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by chapill 8y ago
You do see that I didn't start any flame war, but a responder did? It's not a generic tangent because it refers directly to the content of the article. The intention is to illuminate the similarities, and hopefully bring about som
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by chapill 8y ago
But you agree that the motive in both cases is to take away constitutional rights.
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by chapill 8y ago
Well, the main problem is HTML sucks. It can't do things literally everyone wants to do at one point or another. One example, scrolling table with fixed table head. Why is that not something I can specify declaratively? Why is that nex
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by chapill 8y ago
I think healing has less to do with it than liability. Snake oil salesmen used to be a thing. What currently sets programmers apart is the lack of liability. Programmers write their own get out of jail free cards. We call them EULAs. If a d
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by chapill 8y ago
>if I help develop A.I. that can be used for all sorts of things, one of which happens to be military-related, is the effort "evil" There's a famous quote for this: It should be noted that no ethically-trained software eng
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by chapill 8y ago
Wow, just wow. We started at submission about Google employees waving around a paper tiger petition, we proceeded to top ranked reminder to everyone of DARPA and how military funding is the One True Way, then on to crypto export controls, r
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by chapill 8y ago
https://youtu.be/Ii_pEXKKYUg?t=5m16s RISC-V is already faster. It just needs better fabs.
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by chapill 8y ago
You're now contradicting yourself: >I really find it difficult to figure out why things fail even though I have almost 20 years of experience >In Gradle, this is immediately understandable to everybody You pulled an easy example
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by chapill 8y ago
Here's a non-violent twitch streamer who made a reaction video to one of the shooter's... https://mobile.twitter.com/BrittanyVenti/status/981372650575... Aaand, she's banned.
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by chapill 8y ago
Please consider reading the guidelines of this site. I'm sure that dang is reading these.
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by chapill 8y ago
Here's her last video. One youtube doesn't want you to see evidently, https://www.freedomsafespace.com/m/videos/view/YouTube-Shoot... She seems really upset.
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by chapill 8y ago
Censorship works fast friend. I've already posted this, but was censored too. You need to showdead in your prefs to see such things.
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by chapill 8y ago
I'm sure this submission will get flagged off the front page too because "Iranian woman bears arms against YouTube for censorship" doesn't really fit the narrative around here, but here's her page before it's w
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by chapill 8y ago
>Gradle... It's an environment for programmer! >Maven...you have to write your own plugin. Not nice. >If I wanted to change one thing in Gradle it would be for the Gradle project to focus on debugging You've just explaine
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by chapill 8y ago
Seems like a good reason to install and use something like https://cellularprivacy.github.io/Android-IMSI-Catcher-Detec... Do the Feds have bounties for catching illegal stingrays?
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by chapill 8y ago
So, all the Libreboot laptops are done. Frog boiled. Freedom's last holdout now are Coreboot ARM machines like the latest ARM Chromebooks.
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by chapill 8y ago
I agree. >derailing the discussion by not reading is perfectly okay Is according to guidelines, not me. My fault that wasn't clearer.
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by chapill 8y ago
I'm sorry, but that's against the HN guidelines. >Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions
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by chapill 8y ago
This assumes lighter sentencing achieves the desired effect of sentencing. I suspect we could not even agree on the desired effect of sentencing, much less whether lighter sentencing achieves it. It also assumes the situation won't be
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by chapill 8y ago
Accepting what the submission implies at face value[1]: Even if you lighten sentences on men, it doesn't change that courts favor women. When men are pitted against women in court, such as divorce proceedings, the root problem will rem
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Trump: Post Office loses $1.50 on avg for each package it delivers for Amazon(twitter.com)
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by chapill 9y ago
Basically the same effect supporters were asking from NN for telecoms: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/359499-franken-condemns... “No one company should have the power to pick and choose which content reaches
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by chapill 9y ago
>Cells from a human embryo were grown into a patch that was delicately inserted into the back of the eye. I assume the baby didn't survive the process since there's no mention of that.
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by chapill 9y ago
Ah, the other shoe drops. This is the reason for the blitz of anti-Facebook stories all at once... Legal authority to examine all that juicy personal data Facebook holds. And if you think you are safe because you don't have an account,
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by chapill 9y ago
Another educated rumor: As soon as Al Franken suggests regulating Facebook under Net Neutrality, pictures surface that destroy his political career.
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by chapill 9y ago
The car was speeding, "the Uber car was driving at 38 mph in a 35 mph zone" End of story. Uber is at fault.
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by chapill 9y ago
I don't believe this story. The same Alex Stamos who did http://exfiltrated.com/research-Instagram-RCE.php Suddenly he's so concerned about transparency he's leaving over it? This report seems very fishy. All
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by chapill 9y ago
I kept waiting for the author to say, "Surprise, it's a jar file. Jars are just zips, and lambda supports Java." Then I realized author really was reinventing wheels for the reader who probably doesn't know what Java is.
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by chapill 9y ago
Tail recursion is a bad idea in multicore land. You end up with a one sided tree structure that can't be parallel processed.
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by chapill 9y ago
I wouldn't call Rakuten dead yet, but that is interesting to see Amazon just barely edging them out for the first time. Thanks for the link suls.

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