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by zeteo 13y ago
>This essay makes a fallacy case, "it is this way, therefore it must be this way". It takes a lot of liberties with evidence to come to a crazy conclusion. Funny you should say that, because the Communists used to make pretty m
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This may seem odd but mostly harmless for the public, until you realize the polygraph is an important tool among the NSA's much-vaunted anti-abuse safeguards [1]. [1] http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08&#x2F
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Beyond Aylw's very good point that loose coupling demands its own share of effort, I'd also like to add that it only delays the inevitable. Even if you manage to organize your modules in a perfect, non-leaking tree and to only ref
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>if I could transfer the pace of production from Ludum Dare into my normal work, I would complete a game like House of Shadows in less than 2 months While the article lists many plausible reasons why the pace of work turned out to be fas
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I apologize if my previous reply came across as too curt. But I think a sharp distinction needs to be drawn between two work systems that are quite different: A. Market based, in which a certain reward is provided for performing a certain a
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The article has two main points: 1. The Inca state had no internal trade system whatsoever. This is, if accurate, indeed unusual for a society of its size. 2. Despite this, they still managed to acquire great "wealth", which the a
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>Workers were paid in wine and grain That's not pay, it's logistics. Even on the worst forced labor projects they're still usually feeding the prisoners.
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The extent to which the Incas did it is remarkable, but historically civil engineering had little to do with markets. The ancient Sumerians, Egyptians, Persians etc. pretty much built their infrastructure and monumental buildings with draft
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The kids are OK. They'll be messed up a lot more by college loans and Social Security for baby boomers than by tire sensors.
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>an average of one case of intentional abuse per year has been documented in internal reports [...] the number of reported deliberate abuses is small According to the WSJ, these were caught mostly through self-reporting by the people who
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I kept reading and reading through poetic descriptions of how valuable the method is, hoping to get to at least a short description of what the method actually is. Excitedly I clicked on "the company published FBP as a technical disclo
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It's not the anonymity, it's the lack of consequences. In big cities, people are casually rude in traffic even though they can see each others' faces; but they'll probably never meet again. The clerk at the DMV treats yo
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>I just came from London where there are rape and death threats This is wrong on so many levels. Yes, anonymity gives people a wider range of expression and some use it badly. Did she stop to consider those that use it for good? Say good
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>You likely have no idea how Americans are treated by the Taliban and Al Q when they're captured [... T]he guys in Abu were fighting on the same side as the guys that beheaded Daniel Pearl. [... I]f the US soldiers at Abu had shot t
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>He exposed a small amount of wrongdoing with his leaking. [...] These leaks damaged relationships with foreign governments and jeopardized the lives of people Abu Ghraib also damaged international relations and placed American lives at
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>when enough members of the military decide to do what's better for the country against the lawful orders of the elected government that they serve, we call it a coup I'm not disputing that Manning broke the laws of the militar
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After WW2, the Allies condemned and executed a number of German and Japanese officers who had done little more than follow orders. What they had done was not against any laws at the time, and definitely within their organizations' code
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>Manning, 25, was convicted last month [...] The government had asked [for] 60 years. “There is value in deterrence, your honor; this court must send a message [...] National security crimes that undermine the entire system must be taken
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by zeteo 13y ago
Rice paper doesn't taste too bad. How will they prove in court that my snack had security codes on it?
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by zeteo 13y ago
Why not one-time use codes (e.g. [1]) instead of the phone? You can discreetly destroy the list that you carry as long as you can only get a new list at your destination. [1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer&#
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by zeteo 13y ago
The original wingsuit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Reichelt The original computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical_Engine The original steam engine: http://en.wikipedia.o
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by zeteo 13y ago
Yes, there is a logic to it. It shows very clearly that governments around the world are using anti-terrorism laws as a blank warrant to do whatever they please (particularly to foreigners). If the detention authority extends to someone who
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I'm very ambivalent about this article. On the one hand, it's the first serious criticism of Hyperloop that I've seen on HN. The author has dived to the deepest levels of one section of the proposal, understood them, and foun
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>The ruling class has figured out that a happy and productive population with free time on their hands is a mortal danger
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I disagree that the answer is moral and political and that the "ruling class" sat down to decide most people should work bullshit jobs. The phenomenon is more elegantly explained by pure economics: as less time is expended extract
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Amtrak has a very different business, operating and even physical model. Sure, they're both transportation, but unless there's detail in the specifics we might as well compare the Chinatown bus with renting a Cessna.
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It seems really low, but I don't really know what to dispute among p. 56 estimates. Energy comes from solar panels. It doesn't seem to factor in maintenance. Even if the cost turns out to be double and we factor in a 20% profit ma
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>The Hyperloop pods will travel[...] about 30 seconds apart in the tube. They will have a maximum deceleration of 0.5 gs [...] it will take a pod 68.4 seconds to come to a full stop. >That's a pretty significant issue because saf
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>Oh, so what you are saying is that they have been wrong and misleading for the past 500 years? Umm no. You can also mislead yourself by using a slide rule to measure lengths, but that doesn't make the slide rule wrong.
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>have our world maps been wrong or misleading for 500 years? No, they were just used mainly for navigation. The reason why the Mercator projection was popular for so long is that its angles correspond to compass points and you navigate b

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