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by steamer25 9y ago
> Labels have invested a heap of cash buying these rights IP legislation needs to move into the 21st century where we have digital audio workstations and word processors and non-linear editors and many other modern conveniences that have
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by steamer25 9y ago
Someone in another forum commented recently that there should be a new top-line federal agency whose mission is to promote the security of America's information infrastructure. They suggested it should be established as an adversarial
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I'll try to do both sides justice although I'm sure there are people representing either side that could correct me on many aspects... I think of 'globalist' as being something of a perjorative/having at least a sli
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by steamer25 10y ago
> although I can't imagine the CIA wanting to hack the election in Trump's favour Doesn't preclude planting 'evidence' of Russian hacking to stir up a red scare (towards renewed cold war -level funding of the int
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by steamer25 10y ago
Given the examples of transit authority collusion and cartel competitors wielding bats, accosting drivers and making customers feel like Baghdad is safer by comparison; I was thinking genius like Ragnar Danneskjöld. In Atlas Shrugged, Ragn
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by steamer25 10y ago
This video by CGP Grey covers some similar issues/hypotheses: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEYh5WACqEk
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by steamer25 10y ago
Quote from that speech: "And it means, finally, that government at all levels, must meet its obligation to provide you with the fullest possible information outside the narrowest limits of national security--and we [the Kennedy adminis
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by steamer25 10y ago
Depends on your definition of 'liberalism'. Classical liberalism was synonymous with libertarianism, minarchy, etc. The modern colloquial usage is closer to meaning left-wing statism (as distinguished from 'conservative'
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by steamer25 10y ago
> Bigger {organization} > checks and balances I'd say the two are mutually exclusive.
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> Is the borrow syntax (&x) a reference while vanilla (x) is by value? Or are both passed by reference but with different ownership affects? This is briefly addressed in the FAQs: "What is the difference between passing by value
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by steamer25 10y ago
Also, save and recompile early and often. If you're using IntelliJ IDEA [Community Edition] with the Rust plugin, compiling is just ctrl + r .
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Basics: When you're writing (or read someone else's) functions, you should be considering three types of parameters: * (&) borrowed * (mut &) mutably borrowed * () moved The borrow operator should be yo
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Obviously, the usage of the words 'own' and 'wealth' in the title have evoked assumptions/interpretations/implications that may or may not have been intended. I do believe that there is a 'basic'&#x2F
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by steamer25 10y ago
> for over a generation the US citizenry has been trained to vote against anyone who asks for more taxes. My understanding is that in the Reagan era, it was assumed that if tax payers could get tax cuts passed, then common-sense budgetar
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by steamer25 10y ago
Right--the regular drivers who are never found in violation are the ones who are claimed to benefit from enforcement. If there are budget shortfalls that can be fixed by enforcement-related revenues, let those who benefit be the ones who pa
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by steamer25 10y ago
+1 for ear-marking I'd also allow projects that remediate the offense. E.g., for red light violations, I'd allow red light fine monies to fund studies of various intersections to see if e.g., the yellow light duration needs to be
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by steamer25 10y ago
Yeah, I think the current iteration of VR will be comparable to how the Ninentdo Wii and Kinect were received--initial enthusiasm giving way to the realization that movement is physically taxing and requires a bunch of dedicated space. Righ
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by steamer25 10y ago
Every pharmacist and, moreover, every consumer capable of conducting a transaction with said pharmacists is also capable of spending the two minutes* required to evaluate the difference between these two auto injectors. Evaluating the disti
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by steamer25 10y ago
+1 If you're having a hard time finding innovators in some area that has obvious utility and isn't already mathematically proven to be near-optimal, the next logical question is, "what's preventing this type of work from
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by steamer25 10y ago
For anyone else who wondered, in this context STM stands for Scanning Tunneling Microscope (as opposed to Software Transactional Memory).
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by steamer25 10y ago
I suppose that depends on the expected reaction to either believing or not believing. In this case, from my perspective, I see two intended reactions to the claims of Russian subversion: 1) To delegitimize the President-elect 2) To foment
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by steamer25 10y ago
I guess I'm not familiar with anything that sounds quite like it. It obviously does have some metal influence but also seems kinda jazzy and less aggressively sober--having more sparkly reverb-y parts. Her guitar has few traditional de
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by steamer25 10y ago
Here's a pretty recent piece... The first time I heard it, my exact thought was that it's future music. It's unorthodox but still quite approachable and tasteful : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rHO7NW-zH8
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by steamer25 10y ago
Click the 'web' link above on the line that looks like the following: ... points by prostoalex ... ago | flag | hide | past | -----> web <----- | ... comments | favorite
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by steamer25 10y ago
There's a little bit of a life-hack for this (assuming your hearing really is okay) in loud environments... Push the little flap of the recipient's ear (the flap is called the 'tragus') over their ear canal to seal it of
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by steamer25 10y ago
Applied Cryptography is also one of the free advanced courses on Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/course/applied-cryptography--cs387
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I was also reminded of the Romans as related on the History Channel show "Engineering an Empire". They talked a lot about how the Romans used concrete for various purposes including aqueducts, etc. Iirc, they mentioned that they&#
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Reminds me of reinforced earth which I learned about from this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0olpSN6_TCc (which is also from the pretty great Practical Engineering channel).
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Wouldn't the union only be composed of the same colleagues who were resigned to 'hushed mutterings in corners' and laughed at the grandparent poster for 'being on some kind of moral high horse'? A better approach mi

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