tkahn6

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by tkahn6 13y ago
If it was a question, it was rhetorical - and irrelevant.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
Ok?
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by tkahn6 13y ago
Um right, hence the original comment I made.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
EU nations spy on the US. That's not up for debate. It is a fact. That's how the world works. http://www.nytimes.com/1993/04/30/world/us-expanding-its-eff...
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by tkahn6 13y ago
Yes it is easy to blow up shopping centers. Hence the Boston Marathon bombing. Hence the surveillance programs that ostensibly identify and investigate and stop potential bombers. The existence of 'security theatre', the only exa
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by tkahn6 13y ago
I think the best solution would be to have the NSA and other security apparatuses stop or significantly scale down their surveillance programs for a few years. Two scenarios would play out: 1) Nothing happens or a maybe Boston Marathon Bomb
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by tkahn6 13y ago
... do you think the EU isn't spying on the US? It would be absurdly naive to think they weren't.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
> uses the unreasonably invasive tools to save the day and is never brought to account for it by anyone. Except that no one knows about it besides he and Fox, so how can he be brought to account for it by anyone? Except that he tells Fox
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by tkahn6 13y ago
Except, you know, all the movies where the antagonist is actually given a backstory or character development. Example: Safe House where eventually the audience is shown that the reason Denzel Washington's character defects and turns on
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by tkahn6 13y ago
The same Bourne movies where the government is portrayed as being nefarious and overreaching and the people they 'look up' in their databases are foreign or domestic spies?
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by tkahn6 13y ago
So.. do you have any examples of this? Because I have a counter example: A large part of the drama in shows like Law and Order on the legal side comes from the process of acquiring a warrant or prosecuting a case where it turns out that the
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by tkahn6 13y ago
No, I don't think that would be an appropriate headline in that case. But that is somewhat of a red herring/straw man since I am sincerely doubtful that was the first headline they put up. More likely that came a day or two after
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by tkahn6 13y ago
If you want 'critical' reporting, I highly recommend Rachel Maddow or Bill O'Reilly or Keith Olberman or Glenn Beck. Pick whichever flavor you want.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
He anticipated this point and explicitly acknowledged there are levels of opinion.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
As if that was the only headline or angle the NY Times displayed on the front page about that story as that story evolved. C'mon man.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
> - note the lack of front-page coverage of this story in the New York Times 1. As of right now, the story is linked to on the front page in the Opinion box since this is an opinion piece and not a news piece. If you want opinion as news
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by tkahn6 13y ago
> Maybe because outside... I explicitly acknowledged this in the very next sentence. The difference is that you assert this as a fact (for which you have no evidence) and I state it as a possible explanation. > The problem with this l
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by tkahn6 13y ago
I think your fictional example perfectly captures how flawed your argument is.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
It seems that no one who brings this argument up acknowledges the possibility that terrorism doesn't seem like a big threat precisely because of the extreme precautions taken to stop it. Comparing traffic related deaths to terrorism re
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by tkahn6 13y ago
The video is probably gonna be offputting for some people but it's hilarious. I actually laughed out loud at it.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
Currying is like air in functional programming. Here's a small example: map (+ 3) [1, 2, 3] == [4, 5, 6]
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by tkahn6 13y ago
I really would like to use this but it seems like it's getting hammered right now. Edit: seems to be working now
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by tkahn6 13y ago
And how about the students in different sections not taught by this teacher who have a closed-book no-collaboration final exam?
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by tkahn6 13y ago
Is it cheating if you specifically take this class taught by this professor (as opposed to the same class taught by a different professor) because you know her final exam will be open notes and collaborative?
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by tkahn6 13y ago
I'd be more surprised if even 1% of college students had to goal to learn as much as possible as opposed to get the highest grades possible.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
I doubt he is proposing to prevent people from studying the origins of the universe or prevent women from wearing bikinis.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
Just because this sentiment has become a self-parody in many circles, it does not mean that Bloomberg doesn't earnestly believe it. And it doesn't mean that it is invalid. The ideological basis for a lot of Islamist terrorism is Qutbism whi
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by tkahn6 13y ago
I think a few Dutch cartoonists would disagree with you.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
From my experience porting CUDA code to OpenCL code, CUDA is much cleaner and more succinct since it is able to assume a lot about the underlying hardware.
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by tkahn6 13y ago
I'd actually rather ride the NYC subway today than the one in the 80s or the one in Moscow today, so I guess you're presenting a false dichotomy.

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