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by bcoates 8y ago
This idea of "alignment" is absurd, countries have non-transitive border arrangements all the time. It might bring the always-questionable idea that the EU ever had a "single market" under scrutiny, but that's weird
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by bcoates 8y ago
Either venturbeat changed the title to be more accurate or uploader editorialized "include" to "require"
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by bcoates 8y ago
I think what they're describing is actually a glitch in the technical sense -- an untended output state caused by not being able to change all inputs exactly at the same time
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by bcoates 8y ago
Is the point of this just to reduce visible jank, or to obsolete shadow-dom implementations by replacing them with lock->modify->unlock?
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by bcoates 8y ago
Your zalgo convinced my chrome that half the sentences on this page needed translated from English to Vietnamese. Impressive.
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by bcoates 8y ago
Some of the less reputable and saltier ad networks intermittently run a malware service that does a DoS on clients running blockers. 'uBlock Origin Extra' is a standalone tool by the same guy that works for me against it.
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by bcoates 8y ago
Is there any reason to think that narrowband blue is worse than broadband blue? It makes for poor CRI when used as a light source but if the display blue is near the peak sensitivity frequency for blue it should result in slightly less tota
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by bcoates 8y ago
In a country with nationalized agriculture. With a socialist government for the last 19 years. Did Chavez and Maduro forget to redistribute all the wheat and dairy when doing their land reform? Where exactly are these kulaks getting their b
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by bcoates 8y ago
You don't need vast conspiracy of hoarders, wreckers, saboteurs and kulaks to explain John Oliver not caring about getting facts right (on any subject).
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by bcoates 8y ago
Heroically buried lede 80% of the way down: The East Cut name originated from a neighborhood nonprofit group in San Francisco that residents voted to create in 2015 to clean and secure the area. The nonprofit paid $68,000 to a “brand exper
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by bcoates 8y ago
It's a SCADA system coordinating thousands of centrifuges, if it's not networked you may as well turn it off!
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by bcoates 8y ago
At the API and system service levels the reason for all that goofy cruft is that businesses still use it, a lot, and are willing to pay fairly big bucks if and only if they get to keep it. Adding Linux features is just more cruft added to t
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by bcoates 8y ago
If this worries you go ahead and disable WebGL too.
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by bcoates 8y ago
His 28.6 year trip to Andromeda has the ship being accelerated at about 12000g, ouch. You don't get to Lorentz down g-forces inside your own reference frame, do you?
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by bcoates 8y ago
And not all historical non-paternity is due to marital infidelity -- it was very common for unwed young parents to have their children raised by their parents as a younger sibling. A couple raising their daughter's son as their own is
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by bcoates 8y ago
It's hard bordering on impossible to make a single test that measures most of the college-bound high school graduate population and can also make non-arbitrary distinctions among top-1% students. Lopping off the top of the distribution
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by bcoates 8y ago
For the US it's the accent located in the population center of the country, of course. A little south of Kansas city on the Missouri side of the river.
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by bcoates 8y ago
I don't think that helps unless I don't back up the user's key too.
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by bcoates 8y ago
No but I've spent a good amount of time doing vaguely sound-engineering work where I listen carefully to audio samples. I may have overtrained some pattern-recognition wetware along the way.
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by bcoates 8y ago
Possibly not lab-grade white noise, just broadband audio noise in general: fans, moving water, RF static, voice codec comfort noise turned up too loud, that sort of thing.
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by bcoates 8y ago
Sneering about $500-$1000/month and talking about being able to afford a medical emergency[1] tips the author's hand: He's not worried about the actual poor, he's worried about the losers, mid-income aspirational types t
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by bcoates 8y ago
I get pareidolia from white noise. Not a lot, but enough that the 'sounds' are more distracting than mundane background sounds like TV or music that I can tune out easily.
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by bcoates 8y ago
The indictment doesn't assert an APT, just plain-old spearphish, steal password, install backdoor. If this was the GRU they didn't need their top men. 100% consistent with the "it could have been anybody, and probably multipl
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by bcoates 8y ago
I'm going to guess it's the usual reminder that statements in indictments are a description of the story the prosecutor plans to tell, not what they can actually prove. They are allowed to leave out anything that isn't consis
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by bcoates 8y ago
AC isn't that energy expensive. People just think of it as a 'luxury' and assume it must use more power, or they're used to how car ACs destroy gas mileage (but running any electrical appliance off a car engine is very
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by bcoates 8y ago
So are you always simulating someone who knows nothing about anything but still thinks something should be done about it, or just in this post?
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by bcoates 8y ago
How do you think HN logins work? Cookies are the basis of session management. If you don't want to store cookies for Google, don't. It's a feature right there in your browser. There are lots of shady tracking systems in the w
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by bcoates 8y ago
Yeah, I feel like every headline is missing a ", Sharon!" at the end.
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by bcoates 8y ago
The entire point of weapons is that they give you significant influence over other people's choices.
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by bcoates 8y ago
That's misleading to the point of dishonesty. It wasn't just some bad batch. Factor VIII concentrate required large amounts of human blood plasma to produce, had no real substitute, and was inherently going to be infected once the

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