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by ajnin 9y ago
The problem with that reasoning is that everybody has different needs and wants. If you take the intersection of the sets of features that are needed by all potential users, in an attempt to reach the least common denominator, you tend towa
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by ajnin 9y ago
Pure math does not pretend to be a theory explaining the natural world. String theory does, and that's why it must be subject to the standards that describe what is, and what is not, a scientific theory.
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by ajnin 9y ago
I'm not a physicist but after watching this I'm utterly unconvinced. Inconceivably large number of possible Universes cited as evidence because our own might well be in there somewhere ? A casual passing mention that there are not
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by ajnin 9y ago
> The Better Ads Methodology has not yet tested video ads that appear before (“pre-roll”) or during (“mid-roll”) video content Funny that they would have a special rule for this kind of ads, that's exactly what Youtube does ... (Exc
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by ajnin 9y ago
Well, first this is late 19th century Victorian England, it's a bit late to be offended about sexism in the society. But it's not necessarily a double standard, there can be more eroticism in a wet piece of clothing that tries to
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by ajnin 9y ago
> If your choices are : 1. Starve to death 2. Work in a sweatshop Then it's not a choice. Therefore there can be no consent, you are not made to work by force but by threat of starvation or homelessness, it is an oppressive situatio
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by ajnin 9y ago
I mostly agree with you. After 50 years untouched it should be up for grabs for anyone who cares. However as the article explains these old ships are one of the only sources of radioactivity-free steel (newer steel is contaminated by radion
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by ajnin 9y ago
NSAID: Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug
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by ajnin 9y ago
You multiplied instead of dividing somewhere, the result should be : dT = 5.616e+20 / 1.386e+21 / 4,184 = 9.684e-5, or about 1 ten thousandth of a Kelvin. So still insignificant.
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by ajnin 10y ago
It's not an easy problem, as the war being waged for many years now I think demonstrates. A too simple definition will have too many exceptions: a newspaper that includes an article from another reputable news site, ad? A paid piece ex
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by ajnin 10y ago
That definition would make sense only if there was a way to explicitly tell that you request ads or promoted content of some sort, most of the time you don't, you type a search query in Google's text box or click on a link to some
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by ajnin 10y ago
Very interesting article. I hadn't realized that Microsoft strategy of developing their market not by the merits of they product but by lock-in to use business programs (and also games and such) went back so far. Also it's great t
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by ajnin 10y ago
You're right that the budget is tighter, however the healthcare budget is separate from the main state budget, and you can't have a situation where for example you'd allocate less to health to pay for schools or army or somet
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by ajnin 10y ago
The particularity of prions is that when they come into contact with the normal form of the protein, they can change its conformation to create a new prion (that's how the disease spreads). In that light I think an "anti-prion&quo
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by ajnin 10y ago
No. Mirroring the parent would be : "All cats die. Socrates is immortal. Therefore Socrates is not a cat." Which is perfectly valid logic.
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by ajnin 10y ago
Good point, the only dubious feature is the "recover passwords" one, but others clearly black hat in nature like "recover steam file", "open meatspin", "SYN flood", "lock computer with password&q
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by ajnin 10y ago
This matrix seems very inconsistent, or at least you wouldn't want to rate someone based on simply counting the number of checkmarks in the higher columns. For example "Wrote his own macros in an IDE" rated the same as "
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by ajnin 10y ago
By choosing to group the data in male/female as you do and omitting the class variable, consciously or not, you can reach wrong conclusions about the interpretation of the data. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Si
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by ajnin 10y ago
They mention the issue is treated as a "medium priority" security issue, which means it should land in the next stable version according to their guidelines ( https://www.chromium.org/developers/severity-guidel
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by ajnin 10y ago
The letter is dated August 2nd, 1939.
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by ajnin 10y ago
It's amusing but a bit underwhelming, he's simply mapping a grid of pixels to segments, he's not taking the shape and orientation of the segments into account at all.
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by ajnin 10y ago
A flame graph does not feel like the best visualization for this kind of data. You can't really make anything of the top spikes and there is a lot of blank space that is wasted. I prefer tree maps as they make more efficient use of the
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by ajnin 10y ago
> And the worst thing that could happen with a 51% is a double-spend. Maybe I misunderstood something, but couldn't someone with 51% of the power rewrite a block at any point in time in the past, and change history ? Or even write
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by ajnin 10y ago
They are also paying less salaries, so depending on their margins they might be making more profit that way, which is the actual thing that counts and not output volume.
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by ajnin 10y ago
You have a small error, gamma is actually (1-v²/c²)^(-.5) , which translates to about 10ms for his 1-year stay in the ISS.
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by ajnin 10y ago
To those who were confused at first like me, there is a typo in the title of the article and it should read "from 50PB to 32PB"
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by ajnin 10y ago
> Generally the prices in France are kept low, because the tax payer pays for the expensive nuclear industry monopoly. And also because the decommissioning costs are not factored in at all. Currently EDF is pushing to extend the operatin
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by ajnin 10y ago
It's a case of bad UI rather than a dark pattern, if you click 'disagree' it always remembers the decision, the checkbox only affects the 'agree' button.
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by ajnin 10y ago
That might be a way to fight the cosmic rays : deflect them with strong magnetic fields generated by large superconductive coils.
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by ajnin 10y ago
AMD are already doing sneaky things with their driver autoupdate on Windows, they put the checkbox below the "upgrade" button, prechecked and with a large spacing so it is likely you don't see it immediately and click "u

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