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by halfninety 13y ago
For the sake of arguments, let's just assume Windows is perfectly secure. Then if child pornographers or ponzi scammers use direct, encrypted links instead of emails to exchange information, what will the FBI do? Is it reasonable for i
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by halfninety 13y ago
Isn't any software with a goal of eliminating security holes essentially "specifically designed to disallow lawful intercepts of individuals"? Should all software providers be forced by law to implement backdoors so that the
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by halfninety 13y ago
He says people will have less motivation to improve performance because they can afford losing the job, you disagree. Then you go on and say that people will have less pressure to comply with unethical demands because they can afford losing
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by halfninety 13y ago
I would argue that actively avoiding to mention a horrible event will cause it to be forgotten and wouldn't help prevent a similar event from happening again.
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by halfninety 13y ago
I feel sick when I see people taking analogies as equations, because I like doing analogies myself. Analogies are intentionally exaggerated (but still being logically valid) to make the point stand out. I thought Hacker News readers were be
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by halfninety 13y ago
You are talking about bias in the "article level". There could possibly be a "topic-level" bias in the article, that is, if one side is currently winning the edit war, and the author (belonging to the other side) tries t
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by halfninety 13y ago
You can have the best of both worlds, just backup your feature head before rebasing.
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by halfninety 13y ago
Search what people are likely to say when discussing this topic, it may be in the form of a question and maybe not.
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by halfninety 13y ago
We have unfortunately already occupied much of our neighbor's garden, should we destroy our farms and cities and return all these land to animals?
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by halfninety 13y ago
Try using promises, and a small utility function to convert library functions that take callbacks to ones that return a promise.
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by halfninety 13y ago
Democracy is a way to guarantee human rights in a developed or semi-developed country, it's not a way to develop your poor country. Installing democracy in a poor country is like installing Windows 7 on a 486: you gain the benefits of
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by halfninety 13y ago
How do Apple get away with including iCloud in the OS without having companies like Dropbox up in arms? And they do call it "sync".
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by halfninety 13y ago
My opinion is the exact opposite. I don't think the 5C is an appealing middle tier, I believe it's a dumb middle tier, and maybe intentionally so, to make the premium offering stand out more. 1. If it's intended to be appeali
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'Blade runner' Oscar Pistorius' girlfriend found fatally shot in his home(edition.cnn.com)
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by halfninety 14y ago
Signing up wasn't so simple back in the days. I still remember when I wanted to see the full text of an answer, Quora asked me to sign up, so I went to the signup page, and it said something like Quora is in closed beta, you need an invitat
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by halfninety 14y ago
I have been hating Quora all along for this, and wondered whether this constitutes cloaking (because they serve different content to Googlebot and the user), which is against Google's TOS. The following are excerpts from Google's First Clic
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by halfninety 14y ago
Wrt the "the E you use to calculate P/E should actually be the long term expected earnings" comment I made.. I was not trying to say that the standard financial metric called P/E ratio should be calculated this way. Rather I think that ide
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by halfninety 14y ago
"The P/E ratio is, quite literally, the number of years required to pay back a stock's purchase price at constant dollars and earnings." Yes, this is what I mean. I'm no expert on stocks and am not familiar with the terms, but the principle
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by halfninety 14y ago
I think it's quite easy to understand Apple's low P/E. Smartphones isn't like other industries, it changes quickly. The fact that Apple earns so much money now doesn't guarantee it can still do it in 5 years, much less 10. Just look at Noki
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by halfninety 14y ago
Well, not necessarily. The guy who stole $6M worth of bitcoins with his pyramid scheme used 'Pirateat40' as his id. Geeks (include those here) tend to admire and trust those who call themselves hackers (not those mainstream media call hacke
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by halfninety 14y ago
Aside from other considerations, I'm afraid that abusing a good move (the $15 waiver) will discourage similar moves in the future.
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by halfninety 14y ago
I can't stand the mob, sometimes I feel that they are insulting my intelligence. But no revolution is possible without them. When intelligent people come together and try to make a deal, that's called dirty politics.
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by halfninety 14y ago
Indeed. Public money should pay for the function of entities like JSTOR. The public already paid 99% of the money for public research, yet only 1% of them have access to the fruits because those who paid 1% (for maintaining an archive) want
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by halfninety 14y ago
Oh really? I thought universities and companies paid for JSTOR so that they could redistribute those academic works for profit. If not, why would they care if someone else gets access without paying? And if the universities and companies di
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by halfninety 14y ago
Nice list, but I think it can be condensed into one: Use your own site and make sure you don't hate it yourself.
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by halfninety 14y ago
Looks like I'm one of the people you are referring to. Like anyone with a healthy dose of curiosity, I'm interested in anything that is, well, interesting. I'm excited to meet people with expertise in various areas and ask them questions. I
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ZTE N880E now runs both Android 4.1 and Windows Phone 7.5
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by halfninety 14y ago
A bug report from last year on the plugin compatibility problem: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691336 No one ever cared.
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by halfninety 14y ago
I remember reading about it on TNW that it came from an acquisition. While most of the domain names Google owns don't redirect to google.com, this one is an exception (you'd wonder how it relates to search in any way). Google wants some fre
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by halfninety 14y ago
Didn't Apple do the same thing themselves with Siri, albeit it was free?

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