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by advisedwang 14y ago
Health insurance covering male maternity care is a complete no-op. It adds no benefit, but it never costs health care companies either. So it shouldn't cause a premium rate rise so is a bit irrelevant. I get the feeling it was cited as an
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by advisedwang 14y ago
Such an executive order would probably lie outside the power of the President. The US Constitution does not give the President power do declare whatever he likes and for it to be law. Executive orders only allow the president to exercise po
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by advisedwang 14y ago
Works for me on FF 10. I run with NoScript and it even produced meaningful output with javascript off (although much nicer with javascript).
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by advisedwang 14y ago
Be careful, they aren't kidding when they say "Nitpicker". Many of the mistakes covered (for example while/whereas) are extremely common and are acceptable in all but the most stringent circumstances.
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by advisedwang 14y ago
It sounds quite noisy inside from the video
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by advisedwang 14y ago
(IANAL, most familiar with UK rules) Generally a author has copyright over their works without having to explicitly says so. Saying "Copyright (c) YYYY AUTHOR NAME" is just a way of asserting it to remove potential confusion or ambiguity. W
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by advisedwang 14y ago
UK post codes are two part, something like A1 1AA. A1 identifies a geographic area, 1AA identifies a set of postal address in that area (its designed so each post code gets roughly the same amount of mail, so big organisations have an addre
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by advisedwang 14y ago
the login link, which is probably not served from cache is VERY slow for me, so that's probably your answer.
1929.
by advisedwang 14y ago
Confirmed for my santander account. I have not got a credit card, but the NewUniversalCookie cookie does contain my passcode (in all caps, just discovered it is case insensative!). The data is not just one base64 chunk, but multiple space
1930.
by advisedwang 14y ago
Literate programming tools like CWEB often have a tool (in CWEB called CTANGLE) that extracts just the machine-readable code. Perhaps there is some tool you can use to decomment this code (maybe even just grep :D)
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by advisedwang 14y ago
There are a few factors: * Massive includes. Every compilation unit ends up including many header files. Most of these header files include more header files, often ones already included. If a header file has previously been included, it
1932.
by advisedwang 14y ago
This may sound obvious, but it depends on how good you are. I graduated in Physics last summer, and am doing very well in a programming job. However many of my old colleagues, especially those who only learned to program during their degr
1933.
by advisedwang 15y ago
This is ridiculous. I frequently have 6+ pockets when I leave the apartment, and there is no possible use-case for an android in every one.
1934.
by advisedwang 15y ago
Another point to notice: we have new printing techniques! Smaller runs can be more cost effective with new digital printing that has less one-off cost. The author neglects one factor which is especially salient given the above - if a publi
1935.
by advisedwang 15y ago
On the topic of polygot programs, fear this beauty in COBOL, Pascal, Fortran, C, PostScript, sh, Perl 5 and even x86 MACHINE CODE (not assembly): http://ideology.com.au/polyglot/polyglot.txt
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by advisedwang 15y ago
It's not just a technical problem though. Hanging out in Hacker News gives a very specific set of view points... Even when we buy newspapers we tend to buy ones that align with our point of view.
1937.
Is bitcoin backed?
3 points by advisedwang 15y ago|3 comments
1938.
by advisedwang 15y ago
The blog post tells us a release has occurred, who wrote it, who the FSF is, what the relationship between Witch and Free Call is. However I can't for the life of me figure out what GNU SIP Witch is.
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by advisedwang 16y ago
Small point - The map makes the UK and Madagascar look about the same size; Wikipedia reveals Madagascar is about twice the size of the UK. I suspect somebody did not use an appropriate map projection.