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by victorf 13y ago
They would be too appaled at general policy to worry about particulars for a while. "When we decided at least one congressman per 30,000 persons we were imagining, you know, one per 40,000. How can you possibly have a representative de
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by victorf 13y ago
I'm sure at the time it seemed like the world was conspiring to show her this guy everywhere. I would have complained about it too, albeit privately, and then probably felt like a pompous douchebag after reading how he felt.
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by victorf 13y ago
How nostalgic! My favorite was one user started a thread for pictures you find really unsettling, his example was a woman photoshopped to have four eyes and two mouths. By the time I started reading it, his avatar had already been changed t
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by victorf 13y ago
I don't know if you are being facetious or not, but I think all religious teachings for children count as brainwashing.
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by victorf 13y ago
Light has been stuck at c for the last decade, too. When will it break this barrier?
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by victorf 13y ago
I hope one day we can stop relying on rent-seeking third-party platforms for important interactions.
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by victorf 13y ago
I don't see a problem with an O(n) algorithm to set some property on n objects.
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by victorf 13y ago
The next time someone asks you why privacy matters, you can remind them that the government is now prosecuting speech as thoughtcrime.
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by victorf 13y ago
Hundreds of cases vs. how many domestic? If domestic cases run even into the thousands you just proved the idea that it is less likely to be sued as a foreign company.
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by victorf 13y ago
I'd like to try it, but I'm also not going to sign up for an online note/research app to use seriously. I want assurances that my notes are on my devices, read only by me, and, after a shitty experience with Notes.app this we
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by victorf 13y ago
That's basically all you need to know about the entire article. Bleeding money from a mortgage, he decides to build his own game engine. He is an industry professional of many years. I am surprised he didn't see failure coming fro
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by victorf 13y ago
Bizarrely enough at the Chinese border they only cared that the paperwork is in order. The last few times I went, everyone passed by the giant customs X-ray without even filling out a nothing-to-declare form. China's border crossing in
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by victorf 13y ago
What wrath? The whole line is US citizens, and it's hard to do much to a returning US citizen.
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by victorf 13y ago
Until the next lead paint or tainted milk scandal, when Chinese vaporizers will have a massive stigma.
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by victorf 13y ago
Which study on technical people having facts to support their biases are you referencing? :)
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by victorf 13y ago
The mental trauma of being in a US prison and permanent unemployability from a felony record causes far more hardship to a person than the act of smoking. That alone should indicate that the punishment is not fitting the crime.
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by victorf 13y ago
Locks make a terrible analogy because servers are built to respond to public requests.
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by victorf 13y ago
Of course you can take the plot outline and rewrite the story without copyright infringement. Copyright infringement applies when reusing the actual author's writing.
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by victorf 13y ago
The whole book is like that, the author is a douche (or presents himself as one) and the entire concept is to find some area where you can sell an info product or get away with reselling something for an 88% margin, and hire VAs to do the m
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by victorf 13y ago
I had a similar thing happen, I was the last person on security footage before someone discovered vandalism. You wouldn't have been guilty of perjury, maybe obstruction of justice. But I think your overall point is good, they will use
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by victorf 13y ago
I hated that book, the signal to goofy joke ratio was awful. Compare with, say, "Learn you an Erlang", which was goofy while still informative.
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by victorf 13y ago
I haven't read that one, and I am looking for an into to Lisp book. What did you like about it? (and I think it would be a missed opportunity to not title it "Sea of C")
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by victorf 13y ago
> We also spent enormous amounts of time and resources tweaking the app design to perfection (pre-launch) Not only are you right, it sounds like in this case they failed slow. I've been in a situation like that before, it's inc
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by victorf 13y ago
ADD ONE TO COBOL GIVING Java
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by victorf 13y ago
Checked exceptions seem like a great idea, but I can see how the execution of them is irritating. If I were to do Android I would go directly to Scala, which looks pretty awesome.
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by victorf 13y ago
"Terrorist and black-hat hacker Duncan Bayne was arrested yesterday after posting his bombing plot on a forum for hackers. Lawmakers state that he never would have been caught without the aid of PRISM, and drafted new legislature allow