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by brassic 10y ago
You wouldn't expect the lease on your apartment to terminate if you used a credit card for payment and it expired. Similarly, the lifespan of most other recurring contracts is independent of the lifespan of your credit card. The reali
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by brassic 10y ago
Haskell is also more than 20 years old.
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by brassic 10y ago
The problem faced by the original poster is that the corner store didn't have the soda available, cold and ready, but the spiv outside did. The corner store lost nothing.
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by brassic 10y ago
This is not really about encryption or terrorism. In England and Wales teaching someone a skill is not normally illegal, but teaching someone a skill for the purpose of committing a criminal offence may well be aiding and abetting. Terroris
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by brassic 10y ago
I think your latter point is closer to the truth. A similar example: in the UK about 20% of girls and 40% of boys study physics at A-level (the final school exam before university). Every year everybody seems surprised that the girls outpe
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by brassic 10y ago
s/authorised/unauthorised/
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by brassic 10y ago
It's not that simple. A UK contractor was prosecuted many years ago for putting a time bomb in software he wrote and was never paid for. It remained his software but it was running on their computer. When it ceased to function that wa
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by brassic 10y ago
He is missing 55 cents because WB21 appear to be miscalculating the fee. They add 1% to the transfer amount ($5500) to get a total ($5555), and then take 1% from that ($55.55) as their fee. In other words, their fee is really 1.01%. If th
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by brassic 10y ago
This happened in the last general election in the UK. Someone drew a penis next to the conservative candidate's name on the ballot paper and it was counted as a vote. http://www.itv.com/news/wales/update&#x2F
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The Terrifying JFK Airport Shooting That Wasn’t(nymag.com)
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by brassic 10y ago
Acorn also did Forth and Lisp, though the Lisp was interpreted.
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by brassic 10y ago
Most colour printers never print in just black and white. They always need a bit of yellow: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10...
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by brassic 10y ago
Hard water has calcium and soft water doesn't. My city gets naturally soft water and we don't get scale. But we do get added fluoride.
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by brassic 10y ago
Or if you show a reckless disregard for the truth.
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by brassic 10y ago
Pretty much all packaged grated cheese has added cellulose to stop the flakes sticking back together. If you want 100% Parmesan (or even 100% cheese!) you need to buy a block.
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by brassic 10y ago
Here in the UK there are exceptions written into the law. For example, here's the speed limit exception [0]. If the government want to give the police new powers contrary to existing laws they will pass a bill making amendments to th
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by brassic 10y ago
If your specialist is generating $X additional revenue per year then the company will be paying him more like $X/3. Many specialists will realise that working for one's self or in partnership with a small group of other specialist
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by brassic 10y ago
Like this? http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/nature/2016/03/could-chi...
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by brassic 10y ago
Vanilla Windows 7 doesn't support 4K sectors either. I discovered this when I unthinkingly replaced my laptop's failing disk with a 4K disk. Windows 7 installed itself from the recovery DVD, but would blue screen on the first reb
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by brassic 10y ago
There's not much smoke even. The red button channels are normal channels at 600 and 601. If the red button is broken you can switch to them directly. And switching directly is usually quicker than navigating the red button nonsense.
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by brassic 10y ago
Here in the UK you can ask for a replacement ballot paper if you make a mistake. So you vote for candidate A, photograph it, swap it for a replacement ballot, vote for B, photograph it, etc. and get paid by all the candidates. Except the ca
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by brassic 10y ago
There is a middle ground between tuning an algorithm to the exact memory hierarchy of the system it is running on and ignoring the problem altogether: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache-oblivious
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by brassic 10y ago
It isn't. The body element has its opacity set to zero so you can't see anything. I guess there's some Javascript or CSS or something intended to animate it, but if that fails to load you get an empty screen.
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by brassic 10y ago
I had to scrape the comments out of a blog. As you might expect, there was a div for comments, with comments nested within it. This made it easy to grab the comments using an HTML parser with xpath support. Unfortunately, the blog softwar
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by brassic 10y ago
I pay $15/year for a VPS at ramnode.
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by brassic 10y ago
"Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Baghdad's Green Zone" is an excellent book on the same topic. What is most staggering (to a foreigner like me anyway) is how the appointment of American administrators in Iraq was e