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by srl 15y ago
The real reason, of course, is that war is just so much cooler when people are dying. Sources: G. Carlin. Honestly, though, I fully expect AI to advance sufficiently in the next 20 years that a 10s delay is sufficiently small, and the AI ca
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by srl 15y ago
That's 'prepending' (just so you know).
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by srl 15y ago
And the gcache'd version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:R5rVoHi...
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by srl 15y ago
> All these issues should be decided by the states, not the feds. Rather OT, but I have a major problem with this line. The population of the U.S. around the writing of the constitution was ~3 million; if it was a state today, it would
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by srl 15y ago
> really "law" until it stands up to a test case in a court of law. Hence Gingrinch's desire to kick judges he disagrees with out of office. My other worry is the possibility of a hostile party successfully preventing a case concerning
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by srl 15y ago
> Generally countries do not strip its citizens of so many civil liberties unless there is a clear goal ahead. Not sure about that. I think the natural tendency is for any institution to try to grab more power, no matter what the situat
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by srl 15y ago
To be clear, nobody bribed anybody on PATRIOT; it's just that the folk in congress apparently lack the rest of the country's visceral suspicion of the phrase "national security".
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by srl 15y ago
The are, with the effect (and I'm guessing intent) that an electrical/motor failure won't lead to the elevator plunging 20 stories and killing all occupants. Software engineering could (and should) learn a few things from mechanical enginee
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by srl 15y ago
Thank you for doing this. Not that I give a damn, quite frankly, about the publishing industry. (I probably should, but I don't.) But the "shut up or we'll threaten to sue you - and just the threat will ruin you for a decade" meme is poppin
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by srl 15y ago
He said "a little more". There's a difference between being knowingly irrational from time to time and killing people on a whim.
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by srl 15y ago
My understanding (which I got from an astronomer looking for moons) is that it'll be enough to get a clear look at major features on most (not all!) of Pluto's surface, but nothing spectacular. Realize that even today, we don't really know
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Flerovium and Livermorium proposed as names for new elements in periodic table(thestatecolumn.com)
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by srl 15y ago
I do know my tools, actually (having helped create them) - before creating the structs, I did consider this approach, and consciously decided against it for roughly the reasons described. I'm talking about a distinct problem from programmer
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by srl 15y ago
I'll give you a pity upvote. It's not sense of humor that's penalized, though. It's comments without content. (Generally.)
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by srl 15y ago
> I have tried "building things" but I never know what to build and as soon as I get an idea everything seems too hard to implement and I loose motivation Heh. You know all those developers who have all those github repos? _So many_ git
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Go Isn't C(iottmco.wordpress.com)
76 points by srl 15y ago|25 comments
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by srl 15y ago
What, no sound?
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House Committee Rushing to Approve Dangerous "Information Sharing" Bill(eff.org)
2 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
Knew the name sounded familiar - I remember reading about this guy in National Geographic or something. Amazing story.
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by srl 15y ago
Theoretically, yes. In practice, repealing a law is harder than passing its inverse (no idea why), so it would never happen. Once a law is passed, your best hope is the courts (edit to add: which have a poor track record on handling the 'te
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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Attempts to Ban “Obscene” Words from Texts(eff.org)
2 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
Slightly tangential, but it seems to be popular to assume that fanboyism is universally a bad thing. Which makes sense intuitively, but here's the thing: I _like_ fanboys. When I meet a fanboy of something I don't tend to use or like, I mak
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by srl 15y ago
I think the point was that bioweapons can only be used as denial-of-area or knock-down agents - that they cannot, in fact, start argmageddon. Of course, fundamentalist nuts may not be capable of realizing that, but those of us living in rea
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by srl 15y ago
I remember when I was first introduced to version control - I was told "we're using 'subversion' for XYZ". I thought that meant we were doing something sneaky that I shouldn't talk about. "Git" is definitely a nice name.
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by srl 15y ago
This. The fact that they are unelected and capable of overturning, reversing, or arbitrarily altering legislative decisions is exactly the point of judicial entities. Democracy is good because it's better at protecting rights than other for
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EFF Celebrates the 2011 Pioneer Award Winners(eff.org)
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by srl 15y ago
Yes. Bear in mind that each individual photons carries very little energy - the energy required to generate the described 'mirror' is enormous by comparison. The main value of this is further experimental verification of certain aspects of
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Internet Community Shut Out of Stop Online Piracy Act Hearing - Again(eff.org)
110 points by srl 15y ago|13 comments
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Who's Missing From Today's SOPA Hearing? A Short List(eff.org)
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by srl 15y ago
_I was not aware it's "easy" to run other OS's on Apple hardware. Knowing Apple, I'm still not sure I believe it._ I run linux (arch now, but once ubuntu) on a MacBook5,4. It's somewhat harder to get set up if you want to dual boot (the dua

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