Kadin

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by Kadin 8y ago
I've heard plenty of good chemists refer to monatomic gases (and sometimes ions) as molecules, or "molecular", colloquially, and particularly when talking generically in terms where they could be replaced by another gas. Tha
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by Kadin 8y ago
Python seems like a nice update to what BASIC was in the 8-bit era. Real-time interpreter so you get instant feedback, including very simple imperative syntax. (IMO any introductory programming environment that doesn't let you do som
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by Kadin 8y ago
Serious question, as I don't really understand LGFVs: if most tax revenue goes to the central government, how does the local government intend to pay back the financed money? Are all LGFVs tied to projects that are intended to create
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by Kadin 8y ago
First, you have some level of recourse against agencies of your own government, either directly or via the electoral process. They may or may not have more interest in you than a foreign government, but that depends on what you're doi
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by Kadin 8y ago
Huh. I had no idea that existed! I was never clear on how people extracted ROM images from N64 cartridges, but that is pretty clever.
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by Kadin 8y ago
Depends on when it happened. There have been times when there have been workable exploits that have been used by law enforcement agencies. There's a fairly high-profile Israeli company that specializes in finding or buying zero-day ex
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by Kadin 8y ago
What's the best software to turn an old iPhone (or Android phone?) into a security camera? The concept does seem good, they certainly have more capable hardware and cost less than a lot of network attached cameras.
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by Kadin 8y ago
It's pretty shocking, because I don't think most Americans would suspect there is that much regional variation within the country. The US is frequently regarded as basically monolithic, with people moving from one place to anothe
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by Kadin 8y ago
Yeah, it seems like it would be pretty easy to grab a meaningful title. Hell even the filename would be better in most cases. OTOH, it's the best web clipper -- even with the stupid PDF name thing -- of any of the notetaking apps. So
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by Kadin 8y ago
It's probably even more effective an experience if you're younger, but that's unlikely to be something that most people are ever going to have open to them.
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by Kadin 8y ago
My recollection is that it's not enabled by default because there were (are?) some features that don't work once you enable it. I assume it's the Deep Packet Inspection and advanced routing type stuff. (Sadly my home interne
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by Kadin 8y ago
Nope. The stuff you can get from party stores (in the US, anyway) definitely isn't; more than one person that I have heard of has committed suicide with it.
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by Kadin 8y ago
Latex balloons deflate due to helium permeating the latex. IIRC this is proportional to the difference in pressure between the inside and outside of the balloon. (Because the rate is proportional to the difference in pressure.) The balloon
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by Kadin 8y ago
That's literally how bail worked in its original incarnation. Someone would post bail on your behalf, and if you skipped down, _they_ would be responsible for the bail amount. So therefore they would basically be taking responsibilit
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by Kadin 8y ago
Bail long predates the existence of the police as we now know them. I have a suspicion though that if you eliminated bail, what you'd end up doing would functionally be making all the bail bondsmen (who currently are limited in what th
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by Kadin 8y ago
Doesn't seem to be obvious that Intel will blink first, before Samsung. Intel might start making noises to try and get government subsidization though, and I would expect Samsung to do the same to the Korean government. Having a up-to-
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by Kadin 8y ago
Many shareholders (of medium to large-cap, publicly traded companies) seem to only be interested in short-term gains, not longer term. Some claim to be interested in longer-term profits and business sustainability, but they don't seem
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by Kadin 8y ago
> 20 years is equivalent to a couple of geological ages in tech I disagree with this. I'm not going after you specifically, but I think this attitude is part of why the IT industry seems to reinvent the wheel every few years; there&
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by Kadin 8y ago
Encryption isn't a magic bullet. If you have good visibility into the network there's a hell of a lot you can do with traffic analysis and metadata. Plus, if you own the end-user device you can just go around the encryption sinc
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by Kadin 8y ago
I don't think that's fair to say at all. Deforestation is a real problem, and this study doesn't suggest that it's not. There are still large areas of tropical forest being clear-cut, and the areas that are being refores
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by Kadin 8y ago
I wondered if that was PSMag or the original paper doing that. It took me a while of staring at the charts to finally decide that I'm not going crazy, the legend was just wrong.
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by Kadin 8y ago
I wonder where are they going to manufacture it, and what control and visibility will they have into their supply chains, both upstream and downstream? Absent some very serious issue with the crypto implementation, that would be my greatest
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by Kadin 8y ago
There are actually existing terms, coming from English common law, for exactly these sorts of situations. They are not in common usage outside the legal profession, but perhaps they should be. "Conversion" is a tort (so, not a cr
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by Kadin 8y ago
Downvoted for mentioning it, or downvoted for putting scare quotes around it?
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by Kadin 8y ago
Trains are far more economical per ton-mile. The issue arises at the "last mile" if you do not happen to have both ends of your shipment adjacent to a rail line (preferably with its own siding so you don't have to deal with
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by Kadin 8y ago
The freight rail network in the US is very robust and generally runs at or near capacity. About twice as much freight, percentage-wise, moves by rail in the US as in Europe (though this varies somewhat depending on whether the denominator
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by Kadin 8y ago
The microfilm he's scanning is a government product. He's doing a better job making the output of a government project accessible to the project, but except where he is actually scanning the paper newsprint itself, he is building
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by Kadin 8y ago
Yeah, that was sort of my reaction as well. It's great that the guy is doing what he's doing, and I respect his desire not to sell to some vampire-squid monetizer who will paywall all of it for revenue maximization, but ... what&#
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by Kadin 8y ago
You can certainly do image stitching with camera images. From the software's perspective it's no different than putting together a panorama, really. (There are some minor differences, since the camera is not being panned from a st
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by Kadin 8y ago
Yes, that is a possible application of "blockchain technology", given a broad-enough definition of what constitutes "blockchain technology". But the consensus-based proof-of-work (or proof of storage, or proof of memory,

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