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by code_reuse 11y ago
I'm not interested in individual employees but to my ear the push inside Mozilla to deprecate HTTP in Firefox sounds like it could be part of an overarching NSA agenda to make web-scale traffic analysis far easier by reducing the web&#
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by code_reuse 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing:_The_Science_of_T... an epic science book which attempts to grapple with some of these questions. from the Wikipedia page: "Taylor asserts that the techniques used by cul
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by code_reuse 11y ago
You were under a false impression if you're referring to a single recreational dose (approx 120mg) taken once or even twice a weekend. The studies on animals that are often pointed to in Wikipedia involve exposing lab animals to doses
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by code_reuse 11y ago
To me, just thinking philosophically about what you described, it sounds problematic even in your best case wouldn't you agree ? I mean lets say that you do somehow manage to convince your rational scientific mind that "there&#x2
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by code_reuse 11y ago
sigh This is one of the problems that comes with trying to map these traditions into our common English vernacular. We end up inventing new words (like capital Self vs lowercase self) or worse (as is often the case in buddhist circles) w
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by code_reuse 11y ago
And then Buddha arrived on the scene and argued that the Hindu concept of Self (Atman) doesn't even exist. The Buddha argued that no permanent, unchanging, "Self" can be found. All conditioned phenomena are subject to chang
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by code_reuse 11y ago
I think what we need is "basic commodities" in terms of foodstuffs that a person could live off of, for example: a 40lb bag of rice, lentils, 3 different kinds of beans, corn meal, canned tomatoes, canned fruit, and a jar full of
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by code_reuse 11y ago
* all participants retain 100% ownership of all digital assets produced during the hackathon ^ if that's included then it some kind of a scam IMHO. Why would an team want to program in a legally onerous environment as opposed to say,
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by code_reuse 11y ago
“Entanglement is the fabric of space-time,” Could this also be rephrased as "separation is illusion" ?
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by code_reuse 11y ago
certainly there will always be alternative browsers, but since they would be used by a small minority the censors would effectively have the ability to determine which publishers are "cleared" to reach out to the most broad demogr
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by code_reuse 11y ago
I view this as an attempt by various power brokers to subvert the power of the World Wide Web by attacking it's decentralized nature. In the beginning (like now) it'll be relatively simple for everyone to get their hands on the S
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by code_reuse 11y ago
One piece of advice is to try to build something awesome that you can share with the world.
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by code_reuse 11y ago
> Nothing wrong with enjoying your sea salt - you'll probably get plenty of iodine from water, flour, milk, eggs, seafood, etc. Seaweed an even more potent source of iodine, and the Japanese eat a lot of it. The concentration of io
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by code_reuse 11y ago
Why not let the data make the technology choices for you ? The way I go about making technology choices is by examining the data that I'll be working with in conjunction the data access patterns inherent in the features that I'll
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by code_reuse 11y ago
an example would be a data-mining project where the goal is to uncover interesting subsets of data within larger public datasets which may have business value while also attempting to answer larger statistical questions about the domain. T
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by code_reuse 11y ago
The way I think about it is.. post graduate work. In most of the natural sciences if you expect to be able to secure a decent job in the private sector after you complete school you need to do interesting post graduate work that is in alig
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by code_reuse 11y ago
the ecosystem is there, I think you're confused... the libraries work, this is the best runtime environment for a Ruby on Rails app.. which is Ruby's killer app..
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by code_reuse 12y ago
well you've gotta admit at least that Microsoft did in fact suck :) For me.. cyberpunk was cool because of Neil Stephenson, William Gibson, and uhh ShadowRun.. Somehow this meshed with the rave scene and I guess also 'industrial&
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by code_reuse 12y ago
I'm 33. I graduated from highschool in 2000. Back then we had something called 'LAN parties' which were off-campus adhoc gatherings of nerds who would haul their desktop PCs around and setup a temporary LAN using physical e
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by code_reuse 12y ago
It puts her in a stressful situation because now she has to contemplate things like going into debt while she takes the time to secure another job. Or if she doesn't have any credit then she would have to lean on her husband, or an ex
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by code_reuse 12y ago
I suppose it depends on what the word 'rape' is to you. To me it is a word in the English vernacular which has a certain meaning to everyday people. To me preserving that lexical meaning is super important because it fosters a c
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by code_reuse 12y ago
How is it forced sex if he/she can simply quit and then go get another job ? I mean I think that it's sexual harassment and a horrendous crime, but it's not the same thing as rape. It sounds like the young lady experienced s