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by walid 13y ago
hahaha that is a whole new can of worms... In my experience, mentors matter more than the course title. I've had the privilege of being taught by some of the best teachers and witnessed some of the worst. When your instructor deals wit
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by walid 13y ago
The guy isn't bored of programming, he is over worked.
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by walid 13y ago
So you are bored and your job has lost its luster. For that do something completely different and do it just for fun. If you work as X and even if you are good at X you will eventually get bored of X. Imagine if you had ice-cream or chocola
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by walid 13y ago
Your argument doesn't hold because transparency will mean there will eventually be a state of equilibrium after you take many employees and after many employees are taken away from you. Talent snatching cannot go on forever. After that
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by walid 13y ago
The article does mention that he did fight deportation. On the other hand not going to China or working on Chinese rocket projects would have been ludicrous considering his ethnicity and field of expertise. You expect a human to simply drop
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by walid 13y ago
Looking at it through your lens: if he stays he's a spy, if he leaves he's a spy. Any third option?
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by walid 13y ago
I remember playing Half-Life and finishing the game and only after I replayed the intro again did I bother to understand the premise of aliens teleported to us. I only wanted to wind the game. FPS are fun to me because of the speed I have t
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by walid 13y ago
> So whilst you may lose economy of scale on the motherboard side, I think you will gain it back via integration, however, you will lose the ability to customise. True but if the SoC was advanced enough it can make customization unnecess
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by walid 13y ago
But I don't think this is a workable task in a political system. The views of the guy you voted for are going to be different from the one you didn't vote for. In a perfect system every person will be impartial in evaluating elect
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by walid 13y ago
You nailed it. What also changes is people in authoritarian posts. The system has to be resilient to the occasional wrong guy being chosen for a powerful post. Also it doesn't make sense to fight individuals since it gives a fake sense
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by walid 13y ago
> Now the President is distancing himself from them for his own political reasons. But whether the President distances himself or not is irrelevant. The agency is still nothing more than a tasked employee. So when people object to the NS
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by walid 13y ago
Full disclosure: I am not an American citizen. Having said that, isn't it out of place for PR people from the NSA be asking that the president show a form of political endorsement for NSA actions while the NSA is just an agency that do
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by walid 13y ago
I don't see this as a major problem since my nearly 4 year old computer is still working fine for most of my computing needs. Computer chips are so powerful now that they don't use a lot more than older computers didn't use.
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by walid 13y ago
Although your point about earth isn't completely true (night lights are very visible from space and we don't have photos from before space missions), the thing that concerns me is whether mining Helium 3 from the moon will affect
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by walid 13y ago
You mean there is no ecology or atmosphere on the moon. The environment is whatever there is around. On the moon it will be a terrain of grey and white matter that reflects a lot of light when there is a full moon to the point that you can
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by walid 13y ago
So is it time to start taking photos of the moon before the image seen from earth completely changes. Every time I read about the moon and mars I think about how humans are going to change the environment after living there for a while. The
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by walid 13y ago
This was my opinion too. I'm shocked that they didn't take it into consideration. Ironically the plaintiff tried to discredit Diffie by mentioning that the GCHQ "invented" the encryption even before Diffie did (this was
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by walid 13y ago
The funny thing is that the lawyer tries to discredit Diffie by trying to present prior art. He was trying to shift focus away from the case and into attacking the witness by presenting prior art to the prior art. Kind of a moot move.
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by walid 13y ago
Patents were not allowed to exist for the good of humankind. They were supposed to be ways to expose smart ideas and then we may use them all much later. More importantly if patents were to help mankind, they should be public domain.
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by walid 13y ago
The answer might sound logical to you but all this time I thought the expansion was Hyperlink REFerence. My HTML education started in 1998 or 1999 from reading a PC Magazine series of articles on how to program in HTML. I don't remembe
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by walid 13y ago
I think that the @ symbol as a face replacement is not the best aesthetic decision to make. Using a larger person icon like the one used on Mac OS X user accounts icon in the System Preferences is better. Mac OS X uses two people's bus
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by walid 13y ago
It is worth noting that if you don't use the new features and running VirtualBox on old hardware there probably is no good reason to upgrade at the moment.
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by walid 13y ago
What is so ironic is that time and time again when spies are caught they specifically make sure that they don't have address books neither on them or stored somewhere. So this is essentially nothing more than all the innocent people in
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by walid 13y ago
I don't think you can control for genetics, at least not directly. There is no intelligence genetic marker as far as I know which only leaves testing the IQ/intelligence of the whole family tree as the only option. However getting
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by walid 13y ago
You're not proving cause and effect here. IQ and earning power are correlated but the relation has been proven to run both ways. Low IQ may or may not lead to low income but low income has been shown to lead to low IQ scoring.
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by walid 13y ago
Yup my bad, I just multiplied 316,856,000 by 0.0001 without dividing by 100.
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by walid 13y ago
Do some math. According to Wikipedia the population of the USA is 316,856,000. The 0.0001% of the population is 31685 after removing partial human beings caused by mathematical division. If the Forbes 400 list is used as a sample space for
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by walid 13y ago
The last sentence is the most important point of the article and probably should have been a separate article on its own: > America’s .0001% is becoming more meritocratic, but the means of a middle class background remain a necessary lau
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by walid 13y ago
Actually I was surprised that the article doesn't see the harm in "The Subpoena Argument" which although not overly burdensome, is both abusive and oppressive. The abuse and oppression is happening to the business and to the
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by walid 13y ago
HAHAHAHA! I was scanning the comments hoping that I'd be the first to drop the 404 joke :D I swear the moment I glanced at the title I thought it was an error message that someone accidentally posted.

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