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by testvox 9y ago
If they can't comply with this direct court order how are they going to ensure compliance with the Constitution? The mass surveillance program is too expansive to be responsibly controlled and should be shut down.
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by testvox 9y ago
This sounds like the "following orders" defense. Can organizations really get away with (in this case literal) murder just by appointing some idiot as director and pushing any liability onto him?
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by testvox 9y ago
Can you point me to plans around standardized string encodings in webassembly that is an interesting feature.
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by testvox 9y ago
Yeah in theory their could be penalties, but in practice no court wants to discourage doctors from saving people's lives.
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by testvox 9y ago
How does licensing actually help prevent crime? It seems people will ill intent would just ignore the licensing requirement and people with good intent could be made criminals (as per this story).
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by testvox 9y ago
Doctors often do not honor DNR orders because there is no penalty for disobeying them while they can face severe penalties for failing to save someone's life if their DNR order is invalid for some reason.
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by testvox 9y ago
Insanity, duress, maybe the defendant is trying to take credit for another person's crime in order to protect them.
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by testvox 9y ago
Mono already supports embedding the runtime with the application. So they just used that feature here. Also available is the mono interpreter which does it's own garbage collection.
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by testvox 9y ago
What is their core business then?
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by testvox 9y ago
How did he spread misinformation?
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by testvox 9y ago
Assuming there is a free market everywhere this is true. However China does not have anything close to a free market, electricity is heavily subsidized and freedom to invest and run businesses is heavily restricted which can easily cause ma
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by testvox 9y ago
But the rest of the world doesn't recognize FDA approval (and the FDA doesn't recognize any other country's approval process). So the cost of certification has to be paid again for every country its sold in.
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by testvox 9y ago
You don't usually write for loops in Erlang, as a functional language loops are better expressed as recursive functions. Here is an example of using a recursive function in Erlang to sum up a factorial. fac(1) -> 1; fac(
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by testvox 9y ago
It's pretty insane that in our fear we have basically created a dial a murder service for anyone to make use of.
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by testvox 9y ago
If that is a serious question its because the drug analog act explicitly excludes certain drugs from being defined as a drug analog including drugs approved by the FDA. > (C) Such term does not include - (i) a controlled substance;
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by testvox 9y ago
Which is why they shouldn't leak this information on the registration page... Instead they should pretend the registration always succeeds and then disallow login until the email has been verified.
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by testvox 9y ago
Opposition to or support of anything important has real consequences. What's your point?
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by testvox 9y ago
So because the guy might have problems with his co-workers all his co-workers should definitely have problems with him? Shouldn't he be judged on his actions towards his co-workers not by your stereotype of a anti-gay marriage supporte
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by testvox 9y ago
Linux breaks backwards compatibly all the time. Just not for userland programs. But if you are expecting your kernal module to be low maintenance you are in for a surprise...
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by testvox 9y ago
It shouldn't be up to the browser to implement web standards? What should browsers be doing then?
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by testvox 9y ago
Me too! I remember being able to predict that we were going to watch a movie in class because I could hear the CRT whine from the hallways before I even walked into the room.
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by testvox 9y ago
Why do you disagree with the evidence presented by the intercept? It seems to me that there was an intent to misinform the public, either by multiple sources deliberately feeding the wrong information to multiple news agencies or the news a
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by testvox 9y ago
The primary paper by McColloch and Pitts is "A Logical Calculus of Ideas Immanent in Nervous Activity" (1943) it doesn't use exactly the term "neural net" but it mentions nets, networks, and "nervous nets"
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by testvox 9y ago
He is an engineer, changing the title as you suggest makes it sound like he isn't.
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by testvox 9y ago
If they are good stewards of the money and invest it well then they will keep it and we all gain from their investments. If not they lose it and someone, hopefully more responsible will have it. In the long run the right people (those who c
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by testvox 9y ago
It seems like the main issue is transaction fees are close to $20, so even simple operations like refunding users for a incorrect or incomplete transaction is infeasible.
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by testvox 9y ago
That was coinbase's argument in this case. Commodity trading is largely unregulated in the United States and this request from the IRS is highly unusual for commodity exchanges (mostly it's very broad scope) .
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by testvox 9y ago
No there are middlemen they just aren't centralized. The miners get the fee, it's their incentive to mine (well that and new coin creation but new coin creation slows down and eventually stops so fees are the long term incentive).
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by testvox 9y ago
No... I immediately set a root password, if this had not been posted I would be far more at risk.
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by testvox 9y ago
But it's how full disclosure works which is more responsible then coordinated disclosure.

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