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by Pitarou 10y ago
I'm glad you added the qualifier "almost" because, even in low-level C, you're typically sitting on about 4 layers of abstraction: C -> ASM / byte code -> machine code -> primitive CPU operations
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by Pitarou 10y ago
I reckon this is another interesting consequence of the feedback system. Stack Exchange encourages fair writers to get really good, and discourages poor writers until they give up. > Very, very few people can succeed on all three fronts
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by Pitarou 10y ago
This is the vital missing piece, not the complete solution. For the rest, use the standard tools of online anonymity (Tor, Tails and so on).
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by Pitarou 10y ago
That's a good idea, but it wouldn't stand up to blockchain scrutiny. Most of those dubiously sourced bitcoins were mined much more recently. You could invent more lies to explain all the turnover and transfers, but it would look s
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by Pitarou 10y ago
I think this is one of Stack Exchange's great successes: persuading knowledgeable people to answer beginners' questions. There are plenty of other things going on there, too, but that's part of the success story.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Bitcoins can be made almost as anonymous as cash. Bitcoin wallets (accounts) are anonymous, and bitcoin launderers claim they can obfuscate transactions by mixing them with other transactions and sending them through complicated webs of tem
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by Pitarou 10y ago
So that's how they fit curved track into it.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Is it allowing you to use just the first few letters of a function's or macro's name?
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Nobody's forcing you, are they? But seriously, Clojure is designed from scratch to work well with the JVM, so if the JVM's where you live then Clojure is the obvious choice.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Please don't tell the C++ community that! We really don't want to encourage them. To someone who uses Python every day, the extra cognitive load of `attr` is more than made up for by all the boilerplate it eliminates. But for begi
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by Pitarou 10y ago
This claim has been thoroughly discredited. Even the climate change denier Andrew Watts agrees that it is false. And in any case, it makes no sense -- to believe this claim is to believe that all climate scientists are part of some conspira
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by Pitarou 10y ago
1. Reach a firm global consensus that this is a problem and we need to do something about it. (I'm looking at you, United States and Australia.) 2. Implement a top-down program of transition to low-carbon technologies. Switch from coal
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by Pitarou 10y ago
The problem is the accumulation of these emissions over decades. CO2 lingers in the atmosphere for roughly a century. Also, the recent industrialisation of countries like China means we are emitting more today than ever before.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Agreed. We no longer have the luxury of being prissy about ionising radiation.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
If there's a methane tipping point, we may have already passed it. Have a look on YouTube, and you'll see people in Siberia happily creating fireballs by poking a stick in the ground and holding a lighter over the hole they'v
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Do you consider fame be a possession, even though it exists entirely in the mind of others?
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by Pitarou 10y ago
In the context, I would take "[he had] women" to be shorthand for "[he had] sexual access to women he thought desirable". Maybe that commodifies them, but this probably reflects the attitude of a young Brazilian football
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by Pitarou 10y ago
If you need these six "lessons for entrepreneurs" explaining to you, you're not fit to take investors' money. Period. It's a story of ignorance, incompetence and irresponsibility from start to finish.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Could we now please get a move on and use the same trick to develop new antibiotics?
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by Pitarou 10y ago
What makes you think English is any better? Although the writing system is a PITA. It's of great cultural value etc. etc. but it presents a huge barrier to learners.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Your friend's experience is not inconsistent with the article. The article makes it clear that most only earn a little, but a tiny elite can earn big money: > By the minute, newbies might charge under a dollar; a typical PSO might c
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by Pitarou 10y ago
It wasn't like that a few months ago. I think that, in the time between RMS's article and now, someone has quietly given up on enforcing the censorship order.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
It wasn't like that a few months ago. I think that, in the time since RMS wrote that article, someone has quietly given up on trying to enforce the censorship order.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
This is an article about web censorship, not The National Enquirer. RMS does, in fact, mention one of the names involved, but only when it is relevant to the matter of censorship.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Or we could stop pretending that playing with timezones somehow magically gives us more hours in the day. It's like the shaggy dog story about a business consultant who was hired to improve efficiency at a port. "The first thing y
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Something tells me that the bill for renting all those billboard sites is never going to be paid.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
I don't think that's exactly what they claim. At least, not in the versions that I've seen. Their claim is that the 1% / the lizard people / the illuminati / whatever have used trickery to create a legal system
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by Pitarou 10y ago
I once spent a bit of time learning Teeline Shorthand. Teeline is the form of shorthand that British journalists are expected to learn. It's easier to learn, but less efficient, than Gregg or Pitman. But I reached the conclusion that t
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by Pitarou 10y ago
From the headline, I thought it was for credit card fraud! Order valuable, fenceable goods with a stolen credit card, and then use Uber to make sure you're at the random location when the goods arrive.
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by Pitarou 10y ago
Very little. A couple of graphs, maybe. It is, as you say, a well presented rehash of his previous interviews and writing, and I don't think there's anything wrong with that. The only thing that's wrong is to call it a docume

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