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by venus 13y ago
Manipulation was only allowed in the "experimental" category - mostly the ones with timelapses. If you have some evidence that entries in the other categories have been 'shopped, I'm sure the organisers would be very int
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by venus 13y ago
Do you know what a heuristic is? Basically, being an Oracle puppet is an extremely negative heuristic for being a useful voice on anything related to software IP. Absent compelling evidence to the contrary, I am inclined to ignore any and
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by venus 13y ago
> Trying to muddy the discussion with irrelevant speculation about people's motives is totally unnecessary In an ideal world, where we all had an infinite amount of time to research any and all items of controversy in their entirity
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by venus 13y ago
Let's cut to the chase. No-one has time to become an expert on absolutely everything. To some extent, we have to choose who to listen to, and then trust that they are speaking true. Anything else is completely unmanageable. So your arg
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by venus 13y ago
The thing is, you're trying to say that automated cars are a bad idea, but all the arguments you make actually militate for getting rid of the humans ASAP!
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by venus 13y ago
> Google has driven +200K miles on real highways and streets I have got to say, I am pretty amazed they have managed to swing that. Permission to drive autonomous robot cars around the everyday streets of litigation and safety-obsessed C
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by venus 13y ago
I am under the impression that safety is already at least one order of magnitude better than a human driver. Frankly, I can't wait until the majority of cars are under computer control; it will be much safer. > I think this is a ter
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by venus 13y ago
Meanwhile, JR East announced it intends to raise speeds on the Touhoku Shinkansen from 320km/h to 360km/h by 2020. Tell me the chance of single passenger road vehicles routinely travelling at speeds like that within the foreseeabl
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by venus 13y ago
> This case of "literally" is just us reaping what we sew for not towing the line. Literally.
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by venus 13y ago
> None of these are legal justifications. The law isn't even relevant here, since the conduct happened in a theater of war You keep on repeating "theater of war! theater of war!" like it's some get out of jail free ca
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by venus 13y ago
> no, the soldiers in the helicopter should not be tried Oh, I'm sure they won't be. No doubt whatever actions they took are entirely justifiable under whatever legal framework has been whipped up to cover it. Not like there&#x
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by venus 13y ago
> Pick up that can. Funny you quote HL2. It's a quite subversive game. I only recently had the chance to play the HL1 expansion packs - yay being a mac gamer - and they struck me as having a quite anti-authority message, too. It&#x2
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by venus 13y ago
I think all of us here at HN can agree with the wisdom of Mr Schneier's words. The problem is how to somehow transmit said wisdom into the brains of those 99.9% of the population who do not read HN or Bruce Schneier or otherwise think
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by venus 13y ago
You could replace "Obama" with pretty any other PM or president of any country on earth, mix around the current affairs to suit, and your comment would be just as true. Welcome to media-driven representative democracy. And when I
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by venus 13y ago
> If it weren't for Putin's obvious lack of respect for President Obama Snowden would already have been shipped back Huh? Got any kind of evidence for this extremely doubtful statement? Or is it just an idle fantasy of yours? I
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by venus 13y ago
Well, the cool thing about HTTP error codes is that you don't need a campaign or get permission from the W3C, you can just start using them if you want.
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by venus 13y ago
No worries, glad we agree :)
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by venus 13y ago
Plenty of people are extremely productive using any number of tools. I like to think I am a rather productive programmer myself, despite my general dislike of vim. However, in the general case, I don't think it is much of an advantage
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by venus 13y ago
I wouldn't know, thank god.
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by venus 13y ago
> Name a task on which you've either seen or you'd imagine a ST user to outperform a vim "power user". I'll let you know the logical way to do it in vim. Selecting code and copy and pasting it into a chat client
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by venus 13y ago
Expose the current file in the side bar so you get a picture of its location in the dir tree? Install a package? Change the window size? I'm not talking out my hat at all. I notice no productivity improvements from using vim. Maybe som
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by venus 13y ago
> Productivity is far greater with vim I don't agree with that at all. Vim is useful, perhaps, for a few text matching tricks but typing speed is rarely the bottleneck in programming. It's optimising for the wrong thing. The on
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by venus 13y ago
What are you smoking? You cannot get anything even remotely similar for $100. > one could easily use a regular USB 3.0 hub and attach a USB NIC, sound card, etc. Perhaps not as clean but a hell of a lot cheaper Great, go and string toget
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by venus 13y ago
> $300 MSRP is a just a little ridiculous Is it? Sounds pretty normal to me. Belkin is a pretty good brand and charges accordingly. Like Apple, really. I think that for their target market $300 won't be a barrier at all. In fact aft
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by venus 13y ago
As a reasonably strong swimmer with no life saving experience - giving or receiving - this conversation is pretty fascinating, especially the casual nature experienced rescuers are saying things such as > they're not people right no
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by venus 13y ago
> 30% of all travel worldwide Lonely Planet or not, that is very hard to believe. I know anecdotes != data but this is so different from my normal experience that I just can't accept it. I do not think I have ever been on a plane wh
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by venus 13y ago
AirBNB would never be able to survive in countries with a well-run "business hotel" culture. I frequently travel to Japan and usually stay at a business hotel chain like Dormy Inn or Richmond - the price is rarely above $80/n
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by venus 13y ago
> in a 175 mph airplane What's that, an SR20? The numbers are still reasonable but for the sake of completeness let's bear in mind the chance of a fatal crash in one of them is a full four times higher than flying commercial. I
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by venus 13y ago
I wasn't trying to make some kind of statement with my comment - I was merely pointing out an identifiable trade-off. That said, if and when an easy-to-use, truly secure p2p communication system ever gains real traction then action aga
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by venus 13y ago
Well, that traded off the govt's ability to wiretap.

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