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by Zuider 13y ago
Sometimes, a single observation is enough to make generalizations. It depends on the context. For instance, dipping your toe into water before immersing yourself will give you an accurate enough idea of the temperature of the main body of w
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by Zuider 13y ago
Whoa, the Beast has a number, and now he's got map coordinates. All he needs is a crocodile handbag and matching luggage to complete the ensemble.
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by Zuider 13y ago
I think you may be mistaken on this. Craigslist specifically argued that masking their IP address to bypass blocking "violated the CFAA and Penal Code § 502" and District Judge Charles Breyer agreed.
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by Zuider 13y ago
That was appalling.
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by Zuider 13y ago
It looks like Vim 7.4 has been compiled without MzScheme support.
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by Zuider 13y ago
Yeah - working through "Realm of Racket".
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Infosec analysts back away from 'Feds attacked Tor' theory(theregister.co.uk)
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by Zuider 13y ago
>Hmm, says no results for some of them. A bad sign. This is usually the result of a single test hanging indefinitely, leading to the necessity of killing the entire automated testing process. As a consequence the test results don't
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by Zuider 13y ago
Anyone notice this: >3. Bitcoin and all crypto currenecies set to absolutely CRASH as a result since the feds can not completely control this currency as they please.
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by Zuider 13y ago
RNA is older.
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by Zuider 13y ago
And Emacs (with AUCTeX ) will have reached version 2.7182818284590452353603...
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by Zuider 13y ago
For me, It violates the principle of least surprise to encounter a sentence like "all birds do not fly". I have to do a double take and reinterpret the sentence to realise its intended meaning.
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by Zuider 13y ago
Or Longene, the Linux Unified Kernel: http://www.longene.org/en/index.php >The Longene is a free, open-source computer operating system kernel project intended to expand the Linux Kernel to be binary-compatible with
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by Zuider 13y ago
This is well known. People tend to freeze when confronted with a novel situation. That is why there are fire drills, and why soldiers are drilled until obeying orders is reflexive. When people freeze like this, they are not just idly goofin
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by Zuider 13y ago
Shame they don't pay interest.
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by Zuider 13y ago
>Would this pattern hold if you saw another 100 years into the past? Yes. In the 1700s The Earth was just beginning to emerge from 'the little ice age'. There is some controversy over whether the medieval warm period may have b
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by Zuider 13y ago
You got through the speech?
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by Zuider 13y ago
Wow. Maybe it is an American English usage. In British English "enormous" is always used as a synonym for "huge", never for "evil". In fact, a quick google of the word revealed the former usage to be the more p
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by Zuider 13y ago
Well, the melody of "happy birthday" is written in the treble cleff.
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by Zuider 13y ago
>Please don't tell me it's evil. I am a little confused by your comment - has the word "enormous" come to mean "evil"? If so, maybe this new came about from people referring to the "enormity of a crime&
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by Zuider 13y ago
> If you're an entrepreneur, do you start a Facebook competitor or a company targeting an underserved B2B niche? You go where the money is. That is also where the competition is. There is also the high risk, but potentially lucrative op
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by Zuider 13y ago
>if you're gunning for the top, isn't it rational to give yourself the best possible shot by choosing a field where >you won't have the challenge of fitting into a male-dominated culture in addition to all the challenges you'll alre
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by Zuider 14y ago
Factor the language or factor the Unix command?
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by Zuider 14y ago
It was always like this. The main way to become wealthy in ancient times was through lawsuits. As soon as well meaning intentions are put into legal words, they can be subverted.
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by Zuider 14y ago
But if the original inventor refuses to sign off, they will find someone else to 'invent' it.
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by Zuider 14y ago
But the patents are so general in scope that they tend to preempt any technological change. What benefit is there in inventing a better mousetrap if the very idea of causing inconvenience to vermin has been patented, and the only people bea
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by Zuider 14y ago
Was your first comment intended as irony? When arguing with others it is best to employ the principle of charity, even to the point of improving the other party's arguments to make them as strong as possible, and then pointing out where you
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by Zuider 14y ago
The problem with most of these (informal) fallacies is that they are attempts to prevent argument, either by shutting the other party up, or by diverting the discussion away from the matter at hand. When they are used like that they could b
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by Zuider 14y ago
I found myself reluctant to open the links to FightCopyrightTrolls and DieTrollsDie. Even if there is no consequence to following those links (and smackfu has argued plausibly above that there could be) there is a chilling effect from this
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by Zuider 14y ago
Or they could declare another moral panic, and start kicking down doors and arresting people for the contents of their hosts file: "Bu-bu-but I didn't visit any of those sites!" - "Yeah, right - tell it to the judge, perv".

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