bdonlan

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by bdonlan 15y ago
The solution is quite simple: Offer the private carriers the rights to carry ordinary mail, on the condition that they do the same kind of cross-subsidization. You don't necessarily need a monopoly, just regulation.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
#define free(x) Most tests still pass, but once the program's been running for a while you'll get a nice memory leak. Fails if your mortal enemy runs leak checks as part of their standard test suite or other QA, or has a high enou
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Wouldn't a downgrade be expected to result in an interest rate _increase_, due to higher risk?
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The security mechanism _is_ the human driver, for now - the only reason they're legally allowed to run these cars is because there's a human standing by to take over control at a moment's notice.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
With amazon, it's possible to have multiple accounts registered to the same email (with different passwords). You might have unsubscribed on one account, but not on another.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
That support is not a required part of the EFI spec. It's possible to emulate it anyway, but quite complex: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/4957.html
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Testing from within their own datacenters would be biased _very_ heavily toward their own service, don't you think? These tests are only meaningful if performed on an external ISP. Note also that if you do the test it says "US East (Virgini
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by bdonlan 15y ago
You can only get a visa waiver if you fall within the requirements of a tourist visa, plus additional restrictions. And visa waiver entry still requires that you fill out a customs form.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
You would declare the goods you're importing (which brings with it its own set of issues when importing high-value goods). That said, it's unclear when or if bitcoins would be 'imported'. And it's also unclear whether, for example, someone
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by bdonlan 15y ago
It might be because all of the games have been released on Windows and Mac before (many over steam), and so Windows/Mac users are more likely to already own a copy. Exclusive linux users, on the other hand, are less likely to have a copy of
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by bdonlan 15y ago
I already have three out of five of those games on steam, and I bet a lot of other people do too; they've been on sale enough times. It's also very early in the campaign; as I recall there were a number of 'high rollers' that donated very l
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Only if multiple people give the same response, though.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The process can be automated using pistons and a redstone repeater, as shown here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wLuEO6xOM4&feature=playe... This can produce cobblestone as fast as you can mine it, at a cost of three lava, three iro
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The printf utility works far better if you want detailed control of your output: printf "%s\n" -n
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by bdonlan 15y ago
/bin/echo on debian sid (x86): 13 .text 000028dc 08048b90 08048b90 00000b90 2 4 CONTENTS, ALLOC, LOAD, READONLY, CODE /bin/cat on debian sid (x86): 13 .text 0000775c 080491b0 080491b0 000011b0 2 4
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by bdonlan 15y ago
V6's assembly version also does less. The reason GNU's is so complex is because it has a line-numbering feature (cat -n) not supported in V6 or V7, and also tries to read and write large chunks, to avoid overhead from calling stdio function
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by bdonlan 15y ago
There's nothing wrong with using DHE algorithms, particularly if you're going to be transferring financial secrets around. If your phone can't keep up, well, then it probably should have a better entropy generator.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
> I would imagine that Dropbox pays some sort of bulk price, but I can't find any information. Storage pricing is right there on the S3 pricing page: http://aws.amazon.com/s3/#pricing Assuming they're at the highest tiers, we're looki
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Yes, the non-dense one is even worse :)
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by bdonlan 15y ago
There's a lot more white space in the new design - enough vertical space is lost for about seven conversation entries. Not sure I like this change for that reason...
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The other reason they split up the baseband and the main CPU is for regulatory reasons - the baseband is the only part talking to the radio, so it's the only part which needs to be thoroughly tested for regulatory compliance. This then lets
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by bdonlan 15y ago
You did the work by moving the magnets away from each other. This converts some of the kinetic energy you created by moving them into potential energy. As you moved the magnets back closer to each other, some of this potential energy conver
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by bdonlan 15y ago
This isn't a search feature; it's a browser feature. There's no real way for them to implement this in a cross-browser way; they could load a hidden iframe for the first result, but it looks like they're actually rendering it in the backgro
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by bdonlan 15y ago
For small files (less than a few dozen kb or so), it's important to keep in mind the per-request cost as well - $0.01 per 10,000 GET requests.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
This is more a rule of thumb for the receiver; if you send a transaction (based on coins which are already well-confirmed), and don't try to send any conflicting transactions, then it shouldn't disappear as long as it gets one confirmation
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Indeed, the S3 prices cited include triple redundancy already.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
Google _invented_ it.
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by bdonlan 15y ago
There's also significant value in knowing when to re-index sites due to changing conditions. For example, if some new iSomething is announced, re-indexing apple.com as well as a number of popular Apple-related news sites would be very helpf
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by bdonlan 15y ago
The problem is that the OS isn't aware of it, so it can't take advantage of the space savings; and moreover _because_ the OS isn't aware of it, the OS might make poor assumptions about data integrity. If there was a way for the OS to a) dis
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by bdonlan 15y ago
This is just a list of all the _public_ google profiles, to make them easier to index.

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