Deestan

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by Deestan 13y ago
Yes - If he tries to poison me with caffeine, I'm pretty safe. I'm not genuinely worried about being robbed of my PIN, though. I just found the mental challenge interesting.
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by Deestan 13y ago
> I realised that, though I was typing the digits of the new PIN, I was subvocalising the digits of my old PIN. I trained myself to do this on purpose; subvocalising a different number. If I'm drugged out in a hospital bed and some
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by Deestan 13y ago
[Slight spoiler alert] After spending 30 game days stamping hundreds of passports and ignoring a million pleas, I found myself and my family fleeing the country. We had spent all our savings buying fake Obristan passports and had illegally
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by Deestan 13y ago
Totalitarian or not, if it is economically stable and the neighboring countries are ravaged by poverty or war (like Kolechia), getting in may be your ticket to having a mostly decent life. Then there are people passing through, visiting fri
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by Deestan 13y ago
> The answer is clearly 0. No, because there are no people to get 0 dollars; the concept of "each" makes no sense when there are no eachees. The answer is clearly undefined.
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by Deestan 13y ago
Paranoia can be a symptom of growing or oncoming depression. You should take that seriously: At least take a few days off and try to get a feel for your current mental state.
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by Deestan 13y ago
> Because the law enforcement officers have to protect their own lives. Against a teenage girl who may have gasp bought some beer? How about: "Excuse me, miss. We suspect you have illegaly purchased alcohol. May we inspect your
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by Deestan 13y ago
Pedantically, no. An encryption method can't depend on time, as you could just make up a date to send through the encryption/decryption function. The encrypted volume handler could do this if you could guarantee it had an active
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by Deestan 13y ago
No, I am not going to opt out. 1. A system in which I personally have to contact every scammer that had the same idea is not a system I wish to accept and play along with. 2. By going to their site and authenticating, I have proven to them
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by Deestan 13y ago
Summary: Lawyer conversing with client accused of terrorism, via private Facebook messages. Client's messages suddenly deleted as "spam", and 4 days later the lawyer was notified that his US Visa had been revoked.
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Norwegian lawyer had visa withdrawn after private chat with client on Facebook(translate.google.com)
449 points by Deestan 13y ago|124 comments
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by Deestan 13y ago
> Getting a team to self-organization is tricky. Sometimes rules help. Absolutely true. I actually feel bad for not emphasizing that properly. Teams of self-organizing people aren't as common as it should be. My point is that we shoul
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by Deestan 13y ago
What I dislike about this is how preoccupied people are with how the rules of daily meetings should be enforced. As if it is a given that a) there must be daily meetings, and b) they must be defined as rules . I would rather we focused
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by Deestan 13y ago
As someone about to use EC2 for some heavy servers, I would appreciate if you could tell me: a) How huge an EC2 instance do you have? b) What tech are you serving from? Express, ASP, JSP, etc...
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by Deestan 13y ago
> Cynical, but true. More insane than cynical, I think. Cynicism is seeing things clearly without any romantic or emphatic filters. Insanity is making sure the most able part of the workforce finds other employment.
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by Deestan 13y ago
Advice: Put some contrast on the page text even when not mouse-over'd. I shouldn't have to strain my eyes to read the main page text.
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by Deestan 13y ago
> Stalinist Italy Fascist Italy is a more precise term, if you're thinking of the Mussolini regime.
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by Deestan 13y ago
> McDonald appear to recognizes that flaw, and is trying to fix it. He admits he's not a dev, and so he tries to understand enough to do no evil. But as TP said, a bit of programming teaches you nothing useful about managing tech. If
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by Deestan 13y ago
> In Norway, it's usual for employees to sign intellectual copyright waivers for all work done for their employers. Yes, but that does not seem to be what this is about. On the surface it seems he was re-using good ideas rather than co
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by Deestan 14y ago
He didn't say that it was bad by itself, but when used to hide something instead of fixing it: > "overflow:hidden;" instead of working out what’s actually broken our layout
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by Deestan 14y ago
> Not sure if that's really as counter-intuitive as the article suggests. At least it is a comprehensible argument against the myth that women are intrinsically or genetically better at it than men.
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by Deestan 14y ago
> I'm guessing his comment is a bit more like I cannot fathom why people prefer guessing things that are publicly available and only takes a few seconds to check.
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by Deestan 14y ago
Warning - that webpage tried to give my computer several types of herpes on page load.
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by Deestan 14y ago
This is not a realistic option. I'm not going to abandon my quite large collection of games - some of which I play weekly to say in touch with distant family - and then start the lengthy, costly and time-consuming process of suing a comp
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by Deestan 14y ago
> So pay with credit card, then if someone pulls this crap call your bank and file a "product not as advertised/doesn't work" complaint ? If you try this with Steam, they flag you for fraud and shut down your without recourse. All prev
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by Deestan 14y ago
This point is addressed in the article.
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by Deestan 14y ago
This point is covered in the article.
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by Deestan 14y ago
Binaural beats are also kinda amazing - listen to a 400hz tone with left ear, a 407hz tone with the right ear, and your brain registeres a 7hz beat. Here's an example: http://www.plyply.com/binaural/
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by Deestan 14y ago
> Why is everything in meters per second, then we jump to using feet all of the sudden? Metric is easier to do calculations in, while imperial is used for the "layman terms". The intended audience is mainly american, and feet are more
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by Deestan 14y ago
No. It uses one of the popular code pages of the DOS era which is mostly an extension of ASCII. ASCII: http://www.asciitable.com/ IBM Code Page 437: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_437

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