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721.
by bcoates 13y ago
Can't you always mechanically convert an iteration into a fold like that?
722.
by bcoates 13y ago
Nations: they haven't killed everyone
723.
by bcoates 13y ago
You could handle it same way they handle people claiming that the radar gun is wrong or that the parking meter shorted someone on time: the instrument is calibrated so the burden is on you to prove it is defective.
724.
by bcoates 13y ago
Car dealer protectionism has nothing to do with the US Congress. Citizens United doesn't make it easier to bribe politicians, the entire point of PACs running ads is to lobby voters directly instead of the traditional method of bribing
725.
by bcoates 13y ago
That's fault tolerance.
726.
by bcoates 13y ago
Are there serious descriptions of these good-old-days software methodologies that the kids these days with their agile and their hippety-hop are corrupting? The story I've always been told is that 'Waterfall' is a pejorative
727.
by bcoates 13y ago
Remember that there is no such thing as 'the media industry'. The Internet killed the music industry because the music industry was literally in the disc-and-tape business. They were all about distribution, only doing production a
728.
by bcoates 13y ago
I'm just impressed that the designer actually made the product and put it out on the world. So many of these design-art products are never actually made, which to me is ignoring the entire 'craft' side of the profession--the
729.
by bcoates 13y ago
If I understand the PEP right, this explanation is missing the part where it's only useful to extend abstract classes; python classes are open so you can just add a method to a concrete class to get single-dispatch if that's all y
730.
by bcoates 13y ago
I've seen hundreds of pointless protests in front of the Federal building in LA (where policymakers generally do not hang out) and one reasonable one, where the protesters out front had signs praising snowden and encouraging the worker
731.
by bcoates 13y ago
Do we actually know anything about social structures in prehistory or is it just an assumption that people behaved like modern-day isolated tribes?
732.
by bcoates 13y ago
This article takes some pretty big liberties with the present to make Marx look more prescient than he was. The idea that people are being forced out of inherently fulfilling object-manufacturing jobs into inherently unsatisfying service jo
733.
by bcoates 13y ago
Bullock's leg was entangled with the parachute cords, and holding on to Clooney's tether with one hand. The Bullock-Clooney system was inertially travelling away from the ISS, to which one end of the parachute lines was anchored.
734.
by bcoates 13y ago
Lottery winners should be but they aren't, here's a pretty good article: http://bucks.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/03/a-financial-plan-f...
735.
by bcoates 13y ago
The claim that he'd have to publicly go onto MtGox to get funds out of his Bitcoin supply is absurd as well. If you're going to move a few million dollars, you can afford to do it right as a private sale using agents who won'
736.
by bcoates 13y ago
Is there any auditing technique that could realistically find out, after the fact, how often this long-outstanding bug has been exploited over the years it has been in place, like collecting a sample of presented certificates? If we can&#x2
737.
by bcoates 13y ago
I don't know how exhaustive the database is, but it looks like it just phones home to MS: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-Secrets-the-Built-i... (second screenshot). Might do the same "bloom filter p
738.
by bcoates 13y ago
Turn the appeal to fear that causes extortion to work back on itself: Make paying extortionists cause the payer to be an accessory. Allow future victims of the same extortionist to collect joint-and-several civil damages from the collaborat
739.
by bcoates 13y ago
It looks like Windows 8.1 is whitelisting PuTTY by hash or signature: nothing to see here. Repro steps (Windows 8.1, desktop IE 11 or Chrome 33): 1. Download putty.exe from any shady source 2. PuTTY runs without prompting 3. go to mega.co.n
740.
by bcoates 13y ago
If your school had invested in compatible projectors, he could have just installed the plugin: http://www.negativland.com/archives/015squant/plugin.html
741.
by bcoates 13y ago
`Fraud` seems like exaggeration to the point of falsehood here. I'm not in the retail business but I was under the impression that there was nothing improper about restocking and reselling non-defective returned-as-new goods. For anyth
742.
by bcoates 13y ago
It's not like they're sending people sentenced to 40 years hard labor for robbing a bank to community service at the recycling center. They're probably mixing with people who got first-offense drunk driving or disturbing the
743.
by bcoates 13y ago
Free energy buys us a century or more of energy growth. Nobody has any idea what anyone would use that much per capita energy for -- how much A/C, food and transportation are you capable of consuming?
744.
by bcoates 13y ago
Doesn't every H-bomb have substantial positive fuel yield?
745.
by bcoates 13y ago
I'm trying to imagine a use case for grapheme-wise truncate that wouldn't be better served by counting bytes, code points, pixels, or some sort of localized letter-counting convention.
746.
by bcoates 13y ago
Perhaps Facebook's Algorithm was less an even-handed garbage site detector and more a direct penalty to upworthy domains.
747.
by bcoates 13y ago
Have you seen other lyrics sites? They're tripod-level garbage. Rap Genius:Lyrics Sites::Stack Overflow:Q&A sites
748.
by bcoates 13y ago
One of the things you can say in favor of the NYT is that they never bought into the TV news balance fad.
749.
by bcoates 13y ago
It's in the standard rotation of shovelware. You don't get it 100% of the time but I had a Flash update for Firefox try to install Chrome last week.
750.
by bcoates 13y ago
You're right, edited.

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