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by bmm6o 8y ago
Right, they are talking about roughly the same discoveries but some include 2 more: https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/26999/did-we-d...
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by bmm6o 8y ago
It's not even that they aren't held consistently. Honestly, nobody (outside of philosophy papers) lists out their axioms and derives beliefs. They have beliefs and "reverse engineer" the supporting axioms, and don&#x27
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by bmm6o 8y ago
> It shows -- the quality of the answer is quite poor. Are we talking about the same question? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17731457/hide-show-conte... I'll admit that it's not always easy t
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by bmm6o 8y ago
It's worth emphasizing that for the first example, the answer was provided free of charge within an hour. I don't think I agree with any assessment in which this is not an unqualified success.
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by bmm6o 9y ago
Defining terms is important, but defining sets much less so. Arguments about "is X a Y?" often have little to no value in the abstract. There are exceptions, but these are when the definitions are the most precise and can be eva
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by bmm6o 9y ago
That assumes that there is something about "planets" that makes their discovery more important than the discovery of other orbiting bodies. If the IAU definition isn't fit for purpose, don't use it! That's literal
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by bmm6o 9y ago
> You ask why not just have a central database for it? Well, the answer is simply "why do you think there are so many directories already?" The field is littered with directories that aimed to be "The single master direct
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by bmm6o 9y ago
That's interesting. I know a bit about ECC in general, but not too much about what the current state of implementations is. Do you know what the codes in use are called?
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by bmm6o 9y ago
"This matched my intuition nicely!" His intuition was that it would be between 48 and 128, and he's patting himself on the back that his calculation resulted in a number between those? Those goalposts are super far apart!
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by bmm6o 9y ago
> good, they’ll look random again They might look random, but they contain the same amount of entropy as the original data and are longer. Also, the encoding is deterministic.
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by bmm6o 9y ago
There was a recent discussion about (not) sharing CSPRNG state with fork-ed processes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15759855
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by bmm6o 9y ago
I've heard that police reports often refer to all non-drivers as "pedestrians", even if they were riding a bike (which I learned after a neighbor was killed while riding a bike). I don't know if this is legalese or poli
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by bmm6o 9y ago
Yeah, on the one hand I'm not sad to see Clear Channel die and maybe we can get some local variety on the radio again (at least until someone executes that plan again). On the other, it's another instance of the capitalists destr
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by bmm6o 9y ago
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
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by bmm6o 9y ago
And as for "how deep the rabbit hole goes", well, I'm shocked - shocked! - that it's possible to find extreme views online.
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by bmm6o 9y ago
The Atlantic article was quite long and I read it in a good-faith effort to follow up on your citations, so you can drop the condescension. Elsewhere you concede that it's not the celebratory article you promised, so at least we agree
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by bmm6o 9y ago
> The End of Men ... What if modern, postindustrial society is simply better suited to women? TheCoelocanth already beat me to it, but this article doesn't do any celebrating about the "end of men". It's very sympath
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by bmm6o 9y ago
Citation needed. Also, you are being downvoted because you are making baseless claims and accusations; you are not being "silenced" or "censored".
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by bmm6o 9y ago
This is often expressed as "interface inheritance" vs "implementation inheritance".
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by bmm6o 9y ago
A few months ago, I couldn't watch TV on my TV because the TV-watching app kept crashing. It didn't even occur to me that this problem was possible in theory. I had to factory reset it.
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by bmm6o 9y ago
I believe microwave ovens operate this way, too. 40% power means 100% power 40% of the time.
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by bmm6o 9y ago
You can profit from it for up to 70 years after your death. The world will be ready by then.
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by bmm6o 9y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, but you seem to be using a different definition of untrusted than the rest of the thread. Your code may not be perfect, but you certainly don't suspect it's launching a timing attack against
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by bmm6o 9y ago
Not only are there an infinite number of primes, there are so many that the inverse series diverges. That is, Sum 1/p_i is infinite.
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by bmm6o 9y ago
For producing something of no intrinsic monetary value?
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by bmm6o 9y ago
Stack Overflow lets you change your name.
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by bmm6o 9y ago
You would hope, with its much higher market cap, that the volatility would be much lower than only half as much.
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by bmm6o 9y ago
The downside to this syntactic approach is that the implementation details are leaked in the signature.
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by bmm6o 9y ago
One of my common daydreams is designing entropy-generating setups like this. Just last week I went on a brewery tour (Bell's) and stared at the bottling plant for a while, admiring the chaos of the bottles bumping into each other as th
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by bmm6o 9y ago
I don't think the op had something else in mind. IME it's a strangely widespread misunderstanding that https encrypts just parts of the http request. I think it's because of the advice to not put sensitive data in urls. The r

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