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by msg 13y ago
I think it is because "lie" implies a falsehood you could disprove, say in court. "Misled" implies a judgment that the president told a technical truth that he intended to be misleading. It could get confusing if you sa
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by msg 13y ago
This is the tip of the tip of the tip of the iceberg. We were not paranoid enough. I was not paranoid enough. You were not paranoid enough. Reality outstripped our imaginations. How are we going to recalibrate our expectations? What's
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by msg 13y ago
At my company, this is the algorithm: take on interns before graduation if graduating within a year make hire/no-hire decision by the end of the internship else make re-intern decision by the end of the internship Su
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by msg 13y ago
You could troll them too, though. Tell a friend that you are taking out a large sum of money to pay for something. Travel using a rental car or by bus. Carry cards that say "don't spy on me" and hand them to the police office
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by msg 13y ago
The NSA's collection behavior strikes at the heart of giving your personal data to a third party company to hold. As a private person, I can no longer trust not only that my data is as protected as it would be on my home computer, but
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by msg 13y ago
The harm of terrorism or the harm of our irrational response to terrorism? Obviously 9/11 didn't start the Iraq War, President Bush did. He may have done that in a state of belief that the two were connected, but we should not rep
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by msg 13y ago
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it. -- Don Knuth
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by msg 13y ago
My org hires contract for various understaffed projects. Often for SDET. Sometimes they make a transition to full time.
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by msg 13y ago
RSA? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_(algorithm)#History
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by msg 13y ago
The only place a writer signs a check is on the back... Use this to avoid scams: http://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-bewar... Best of luck!
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by msg 13y ago
I had Xmission in Utah. They were a great ISP to boot. I miss them.
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by msg 13y ago
I did have a day in there where I was left alone with the book for about 6 hours. How much can you read in 6 relatively uninterrupted hours? The novels I'm talking about are about 300 pages in paperback. The reading level is not Peanut
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by msg 13y ago
It is a black memorial. Doug Engelbart has died.
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Scientists use stem cells, mouse body to make a real human liver(latimes.com)
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by msg 13y ago
Amen friend. I started them again a couple weeks ago and popped through the first three in a week! Speaking from experience, they only get better with age. Spin, Little Brother, and The Last Unicorn are also great.
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by msg 13y ago
A couple weeks ago, I read 3 books by Lois McMaster Bujold over the span of a week. She writes Hugo winning sf, poignant and thoughtful. One book a month would be a living nightmare. If that's all I had time for, I would turn my life u
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by msg 13y ago
There is an internet generation gap here. It's more important to be a citizen of the world than any particular place, and more important to think about the influence of multinationals on government than to think about the influence of
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by msg 13y ago
Obviously there is a can of worms here. Can I just suggest that if you are not a conscious human being who makes choices, but instead, like a billiard ball, are whacked around by the myriad balls and cues you encounter in your meaningless e
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by msg 13y ago
Ezra Klein you might call a government watchdog. The Wonkblog is dedicated to data-driven investigative journalism of government policy and programs. I think you could read the article better as Ezra Klein wondering if Ezra Klein can be cha
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by msg 13y ago
FYI people, the author is David Lowery, lead singer/songwriter of Cracker. The song is "Low". I like the song and you probably did too, if you ever heard it. It was used in The Perks of Being a Wallflower last year. It does
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by msg 13y ago
I guess I'm living my life in the government bubble. If you're censoring your feelings out of concern for the security apparatus, you are really missing the point. This is not Mao's hundred flowers campaign, and it is your jo
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by msg 13y ago
Groklaw: opinionated, pro FSF. Beholden to no one. Enshrining important cases in plain text in the public record. Crowdsourcing prior art and patent busting. Surfacing contradictions in court cases. In short, they're the gold standard
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by msg 13y ago
Here's the real problem: suppose you have a bunch of data on people and are convinced that somewhere in the data exists the spectrum from sociopath to non-sociopath. Who is going to label the data with ground truth? Clinicians who &quo
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by msg 13y ago
http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/resources/article/an... Do any of you believe that there would have been a new Letter from Birmingham Jail if Snowden were imprisoned? Keep in mind the US authorities a
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by msg 13y ago
Martin Luther King didn't live in a world where we imprison innocent men in legal limbo without trial or habeas corpus, or where we officially sanctioned torture and the oubliette. He could trust that he would be vindicated by the just
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by msg 13y ago
I guess I meant the inner circle, who were complicit and aware of it, and dissociating the fact. That came from the myth of Lenin that a small, pure cadre could run the whole show. Oceania follows this design. Today we need no such evil and
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by msg 13y ago
Stalin's Russia is no longer the touchstone it once was, in other words. I don't think that you can't apply the critique in 1984 to current events. There is just a generation gap. GWB is a kind of touchstone for the modern ge
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by msg 13y ago
She may have just committed a fallacy in truth. That doesn't mean telling her so is the right choice. If you don't address her experience, you're missing the point. You can "believe" all kinds of things without feeling them and living them
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by msg 13y ago
Arguments are about core issues, not peripheral issues. The only way to convict your opponent is on their ground, not your own. Taking an argument seriously, as if it were the best representation of itself, is the only way to defeat it. In
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by msg 13y ago
I enjoy my job a lot and once in a while I think about quitting. My reasons are what you might call the first world problems of the tech world. The people I work with are great, but the organization is occasionally bonkers. I left a defense

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