bellaire

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by bellaire 16y ago
Actually, privileges are exceptions to the rule, and they each have their own justifications. The rule as stated is fine, and any privilege must be specifically justified on its own. Attorney-client privilege and psychiatric privilege exis
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by bellaire 16y ago
How about the first sentence from the press release: "It's official: The sun is a sphere."
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by bellaire 16y ago
Agreed, and as above, 42 is in the valid range for the 'D' part of an A.B.C.D ipv4 address. If the number were larger than 255, there would be no issue. How about 420? ... Okay, okay. 421 is prime.
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by bellaire 16y ago
Actually, Google denies that they do the same thing pretty emphatically. Basically, they claim that the same test in reverse would not work, because the data stream from their toolbar in a reversed test would not affect their algorithms in
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by bellaire 16y ago
Agreed. Now the kids who happen to spell correctly, use larger words and proper punctuation will be further isolated from everyone else. Hooray for reinforcing the status quo!
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by bellaire 16y ago
Did you mean Clarke again, and not Douglas Adams? You've quoted Clarke's third law.
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by bellaire 16y ago
These are the values originally used by Drake et. al. when they proposed the equation in 1961. Many were outright guesses. Nevertheless, 50 years later, we still don't have much better guesses, but this may change soon for proportion of
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by bellaire 16y ago
I'm thinking that's a good reason to contribute to some open source projects. Unless, of course, your employer prohibits you from doing so... in which case I has a sad for you. :(