DrJosiah

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by DrJosiah 12y ago
I would assume that canvassing with false information would then become a federal crime, as it would be a conspiracy to prevent a legally compulsory act. Add in bounties for whistle-blowers who can show conspiracies like this, and internal
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by DrJosiah 12y ago
You need to pay a lawyer to sue, and you need to pay a lot for a lawyer that will win. The US legal system is "pay for play", despite claims and general belief to the contrary.
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by DrJosiah 12y ago
Having lived in a non-compulsory voting country for my entire life (US), the 50% turnout rate (more or less) is deplorable. In my mind, there are two points about compulsory voting that are nice: 1) The government must make voting available
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by DrJosiah 12y ago
I haven't written any public sci-fi yet. But this is completely legitimate.
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Why thorium reactors are important(dr-josiah.com)
6 points by DrJosiah 12y ago|2 comments
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by DrJosiah 12y ago
I don't believe it ever said "Google Cache", but I don't believe you are going crazy (or if you were, that this would be a symptom).
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by DrJosiah 12y ago
In cases of whistle blowing, which this is purporting to be, evidence is one of the most important things that you can gather and report on. Yet we have literally none from the OP. What we have instead is a compelling story written anonymou
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by DrJosiah 12y ago
If you are going to sit around and "see what happens" for 3 years, you talk to a lawyer. You gather evidence. Emails, text chats, etc. You audio record meetings and conversations with people (subject to lawyer advice). You collect
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Simplifying Postgres Permissions(dr-josiah.com)
1 points by DrJosiah 13y ago|0 comments
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
This is exactly what I was hoping it was.
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Module properties in Python(dr-josiah.com)
4 points by DrJosiah 13y ago|0 comments
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Multi-column (SQL-like) sorting in Redis(dr-josiah.com)
1 points by DrJosiah 13y ago|0 comments
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
I think I may know why they are sticking with the self-built version: random key selection. The built-in hash map doesn't include a method to discover a random key, but the gnatsd hashmap does.
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
This is probably a bit off topic, but I notice that they implemented their own hashmap with pluggable hash functions. Awesome in theory (and practice), though I notice that the performance of their custom hash table is poorer than Go's
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
Redis doesn't compress contents of lists (or hashes or zsets) in a "ziplist", it packs them in a concise manner that omits structure overhead. Source: the source code of Redis itself https://github.com/antirez
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
A good idea is using a paper towel to open the door on your way out of a public restroom. This is practical advice based on experience over several months of research and development scattered over 9 years. ;)
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The mechanism behind a pump-and-dump scheme(promotionstocksecrets.com)
1 points by DrJosiah 13y ago|0 comments
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
There are two methods that are more typically known in the context of substring search that may help you get something even better than your prefix + Levenshtein distance 1 searches. The first and most common is stemming, it can be useful,
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
I'm going to use human terms, because talking about multi-species offspring is messing with my pronouns. They took a multi-generational history of a collection of mammals. Then they look at how many 2nd generation children are produced
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
Here's a mechanism that is infinitely times more plausible than the lack of mechanism in any article published so far, which doesn't rely on hand-wavy inter-uterus sperm manipulation: Mothers with multiple sons (as opposed to mixe
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
I knew about it before it was in the standard library, but thanks.
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
Python will generally use the system allocation functions (unless it knows more about the objects and whether they can be bulk allocated and used in freelists), and a given Python class (which is what you are creating) will have alignment t
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
PyPE - https://sf.net/projects/pype It's sort-of abandoned in that I've had a user-submitted patch to fix a major bug since last October, but I haven't had the time to review and apply it yet. I wouldn&#
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
And you shouldn't :) Python is used just about everywhere for just about everything (sometimes properly, sometimes poorly). While there are a lot of web sites that run Python, there are also countless other applications that use it tha
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
Your first sentence, precisely. And really, it doesn't matter whether the NSA has explicit connections into Gmail, your email is backed up periodically by Google already, so plaintext is available to interested parties for quite a whil
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
I added similar functionality to my editor about 5 years ago after seeing a coworker use Sublime Text. I'm amazed that all editors don't have it already.
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
When Google Apps were free, my advice was typically just to let Google host email. Now that it's not free? Hard to say. You could just set up email forwarding, Postfix does that pretty easily.
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What is going on with rom? (the Redis/Python object mapper)(dr-josiah.com)
1 points by DrJosiah 13y ago|0 comments
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by DrJosiah 13y ago
Ahh yes, the "job creator" myth of low taxes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKCvf8E7V1g
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Steganography in Python(dr-josiah.com)
3 points by DrJosiah 13y ago|0 comments

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