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by a3_nm 12y ago
> "when Stephen Fry succeeded in remembering the childhood trauma that prevented him from singing" Does anyone know what this is referring to? Searching for "stephen fry singing trauma" doesn't return anything us
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Exactly. Their list indicates "Secure", "Dubious" and "Non-secure" but I think "Non-secure against active attacks but secure against passive attacks", as self-signed HTTPS is, should be distinguished
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Great post, though I'm missing a definition of how do they mathematically define segregation. (Checking from the JS code, it seems to be an average over the shapes of the proportion of neighbor shapes which are like them.) Also, the ti
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Sadly, it seems as proprietary and centralized as Skype is.
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Because of that, also, DDG is aware about every search that you do, even with bangs. Even though they allegedly don't do bad things with this data, it is a bit sad that you would ask one centralized service to route queries to provider
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Not sure. However, Nineteen Eighty-Four does mention computer-generated low-quality novels as part of the universe.
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by a3_nm 12y ago
This is a bit worrying. If CAPTCHAs start becoming easier for "real" users (those who are logged in a Google account, run the Analytics JS, etc.) and harder for "suspicious" users (who block ads, who use Tor, etc.), it m
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Very interesting result, and it makes you feel really sorry that most of those old papers are behind paywalls. (Incidentally, this is a problem which is not going to get solved even if everyone switched to open-access venues today.) Just a
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by a3_nm 12y ago
It depends a lot where you go, and I'm not an expert in this either, but there are some libraries and bookshops in France which will advertise obscure books with a custom criticism handwritten by someone from the staff; or where you ca
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by a3_nm 12y ago
The 5.5% rate applies, beyond books, to a bunch of other things which are hardly first necessity: e.g., theater, cinema, the importation of works of art and antiques. http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do?idArti
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by a3_nm 12y ago
To give some more information about the French perspective here: - No source is given for the claim that "The French government has declared books an 'essential good.'", I have been unable to find any French source about
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by a3_nm 12y ago
My understanding of this answer is that the SMTP said it had accepted it, but the sender would have been notified afterwards that the message had not been delivered, had the return addresses correctly been set up. This seems OK to me; I wou
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Pretending to accept an email and then dropping just seems wrong. Is this something that reputable email providers do? (From my experience, I have never witnessed a situation where an email I had sent to someone had silently been ignored.)
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Certainly this is what will happen if everyone thinks the same way as you... (I have been my own SMTP server (hosted by OVH) for a few months now. I was blocked exactly once, by custom filtering from a small provider where the delivery stat
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by a3_nm 12y ago
I agree with the submission: I think there is potentially a problem of test edits, or unsourced edits, being reverted automatically or in an unpleasant manner, and that newcomers can easily be discouraged from contributing. I think part of
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by a3_nm 12y ago
> These rules cover most religions and most lifestyle diets; these do exclude wishy-washy bullshit. What about people who only want to eat free-range eggs (and not any products derived from eggs from caged hens?); or do not want to eat f
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by a3_nm 12y ago
I agree with the fact that it is problematic to say that prisons should accommodate any kind of voluntary diets (vegetarian, vegan, halal, kosher, etc.). I do not say this because prisons should "punish" inmates, but because it wo
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Hopefully this is not too obvious, but what is the advantage of ECC crypto compared to what GnuPG 2.0 is using?
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by a3_nm 12y ago
> every single site is behind a paywall Not every single site. Some people are fine serving their content for free: because they do it as a hobby, because they are financed by donations, ...
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by a3_nm 12y ago
> There is no moral imperative for me to view ads since I've paid to access the Interwebs I am not sure I agree with the implication, but I agree with the conclusion, for a different reason. If I send an HTTP request to a server, an
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by a3_nm 12y ago
On the other hand you can say that coding is a complex task, so having any kind of barrier between you and your code is important. It's like, say, editing in a window which is, say, 8 lines high. Sure, most of the time you are only loo
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Here is my experience with Dvorak and AZERTY (the French variant of QWERTY). I learnt AZERTY as a kid, then learnt a French dvorak layout, and then learnt the US dvorak layout, which I now use. I have totally forgotten the French dvorak, bu
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by a3_nm 12y ago
The foreword to _Amusing Ourselves to Death_ (which I haven't read otherwise) does a fair job of comparing _Brave New World_ and _Nineteen Eighty-Four_: What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that the
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Maybe the relevant section is left over from the previous license, which was CC-BY-NC ( http://blog.mapillary.com/update/2014/03/17/mapillary-goes-c... ). Alternatively, IANAL but I imagine that the indivi
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by a3_nm 12y ago
Note that Mapillary has some downsides. In addition to the CC-BY-SA license, the Mapillary T&C ( http://www.mapillary.com/terms.html 1.3) give them the specific right to reuse user content as they wish, without attributi
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by a3_nm 12y ago
In fact you can already get very good results, even without a dictionary, just with a distribution of the trigrams in your input languages (which is immediate to compute from a corpus). Just compute the distribution of the sample and return
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by a3_nm 12y ago
I think a good example of people who exploit bugs in people to get rich are con artists, and what they do is usually considered illegal. Sure, there are various reasons why what they do feels wrong, they may have to lie and misrepresent thi
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by a3_nm 12y ago
The article says "more than 200 security guards". Any clue about how this compare to the number of security guards working as contractors for Google? I'm curious about whether "Security Guards" in the title means &q
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by a3_nm 12y ago
> I was not allowed to say "I work for Google" Seriously? That's frankly ridiculous. Performing tasks for someone in exchange for payment seems to me like a reasonable use case for the verb "work", no matter whet
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by a3_nm 12y ago
What I said applies to French citizens, not foreigners. For foreigners the situation is less clear, in some cases you need to be able to show your passport and visa http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/F31208

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