throwit1979

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by throwit1979 13y ago
Because everything has an opportunity cost, however small. Utilitarianism, as well as "just good horse sense" suggests that finite resources should be allocated to solving problems that cause greater sum harm than lesser sum harm.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Surprised fortune tellers aren't on there They are. #27
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Right. So why didn't they then close the insecure access method, and deny FURTHER content requests?
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Oh good, because Google will never be subject to an NSL.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Which will work fine until countermail gets an NSL too. Hosting your own, in your physical posession, with mercury-switch or dead-man-switch triggered thermite self-destruct is really the only option left.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Relevant to the story earlier today, John Carmack has three jobs and two children. He tweets regularly, speaks at cons, and occasionally blogs on altdev. He also reportedly lifts weights regularly. It's not impossible.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
This is news.ycombinator.com, right? Can someone please explain to me how this comment is not [dead], as it ought to be, within 10 seconds of its posting? I'd also have to question how it's even possible that any thinking human b
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Splitting his time three ways would only seem to exacerbate the problem. Four ways. The man has a wife and two children in whose lives he's quite active. I strongly suspect he's managed to obviate the need for sleep.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
If I parse this sentence properly, it sounds like you are expressing regret that the trolls were not either killed or physically disabled. TIL that death and/or dismemberment is an appropriate punishment for trolling.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
TIL that waiting for a network roundtrip is faster than accessing an in-process hash map directly.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Then they'll have to let me know and get a warrant. Hahahahaha. No.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Do you want to be ruled by Google? By Walmart? Why is the default assumption by Statists that if the government won't rule us, corporations will? A novel concept that people may want to attempt to grasp is that there could be no ru
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by throwit1979 13y ago
While we're discussing anecdotal cures for RSI, I'll disclose mine: deadlifting. That's it. Consistent, heavy deadlifting has kept it away for years. I have no medical explanation.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
tptacek is fairly well-known as a government sycophant and a "nothing to see here" type. His position is not at all surprising.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
I'll believe it when I see it. These guys have been pushing off and pushing off, I've all but written off my "contribution". The fact that they're preselling the 16 core boards before we have even received ours, an
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by throwit1979 13y ago
I concur. And it's not just mere ability that's at issue, here. Kids who enter computing at a young age are typically motivated more by genuine interest/passion than the later entrants who are more likely just picking a care
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Quite relevant to your post, although image memes are generally frowned upon by HN: http://i.imgur.com/mW0YHRK.jpg
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by throwit1979 13y ago
except to those who have no idea what this poverty looks like. I think this is a very important observation. Sometimes poverty doesn't look anything like this. I'd like to note that although I grew up in "technical" p
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Justification: a typical vaccine volume is 0.5mL. Injecting 5L of any liquid into a child intramuscularly would cause severe health problems, to say the least.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Right, but they have no control over interception rootkits installed on the client . And all of their marketing material suggests that the client in question will usually be your phone. After the VPN software decrypts the data and before
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Um, there's also the client side of this. You can lock up your data all you want, but with the NSA deeply embedded in telecoms and mobile device manufacturers, once you try to access said data in a manner consistent with the project&#x
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by throwit1979 13y ago
tl;dr: 1. The surveillance occurs in secret 2. Due to #1, you can't possibly prove that you, specifically, are a target of surveillance 3. Due to #2, you have no standing with the court QED. I am speechless.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Another strange response, seeing as how I never even specified anything about my bullying experiences, other than their effects.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Well, that's a constructive comment. The strange irony of what you said is that it was exactly the intense bullying I received as a computer nerd in grade school that helped lead to the understanding that I am in full control of how o
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Because we're in control of our emotions and our reactions. We are not entirely in control of the laws of physics. Ergo, physical abuse is not even remotely in the same category as verbal "abuse".
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Abuse? Important lesson that most people of my generation and prior learned at about age 4: "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me." Is the self-esteem movement of subsequent generations really putting
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Um, not to take away from the achievement of the result, but couldn't this result have been obtained in much less time with higher force than 1G in, say, a centrifuge?
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by throwit1979 13y ago
I don't think Ed has kids, which is partially why his quality of life is so high.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
In general this ought to "work", but most dns check services and uppity sysadmins will complain loudly and bitterly that there's more than one SOA if you don't do a proper primary-secondary with IXFR.
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by throwit1979 13y ago
Except it takes about 5 seconds for sucrase in your small intestine to hydrolyze sugar into exactly the same substances present in HFCS. So it doesn't matter. At all.

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