Nutmog

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by Nutmog 10y ago
Wow, the contrast in sentiment between SpaceX vs ULA and Jabil vs Makerbot's Brooklyn factory ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11574215 ) is striking. With SpaceX undercutting the incumbent, people are cheering fre
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by Nutmog 10y ago
You wouldn't just be running away from the president. You'd be running away from a whole country full of hysterical people afraid of an imminent communist invasion and blaming it on you.
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by Nutmog 10y ago
You might think the technology sucked, but all the competition sucked worse, much worse. Nobody else could be bothered maintaining so much backward compatibility. Apple kept changing their CPU architecture and resetting the clock on develop
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Let's not lose sight of the fact that their cold wallet was untouched and all they lost was on the order of a hour's worth of turnover. That's more than can be said for a lot of the other bitcoin hacks.
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by Nutmog 10y ago
This surprises me about America. Other countries have national criminal record databases. Is it that America hasn't spent the money to build one, or that counties/states/police stations don't want to share information, o
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by Nutmog 10y ago
I'd say it's fair for candidates to break promises. If voters keep voting for them and their party despite seeing that happen, then it means voters don't mind broken promises. This is what's nice about democracy - you do
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by Nutmog 10y ago
That won't happen unless American voters want it. They don't want it, as evidenced by their not voting for it, so they won't get it.
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by Nutmog 10y ago
If it wasn't the US, it would be classified as a human rights violation. This is worse than imprisoning or torturing political prisoners because of the scale of it. At least political prisoners knew they were breaking the law. They&#x2
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Nor do eyewitness stories. Nor does recognizing someone from a single photo instead of a proper lineup. These are cases where there's already no reliable evidence in the first place. Really, they should go to court and it would be clea
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Why not let it download fully and run the virus scanner on it? You won't get a virus just downloading a file in up-to-date Chrome.
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Taking more trips to get to places they want to be. Traffic is a good thing, not a bad thing.
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by Nutmog 10y ago
No middleman and no competition? No business is really altruistic, despite their public image of being the good guys.
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Excellent, except it's half missing as the article mentioned. This turned out to be a dramatic demonstration of how difficult it is to preserve data even when you're trying and you're as big as the BBC. "You may remember
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by Nutmog 10y ago
How do you explain all the single people who've been on many dates and are still single? There's a lot of them who'd rather not be. They evidently don't have this skill that you claim to.
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Some protectionism helps poorly developed industries grow locally until they're competitive enough to compete globally (eg postwar Japan). However, other protectionism maintains inefficient industries at the expense of poor people in o
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Could find a way or should find a way? I don't think anybody has found such a way. We might not be able to.
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Physical property rights aren't natural either. We depend on the government to prevent theft. Without that, anybody strong enough could just break into our house and take what they wanted. What may be natural, is the human feeling of o
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by Nutmog 10y ago
I disagree with the date comment "it’s easier to expose a raw date than a properly formatted date for the user’s locale". I'm constantly fighting software that tries to localize dates. Paypal thinks I live in country A and us
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Although this is a lot of data on each person. Each individual field doesn't seem too sensitive on its own. Electoral enrollment status and place you live is usually public information. It should be to prevent vote fraud. Without other
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Were they ever? Cellphones have been shown to heat the side of you brain. No evidence that it alters its functioning though. Going out in the sun also heats the side of you brain.
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by Nutmog 10y ago
What's wrong with a small tilt of the axis? It has to point somewhere. Certainly a fast and large change might take time for ecology to catch up, but this is spectacular in how tiny it is! What observable effect could it possibly have
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Agreed. If they ever spend it, it'll trickle down. If they don't spend it, it'll be increasing the value of all the dollars that everybody else has - they've basically lending money to the rest of the world until such ti
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Futility? It looks like an improvement on the original: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.&qu
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by Nutmog 10y ago
How can they glorify war so much without making a clear distinction of which side is right and which side is wrong? If you're on the wrong side of a war, then stealing a horse, invading someone else's territory or killing soldiers
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by Nutmog 10y ago
You could make the same warning about writing open source software. Nobody calls that evil. As soon as you release anything under the GPL or MIT license, you're also giving Oculus a worldwide, ... perpetual, .. right to use, ... and di
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Isn't the data gathering an improvement on efficiency, not a reduction of it? If you define efficiency as something like a ratio of useful informing to viewer attention. More personalized ads should be providing more useful information
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by Nutmog 10y ago
Warning, another early stage trail drug! Phase I <-- They are here Phase II 18% proceed to phase III [1] Phase III 50% succeed. 25% for first-in-class agents, which it sounds like this one is. [2] So if this phage passes its current
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by Nutmog 10y ago
That's not obvious at all. Their share price has now recovered half way to where it was, so you should call that a 20% drop when comparing to what people remember today (not the few days after news broke). Not only that, it was already
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by Nutmog 10y ago
What baffles me about OOP is that massive aspects of how to use it have changed, and that change happened after it gained popularity as a good technique. How could it have become popular when people were doing it wrong? The article mentio
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by Nutmog 10y ago
I understand wanting to keep the police out of your private things. But we already let them in when they have a warrant. Are you saying DNA is more private than your house, computer, phone converations, etc? Or that all those things should

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