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by zeth___ 8y ago
Which do you think is more likely: 1). A person willing to risk their life for what they believe is right is a pedophile. 2). The CIA plants evidence. After having a look at the things we know the CIA did during my life time, Iran-Contra, I
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by zeth___ 8y ago
I'm looking at your post history. At the point when you have posted 17 times in a thread with half of them being a literal copy of what the prosecution is charging him with, while by omission implying that the information there is some
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by zeth___ 8y ago
The most efficient number system is ternary. If you go for balanced ternary you also get addition and subtraction for free, and multiplication is not much worse than for binary.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Speaking as someone who lived in a place that would boil dissidents alive in the 00's: That's the most beautiful part of this. If you know anything about downloading hugely illegal material you will keep your mouth shut because th
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by zeth___ 8y ago
You see there was that little thing called the Iraq war.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Dear god this thread is being hit hard by people pushing the US government narrative. I'm not saying you're all paid trolls, but HN is to the tech scene what reddit was 10 years ago which is when we first saw shilling hit it hard
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by zeth___ 8y ago
So you're saying you're "deeply versed in the lingo, tone, and character of that scene"? Reminds me of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkbqzWVHZI
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by zeth___ 8y ago
"Yes your honour, we totally found this." "No your honour, we lost the evidence since then."
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by zeth___ 8y ago
As someone whose used python since the 2.1 days in high school, why not create a language with the type system you want instead of killing python? There is a reason why python is this good when it specifically chose to not implement the fea
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by zeth___ 8y ago
That is abterrible analogy. What we have is either ten people walking or 10,000 people strapped in the space shuttle cargo bay. That it takes the ten people 30 years to walk from Lisbon to Singapore vs 45 minutes with the shuttle isn't
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by zeth___ 8y ago
I quite like it.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>To wit, there are massive redwood forests that occur in nature that are just one cloned genome. These are reproductively successful on timespans many times a human life. That there is a massive monoculture in an area that was an extreme
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by zeth___ 8y ago
What you're talking about is the difference between an ecology and a monoculture. The reason why we don't see monocultures in nature is because they put every single one of their members at risk of sudden death. A single pathogen
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Ok. Then why would you use a weakly typed language where the idea of types can be easily and completely subverted with monkey patching?
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by zeth___ 8y ago
I don't get what's so bad about assertions. It makes it much easier to demand that a given object has a given method than forcing the object to be of a certain class. If anything adding a list of assertions at the top of a method&
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by zeth___ 8y ago
If you used it to create proprietary code it is.
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It is. You allow your code to be used in the subjugation of others.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
The most secure computer is a toaster. The only way to minimize attacks is to have less capable language classes exposed to the outside world. The last time I checked they still have an http stack which is usually either turing complete or
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by zeth___ 8y ago
The freedom to enslave others is not a freedom that one protects. I believe there was a little thing called the civil war where that point was made.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
BSD is free to adopt the GPL at their leisure. Who knows, companies might then start contributing to the project instead of building OS's on top of it, looking at you osx.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
What's to stop someone with a live cd from reading it by mounting the file system?
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by zeth___ 8y ago
You should read Pravda. It criticized the USSR quite often too.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
If the US reputation was tarnished so much list all the countries where US backed invasions or coups killed more than 100,000 people in the 20th century. And please call it what it is: genocide. I do enjoy a bit of whataboutism in the morni
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by zeth___ 8y ago
So was Thatcher, but you could find no one better cheerleader for the Neo-liberal policies of the US than her.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
And of course Obama used it more than all other presidents combined. Which is why a libertarian had a really odd choice to make last election: go with someone who has hollowed out the constitution in her time in office as much as possible,
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by zeth___ 8y ago
>To be a great, rather than just a big power, China needs the world’s acceptance. More open domestic markets, fewer hidden subsidies and less dumping, less industrial espionage and less aggression in the South China Sea would all help. W
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Or I develop part of the kernel for something I need for my day job, send it up stream to make my life easier the next time I to use it and someone accepts it for the same reason. You then need someone to pay what is essentially an administ
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Patents expire after 26 years. Like sane copyright laws should.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
To anyone expecting this to be good, don't. It's a 'protagonist gets sucked into another world' type of story and not 'protagonist looks at the meaninglessness of life, both on and offline'.
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by zeth___ 8y ago
Absolutely what happened to me. A class is not a car, you don't explode your car when you go off road, create a SUV using the base of the car along with what's in the trunk, then do it back again when you reach a road. Analogies a

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