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by wfo 11y ago
President Trump might be the only thing that can unite both of the parties. Against him, of course.
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by wfo 11y ago
I was under the impression Bill Gates does not speak for MS anymore. He doesn't work there and it would be horribly unprofessional to make promises on behalf of the current CEO.
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by wfo 11y ago
There is a way in but it's a lot of work. They have to create a new weird custom build of an OS with modifications and try to ensure it only works on a specific device (and that the code that makes it work on one specific device and no
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by wfo 11y ago
The FBI use NSLs fairly freely and nobody really seems to object. The first amendment doesn't really seem to help us here. I think the only reason this wasn't done under a gag order is the FBI wants to use public response to win t
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by wfo 11y ago
Presidential executive authority is vast. There is much the president can do without permission from any single other person and it has only expanded in recent years during the administrations of Bush and Obama. He could put every Muslim Am
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by wfo 11y ago
If you're sad that HN users don't rush to defend something that's indefensible well then I'm not sure what to tell you. Would you like one of us to pretend this is okay so there's an illusion of a debate that doesn&
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by wfo 11y ago
"Skills and qualifications" are often vague and amorphous. Look at tech. We are very bad at detecting who is good and who is not. You can easily weed out completely unqualified candidates and nobody is suggesting you hire them, bu
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by wfo 11y ago
This is a discussion. Most of the people here are not lawyers. In discussions we generally discuss right and wrong and what is reasonable, which have nothing to do with the law. The law is an ancillary technical concern about what the FBI o
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by wfo 11y ago
The political argument against it is "I don't want a single dime of my money going to worthless scumbag lowlifes who are too lazy to get a job" or "anything the government does is by definition wasteful, the private sect
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by wfo 11y ago
Mathematical papers will not come with a formal proof until formal proof systems "auto-prove" button is strong enough to do everything for them and it can come as an afterthought that takes 5 minutes. Formal proofs do nothing to h
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by wfo 11y ago
If putting a huge number of innocent people on a "probably terrorist" list secret intelligence agencies use to pick targets to secretly execute without trial isn't a big deal, would you be okay visiting rural Pakistan for a w
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by wfo 11y ago
It would be really nice if all it took to understand difficult mathematics were some easy programming tricks. The problem with looking at old code is you forget what is going on or what the purpose of different components are. The problem w
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by wfo 11y ago
Most Americans want tariffs. We've seen what removing protectionism and globalizing the economy has done: things are great for American elites and corporate interests, and American workers have been thrown in the dumpster. "Removi
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by wfo 11y ago
It's a question about the right to self-determination, which is not technical or confusing. It expands and enshrines the right of corporate attorneys to take countries to court and modify their laws to suit corporate interests. If the
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by wfo 11y ago
Actually, with a warrant the police should be able to get through your encryption. The debate is not about whether or not the state can look at your communication, the debate is how. When the state wants to look at your communications and h
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by wfo 11y ago
Once you realize the economy is a massive pyramid scheme, do you say there's probably a better way to do it than let the people on top exploit everyone below? Or do you say "Great, I'm the smarter, more successful, and inhere
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by wfo 11y ago
What you are noticing happens here constantly; many tech people I've met are completely incapable of understanding anything outside of hard science or engineering and so they lash out and try to bash it whenever it comes up: pretend th
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by wfo 11y ago
Or they're taking from you. Or by some freak accident, you exchange things worth the exact same. If someone sells something to me and makes profit, that means it could have been sold to me for less, and they are pocketing the differenc
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by wfo 11y ago
The alternative is mixed capitalism and socialism since living in a purely capitalist or socialist state is a horrible dystopia. The alternative is adjusting the proportions of capitalism and socialism we use to create our economic system.
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by wfo 11y ago
>Yet, only 20% of those surveyed reported using even basic algebra at work, and a lot of those were tradespeople who could have easily been taught the necessary math post-K-10. I agree with you most 'work' today, especially whi
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by wfo 11y ago
Uhh, I don't know what planet you're living on where people don't need to use algebra. Almost everybody I know uses algebra regularly. How do you suggest we do statistics or any kind of science or teach kids anything about th
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by wfo 11y ago
I think you're overestimating how hard CS is compared to other fields (hint: it's not harder). They teach calculus in high school. And calculus-based physics. They have autoshop and woodshop which is honestly very similar to the k
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by wfo 11y ago
Is this a good thing? I'm reminded of the "well-meaning" pushes by large tech companies to flood the market with immigrant labor and drive salaries down. Though I wouldn't say this is malicious I think it may have the sa
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by wfo 11y ago
I don't know if the statements about the keyboard can be attributed to dishonesty. But when you ask a programmer what they /do/ most of the time, the first thing they think of is programming, and that usually uses the keyboar
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by wfo 11y ago
So you're saying now that they've banded together as a union, they have bargaining power collectively whereas without it they would have none?
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by wfo 11y ago
"Good CS knowledge" isn't 'learning git'. It's mathematics, theory of computation, recursion theory and type theory and PL, compilers, complexity theory and algorithms, advanced data structures, concurrency and
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by wfo 11y ago
Intro courses are the same (calculus and basic chemistry are calculus and basic chemistry) but once you get past anything more difficult than 101 you see a wild disparity in difficulty across different universities (some universities will h
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by wfo 11y ago
Ask around at any university. Some classes can be taken online. These are the classes the students throw on top of an already full schedule for free credits because they know they are complete bullshit and will take zero time and effort. If
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by wfo 11y ago
Ostensibly it's the job of the state to balance the civil/privacy rights of its citizens with surveillance. It's the job of these companies to balance the monetary value of the data they collect with the backlash and loss of
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by wfo 11y ago
Yup, cops don't ever abuse their power unless it's against a minority. Cops aren't power hungry or brutal, they just have an unending unexplainable hatred for minorities. And even if they do abuse or brutalize a white person

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