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by wreegab 13y ago
I wondered. The only way I read this "pardon" is: "We pardon you of having forced us to persecute you."
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "Alan Turing, the second world war codebreaker who took his own life after undergoing chemical castration following a conviction for homosexual activity, has been granted a posthumous royal pardon 59 years after his death." I
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "NSA is a intelligence agency: spying on foreigners seems to me like it'd be their objective, regardless of the revelations ... Other foreign intelligence agencies do their share of spying on foreigners too" I don't
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "The entertainment industry has just never really been able to get their heads around how to best develop a new, sustainable business model" It's because when a new technology emerge, it often means cheaper way to do thi
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by wreegab 13y ago
I have been entertaining this idea a lot, and I think it makes a lot of sense, and not just because of the potential failure. When a company becomes too big, the virtue of free market economy disappear more and more the bigger the company.
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by wreegab 13y ago
Question to RSA: Are you going to sue Reuters for libel?
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "Storing any amount of money for the amount spent is better than banking none of that money" It's not just the cash flow which matters, you must consider many other factors. Have you heard of "depreciation", yo
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by wreegab 13y ago
10$ is the cash asset. The big picture demands that you look at all the assets/liabilities/revenues/expenses. It's far from being that straightforward if you take into account net equity over time, risks, cash flow, depr
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by wreegab 13y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but I tried to used numbers which fit your scenario, and roughly got this: Mortgage: 100,000$ Term: 25 yrs Rate: 1% Principal payment for the 12th month: 59.38$ Interest payment for the 12th month: 993.84$ Cumulati
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "Not seeing a major conflict of interest is worrying in itself" The rationalization from some posters in the thread of why he shouldn't be removed is scary.
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by wreegab 13y ago
My thought was, values from function calls used to be returned in one dedicated CPU register (maybe two in some exceptional cases).
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by wreegab 13y ago
You can speculate about the motives, the result though is difficult to argue.
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by wreegab 13y ago
Stasi's Zersetzung: "The Stasi perfected the technique of psychological harassment of perceived enemies known as Zersetzung. ... This often included psychological attacks such as breaking into homes and messing with the contents –
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by wreegab 13y ago
You participated in deploying a creepy gigantic indiscriminate surveillance apparatus, and somehow you attempt to cast yourself as a poor victim. I don't think it is going to work. Maybe if your thoughts were toward denouncing the subv
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by wreegab 13y ago
This article criticizes people who express criticism.
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "The object’s composition and provenance remain unknown almost two weeks after first contact" Anyone else thought "Arthur C. Clarke" when reading this part?
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by wreegab 13y ago
I wish every one of these requests was available to be seen, neatly organized by countries etc. Nothing like public shame to bring back to reason power-abusing government agents.
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by wreegab 13y ago
And I tried to find the source for this very little animated GIF, but can't find any. If the author wants to be taken seriously, he needs to provide exact references. No doing so I assume attempt at manipulating people's opinions.
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by wreegab 13y ago
Let's picture a future reader: "Hmmm, if 'foo == null' is true, than it's true... I see..." Seriously..
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by wreegab 13y ago
So transposing a boolean into a boolean is better than transposing a truthy value of an unspecified type into a boolean? You are missing the point, which is it's really silly to transpose a boolean into a boolean using a ternary operat
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by wreegab 13y ago
The result of "foo == null" (or better "foo === null") is boolean, I don't know what is the "equivalence" problem here.
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by wreegab 13y ago
This reminds me of this one, which is quite common: return foo == null ? true : false;
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by wreegab 13y ago
What's a "DBA"?
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by wreegab 13y ago
And easy to rescale, recolor, etc.
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by wreegab 13y ago
I am on 31.0.1650.63-0ubuntu0.13.04.1~20131204.1, and it was ok here. CPU around 3-4% for most of them. One of them was 8%.
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by wreegab 13y ago
An argument which can be used by all sides. In the end, it's the civilians who get screwed.
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by wreegab 13y ago
I don't read anywhere that he said this was the first time. Why would you suggest he said that?
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by wreegab 13y ago
> "For a game like Spelunky, which is a platformer where the whole screen moves" Ok. It's because from here nothing moves. Using Chrome 30 on Linux Mint.
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by wreegab 13y ago
I'm up since 5h00 and I produced nothing of value yet.
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by wreegab 13y ago
Why is the image constantly redrawn? EDIT: Ok at first there were no moving creatures in it. I see why it is redrawn, now my question would be more like: why is the whole image constantly redrawn? (Dirty rectangle goes a long way).

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