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by wnight 15y ago
Probably because so many people are reasonable until there's seventeen cents towards their wishlist on the table and then they'll shill for anything to get it. An Amazon link doesn't save as much time as it would have in the 90s and the mes
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by wnight 15y ago
Which is what you want someone to do if they even think there's a fire. Even if they're only relaying the news without checking. Imagine if I a guy came rushing out of the bathroom shouting 'Fire' and a bunch of people went in the check bef
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by wnight 15y ago
Why, when people are accused of being overly sensitive an icon like the flag or the image of the king, etc, does someone come along and say "The ___ is almost sacred to the ___ people."? Why do sacred cows get such respect?
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by wnight 15y ago
Being a movie superhero I'd jump in the car and race down there, leaping into the fray and killing all the terrorists, including the midget pretending to be the cute little girl. Then I'd get a medal, and a pony. You though, lacking superpo
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by wnight 15y ago
I can think of a few reasons to build elsewhere like it being easier to do as a non-root user, and so you don't fill a system drive with experimentation, but I'm not quite sure I know specifically why you're saying so. As for descriptive na
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by wnight 15y ago
Yeah, it's an idea. That's how they work.
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by wnight 15y ago
> 1) I wouldn't think of it as "cheating the system", but I would think of it as rational self-interest. Given a set of constraints, people will optimize for the best personal outcome. In doing so they did break a number of laws, isn't
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by wnight 15y ago
Canada. Not me though. Sorry. There's a guy in here from India who lived roughly where his family always has. To me, never having seen anything older than Montreal, that's just inconceivable. Can a hundred generations of children really gro
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by wnight 15y ago
Needs another poll answer next time - 'Never in recorded history'. Or at least, '25+ generations'.
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by wnight 15y ago
Pfff. There are two types of agreeing to deals. One's for someone trying to use legal tricks to force you to do something unreasonable. Telling me that I may not look to see how something is done is not acceptable and is only "agreed to" be
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by wnight 15y ago
Not like pushing bad mortgages.
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by wnight 15y ago
Why do you make a specific point of the symlink?
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by wnight 15y ago
No, I'm pretty sure I'm with you. One person 'checks out' a file to edit and the rest of the people see it as locked. But I remember conflicts when working with that style of locking. The biggest was people forgetting to check their work in
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by wnight 15y ago
Did you miss my discussion of the problems of permission-based locking? You dismiss "using external tools" when this is a communication issue, not a permission issue. What better achieves the desired results? 1) Having many files, only some
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by wnight 15y ago
Get a sense of perspective. The USA and its allies (who are, of course, by all their own laws, complicit) have directly killed and caused the deaths of over a million people in Iraq and Afghanistan during the faked hunt for Osama. The vast
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by wnight 15y ago
This is like asking for spoilers for The Titanic. The news of the leak has only been the biggest single news event on the planet for the past eighteen months. If you suspect it to implicate you and you didn't already do your best to escape
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by wnight 15y ago
Of course the user could just videotape the screen and page-down through all of the sensitive data to record it, rendering the exercise pointless. The first guy was right, it's impossible. Certain very narrow bits of it could be accomplishe
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by wnight 15y ago
All of the above. Well #1 for sure. And they'll sell the phone for more where possible, but also play the other side by selling it dirt cheap via the net just to grow, so #2. And yeah, #4. We're always going to need components and without a
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by wnight 15y ago
If you want your employee to take a pay cut they'd best get rewarded as much as an investor who put in the same amount. Look at the numbers, if you want a dedicated tech genius on call, and loyal, in his market, $700k for four years is very
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by wnight 15y ago
You said the article was wrong, then said that. Implying it was a correction. The response said "The article said this ...". So yes, but no.
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by wnight 15y ago
> The problem comes if two people have changed the same file in different ways, and you want both changes. What are you going to do? There's no 'wrong' set of changes that you can discard. Well, as you say ... > there is a perfect s
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by wnight 15y ago
> Who will write these bills? How will they be proposed? Is there a minimum number of sponsors required, if so, how many? How do bills lapse? How are they amended during discussion? Do you think this sort of thing makes you clever? In e
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by wnight 15y ago
As long as voting costs nothing, and the work comes from someone else, nobody is going to take it seriously. Instead, attach the voter's name to the bill, as either yay, nay, or abstain. When their position is proven wrong, fine them to cov
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by wnight 15y ago
Quite. I always wonder at the history behind left-over bookmarks, marginal notes, etc. I'd be happy seeing a scan though. Happier actually because I could flip through other scans of other marginal notes in other copies of the same book, co
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by wnight 15y ago
Sure. You'd likely have as many sentimental books as you'd have sentimental tie-clips, rings, photos, favorite songs, etc. But why do some people romanticize nearly all books?
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by wnight 15y ago
That's handled by not merging changes into the master branch of the master repo unless you mean to. Anyone gets to see the files as changed, you get to choose who to listen to. And, if you forget to pay attention and listen to the wrong set
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by wnight 15y ago
But capability is the point of books. If you want a work of art buy a sculpture/etc. There's a huge undercurrent of people who romanticize books, I was asking where/why they came from.
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by wnight 15y ago
> Every feature of git may be liability in some environments Scoff. > I might need a controlled server with an audit-trail where any ability to rewrite history is a liability. SVN wins hands down here. No, it does not. Nobody can me
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by wnight 15y ago
> Disarming the population is not an option here. Sure it is. Replace general purpose computers with centrally and permanently connected (It's a feature!) computing devices that only run signed apps. Then whenever someone does something
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by wnight 15y ago
Sheesh, what do people have against ebooks? And where do they all get the same fetish for fondling paper? You can't grep dead trees. Books just aren't as effective. You also can't store tens of thousands of paper books on a tiny USB stick.

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