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by PaulAJ 13y ago
See http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AbsurdlySpaciousS... for more on this.
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
Thanks for answering the question I was going to ask. However, if you move the process out into the desert and use concentrated solar power to provide the heat then you have a solar power process running at 50% efficiency to produce a stabl
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
I'm sorry, but its irrelevant. If it tells us that the NSA has turned cyberspace into a giant panopticon, then we already know that. If it tells us that the NSA has been responsibly limiting its surveillance to overseas targets known t
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
It seems in improbably good condition for something over 1000 years old and made of organic components, so given its somewhat vague provenance I'd like something to confirm its age. Has it been carbon dated?
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
There is a saying: first make it work, then make it work fast. The problem with doing the second in imperative languages is that you need to pull all your working code apart and rewrite it. Haskell separates the "make it work" fro
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
I think the OP needs to decide if he is going into business or politics. If business then incorporate outside the UK, get a bank account in Poland or Slovenia, and get on with it. If politics then set up a political association, call for me
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
Not really. Its like he went to Hamburg and said "I'm a Hamburger".
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
For another perspective on this story, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03f86lh You probably can't listen to it unless you are in the UK, but it seems that there were panics, just localised ones. There have
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
Are they going to protect us from the NSA? What about GCHQ?
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
Has anyone pointed out that there was no year 0 A.D. 1 BC was followed by 1 AD.
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
All those conspiracy theories sound a lot more reasonable today than they did back in 1999.
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by PaulAJ 13y ago
This is the problem with doing functional list stuff in languages that permit side effects: the order of execution for each function has to be strictly defined (in both senses of the word), so the compiler can't optimise the code. In H
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
As in, how can we respond to this competitive threat that undercuts our business model while still maintaining our current revenues?
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
Now the lawyers and judges just need to realise that "mathematical" != "numeric" and we're home free.
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Bitcoin apps spike in Spain as BTC touches $60 on Mt Gox(news.yahoo.com)
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
Don't feel bad about your investors. They went into it with their eyes open, knowing that they were taking a punt. Taking lots of punts is in fact their business model. They knew there was a good chance they would lose that investment. As l
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
I'd say its difficult but not impossible, especially over the long term. Singapore seems to have managed the trick, but it is the exception rather than the rule.
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
Part of the point of the original article is that not even assembler is "close to the metal" any more. How long does that fragment of assembly code take to execute? Depends on whether the instructions are in the I-cache, whether some previo
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
No, because compilers are prohibited from changing the meaning of the program. Changing a lazy value to a strict value is only permitted when the compiler can prove that the value will always be evaluated. It can't do that for unboxed arr
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
Its more a matter of trying to nix the "Haskell would be nice, but its too slow to be practical" line that many see as a killer.
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
More like: good design choices are vastly more important than micro-optimisation, and Haskell is a good design choice.
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
Reason 6: its part of PHP.
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
So how, exactly, does the Second Amendment protect you from this?
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
At present there isn't much you can buy with BTC. If the day came when EBay, Amazon and your local shops accepted BTC then that would change, especially if the local shops didn't require ID when you bought something.
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
Bitcoin prices will be no more stable than conventional currencies, because money supply is a rate (BTC / sec) rather than a total volume (BTC). As commerce using BTC slows down so the money supply decreases. As commerce speeds up so the mo
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
There is an Android imprisoned elsewhere. Take a step or two back, go through the door on the right and keep going.
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
I don't know how accurate it is, but this article http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines provides an explanation of the chronic financial problems that airlines find themselves in. Briefly, the senior pilots get to negotia
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by PaulAJ 14y ago
Fortunately its nowhere near that bad. The prosecution needs to prove beyond reasonable doubt that the file contains encrypted data and that you have the key. So if you did have a file of random noise then the police would not be able to pr
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by PaulAJ 15y ago
Funny, they don't mention that Deep Packet Inspection can be prevented by Secure Socket Layer encryption (i.e. https). Or am I missing something?
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by PaulAJ 18y ago
What amazes me is how accurate and detailed this book is, given that it was intended for children. It reads like it was written by a computer expert helped by a children's writer, rather than the other way around. Too many books for childr

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