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by a3_nm 10y ago
I'm confused by this. EU passenger rights http://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/travel/passenger-rights... also apply to planes that arrive late. Hence, if they make you board the plane and wait, presumab
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Not an expert about blockchains, but this makes me wonder whether something close to skip lists < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_list> couldn't in principle be implemented in blockchains to avoid this dif
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by a3_nm 10y ago
What about displaying a warning for domains where a successful HTTPS session with a trusted certificate took place before? Or about displaying a warning for websites using HSTS -- which Gmail does.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
It is not "imagined", it has very real consequences. If you have no publications in the venues that the scientific community considers "prestigious", you have essentially no hope to ever get a job as a tenured researcher
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> But if it werent for Kearns, we probably wouldn't have intermittenent wipers nowadays. Probably not the best example, because you could make a strong case that, with intermittent wipers being such a simple invention, probably some
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Exactly. Research articles are produced with public money, and scientists do not profit financially from their sale, in fact both scientists and the public want scientific articles to be as widely circulated as possible. It then seems compl
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Publishers oversee peer review, but they are not the one performing it: unpaid researchers do. It is incredible, but, by and large, scientific publishers today are utterly ignorant about the science that they publish. (To my knowledge,
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by a3_nm 10y ago
The comparison with Napster is troubling, because it gives the impression that the balance of right and wrong is the same for science and for music. The main difference with Napster is that, in the case of music, there was some argument to
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> So who doesn't want that, right? What about privacy? Doctors in my country (France) are legally obliged to respect the privacy of their patients and the confidentiality of medical data. A third-party cloud service, not so much. Ed
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by a3_nm 10y ago
As for books about the Linux kernel, I'd recommend https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides (which, oddly, didn't seem to be linked)
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by a3_nm 10y ago
For 2), the standard "ship of Theseus" argument applies: progressively replace your brain by parts which are emulated. Initially you are you, at the end of the process you are uploaded. When did your "subjective experience&qu
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Please open source the app so that it can be hacked by users and distributed outside of the official channels. I avoid running proprietary software on my phone, in particular I do not have Google Play, so the superbook looks a lot less inte
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Trying btrfs and giving up for now(a3nm.net)
3 points by a3_nm 10y ago|1 comments
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by a3_nm 10y ago
You are suggesting that a background check system is doing a net good if more people benefit than are hurt. The problem is that a system like this would strongly encourage all people, good or bad, to avoid doing things that the system cou
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Ask for captcha verification or other form of verification before hiding the account? This is what the author suggests in his last email to Github, and it sounds pretty reasonable.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
That's the fault of the people making that policy, not the fault of the people licensing the code under GPL.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Thanks for the link. As far as I understand, it agrees with my interpretation.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
> it is possible that one or several intermediaries sign a key and this key can become trusted Yes, but as far as I understand this only occurs if you give them a trust rating (e.g., I marginally trust). If a key K is signed by multiple
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by a3_nm 10y ago
Remember that the trust relationship in OpenPGP is not transitive. If you know that Alice's key is valid and you trust Alice, then if Alice signs Bob's key, you know that Bob's key is valid. However, unless you also personal
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by a3_nm 10y ago
There's also "chronic" in Moreutils https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ which seems to serve a similar purpose.
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by a3_nm 10y ago
I cannot interact with WhatsApp users without registering an account with WhatsApp and running proprietary code published by WhatsApp. Compare with email, where I can email friends at whatever provider without registering with them or havin
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by a3_nm 10y ago
It depends on the subcommunity. I have seen LaTeX essentially everywhere in CS, but I recall some exceptions. I'm not sure where, but I think it was applied stuff, probably close to some application domain (e.g., bioinformatics).
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by a3_nm 10y ago
I think that OpenStreetMap has a bit more information that Google Maps at the same zoom level. To compare on New York: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=9/40.5263/-73.8556 https://www.google.fr/ma
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by a3_nm 10y ago
It depends on the venue. In computer science, it is often possible, but there are often weird restrictions: embargo delay, only the preprint, must include a link to the publisher version, only on a personal webpage or on certain kinds of re
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Low-background steel(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by a3_nm 11y ago|0 comments
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by a3_nm 11y ago
For mutt users, a great new feature in this release (technically, in mutt 1.5.24) is crypt_opportunistic_encrypt, which allows you to encrypt your messages with GPG automatically whenever the recipients also support GPG. See the manual htt
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by a3_nm 11y ago
Note that this appears to be unusable without the Flash plugin.
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by a3_nm 11y ago
Contrary to what the parent comment suggested, there's no problem with using OSM data for a proprietary service, but the home page says "An open platform", which I think is very misleading. Your platform is built on open data
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by a3_nm 11y ago
The French term for this is "onde verte" ("green wave"), and from memory it is/was mentioned somewhere in the French traffic code. Here is a reference (in French) https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/C
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by a3_nm 11y ago
It would be better if this were more clearly visible, especially to non-US IPs. I don't want to create an account to discover that the service only works in one specific country and with a specific list of banks.

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