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by a-priori 13y ago
As a Canadian, I wish this were possible for us. Virtually all of our Internet traffic, even to hosts in other parts of Canada, go through American territory. I'm not sure if it would even be possible to route our traffic around the US
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by a-priori 13y ago
Yes, all such devices will have battery backups. You should use them for just that situation.
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by a-priori 13y ago
It's just a matter of time -- measured in weeks to months, not years -- before a new Silk Road emerges. And the creator of the next one will not be silly enough to allow themselves to be traced by a Stack Overflow post.
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by a-priori 13y ago
To me, that sounds like a good time to buy.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Another trait that's important for success in life is deferred gratification , or the ability to give up a small immediate reward for a larger reward in the future. That trait, when measured in children, is correlated with all sorts o
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by a-priori 13y ago
Err, yes you're right. I was off there by a couple orders of magnitude :)
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by a-priori 13y ago
Insurance is accepting a small but certain loss to prevent a large and unlikely loss . Gambling is accepting a small but certain loss in the hopes of getting a large and unlikely gain . They're related but opposite concepts.
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by a-priori 13y ago
I haven't played the game. If the game's premise is that there's a one-of-a-kind rampage going on that's causing all sorts of mayhem that couldn't have been predicted, then I agree that buying shares in an insurance
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by a-priori 13y ago
It doesn't matter to an insurance company how likely car crashes are -- that just determines what the company charges in premiums. All that matters is that the likelihood is well understood and that the company has enough customers to
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by a-priori 13y ago
It's not unusual for a nation to have multiple police forces with overlapping jurisdictions. And I don't see it as a problem in and of itself. In Ottawa, Canada, for example, because it is the national capital there are three poli
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by a-priori 13y ago
I'm giving advice for a scenario where salaries are inflated due to a bubble. For the record, I'm not in the valley either.
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by a-priori 13y ago
As an employee you have fairly little to lose if you play your cards right. That's the benefit of the employer-employee relationship and being compensated primarily in wages. So my advice is to ride the bubble because the inflated sala
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by a-priori 13y ago
I'm going to sound like an old codger here, which is a strange experience for a 28 year old, let me tell you. Bear with me, I'm not going to tell anyone to get off my lawn... No, biologically people are adults at puberty. That m
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by a-priori 13y ago
This is my ideal solution as well. Processes are already fully isolated just like virtual machines or containers. They may only execute during time slices where the kernel schedules them, can only communicate and access system resources thr
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by a-priori 13y ago
I don't buy the "wallowing in cash" argument. In the last quarter, Google reported $54.4B in cash and short term investments and $14.1B in revenue, Apple reported $42.6B in cash and equivalents and $35.3B in revenue and Micro
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by a-priori 13y ago
It may just be posturing or covering their asses. Or they may be able to argue that, since they are operating their own aircraft as part of the recovery operations, the presence of UAVs in the air is a risk to their aircraft. And so, by fly
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by a-priori 13y ago
Another one is the French Canadian nom-dit form. Some of my ancestors had the name 'dit Laverdure'. Also from French Canadian, some last names have a period in them, I know someone with the last name "St.-Germain".
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by a-priori 13y ago
My suggestions for dealing with names are: 1) Names are context-sensitive, so ask for a person's name by giving the context you intend to use it in. Something like, "How should we address you in an email?" or "How should
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by a-priori 13y ago
The problem isn't limited to WPA2. As far as I know, in and of itself it's actually fairly secure. Most of the problem is that passwords are either easy for computers to crack or hard for humans to remember. The middle ground has
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by a-priori 13y ago
It's mostly speculation at this point what will happen to the labour economy over the next few decades. Certainly it has gone through upheavals in the past and yet there's still a demand for labour today. It's even possible t
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by a-priori 13y ago
Not necessarily... it's only progress if you wouldn't do the same thing again. It's one thing to be able to recognize shitty code in hindsight or in another developer's work. It's quite another to be able to catch y
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by a-priori 13y ago
I completely agree that pragmatism is essential to being a great developer. When designing a system, you should be asking yourself questions like: 1) What sort of load will this system need to handle now and in the foreseeable future, and w
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by a-priori 13y ago
I write checks for my rent. My apartment building has an online payment system but charges $4.95 for the "privilege" of paying electronically or $39.95 (holy cow) to pay by debit or credit card. Sadly, paying by sliding a check u
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by a-priori 13y ago
No, if the private keys are compromised (such as via a subpoena) then a man-in-the-middle attack is trivial. Worse, if a trusted certificate authority's private key is compromised, then the TLS public-key infrastructure as a whole is b
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by a-priori 13y ago
Whether they're synonymous is entirely a matter of your world view with respect to the origin of the state's monopoly on the legitimate use of force, which is the defining feature of a state. Do individuals delegate their right to
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by a-priori 13y ago
In a state of nature, there is no such thing as a "legal right", or law of any kind other than might-makes-right.
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by a-priori 13y ago
Well yes, as soon as a creature needs to expend energy to obtain a thing they plan on using later, another creature is going to try to obtain it in a simpler way: by stealing it. And so, even apes and birds have a concept of 'property&
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by a-priori 13y ago
Assuming we're talking about the Hobbesian "state of nature" then yes, of course you do have that freedom. Along with every other freedom. But you only have a right to profit insofar as you can keep others from exercising
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by a-priori 13y ago
Someone with a better understanding of Bitcoins please correct me here if I'm wrong. But if I understand things correctly, mining is one way (the only way?) to get untraceable Bitcoins because they're created out of thin air by th
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by a-priori 13y ago
I grew up in Southern Ontario and when I was in high school I biked year round. I agree it's pretty rare that it's impossible to bike in the winter, and a good mountain bike should get you through pretty much any weather. The tir

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