congress did, President Obama made clear that he was going to preserve the indefinite detention system at Guantanamo even once he closed the camp. http://www.salon.com/2012/07/23/the_obama_gi
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this is false, FYI. Please reread the constitution. Sometimes it refers to citizens, sometimes it refers to people. The Bill of Rights applies to everyone. The fundamental civil liberties protections of the Bill of Rights and Constitutio
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nice drawing effect but the copyright claims are pretty dangerous: they claim any art created with it must have a creative commons attribution license. this is total BS.
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what source has no possibility of inaccuracy?
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the first interactive reaction diffusion back in ~1995: http://draves.org/bomb/ among many other CA type algorithms.
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i don't see how this could really work. the tolerances required for legos to work are quite small. they mention this in the implementation section which says they use 2.5 micron measurement. but 3D printers are not nearly so accurate. make
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This has been done several times. The first that I can remember was "Disappearing Inc" http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2000/02/34171 IIRC they were shut down by the feds/spooks.
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I don't see the address or phone number. I do see zip code and email.
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it's great that this guy got his job and all but let's not pretend it's just about the quality of his work. he was hanging out in a chat room with these people. plenty of personality shows through.
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"that's where we're arriving now" you know, years ago the deficit scolds said the US would turn into Greece "within two years". they were wrong. they said inflation would spike. they were wrong. and here you go doing the same thing agai
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is there any way to test your icon other than to change it once per week and see if downloads change (meanwhile hoping nothing else changes to confuse the data)?
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"Director of Engineering" does not mean they are in charge of the engineering organization. At Google there are many people with the title "Director of Engineering". It's a 2nd level management position, leading perhaps 50-100 people.
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because movies are a great way to make policy decisions.
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useless without pointer to the actual behavior.
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Electric Sheep for iPad Launched(itunes.apple.com)
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prompted and forced are two different things.
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aaahhhh thank you!
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there are so many problems with iOS, you have just become acclimated to them. big ones and details too, like this: even if you have the sound turned off, when you plug it in, it chirps. and the power key and slide-to-unlock clicks. and w
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yup, once your site becomes popular you get more determined attackers. filtering robots is only the beginning of the game...
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http://www.quora.com/Twitter-1/Why-do-some-tweets-have-a-per... i knew twitter was broken but this takes the cake. i have been using twitter for years and had no idea.
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Mozilla Popcorn: remix video/audio/maps/html5(popcorn.webmaker.org)
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yea seriously. cables are death.
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i think you have mischaracterized the competition by accusing them of selling your contacts. so you have lost my trust right there. also, the contrast between the text and bg is too low.
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same resolution, scaled down by 20%. so if you designed a button to be as small as a finger for the ipad, it's now too small.
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"you can't just scale down the interface" oops
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wow, it's way more expensive than the nexus 7. $330 vs $200 for the bottom.
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so let's see we have iphone, retina, iphone5, ipad, ipad retina, and now mini ipad. does that count as fragmented?
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webgl can be much faster because you can draw many primitives with one call. there's a lot of overhead from js down to gl.
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Berlin Politician Slammed for Defending Copyright ("The Greedy Pirate")(spiegel.de)
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Apple's devices are based on Mach which has a different kernel than BSD. Though it does use some BSD code it's not accurate to call it *BSD.

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