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Re:Culture Clash at a Chinese-Owned Plant in Ohio on Monday June 12, 2017 @02:55AM (#14535545)
Ah yes, all of those protectionist politicians who want to levy import taxes. Do you even listen to yourself?
This needs to change as well. We nee to do away with the concept of a select few TLDs, indeed we need to scrap payed for subdomains/domains in general.
Re:The transgenic petunia carnage of 2017 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @09:38AM (#14514064)
>Human genes don't spread by pollination

Are you sure :D

Re:Ultraconserved words in use since the last Ice Age on Thursday June 08, 2017 @08:05AM (#14513517)
The Bulgarian form is the same as the russian чай (chay).
Re:Bugger: Maybe spies aren't very good at their jobs (2013) on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:52PM (#14508420)
>See how this works?

Not quite. My opinions aren't a secret IRL. I am surrounded by like minded individuals and am not afraid to voice my ideas freely.

There is a serious difference in the way I approach weapons training/survival and the way my ideological opponents do. So I am not that concerned.

But this is not the point. The point is, people will rebel if you put them into a corner.

Re:Bugger: Maybe spies aren't very good at their jobs (2013) on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:43AM (#14503995)
If the technology exists to do nefarious-thing-X, one must assume that governments are already using X despite whatever moral or political arguments they give you that they would never do it.
Re:Bugger: Maybe spies aren't very good at their jobs (2013) on Wednesday June 07, 2017 @01:34AM (#14503969)
If we ever come to live in such a dystopian society I'm going to use our new found peeping power to mark political enemies and remove them all in a night of the long knives stile ordeal then overthrow the government and burn everything to the ground.
If only there was a 100% sure fire way to prevent an ideology from exerting control over new vulnerable people.

There has to be a solution

Re:Why Climate Skeptics Are Wrong on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:36AM (#14486096)
Have fun convincing China to commit economic suicide.
Re:Alexander Grothendieck: A Country Known Only by Name on Monday June 05, 2017 @02:08AM (#14485547)
Yes. Actually.
Re:What Really Happened with Vista on Sunday June 04, 2017 @04:59AM (#14480462)
Another highly annoying example of good ideas just not finished properly is trying to use multiple virtual desktops on multiple monitors. For some reason switching the virtual destkots switches to the new desktop for ALL physical monitors. Just why...

The devs have also STILL not figured out how to give a simple and easy way to move windows from one monitor to another from the alt-tab menu.

Re:Ask HN: Books you wish you had read earlier? on Sunday June 04, 2017 @01:34AM (#14480036)
If you're already christian, I'd recommend not reading the bible cover to cover. I did, and it made me an atheist.
Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers on Sunday June 04, 2017 @01:10AM (#14479987)
You could always show up to their office IRL and start some shit.
Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers on Sunday June 04, 2017 @01:03AM (#14479975)
Not going to happen.
Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers on Sunday June 04, 2017 @01:02AM (#14479971)
You know what happens in the real world? That person exits through the door, finds enough people like him outside and gets into political power, then proceeds to show the door to the smug stickman.
Re:Ringless voice mails from telemarketers on Sunday June 04, 2017 @12:58AM (#14479957)
>How does one enforce such a thing, around the world

Strongarming.

>Who is capable of making such a thing possible?

The US.

> Capitalism is founded on exploitation

As opposed to being founded on stealing other people's stuff.

Re:Enough with the dead butterflies on Friday June 02, 2017 @08:11AM (#14469285)
>There's an enormous gap between knowing the specs of a pump and knowing which company will make one that won't break and will provide decent service for it.

With a few fast and hard rules mostly based on country of origin and price you can go a long way( specifically talking about water pumps ).

Being the personification of a crony career politician cost her the election.
I think you underestimate the brand recognition of Trump's name. His twitter profile pales in comparison to the years of Movie and TV exposure, the construction business and so on.

Trump has been a brand for an upwards of 50 years.

Wow, literally five year plans and out-virtue signaling one another who will craft more draconian regulations to warp the market.
Lets say, theoretically they block that one account. What would be twitter's recourse if the POTUS decides to Gitmo their CEO/developers/prod engineers in retaliation.
Re:Mark Zuckerberg is in love with the coco coco on Thursday June 01, 2017 @01:39AM (#14458243)
>and attention spans

No, that goes to 5 minute youtube videos with some annoying "face" jumpcutting 5 times a second.

What I want to know is: Is there some kind of mode of attack we can use, such that when the bacteria develop a resistance to it, in order to have the resistance they must necessarily become vulnerable to something else.

If you have two or three of these things which are mutually linked. The bacteria can become resistant to one but will become vulnerable to the other.

I am however not a biologist, just a developer, so please excuse me if I am mistaken.

Is such a thing even possible? Is some one working on something like this?

Re:Maybe Skip SHA-3 on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @01:13PM (#14454158)
Isn't this something you don't want? I'd rather use an algo which is painful to do in bulk.
The problem with "moral obligations" is a person's moral axioms are fundamentally arbitrary. Would you still want engineers to be guided by their moral convictions when you fundamentally disagree with them yourself?
>In my opinion (and I welcome disagreement and debate) engineers have an obligation to say 'no' to wiring unethical code.

I respectfully disagree. Engineers have an obligation to do whatever is asked of them by management. If that means building nuke-hand-grenades so be it.

Being an engineer( be it software or mechanics ) should be a morally neutral thing. Do the job and keep your morals out of it. This is the only way we can have some semblance of sanity in the field.

Re:Various cryptocurrency is falling very badly today on Friday May 26, 2017 @05:07PM (#14427186)
Oh look, the natural course of bubbles.
Re:Turning Off GitHub Issues (2016) on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @05:26AM (#14408692)
How about this,

I don't bother with mailing lists, and when I post an "issue" on the site, the system mails you on your preferred mailing list. Then You reply to the mail with your preffered client and it shows up for me in the issue thread on github?

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