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by amalcon 5y ago
So, I was trying to be charitable and assume you were simply being imprecise. I now believe you are intentionally lying, though I dont know why. "A vaccine is a biological preparation that provides active acquired immunity to a partic
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by amalcon 5y ago
Java has thread.stop(), which does a similar thing and is deprecated for similar reasons. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.h... I remember trying to use it once, in my
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by amalcon 5y ago
I'll be the one guy: Don't feel badly about your ability to enjoy an inexpensive bike. I've ridden both high-end and low-end bikes. The high-end bike is definitely a better experience over long distances. On the other han
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by amalcon 5y ago
So is everything else in software. Literally everything a computer can do is a form of math; it only seems like you're ever doing something not-math because we've made some very good abstractions over the math.
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by amalcon 5y ago
You said: > its the same for every other infectious disease without a vaccine. To which someone responded: > But we have a vaccine. To which you responded: > Not for omicron, or the next variant, or the one after that. That last s
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by amalcon 5y ago
We do have several vaccines for Omicron. They are the existing COVID vaccines. They aren't as effective as they were against prior variants, but they're still more effective than e.g. flu vaccines, which save many lives each yea
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by amalcon 5y ago
Somewhat offtopic trivia, but up until 2012 in the US, you were actually allowed to print a new copy of The Hobbit. Many publishers with no relationship to Tolkien or his estate have done this. Due to a quirk in international copyright
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by amalcon 5y ago
The article is specifically about sanitizing inputs to prevent XSS attacks. Sanitizing input isn't a great defense against that; you need a defense that better matches the attack. Validating or sanitizing input input is a reasonably g
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by amalcon 5y ago
I don't think either of those things is particularly difficult.
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by amalcon 5y ago
I'd think they can ban cryptocurrency about as effectively as they can ban foreign currency (which is to say, not very). If you're willing and able to break that particular law, it's not really an argument in favor of crypto
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by amalcon 5y ago
Why are examples useful? Is there an example of "This is the minimum that counts as positive"? What if I am unable to visually distinguish that example from a negative? If I am able to visually distinguish them, then what if th
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by amalcon 5y ago
Whether or not I feel I am impacted by a law has little to nothing to do with whether someone else will decide to sue or prosecute me based on it. Even if it's without merit, it's still an extreme hassle if that happens (and also
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by amalcon 5y ago
It's hard to overemphasize how weird the gamer threat model is compared to the average HN user's threat model. Another example: Peer to peer chat is considered less secure than something mediated by a server regardless of other
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by amalcon 5y ago
So, let's be clear here. The problem is not that they've prohibited people from putting this information in the app title. The problem comes if they've done so without introducing another way for the user to express their p
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by amalcon 5y ago
Probably he means to include other people who do share his opinions, and not those who don't? "We" doesn't mean "everyone", or even "everyone who reads this"; it means "some contextual set of pe
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by amalcon 5y ago
Maybe I've been using that terminology wrong; I'd meant something along the lines of "primarily residential annex of a city". I didn't mean to imply that it's a long distance or low density (in fact, I specifi
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by amalcon 5y ago
The particular project highlighted in the article isn't one of those, though. Somerville (one of the cities reached by the extension) has the highest population density in the state of Massachusetts, and I think it's something
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by amalcon 5y ago
I'm sort of hesitant to be "that guy", but I've seen this kind of thing be a bit of a trap before. The technique of simulating a stack on the heap is useful in some situations, but it's very misleading to call it a
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by amalcon 5y ago
Detatchable chairlifts have always amazed me. They're definitely one of the bigger quality-of-life improvements that alpine skiing has ever seen. Not only do they let you ski more, but they also help keep you warm (any skier will tel
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by amalcon 5y ago
It's not proven in a vacuum: it's proven under the assumption that it's true for N-1. E.g. if we assume that all groups of 2 horses are the same color, we can prove that all groups of 3 horses are by labelling them A, B, C.
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by amalcon 5y ago
Though incorrect, this is meant to be an example of proof by induction. Proof by induction is (to simplify a little) where you prove that any number N+1 will have a given property as long as N has that property. You can use this same rule
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by amalcon 5y ago
The usual suggestions are things like making a draw worth 1/3 of a win instead of 1/2, so that positions with more variance actually have higher EV for both players. Obviously this wouldn't work for a match like the current
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by amalcon 5y ago
Oh interesting, I didn't know that. Thanks!
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by amalcon 5y ago
I think there's a third, bigger reason: FIDE rating is based on classical time controls. Nobody uses classical time controls online for various reasons. Even rapid is a somewhat different skill set than classical. Of course these th
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by amalcon 5y ago
I think a large part of the problem is just that it's poorly integrated into the larger curricula[0]. By the time a typical student reaches geometry class, they have incorrectly learned that math consists of memorizing things, pattern
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by amalcon 5y ago
It's an exponential decay, so full-life is not really a coherent concept. Detectable (but unnoticeable) levels will persist for quite some time and undetectable levels will persist for a bit after that.
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by amalcon 5y ago
Is that a better or worse message than "You don't need to care what I think"? If you think it's significantly worse, then fine, we disagree on that premise. If you think it's equal or better, then not showing up s
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by amalcon 5y ago
The vote itself might not contain other information, but there are plenty of out-of-band ways to convey this information. The opinion you express when you call, write, answer a poll, or really any other public activity is stronger if it&#x
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by amalcon 5y ago
Because the available choices change their platforms in response to the voting public to some degree. By not voting, you send the message that they don't need to care what you want, since you don't vote. It's the same reaso
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by amalcon 5y ago
If it happens once in a century, by some fluke? Probably not. If it happens with any consistency (say, 20% of the time, favoring a particular side) over a long enough time period, the majority is going to become disillusioned for obvious

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