DerpObvious

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by DerpObvious 13y ago
Another use of interfering with quorum sensing is keeping bacteria docile, even when they've multiplied to levels where they could be threatening to the host.
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
> Maybe there arose an enormous threat and he was desperate to stop it. Even an existential threat - an actual one like another nation-state pointing world-ending numbers of nuclear weapons at our country - is less harmful than dismantli
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
Obama is Commander-in-Chief of the DoD, which the NSA operates under. Literally speaking, the president /is/ the highest commander of the NSA.
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
> attitudes about drugs generally don't affect whether an officer will make an arrest (until laws get changed). This is untrue: officers operating under the same set of laws within my state have disparate policies regarding arrest (
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
If I had two white characters in a comic strip, with one being a stereotypical "loser" being arrested by the police (let's say in a comical manner, over a single joint) and the other one joking about it, is it racist because
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
I would guess, much like another respondent, that such behavior was directed at /both/ genders of critics, and not specific to women. Do you have any evidence that this response, in particular, was directly solely or mainly at wom
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
> sexism Wait, wait... how did you get sexism out of this particular issue? I'm not saying the dude isn't sexist or an asshole, but all of the characters in the offending strip were male, there's not specific reprisal agai
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
> Do you see anyone besides techies and the libertarian fringe talking about eternal and perpetual surveillance? Just last night, I was asked about the leaks by a 50/60ish bus driver after mentioning I worked in tech - who as far as
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
> They have access to food pantries, soup lines, and other community support. In many places, these resources don't account for all of the demand and have absolutely no chance of matching it.
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
US hackers for the NSA have been able to publicly admit to performing offensive cyber actions for years, usually by mentioning they were on the "offense" side of the program when talking about previous employment. They couldn&#x27
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
I don't know that this automatically follows: lots of companies produce equipment for other companies to use on making profit in markets they themselves don't work in. It's entirely possible for a company to want to manufactu
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
> In practical terms this means that any individual or business hosting having a Facebook profile page or blog on Tumblr could be sued. This just says that they're responsible for the effects of the services they contract, in additi
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
But they may only use the storage once consent has been given, which can only happen after a warning has been issued. The two clauses seem to indicate that consent must be before storage, and warning before consent, hence there must be a wa
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
Because having to program a hundred DSLs in your super-language is as (or more) annoying as just learning a handful of different languages (and runtimes) in the first place.
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
> I'd rather see legitimate reasons why removing 20% time is a bad idea for Google's operations. Technology has a viable lifetime before you need new technology. As a technology company, you therefore need to be invested in cre
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
But if you're trying to stop mass car theft by people simply opening the doors and driving off, taking the keys out and locking the door is pretty effective. Sure, professionals could still target specific cars, but it would cut in to
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
> I see a problem with collecting information without probable cause or a warrant. Though I may not agree with drug laws, I do not see the problem with convicting individuals who are committing crimes regardless of how that information w
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
You have to remember what we mean by 'size': there are four things in the set {ball, kite, hat, glove} because we can line them up one-to-one with {1, 2, 3, 4}. For an infinite set, they're the same 'size' if we can
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
The top comment is even relatively insightful.
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
I have a tough time taking moralizing about the rule of law from an administration (likely illegally) massively spying on their civilians while firing missiles at cafes from remotely operated vehicles, following an administration that did t
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
> I'm not interested in arguing how far the response to 9/11 was from some policy ideal. I'm trying to dispel the notion that as long as "only" a few thousand people are dying annually, then the rational response
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by DerpObvious 13y ago
> it's not because Americans are irrational > One thing our society values highly is justice, and that often requires a disproportionately expensive response to an unjust act, and not solely to buy deterrence. A disproportionate