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Link: http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php (right?) It's fine to link to your stuff especially if it's useful/educational/etc.

"When three men are walking together, there is one who can be my teacher."

I shall now interpret the opening sentence to mean "any Dao whose rules can be enumerated is either inconsistent or incomplete." Thanks, that's a fun connection.

Nice; a classic "if you've got nothing to hide" with a bonus gender role shaming. > You can't find one because hating on such poor basis is irrational and foolish. +1'd a gay right…

What do I need Google for? DDG works ok for discovery, subreddits and HN aggregate news, and SO handles all of my programming questions.

No, I like making comments about it on social networks. If I get even one person on board with freedom it's a win. If I get enough people on board that Apple feels pressure and I c…

I think being excited for colored enclosures is Gruberian fanboyism. But I will say buying an overpriced iPhone is 1. kind of a status symbol, and that 2. for most people it is saf…

I'll be excited about an iPhone as soon as I am able to sideload an app, install a white/blacklist. I'd be quite excited if I were also allowed to run arbitrary apps in the backgro…

I think your point is muddied by "celebratory" and "special occasions", which is too bad because it's a good point; but it's going to be lost on people who have a beer or glass of …

I vote yes. Formal verification has great benefits for software security and it's the "final form" (if you will pardon a redditism) of unit testing. It's one of the top skills I wo…

Yes, I'm being flippant with the terminology. I know that to be true but strongly disagree that we should have no reasonable expectation of privacy for emails. Telephone calls go t…

They sure scope creeped with the CFAA, though. Downloading too many PDFs is a felony. Changing your user agent is a felony. And then against the First; sharing links to websites th…

No, congress and the tech companies have the incorrect understanding that phone calls and emails going through a third party gives that third party consent to share them with the g…

I started out writing disagreements to your points, somehow having misread them as being arguments you support for Rubists preferring dynamic typing, but then during editing I re-r…

I guess you mean young-earth creationists? It's easier for them to swallow than evolution because it doesn't so directly threaten their beliefs. And it doesn't need to be a total r…

You can factor the prime numbers in a list of arbitrary large primes and composites too[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primality_test#Fast_determinist...

You could use a computer that doesn't try to run arbitrary programs from the USB stick for a start.

They are crowdfunding a speculative application. That's already mailing envelopes of cash. Although the users read that they are funding development and not buying software, Paypal…

If it were me, I'd say if the prosecution really has enough evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant did a crime, an initially positive bias isn't an actual p…

Yes I am sure in their community no children would ever fight in front of their parents, and they only meet up with their friends during homeschool hours. "Times up, junior, let's …

An educated and intelligent parent taking personal interest in a child's education vs. an overworked or underperforming (cannot be fired, unions) teacher lecturing to the lowest co…

> It shows a severe lack of critical thinking if nothing else. No it doesn't, it shows a presence of severe cognitive bias. I would be skeptical of any other opinions they hold reg…

Well it is true that a fair trial is only possible with an unbiased jury, and having a lot of media coverage can create a bias. But doesn't that only apply to bias for the prosecut…

I guess I should have wrote infants that are unable to stop crying. I'm fine with children if they can manage to not kick the seats. Upping the cost enough would prevent parents of…

It's also an appeal to authority to think because he is an expert at infosec, he's also some sort of expert on presidential review groups :) I agree with tptacek on crypto and as i…