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by beojan 10y ago
You can compile the code yourself, then you would know the binary matches the source. Of course, you have to trust your compiler and OS, but with a service you would have to trust their compiler and OS.
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by beojan 10y ago
If that were the case, it would likely also have been driving on the wrong side of the road.
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by beojan 10y ago
It's driverless . Why does it matter which side the backup driver is sitting on?
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by beojan 10y ago
Windows did that, and look at the mess that got them into. Eventually they had to introduce UAC, essentially a simplified Unix-style permissions system.
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by beojan 10y ago
There's gravity and a rock on Earth too. Just going up into orbit, then landing back on Earth, is a much better way of testing a Mars landing.
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by beojan 10y ago
They did say "no evidence of a link" in the title and abstract, though the conclusion at the end of the abstract unfortunately says the study strongly suggests there is no link. Given the quoted odds ratios are > 1, this is a
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by beojan 10y ago
MS Access hasn't gone anywhere, why not use it?
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by beojan 10y ago
The real question is "why JavaScript rather than Python?" The only reason JavaScript is so popular is that it runs in the browser. JavaScript is otherwise a pretty poor language, and certainly much harder to learn than Python.
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by beojan 10y ago
Amazon is definitely using Widevine.
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by beojan 10y ago
I have a feeling this is a bug rather than a deliberate choice, given Google are trying to encourage use of HTML5.
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by beojan 10y ago
Britain had a similar pace of progress in the Victorian era (to present day China), and we still had property rights then.
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by beojan 10y ago
No, a UBI is supposed to give people a way to live in a world where the basic assumption that labour (something everyone can contribute) is no longer necessary. What would remain necessary is capital, and a lump sum would give everyone a me
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by beojan 10y ago
A lifetime. The idea is that they will invest the money, and the interest / gains will provide the income. Using a safe withdrawal rate of 4%, this would be the equivalent of 25 years of UBI. Our economy functions on the basic idea tha
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by beojan 10y ago
Now that seems to be a real ridesharing platform, unlike Uber or Lyft which are just cab services in disguise.
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by beojan 10y ago
The top ranked institution ends up costing the student significantly less money, and the name also carries some weight.
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by beojan 10y ago
The idiosyncrasies in Qt etc. are because they were first designed when C++ was very young, and many compilers had poor support for the STL.
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by beojan 10y ago
He was referring to the fact that Antarctica isn't connected to any other continent either.
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by beojan 10y ago
Where this becomes very useful is 3D 360° video. 120 FPS allows two 60FPS streams, while transmitting the entire 360° at 10K allows reasonable resolution for the portion the user is actually looking at.
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by beojan 10y ago
This poses the question: instead of paying out a monthly UBI, why not give every citizen the equivalent lump sum up front? They can then decide how to invest that money themselves.
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by beojan 10y ago
That may be because the HDMI to VGA adapter either doesn't work in general (there are so many cheap adapters on Amazon, and HDMI to VGA requires active circuitry, that I'd expect some of them to be fakes) or its pulling too much p
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by beojan 10y ago
This isn't hyper-concentration of wealth. The funds consist of the wealth of thousands or even millions of individuals.
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by beojan 10y ago
This is how you end up still running fixed-format Fortran code in 2016. If your software is being actively maintained, it's time to move to Python 3.
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by beojan 10y ago
So how is this different to simply asking people for help?
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by beojan 10y ago
ReactOS isn't particularly friendly to Windows users. You would be better off with something like LXDE.
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by beojan 10y ago
You've never changed the configuration of a service?
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by beojan 10y ago
> 49.2 kWh vs 54.5 kWh That would be quite the battery. Really, it's 49.2 Wh and 54.5 Wh, not kWh.
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by beojan 10y ago
C++ tries to put features in the standard library instead of the core language whenever possible. The downside is they can't add new syntax.
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by beojan 10y ago
A lot of people remap Caps lock to ctrl, you may want to try this.
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by beojan 10y ago
I would agree, except substitute Plasma for Gnome 3.
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by beojan 10y ago
As far as I am aware, letting it discharge is only for calibration purposes (to ensure the battery gauge reads correctly). I've been using my laptop battery for about three years with exactly this pattern, and what once lasted ~4 hours

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