jgross206

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by jgross206 13y ago
Can you provide some examples?
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by jgross206 13y ago
why "captain" in quotes?
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by jgross206 13y ago
Can you expand on that? Under what definition of terrorism is the NSA a terrorist organization? It seems to me that their intent to be as clandestine as possible makes them distinctly non-terroristic.
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by jgross206 13y ago
> Why? Because them caring about outward appearances would signal to me that they have a fundamental lack of understanding about what factors are relevant to running a successful business. why does it matter to you if your customers un
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by jgross206 13y ago
The difference, to me, is that the lack of freedom you describe is simply a part of the human condition (food and shelter require work, which has been true as long as life has existed) as opposed to what you call "traditional slavery&
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by jgross206 13y ago
> ...alcohol is involved in the majority of car accidents. This didn't sound right to me, so I did some digging and found: "In 2010, 10,228 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third
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by jgross206 13y ago
can you share some of your reasoning behind this (quite extreme) belief?
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by jgross206 13y ago
i am not joking
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by jgross206 13y ago
cops also ask you if you have drugs in your car.
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by jgross206 13y ago
i think its tera-hashes per second
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by jgross206 13y ago
You can't just call everything you disagree with "trolling". This is exactly the lack of diversity of thought OP was asking about. Now we're not even allowed to question the Snowden-worship?
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by jgross206 13y ago
> Looks like somebody wants to nominate themselves for a government contract. Interesting how when the news media baselessly questions the motives of whistleblowers it's a "smear campaign." When someone on HN does it to s
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by jgross206 13y ago
In what way does your anecdote support your assertion that "a year is much too long"?
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by jgross206 13y ago
Your parent's point was that 99% of people do not own a license to the file.
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by jgross206 13y ago
your link doesnt work for me, here's a different one: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a13
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by jgross206 13y ago
I think the parent was talking about the content of the games, not ancillary business practices.
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by jgross206 13y ago
predictability doesn't imply innacuracy
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by jgross206 13y ago
what's the proper use? I'm one of the clueless
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by jgross206 13y ago
Talk is cheap. It's very, very easy to criticize from afar when you have no skin in the game. So, that type of criticism holds very little weight.
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by jgross206 13y ago
This is splitting hairs a bit. They are, for all intents and purposes, world champions.
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by jgross206 13y ago
Not sure of the universality of this, but my intuitive way of understanding O(log n) is as follows: An algorithm is O(log n) if you can reduce the solution space (the set of all possible solutions) by a fraction (e.g. divide it in half or d
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by jgross206 13y ago
what school was that??
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by jgross206 13y ago
This is very common usage, though technically incorrect. The poster meant 50 cents.
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by jgross206 13y ago
except the wealth that could be created if the brilliant guy spent the year on other pursuits instead of noops
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by jgross206 13y ago
A very, very simple cd "hack" I use is (put this in your .bashrc): function cd() { builtin cd "$*" && ls } it automatically runs "ls" every time you cd somewhere. I find when I'm using someone elses box or SSH'd in somewhere it's
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by jgross206 13y ago
why would it?
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by jgross206 13y ago
Isn't this what CPU makers have been doing for years?
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by jgross206 13y ago
i think you're off by about ten orders of magnitude
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by jgross206 13y ago
It's pretty good, but it's astonishing to me that it still lacks type-ahead
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by jgross206 14y ago
TLA?

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