antimagic

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by antimagic 11y ago
Personally I would get rid of either "Satirical" or "fake" in that case - one of them is redundant...
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by antimagic 11y ago
HN needs to keep the "Le" in Le Gorafi for the title - it's an anagram of Le Figaro - the most conservative of the mainstream newspapers here in France. Edit: For more information see here: http://www.huffingtonpo
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by antimagic 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law Tsk tsk, shame on you...
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by antimagic 11y ago
I kind of feel like saying "don't use landlines then dummy!" I mean it's a bit glib, but in all seriousness, why would you use landlines these days for telephone calls? Maybe it's different in the UK, but certainly
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by antimagic 11y ago
Firstly, this wasn't about one day, it was about one month. That already removes a lot of variability out of the data, particularly when you're talking about "global" temperature. Secondly, "hottest months on recor
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by antimagic 11y ago
It does make you wonder why the US has so many more "violent criminals" compared to other similar Western countries though...
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by antimagic 11y ago
Absolutely! With an electric bike, even the unfittest person can roll along at 25kph. And you don't even have to break a sweat if you don't want to!
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by antimagic 11y ago
Electronic systems introduce single-points-of-failure into the voting process - figure out a way to compromise the machines / vote collection process, and you can steal the election. Doing the same thing with a manual system requires
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by antimagic 11y ago
Hardly. Average speed for the Paris marathon is about 6mins/km or 10kph. And that's people fit enough to be able to actually run a marathon, most of whom have substantially trained for the event, so not the average joker off the
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by antimagic 11y ago
I do love me a good NOP ramp.
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by antimagic 11y ago
And who does the authorizing? Because if it isn't the Secretary of State, it's going to be the President, and he is not going to stick a dagger in Clinton's back at this point, not after her being a most loyal and effective
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by antimagic 11y ago
Oh no. Here's how an attack might go. I'm a shop assistant and show you a QR code to scan to make a purchase. Unknown to you, I'm not actually showing you the real app, but a fake app with fake QR code that will redirect y
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by antimagic 11y ago
Who in their right mind uses QR codes!?! As a human you have no idea where that thing is pointing, so why on earth would you trust it? At least with a URL I have half a chance of knowing if I'm about to be hit by a phishing attack.
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by antimagic 11y ago
Yup. It's not like those customers that are busy reverse engineering Oracle's code are doing it for the kicks. They have their own jobs to do. Much more likely, they are getting weird results out of Oracle's software that t
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by antimagic 11y ago
" There's no other place in the world where such a feat would be possible." Oh? Based on your extensive research into immigration outcomes for all of the countries in the world? I happen to know for a fact, that many very p
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by antimagic 11y ago
I'm thinking though that if you talk a fairly large area surrounding a circle, and then randomly selected two points within it. Draw a line between the two points. If the line intersects the circle, calculate the length the length of
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by antimagic 11y ago
Yup, thanks for the explanation - I missed that on first reading. It seems like an incredibly bad idea though - it makes me think of all of the subtle gotchas involved in using macros in C, where expansion can get very weird when you put a
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by antimagic 11y ago
OK, I give in - I can't for the life of me think of why this is interesting. I mean, it's the equivalent of passing a pointer to a value rather than the value itself in C, and is the bog standard techniques to use in this type of
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by antimagic 11y ago
Is engineering art or engineering...
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by antimagic 11y ago
Yeah, I have to wonder where people are coming from when they claim the LotR to be racist. Where do they feel that hobbits fit into the scheme of things - they don't seem to be good or evil, just people. And Ents? What do they make
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by antimagic 11y ago
Is your point that Google is behaving as badly as quite a few Three Letter Acronym government organisation? If it is, then yes I agree with you.
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by antimagic 11y ago
There's a Patrick Rothfuss character in the Kvothe series called the Cthaeh, which has the ability to be able to evaluate all of the future consequences of any action. The fae have to keep it imprisoned, and they kill anyone that come
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by antimagic 11y ago
Obviously the solution as proposed only allows for non-variadic functions to be curried (where 'non-variadic' means that the function needs to be called with a fixed number of arguments to work correctly, not that it can't be
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by antimagic 11y ago
As others have already said, the main difference is that the US has true political and social union to go with the financial union (if anyone is interested, this state of affairs came about during and in the aftermath of the American Civil
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by antimagic 11y ago
Um, wasn't that the whole point of the machine? It would strip away your self-deluding beliefs, and give you true perspective? In other words, no it isn't good enough to just think that the universe is created for you, the machi
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by antimagic 11y ago
I thought the reason he survived wasn't that he just had a huge ego, but because that universe really was just created for him. Or maybe I'm misremembering that part?
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by antimagic 11y ago
Is this some kind of affirmational statement, kind of a counter to "ceci n'est pas une pipe"????
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by antimagic 11y ago
ARC actually has some interesting advantages over smart pointers. For one, there is a large amount of static analysis done at compile time that allows the system to avoid unnecessary increment/decrements of the reference counter - thi
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by antimagic 11y ago
Yup, as soon as I saw the title I thought of Nightfall - probably my all-time favourite Asimov story :)
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by antimagic 11y ago
Or getting more modern, Swift playgrounds in the latest versions of XCode have a similar kind of feel to them.

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