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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Actually in low-tech societies it was the other way around. Rich people had servants who lived in their houses and knew every detail of their lives. If you were rich back then, the servants knew where you ate, what you ate, where you slept,
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
I think its more a matter of spending all your school years being "remedial" for inter-personal skills (IPS). Think of IPS like it was a school subject. If you are learning maths slower than everyone else then when it is time to m
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
For those who don't know, the "Vetinari" clock is a reference to Lord Vetinari, patrician of Ankh-Morpork in the Diskworld books of Terry Pratchett. He had a mechanical clock that behaved like this in his waiting room so that
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
Actually its been bred out with extreme prejudice. Any sheepdog that bites a sheep gets shot. No second chances. Its a part of the job that shepherds absolutely hate because these dogs are really close and highly valued family members. But
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
This can be a serious problem. Border collies (this dog was a border-collie cross) are bred for sheep herding. However an out-of-control dog doing its herding thang can cause a flock to squeeze so tight for so long that sheep die of stress,
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
You can pick up clues from router names and domains. For instance if I try traceroute riotimesonline.com I can see routers with "telehouse" in the name (telehouse being the big London interconnect), then a couple of "atlas.co
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
How long does recharging take? And what infrastructure is required at the airport?
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by PaulAJ 5y ago
What problem are you trying to solve? Most (all?) accounting software can handle multiple currencies. Set up your preferred cryptocoin as a foreign currency and enjoy. A lot of accounting has to be done to meet national legislation, especia
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
They are probably waiting for the Statute of Limitations to expire. For wire fraud that is 10 years.
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Its not just the insecure servers that are at risk. These systems can be used as jumping off points for further intrusions elsewhere. So to extend the broken front door analogy, its not just that the police are worried about your property,
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Why is dithering still a thing? Is it just academic interest, or does it still have a practical application?
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
A pure hunter gatherer lifestyle is going to support a percent or less of current population. So you are basically going to have to prohibit the vast majority of the population from having children for a century or so. It also means abandon
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
The OSI model was created by telecom people, not computer people. This is important because the two groups have radically different views of what networks are for and how they work, to the extent that they spent a lot of the 80s and 90s tal
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Because in prison the likelihood of being raped, beaten or having your property stolen is so much less than it is outside.
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
See also https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/paper-dresses
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
This standard has nothing to do with drinking tea for pleasure. It exists so that professional tea tasters can consistently get the same taste twice from the same set of leaves. Professional tasters have to suck the tea onto their tongues f
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
That isn't quite true. Money business laws only apply to people doing it as business, so your friend is in the clear de-jure as well as de-facto. One of the things a prosecutor would have to prove as part of the case is that this was i
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Is there any kind of standard for this? Every SSS implementation I've seen has its own custom format for the shards, so if you lose the program that reassembles them you can't recover the secret.
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Am I right in thinking this is a Democratic party website thinly disguised as a genuine news site?
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Unfortunately this exhibits the usual confusion between pixel pitch and resolution, which makes it completely wrong. > Studies show that someone with 20/20 vision (or 6/6 in Europe) can distinguish something 1/60 of a degr
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Well, if I understand the OP correctly, it sounds like tethers are basically being printed and sold cheap in return for real money, so lots of people think they have a profit because they have more tethers than the dollars they started with
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
So if I understand this correctly, you can go to one of these pyramid scheme exchanges, tank up on highly leveraged tethers, and then go sell them on Kraken. Do this often enough and you will drain the resources of the pyramid scheme, causi
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
So you've picked a couple of locations and dates at random, and gee, there is more noise than signal in your tiny sample. Now try doing that systematically. Take the monthly averages over 20 years from a few thousand sites. Don't
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
The term "copper bottomed" for something utterly reliable (e.g. "a copper bottomed guarantee") also derives from this.
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Fascinating though this is, the negative long term impact of these guys tends to be much greater than their positive short-term impact. You go in, you train a bunch of locals as guerrillas, you achieve the objective, and then you get out, l
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Elon Musk is obviously Iron Man.
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
This is the theory described in the "book within a book" in Orwell's "1984". In it "Emmanuel Goldstein" (roughly equivalent to Trotsky) describes how revolutions occur when the Middle co-opt the Low to dis
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Good question. It means that something is moving mass away from the axis of the Earth. There are only two candidates I can think of: 1. Movements in magma below the Earth's crust. 2. Global warming. Less ice at the poles means that wat
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
This is true, sad to say. "Big new discovery about Altzheimer's Disease (in mice)" is pretty much on a par with "Amazing new battery (in lab)". You see articles like this a couple of times a year, but they never pan
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by PaulAJ 6y ago
Thus it always was. Back in the day in America there were a few big newspapers (basically, USA Today plus a couple of local city or state papers) and three TV channels. They all broadly agreed on what was important and how to present it. Th

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