bdisraeli
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9 years ago
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on: Microsoft is the first big company to say it's serving the legal marijuana trade
This is totally wrong. Previous Supreme Court decisions, especially Gonzales v. Raich, have set a pretty clear precedent that the Federal Government has the authority to criminalize drugs even when their use is legal in a particular state.
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: China's Subprime Crisis Is Here
The US can't default because it prints the currency it's debt is denominated in.
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: Dell XPS 15 review: A bigger version of the best PC laptop
Is that with the 'Infinity' screen or whatever they called it? I just got the 1080p one and don't use scaling. I had a Yoga with a hidpi screen and agree that a bunch of programs just don't work at all with scaling in Linux.
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: Dell XPS 15 review: A bigger version of the best PC laptop
I have an XPS 13 and run Linux on it. The drivers for the touchpad were very rough with the version of Ubuntu it shipped with, but updating to a Kernel version > 4 fixed all my problems.
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show
It would be difficult (maybe impossible?) to do given the US's Federal system of dividing powers between State governments and the National government. The Federal Department of Justice investigates, but the only power they have is to sue local police departments in court and make them agree to stop their unlawful behaviour.
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show
If you're interested in other things IPRA 'investigates', some people have FOIA'ed Chicago police misconduct complaints and created visualizations based on the data[1].
[1] http://invisible.institute/police-data/
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: Chicago Police Hid Mics, Destroyed Dashcams to Block Audio, Records Show
There is no national body that oversees police, but Chicago has the Independent Police Review Authority. However IPRA rarely upholds complaints against police (it's staffed by ex-cops and other people connected to the police), and recently an investigator was fired after finding a shooting unjustified[1].
[1] http://www.wbez.org/news/city-fires-investigator-who-found-c...
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: Atom text editor 1.4 released
Unless I'm totally missing the point of the instant search feature, this is definitely something you can do in Emacs[1], and something I believe I've seen co-workers do in Sublime.
[1] https://github.com/syohex/emacs-helm-ag
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: Gaffer: Large-scale graph database by GCHQ
Also the person in charge of lighting on a film set.
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015
Cider (for Clojure) and Ensime (for Scala) give you excellent support for auto-completion, documentation, and refactoring in Emacs. It's definitely possible, so it probably just depends on how popular Emacs/Vim are in your language community.
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: Johnson and Johnson, America’s Most Admired Lawbreaker
Russia was also one of the least industrialized countries in Europe in 1900 and had about 27 Million people killed in the Second World War vs about 400 Thousand Americans. This is not a valid comparison.
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: Free Lossless Image Format
If companies don't want to use code licensed under the GPL, they're probably welcome to pay the original the author for a separate license.
bdisraeli
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10 years ago
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on: “I'm wiping this repository away”
Yes it's a client for the WhatsApp API, presumably reverse engineered from the what the official app does.
bdisraeli
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11 years ago
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on: A shrinking Firefox faces endangered species status
bdisraeli
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11 years ago
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on: Cost to Develop New Pharmaceutical Drug Now Exceeds $2.5B?
Why would private regulators be more efficient? Regulation will always seem inefficient no matter the nature of the regulating agency because it has different goals (ensuring safety and efficacy) vs making a profit for shareholders.
Public regulators are always preferable, when a market needs to be regulated as you admit, because the public, through the press and their elected representatives, can hold them accountable for their actions. If someone from the Mayo Clinic is receiving improper benefits from pharmaceutical companies how does the public find that out? There are no laws that would force disclosure of those relationships.
In the case of public regulators like the FDA, Congress can force its leaders to testify and the press has tools like FOIA to get at private documents. They're not perfect and can still lead to corruption and regulatory capture, but are preferable to private organizations with no public accountability regulating the pharmaceutical industry.
bdisraeli
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11 years ago
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on: RedHat accused of torpedoing systemd into Debian
That email contains no evidence to back its claims.
bdisraeli
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11 years ago
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on: Help MuckRock crowd-FOIA Stingray usage around the country
bdisraeli
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11 years ago
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on: Don’t Blame Big Cable. It’s Local Governments That Choke Broadband Competition
Why can't the rich have express-ways and make the poor drive dirt roads?
bdisraeli
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11 years ago
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on: I Don’t Want to Hire Women
bdisraeli
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11 years ago
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on: Dropbox Webhooks
The American invasion if Iraq, whose planning and execution Condeleeza Rice was involved in was clearly a violation of the UN charter, which prohibits aggressive action by one nation against another without the authorization of the UN Security Council.
