mattstreet

> That are very pragmatic reasons to invest in signals of social standing. It minimizes the cultural friction between yourself and the people who can help you get ahead, who are overwhelmingly people of high social standing themselves.

Translation: I have shitty friends and assume everyone else does too.

That is so fucking sad. Aren't there literally hundreds of traits more important in a husband than buying a ring?

Tell me this statement is satire: "Do I want my daughter to be with a man that is willing to create headwinds for himself out of foolish principles and refusal to conform? All else being equal, no"

So basically buying a ring is a shortcut to actually understanding and trusting each other.

To be fair, it's easier these days to afford both a smartphone AND a piece of much more hackable hardware. At least as far as prices go.

One of the main real reasons for Linus's success (other than say his talent) is that there wasn't a good alternative to Linux so even version 0.2 which could barely do anything by today's standards got interest and community involvement.

Yep, and the Nexus 4 has it too.

So meta, I can't even tell which of the comments replying to you are in on the joke.

Fuck you. If you can come up with a problem that needs a law to protect people, you can come up with an example that doesn't consist of "Oh won't somebody think of the children"

But the way that gets used seems to be the officer somehow smells pot on every damn person they want to violate.

I think you're wrong about the 100% bad place to work just because someone asked you to reverse a string without using library functions.

I would think your computer science education would have prepared you to plan out such an algorithm. Sadly, its pretty had for a place to confirm you have subconscious skills by asking a question and then waiting for you to come back the next day with the answer once it popped into your head.

Usually people I talk to about this seem to think things are broken, and yet learning from other countries would just make it worse.

Well when they quit molesting old ladies, we'll stop pointing it out.

And yet when people complain about being stuck working for giant shitty corporations, they get told to just start their own business.

Is it partisan to point out that pretty much anyone in politics is in a different economic class than 98% of the country? I'm pretty sure he meant that when he said group, not Dem vs Rep.

Sadly it seems like they get treated the same as pedo priests, just shuffled around somewhere else.

The important difference is that patient trolls have some degree of sentience.

Professions who help people just by listening. It has been shown that most of the positive benefit people experience from many of these therapies is just the fact of having someone that cares (or at least appears to) listen to your problems for an hour and provide support.

And the "War on Terror" isn't exactly to calm people's fears either.

I agree but don't forget that Stuxnet gained access through sneakernet.

Are you having trouble because you're running a different platform that they developed their implementation on?

If so my way of dealing with this when I'm too lazy to deal with trying to get stuff to work on another system, is to using something like Virtual Box and work on the exact OS the library/language I want to work with was made for.

Maybe that's why so many places in the US still have shitty internet - to teach the gamers to cope with lag better.

Or if you kept a camera and added a mic there could be closeup video of the presenter.

All voting against the incumbent does is attempt to flip flop between our two shitty parties all the time.

People that don't have jobs don't have to pay taxes. (Except sales tax)

Many of us care more about the people currently alive than worrying that one day there won't be any more humans.

Everyone worries about their webcams but most laptops have built in mics and most of them don't have an LED for that at all...

Eventually we won't have either of those.

Yes but what positions in the armed forces are they likely to have taken?

Quick hardware hack == piece of dark/thick tape.

More like A) We aren't getting the pictures from the best cameras yet and B) We didn't send the latest, greatest best cameras because we didn't want them to fail after 10 minutes use.

We send up camera's tested and hardened against temperature changes, dust, vibration, and radiation. Also cameras that require low power.

Furthermore, there is limited bandwidth. So we probably want to send back mediocre pictures most of the time and if we see something we really want in high quality we take a bunch of pictures of it and put them together.

As a final note, the quality of the sensor and lens probably matters a lot more than the number of mega pixels.