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by x3c 13y ago
E.g. Atom bombs It's a weapon that has no counter measures. None that I'm aware of, except prohibition.
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by x3c 13y ago
>.... a cheerleader for Washington's intelligence committee Well, if that's not sexist..
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by x3c 13y ago
Would Sailfish also run apps that use google play services?
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by x3c 13y ago
Try asking for help first.
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by x3c 13y ago
Courts are always mindful of public policy while making rulings. So, benefiting public has been a valid reason for a long time. And I think it's a good reason. Now does this really benefit people or not is another question. I think it
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by x3c 13y ago
I'm not sure but since this ruling took place in higher courts, lower courts now have a precedent set. Similar cases will tend to lean this way, unless exceptional circumstances.
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by x3c 13y ago
>The decision also comes as a major volte-face for Judge Chin... that the higher court (on which he now sits) wanted him to acknowledge fair use. I find it very disheartening. The reasons given by the judge are very fair and convincing.
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by x3c 13y ago
But that's not computer science.
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by x3c 13y ago
<strike> If the author has not labelled it opensource, should you be cloning it's source code (unless of course, you're the author)? </strike> Edit: Sorry, just researched it, you're linking the repo from the
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by x3c 13y ago
How about helping you make an informed decision?
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by x3c 13y ago
Just in case someone (like me) is not familiar with the concept of deterministic builds, this is a good read: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/deterministic-builds-part-o... Synopsis: "deterministic builds" -
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by x3c 13y ago
I spent 10 minutes reading your comment, parsing it and then responding to it. You owe me $5.
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by x3c 13y ago
How are you handling backups? LVM snapshots? Incremental/differential backups? What is the disaster recovery procedure? What monitoring tools do you recommend? Is clustering as advanced and complicated as it seems? Should one explore t
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by x3c 13y ago
Maybe one of those PHDs thought that you've captive audience. Let's make them spend more time on your site.
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by x3c 13y ago
I normally use linux but thought i'll try w8. Installed it on dual boot and played around. Wanted to restart it so I could boot to linux. Had to google how to shut down w8.
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Ask HN: What are the data points for a Root Cause Analysis of a downtime?
1 points by x3c 13y ago|0 comments
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by x3c 13y ago
Karma-whoring will be counterproductive if the community doesn't solicit/reward such behaviour. And this attitude of the community has more or less thwarted karma-whoring till now. We'll see how this works out in future.
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by x3c 13y ago
To put it other way round, maybe comprehensive writing is not a strong suite of the Internet.
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by x3c 13y ago
Stronger argument against this is they'll lose customers due to lack of seating space.
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by x3c 13y ago
I'm sure they can/will monetize it once it impacts their bottomline. Like charging on time spent in shop or seat reservation charges.
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by x3c 13y ago
Worse than the scaling problems will be the count mismatch between your and your wife's app if data integrity breaks.
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by x3c 13y ago
Trickier than that is the following: If such actions are committed on US soil, this section will not be applicable. So this is about arresting and detaining, indefinitely, someone on foreign land. Land where the US government has no jurisdi
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by x3c 13y ago
This should be a blog post in itself.
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New cyber security body to rope in ISPs - India(articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
1 points by x3c 13y ago|0 comments
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by x3c 13y ago
Had to google what article 5 of NATO was: The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack
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by x3c 13y ago
Not rendering correctly for Firefox 21.0 (Mozilla Firefox for Ubuntu Canonical 1.0). Am I the only one facing this issue?
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by x3c 13y ago
Do you have spam filters for traditional corporal mails as well, Matt? It'd never bypass them in that case.
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by x3c 13y ago
And don't forget Analytics. Google Analytics has seen a vast improvement in UI and usability.
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by x3c 14y ago
The URI seems to be dynamically generated. But, yeah, we can write some rewrite rules and serve the requests. If I'm not wrong, this is implementation of JSONP to avoid cross-domain AJAX request block, right?
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by x3c 14y ago
What is the racial distribution for top x% who can afford Tesla? I missed that.

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