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by cliffu 13y ago
Link: http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php (right?) It's fine to link to your stuff especially if it's useful/educational/etc.
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by cliffu 13y ago
"When three men are walking together, there is one who can be my teacher."
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by cliffu 13y ago
I shall now interpret the opening sentence to mean "any Dao whose rules can be enumerated is either inconsistent or incomplete." Thanks, that's a fun connection.
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by cliffu 13y ago
Nice; a classic "if you've got nothing to hide" with a bonus gender role shaming. > You can't find one because hating on such poor basis is irrational and foolish. +1'd a gay rights group, have fundamentalist par
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by cliffu 13y ago
What do I need Google for? DDG works ok for discovery, subreddits and HN aggregate news, and SO handles all of my programming questions.
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by cliffu 13y ago
No, I like making comments about it on social networks. If I get even one person on board with freedom it's a win. If I get enough people on board that Apple feels pressure and I can use unjailbroken iOS without these restrictions that
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by cliffu 13y ago
I think being excited for colored enclosures is Gruberian fanboyism. But I will say buying an overpriced iPhone is 1. kind of a status symbol, and that 2. for most people it is safer to have an iPhone because they don't know (and don&#
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by cliffu 13y ago
I'll be excited about an iPhone as soon as I am able to sideload an app, install a white/blacklist. I'd be quite excited if I were also allowed to run arbitrary apps in the background (listening to sockets even when not VoIP)
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by cliffu 13y ago
I think your point is muddied by "celebratory" and "special occasions", which is too bad because it's a good point; but it's going to be lost on people who have a beer or glass of wine with dinner, even though
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by cliffu 13y ago
I vote yes. Formal verification has great benefits for software security and it's the "final form" (if you will pardon a redditism) of unit testing. It's one of the top skills I would like to learn. You might be interest
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by cliffu 13y ago
Yes, I'm being flippant with the terminology. I know that to be true but strongly disagree that we should have no reasonable expectation of privacy for emails. Telephone calls go through a third party and they are covered.
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by cliffu 13y ago
They sure scope creeped with the CFAA, though. Downloading too many PDFs is a felony. Changing your user agent is a felony. And then against the First; sharing links to websites that stream videos is a crime once we get you extradited here.
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by cliffu 13y ago
No, congress and the tech companies have the incorrect understanding that phone calls and emails going through a third party gives that third party consent to share them with the government.
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by cliffu 13y ago
I started out writing disagreements to your points, somehow having misread them as being arguments you support for Rubists preferring dynamic typing, but then during editing I re-read that you think it's productive in spite of dynamic
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by cliffu 13y ago
I guess you mean young-earth creationists? It's easier for them to swallow than evolution because it doesn't so directly threaten their beliefs. And it doesn't need to be a total rejection; they can disregard tons proof of th
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by cliffu 13y ago
You can factor the prime numbers in a list of arbitrary large primes and composites too[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_test#Fast_determinist...
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by cliffu 13y ago
You could use a computer that doesn't try to run arbitrary programs from the USB stick for a start.
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by cliffu 13y ago
They are crowdfunding a speculative application. That's already mailing envelopes of cash. Although the users read that they are funding development and not buying software, Paypal grabbed it all and said they're worried about fra
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by cliffu 13y ago
If it were me, I'd say if the prosecution really has enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did a crime, an initially positive bias isn't an actual problem. In fact that's how the justice system
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by cliffu 13y ago
Yes I am sure in their community no children would ever fight in front of their parents, and they only meet up with their friends during homeschool hours. "Times up, junior, let's return to our cloister and shutter the windows for
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by cliffu 13y ago
An educated and intelligent parent taking personal interest in a child's education vs. an overworked or underperforming (cannot be fired, unions) teacher lecturing to the lowest common denominator of 30 students at a time. I know which
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by cliffu 13y ago
> It shows a severe lack of critical thinking if nothing else. No it doesn't, it shows a presence of severe cognitive bias. I would be skeptical of any other opinions they hold regarding biology, geology, and morality but they proba
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by cliffu 13y ago
Well it is true that a fair trial is only possible with an unbiased jury, and having a lot of media coverage can create a bias. But doesn't that only apply to bias for the prosecution? And anyway they manage to find juries for high-pro
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by cliffu 13y ago
I guess I should have wrote infants that are unable to stop crying. I'm fine with children if they can manage to not kick the seats. Upping the cost enough would prevent parents of infants from flying and it would be wonderful.
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by cliffu 13y ago
It's also an appeal to authority to think because he is an expert at infosec, he's also some sort of expert on presidential review groups :) I agree with tptacek on crypto and as it turns out very little else.
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by cliffu 13y ago
That's the real solution, charge more for small children and use the extra charge to reduce prices of the seats nearby. It should be prohibitively expensive to bring a crying child on the plane.
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by cliffu 13y ago
Forget the moral panic, generative porn is a legal minefield; use one 17.99-year-old's image and you're a (probably undeservedly) sex felon. Other accidents could deservedly make you a sex felon.
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by cliffu 13y ago
Right; if the author applied common sense he would have noticed that the unsolicited rant is just as welcome as the unsolicited redesign, leaving a free slot on HN for something worthwhile.
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by cliffu 13y ago
I thought the Ruby VM already did invalidate() on things rather than checking, and that was a common practice on dynamic languages (doesn't the Objective-C runtime do this also?). I am really excited for this but agree that it is bitte
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by cliffu 13y ago
Well at least you don't think it was supposed to create death panels :) it was indeed supposed to make healthcare affordable and force insurers to cover everyone, but it also makes health insurance mandatory. There's subsidies for

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