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l33t2328

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    Comment #32500566

    You make an extremely compelling point. I was arguing in sound bites and your final paragraph is entirely reasonable.

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    Comment #32498310

    That’s what every parent hopes to leave their kids with: an obligation

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    Comment #32489174

    I’m curious if you’re just misremembering or if there’s some particular reason you say that.

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    Comment #32470429

    For me, building a machine is identical to writing code. I can’t really see a difference.

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    Comment #32470347

    These comments are all over the place. I can’t identify a coherent point.

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    Comment #32454168

    Are there any, I don’t know, archives of what it used to be like to install linux? My first linux experience was Ubuntu maybe a decade so ago and it installed fine.

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    Comment #32415713

    Why do you say “true customers”? Is anyone under the impression that they are a customer of a service they don’t pay for? People would readily identify as a “Twitter user” instead …

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    Comment #32385045

    > You can't fix lawlessness by reporting the violation of law to the lawbreaker You absolutely can, especially with something as multifaceted as a country. > nations don't exist, t…

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    Comment #32371170

    What’s wrong with 3DES?

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    Comment #32371139

    Do you mean in size? Surely you don’t think changing size has much to do with what makes humans intelligent.

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    Comment #32370514

    It’s not doublethink to say the programs should have been exposed and that Snowden was a traitor for exposing them in a manner that otherwise hurt our country. He could have done t…

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    Comment #32370396

    The grandparent post is asking about the people who need to know enough to program TLS to > let it choose

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    Comment #32350785

    If a competitor had perfect quotes I’d still use google. They’re too reliable at other things.

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    Comment #32197230

    How do you accurately include those sqrt(n)’s in your analysis?

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    Comment #32170000

    If I write a song am I not deriving it from the existing works I’ve been exposed to?

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    Comment #32167254

    You don’t have to be locked into a walled garden! You don’t have to buy an iPhone.

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    Comment #32124880

    If you’re not joking, where do you suspect they were deployed from?

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    Comment #32124321

    I don’t know much about OCaml but one reason could be linking unnecessary libraries

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    Comment #32120569

    I don’t really have an opinion on this but isn’t “seeing if it sticks” just other words for market research?

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    Comment #32103607

    I’m not sure why you’re being so abrasive.

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    Comment #32103231

    I’m confused what the alternative is. If it’s valuable and people lose value somewhere in their life, they will exchange their valuable thing to make up for it.

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    Comment #32096943

    Nitpick to your nitpick: > InstallCore was also behind a fake installer for a Windows version of Snapchat, a program that's only ever been available on mobile. It would instead ins…

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    Comment #32096692

    > A culture with good values that also punishes bullshit/imorality seems to be required. CGP Grey coined an excellent term for these on his podcast, calling them “The Necessary Lie…

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    Comment #32085433

    I understand your concern, but if it’s something that can be seen/heard from the next property over, I don’t know that you can reasonably expect such things to be private. Although…

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    Comment #32077904

    SRE is software reverse engineer, correct?