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zackzackzack commented on Australian police issue warning on 3D printed guns techworld.com.au/article/... · Posted by u/samuellevy

jevinskie · 12 years ago

  "This is now becoming a problem the world over," Scipione said.

According to whom? The police forces that are trying to drum up FUD about hobby-manufactured firearms?

zackzackzack · 12 years ago

Part of the social contract in most societies is that the police are the only members of society who can use enough force to kill or injure anyone critically. The governments of these societies create laws to ensure that it is only special well regulated instances when an ordinary citizen can use deadly force (hunting of lower animals and self defense being two examples in the United States). Anywhere these guns can be manufactured successfully thwarts the old laws and contracts.

This means that it will be a "Problem", but no one can say for who. The big gun manufactures are going to be pissed and are already probably already preparing legislation to bitch slap any one who tries to produce these guns. The liberator people are working on making the guns not explode and hurt anyone. The police are scrambling to figure out how to reclaim their sole ownership of force. The people are waiting to see what happens.

zackzackzack commented on Give them an inch and they take $773 million notes.unwieldy.net/post/5... · Posted by u/endtwist

mistercow · 12 years ago

I feel like saying "a single inch" like it's a pittance when we're talking about airplane legroom is a bit silly. Sure, it seems small compared to the other 31 inches, but that's not a fair comparison, because most of those 31 inches are non negotiable.

Realistically, we're talking about at least a 5% reduction in leg room, and that's nothing to sneeze at.

zackzackzack · 12 years ago

You obviously are not above average in terms of height. I'm 6'5" and planes are a nightmare of cramps and bruised knees. A single inch can mean the difference between being able to sleep comfortably on a long flight and staying awake while stiffening up for eight hours.

zackzackzack commented on Educating the Planet with Pearson thinkaurelius.com/blog/... · Posted by u/zackzackzack

zackzackzack · 12 years ago

If you're interested in using Titan from Clojure, then you'll probably want to take a look at Titanium[0] and Ogre[1]. We've been working hard to make these libraries as useful as possible. If you have any questions about how to get started, then please get in touch! My contact information is in my profile. I've been immersed pretty deep in this stack lately and it's been pretty rewarding so far.

[0] http://titanium.clojurewerkz.org/ [1] http://ogre.clojurewerkz.org/

zackzackzack commented on Why Does Your Startup Sound Like a Startup? medium.com/design-startup... · Posted by u/someproduct

zackzackzack · 12 years ago

The author is is almost exactly the exact opposite of the ideal customer for any startup. He is a venture capitalist and an ad man. He is in the business of buying the startup instead of buying from the startup. He sees orders of magnitudes more startup websites in a month than a customer ever will in their lifetime. He will be looking far more closely at the advertising side of things than a customer and will probably over apply his expertise. Therefore, I don't think his advice will probably be all that useful to founders. Ad hominem is a logical fallacy, but a bayesian's crutch. You can logic it out for yourself, but I don't think this guy knows what he is talking about.

zackzackzack commented on Aaron Greenspan sues Facebook, Sequoia, Andreesen, YC, others scribd.com/doc/139975904/... · Posted by u/pbreit

teej · 12 years ago

Interestingly enough, Stripe and WePay are not named while Balanced and Square are. Can anyone comment on why?

zackzackzack · 12 years ago

1. They might actually know what they are doing or 2. they aren't doing payments of the sort that needs this sort of license.

zackzackzack commented on John Carmack starting port of Wolf 3D in Haskell twitter.com/id_aa_carmack... · Posted by u/bobfunk

b0rsuk · 12 years ago

A bit off-topic: has John Carmack made any comments on Go programming language ? It sounds like a language that should appeal to him. The name makes it not easy to google for (I've tried golang, etc). I couldn't find anything, is it because Go has a far way to go before it's mature enough to use in games ?

zackzackzack · 12 years ago

Probably because there are like a billion other things he has to do.

zackzackzack commented on Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition lispinsummerprojects.org/... · Posted by u/tsm

zackzackzack · 12 years ago

How does one go about signing up?

zackzackzack commented on Poll: Do you have a 3d printer? · Posted by u/pg

zackzackzack · 12 years ago

What are the chances that in the next month pg publishes an essay calling for why more startups should be doing hardware, bitcoin, and/or 3D printing?

zackzackzack commented on This page is anonymous voidnull.sdf.org/... · Posted by u/voidnull

voidnull · 12 years ago

To give some context, I did this as a publicity stunt for SDF and the Tor project. I have no affiliation with either of these, other than being a grateful user. SDF especially can always use more money and users. As opposed to pastebin, SDF lets you have an email account, message other SDF users, use IRC, etc.

As for the $10 reward, yes it is small, but the point is to see whether people can breach any of security, not to offer lots of cash (which I don't have anyway).

zackzackzack · 12 years ago

And now this is a test of how secure HN is as well.