jgross206

Can you provide some examples?

why "captain" in quotes?

Can you expand on that? Under what definition of terrorism is the NSA a terrorist organization?

It seems to me that their intent to be as clandestine as possible makes them distinctly non-terroristic.

Why? Because them caring about outward appearances would signal to me that they have a fundamental lack of understanding about what factors are relevant to running a successful business.

why does it matter to you if your customers understand what factors are relevant to running a business?

The difference, to me, is that the lack of freedom you describe is simply a part of the human condition (food and shelter require work, which has been true as long as life has existed) as opposed to what you call "traditional slavery" which is man-made.

...alcohol is involved in the majority of car accidents.

This didn't sound right to me, so I did some digging and found:

"In 2010, 10,228 people were killed in alcohol-impaired driving crashes, accounting for nearly one-third (31%) of all traffic-related deaths in the United States."

http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impai...

I couldn't find any data on non-fatal car accidents, but my intuition says that it would be a smaller proportion (i.e. alcohol-related accidents are more likely to be fatal).

Can you share your sources?

can you share some of your reasoning behind this (quite extreme) belief?

i am not joking

cops also ask you if you have drugs in your car.

i think its tera-hashes per second

You can't just call everything you disagree with "trolling". This is exactly the lack of diversity of thought OP was asking about. Now we're not even allowed to question the Snowden-worship?

Looks like somebody wants to nominate themselves for a government contract.

Interesting how when the news media baselessly questions the motives of whistleblowers it's a "smear campaign." When someone on HN does it to someone who's vaguely pro-NSA it's the top comment.

In what way does your anecdote support your assertion that "a year is much too long"?

Your parent's point was that 99% of people do not own a license to the file.

your link doesnt work for me, here's a different one:

http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a13

I think the parent was talking about the content of the games, not ancillary business practices.

predictability doesn't imply innacuracy

what's the proper use? I'm one of the clueless

Talk is cheap. It's very, very easy to criticize from afar when you have no skin in the game.

So, that type of criticism holds very little weight.

This is splitting hairs a bit. They are, for all intents and purposes, world champions.

Not sure of the universality of this, but my intuitive way of understanding O(log n) is as follows:

An algorithm is O(log n) if you can reduce the solution space (the set of all possible solutions) by a fraction (e.g. divide it in half or divide it into tenths) using a constant number of operations.

For example, binary search is O(log n) because you can cut the solution space in half (regardless of how big it is) by using a constant number of operations.

what school was that??

This is very common usage, though technically incorrect. The poster meant 50 cents.

except the wealth that could be created if the brilliant guy spent the year on other pursuits instead of noops

A very, very simple cd "hack" I use is (put this in your .bashrc):

function cd() { builtin cd "$*" && ls }

it automatically runs "ls" every time you cd somewhere. I find when I'm using someone elses box or SSH'd in somewhere it's really annoying not to have it.

why would it?

Isn't this what CPU makers have been doing for years?

i think you're off by about ten orders of magnitude

It's pretty good, but it's astonishing to me that it still lacks type-ahead

TLA?