puller | 12 years ago | on: Soylent Micronutrient Breakdown
Could just be skepticism about whether this is going to hurt its customers
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puller | 12 years ago | on: H5N1
If you're not asleep, you might be a better person. The problem would be when you ran out.
puller | 12 years ago | on: The Criminalization of Everyday Life
They do not want immigrants, they have problems enough with the ones they got recently
puller | 12 years ago | on: The Criminalization of Everyday Life
People trying to assert their own control isn't going to fix the government, it is just going to change who is in control
puller | 12 years ago | on: Supercomputing on the cheap with Parallella
How exactly do you run the NVIDIA GTX 780 Ti GPU by itself? Are its capabilities the same? Aren't you forced to use OpenCL or something?
puller | 12 years ago | on: Spy agencies in covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online gaming
> Seriously... The NSA makes military spending look frugal!
That isn't something you can decide by waving your hands at games. WoW is cheap compared to even simple things purchased by the military on a regular basis.
puller | 12 years ago | on: Haven't found your calling? Stop looking.
Being unhappy with something and working on it are not necessarily related. You could work on something without thinking about it, or without expectations on the result. You could appreciate something as good but want to make it better. You can also be unhappy with something without working effectively on it.
puller | 12 years ago | on: The Day Mandela Was Arrested, With A Little Help From the CIA
To be fair, he did found the armed wing of the ANC, was offered a release from prison conditional on renouncing violence which he refused to do, and afterward his group went on to carry out a number of IRA-style bombings.
The apartheid regime might have justified extreme measures that killed civilians, but his hands are not as clean as you would imagine from the hagiography.
We don't glorify Gerry Adams in this way and give him Nobel prizes, although he did contribute a lot to the peace process in Ireland.
puller | 12 years ago | on: What the Fluck
"Freedom of speech" never implied a right to have a specific third party publish your comments for you. It was always about limiting law and government.
puller | 12 years ago | on: Driving Is Going Out of Style
Is it hard to buy reusable shopping bags (or backpacks, since you're talking about bikes) in Mountain View?
puller | 12 years ago | on: Why I hate virtualenv and pip
Is it ever not true that when you forget a step, you have to look into what's wrong? In any language, or any project?
puller | 12 years ago | on: Why I hate virtualenv and pip
What has the author built to replace pip?
puller | 12 years ago | on: Evading Airport Security
What the press will say if someone gets a boxcutter onto a plane and tries to do something with it.
puller | 12 years ago | on: Jolla CEO: You will soon be able turn your Android device into a Sailfish device
Not to mention that iOS compatibility would make a HUGE legal target for Apple
puller | 12 years ago | on: AsicMiner's Immersion Cooling Mining Facility
So what, the existence of something worse doesn't make this better
puller | 12 years ago | on: Sex over distance using affordable consumer teledildonic robots
People already volunteer who they're having sex with on Facebook
puller | 12 years ago | on: Debugging Python Like a Boss
You are doing it wrong, and you are making generalizations about these languages on the basis of your doing it wrong?
puller | 12 years ago | on: “Remove occurrences of the short name of the Debian derivative from Canonical”
No context. Seems petty?
The issue was about the logo
puller | 12 years ago | on: Lavabit's Dark Mail Initiative
First shut down Lavabit (for whatever reasons). Then ask for donations to do something else.
puller | 12 years ago | on: Martin Gräßlin, KDE: "Good Bye, Ubuntu"
Lots of people don't like systemd and have complained about it...
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