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That was indeed my point. The NRA gets their goals accomplished. They successfully killed bills - even after Sandy Hook - that they had supported 20 years before. Name one restrict…

Why do you say that? The NRA is one of the single most powerful special interest groups in the USA. The tech industry doesn't even come close to the NRA's lobbying results.

the judiciary is bound by precedent, and there are 5-4 conservative Supreme Court rulings from the 80s to the early 2000s that cemented the status quo into place. With Trump/Pence …

I don't see why repeating the US's current governing party line requires a sarcasm tag. 40% of American voters agree with everything I'm saying and they decide what the US governme…

Comments like that on social media are going to make it awfully tough for you to re-enter the US, we don't need any more traitors.

No I just follow POTUS on twitter

Widely reported by fake news! Any and all media with few exceptions* is the enemy of the United States now, of course they say those things. * InfoWars, RT and Breitbart excluded

My source is in-person conversations with a real-life human being, and working on one of his codebases that employed the technique. If you want to look up his work, his name is Bil…

Technique as old as dirt. My thesis advisor used it in the 60s and 70s. His favored approach had one artificial limitation, perhaps a remnant of the age: he limited the size of sou…

Perhaps you shouldn't be asserting yourself as an authority on what did or did not happen if you are too young to have experienced it in the first place. I'm very young, only 27, a…

Oh god I hope nobody ever ends up innovating with my drinking water. The last thing I need is companies racing to cut costs on fucking water.

Research won't be done because over 20 years ago, Republicans made it illegal for federal taxpayer money to be used to study gun control. Very little cleanly private money exists t…

> You're not supposed to buy infrastructure for these types of gigs. Then why does Uber offer financing?

I didn't ignore your reasoning, I acknowledged it and said it was not insightful. Unused CPU instructions are difficult (but not impossible!) to deprecate for completely different …

> Imagine standing still for eight hours a day. Imagine sitting perfectly still for eight hours a day. I just imagined both, and I preferred the standing still nonsense to the sitt…

If hacker news doesn't stem the growth of trolling (which has pushed out plenty of my friends) then it probably will eventually "shut down" new signups for a while.

You are conflating genius with productivity. In so doing you are missing the point of both your parent and grandparent poster.

Ruth Porat is the change you're looking for

Seems like a huge difference between "instructions we don't use at all" and "ring 0 input processing we use constantly and can't stop using" The only similarity seems to be "modern…

The problem for Mercurial (with respect to group dynamics) was that it didn't have the built-in user base of Linux contributors right off the bat.

I'd love to dig into Pijul but sadly it's AGPL. Just looking at the code effectively taints me as a developer who works tangentially to VCS - it could be argued that my work is der…

If so, then I see two possibilities here: 1) The IP in question was only reimplementable with Carmack involved, and the lawsuit was basically inevitable. Hiring Carmack in this sce…

They didn't seem to do clean room here. Seems like Carmack was wrote code for both companies which is the exact opposite of clean room. (Please correct me if I misunderstood the fa…