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New comment by dvdfvo in "Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video]"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 21:33:54 +0000

Yes it is.

That is just your opinion. Rules are clear on this:

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site.

As you can see, no additional caveats are listed. Therefore you, by responding to a comment which was about incorrect flagging, complained about inappropriate submissions, directly violated the rules.

Your last paragraph is basically just ad-hominem.

I'm ending this "discussion" here and will not be reading your inevitable further comments.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video]"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 20:35:24 +0000

You were still breaking the rules.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video]"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 20:23:51 +0000

By complaining that the submission is inappropriate:

GlickWick: I'm unclear as to how this thread is legitimate, personally. Doesn't seem to really fit with HN. I'm no fan of the Patriot Act either, but this belongs somewhere like Reddit.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Germany and Tesla’s PowerWall"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 20:04:41 +0000

As an European an unscheduled blackout is unheard of. We had the first loss of power( a few hours ) this year in a span of ten years due to maintenance.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video]"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 19:48:02 +0000

The only fact here is that this is on the front page. However your opinion is that it shouldn't be. By the majority vote, you are wrong.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video]"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 19:42:26 +0000

If you don't give any merit to a majority vote, why should relevance be given to your singular opinion? Seems like a double standard honestly.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Livestream of Rand Paul Filibustering Reauthorization of the Patriot Act [video]"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 19:25:46 +0000

How long has he been talking? How does this work, only if he stops can the process continue? Can he realistically achieve anything here?

New comment by dvdfvo in "Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 19:23:10 +0000

Yes. I though it was obvious from the context of my parent comment.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 08:00:06 +0000

If every computer ... dies. Ironically this is also true for Earth. Therefore it is not a concern. :-)

New comment by dvdfvo in "Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 03:59:37 +0000

No. Why use licensed worlds when you can invent your own.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 01:57:37 +0000

It was probably just the lowest common denominator of "fun". Personally I was fed up with it after a couple of days in a lan.

A ( space themed ) DnD would be better in every way. Imagination, teamwork, combat, discourse, story, ...

New comment by dvdfvo in "Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars"

dvdfvo — Wed, 20 May 2015 01:14:23 +0000

Satellites are very cheap compared to manned missions. Speed will not be a problem then.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars"

dvdfvo — Tue, 19 May 2015 23:49:02 +0000

Yes. A difference of 4 orders of magnitude.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars"

dvdfvo — Tue, 19 May 2015 23:04:10 +0000

You could play any kind of turn based games over planets. In the future even non-turn based games are going to be played, although indirectly.

A fun game would a real time military strategy game where the delay for both planets is artificially made the same. Then the command delay becomes part of the game, but the game still runs in real time with information updating as soon as it is available.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Six Men Spent 520 Days Locked in a Room to See If We Could Live on Mars"

dvdfvo — Tue, 19 May 2015 22:56:07 +0000

It is awesome to think that martians would code on their own machines, but information is one of the only things that is free to transport over planets and almost without delay. In reality, due to their scarcity, first settlers will perform exclusively physical tasks, software will be updated and fixed remotely, and repairs will be performed following strict instructions or advice from Earth.

Coding as relaxation is plausible, but mostly for short projects and nothing serious. It is hard to focus on serious mental activity after laborious work.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Learning C with gdb"

dvdfvo — Mon, 18 May 2015 08:18:46 +0000

Anything with a UI.

I'm not saying gdb is not a great tool. It is especially useful when you don't have a debugger at all.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Death Note Anonymity: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy"

dvdfvo — Sat, 16 May 2015 02:07:10 +0000

The most implausible part seems to be that L is completely anonymous. He is clearly operating with other people, therefore he leaves a trail of information. Even if he is perfect at covering that up, people working with him aren't.

Light could also use his powers to extort. Someone in the police/media/politics must know who L is. Therefore it would be only a matter of time until you hit a person that knows him. An alternate approach to this, which is contrary to Light's beliefs, is to keep executing important people until L is revealed, someone will reveal him eventually.

New comment by dvdfvo in "Wolfram Language"

dvdfvo — Fri, 15 May 2015 22:30:27 +0000

I'm assuming there isn't any video and audio recording of that Caltech debate?

New comment by dvdfvo in "Company creates bicycle airbag to replace helmets (2014)"

dvdfvo — Fri, 15 May 2015 16:33:49 +0000

It is really big. Notice how the people shown wearing it in still shots, also wear bulky or winter clothing. I don't see how could you wear the helmet in the summer along with a t-shirt and shorts and not look ridiculous. A backpack variant, even if larger, would be better for social acceptance.

New comment by dvdfvo in "The Untold Story of Silk Road, Part 2: The Fall"

dvdfvo — Thu, 14 May 2015 23:21:47 +0000

Mr. Reagan would be offended.