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by breischl 10y ago
Of course you'd need two beams. If you used a single beam it would be a stellar rocket... which might be fun in different ways. Certainly gives the phrase "interstellar warfare" a different meaning. I realize this is all spac
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by breischl 10y ago
Well, if you emitted it all in a beam away from the plane of your galaxy, that might make you very stealthy. That would impart thrust on the sphere... which if it wasn't perfectly balanced might cause it to wobble, and then start rotat
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by breischl 11y ago
Could be they found it but just never changed it. Maybe they thought it was amusing, or just didn't want to deal with it in code review.
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by breischl 11y ago
Pretty impressed that it got this one, given how the faucet breaks up the outline. http://puu.sh/ohauF/435af67ac1.jpg
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by breischl 11y ago
In theory that makes sense. But in practice it's hard hunting down the actual effects of something this big. Also, you might not be so happy with the results of helping those who were impacted. Some of the easiest to find of those who
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by breischl 11y ago
Yes, but what about when the alcoholic's wife and adorable child show up on the news because they're starving and don't have heat? Or when someone's grandma gets scammed and ends up living on the street? Most people are
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by breischl 11y ago
AIG wasn't a bank but it was insuring a lot of the bank's assets, including securitized mortgages. By taking that risk off the banks' balance sheets, they let the banks take on more risk than they otherwise could have. So may
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by breischl 11y ago
You seem to be assuming that it's entirely flooded. Seems probable that there are areas that are partially flooded, entirely flooded, or flooded and filled with wreckage. ie, an open water ROV may not be at all appropriate. Certainly i
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by breischl 11y ago
>>I hope we won't infer types this way for method parameters No, it doesn't. From TFA: "This treatment would be restricted to local variables with initializers, indexes in the enhanced for-loop, and locals declared in a
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by breischl 11y ago
>>Even better: they are getting basically real world loadtested for free and finding loads of pain points, which may hit paying customers. I think their point is that it's using the system in a way that isn't intended or des
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by breischl 11y ago
Seems to me they pretty much all suck. Talia Jane had some points, but was also whiny and defeatist. Stoppelman and Yelp seem to have pretty much failed at HR and possibly business in general. Jensen (author of this article) seems mostly in
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by breischl 11y ago
Consensus seems to be the best available alternative, but it still doesn't seem to be very good in many cases. As the article pointed out it is not difficult to manufacture enough bullshit that it looks like a "competing consensus
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by breischl 11y ago
>>the undue weight that non-scientists place on expert opinion Speaking as a non-scientist, I can recognize an appeal to authority probably just as well as a scientist. But having recognized one, what do I do? I lack the training, kno
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by breischl 11y ago
Arguably that's one of the underlying themes of the entire article. In particular point #5 seems to address this, and especially the article's quote of Daniel Bell: Ideology makes it unnecessary for people to confront individu
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by breischl 11y ago
If you can backup the data ahead of time then it doesn't matter if the process is destructive. So couldn't they (in theory) dump the flash memory, then extract the key from the processor and use it to decrypt the memory? Obviously
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by breischl 11y ago
The article ignored the completely rational reason to pay off small debts first - increased liquidity. By paying off small debts first you can reduce the amount of money you have to come up with each month. If you have any uncertainty aroun
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by breischl 11y ago
>>I mean if we're going to use that definition, then the shirt itself was harassment. I'll just assume you meant "bullying" instead of "harassment" since that was the immediate topic. From my brief resear
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by breischl 11y ago
>> [mental health checks] will not significantly decrease gun violence because most gun violence is not committed by people with mental health problems. Rather, it is committed by people who feel they are morally right in committing t
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by breischl 11y ago
Yes, exactly. It's an article about the psychology of violence, not morality. It's point is that people who commit violence believe themselves to be moral. ie, they are acting in accordance with whatever system of morality they ha
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by breischl 11y ago
>>Bullying implies violence. That is incorrect. Dictionary definition: "Persistent acts intended to make life unpleasant for another person." So if I followed you around HN for the rest of the week responding to all postings
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by breischl 11y ago
Nitpick: I think you actually meant to say "policy prescription du jour", meaning the current policy prescription. I normally would not nitpick that, but "de jure" has a different meaning, "According to law; by righ
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by breischl 11y ago
No, I don't. Real work goes into creating an artistic work, and it totally makes sense to prevent someone from immediately copying that work. Otherwise any song that became popular would immediately be copied by someone else and sold f
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by breischl 11y ago
If you're dealing with a larger property manager, they might. If you're dealing with a small-time landlord, it may be difficult for them to deal with the legal fees to get to that point. I'm guessing most would just eat the c
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by breischl 11y ago
Indeed, and that's good progress. But that's only one of their operating areas, and they've been ignoring those regulations for years already. IIRC there are other regulations they're not complying with, but I don't
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by breischl 11y ago
(max comment depth reached, replying to @jessriedel) There are taxi regulations that they're ignoring, such as access to disabled-friendly options. I suspect most of the drivers don't have the correct insurance either, so if you&#
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by breischl 11y ago
Legally you may be right, but it's still dishonest to enter into an agreement with the intention of immediately breaking it. It might come back to bite him, too. If any of those landlords report him to a monitoring service, he'll
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by breischl 11y ago
They don't have to store it in plain text, but they do need to store it with reversible encryption (as opposed to hashing) so that they can use it to login to the bank's website.
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by breischl 11y ago
From Quicken's security guide (emphasis added): When using Express Web connect to automate Web connect downloads from your financial institution's Web site, your user name and password are encrypted and, depending on your financ
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by breischl 11y ago
I think the Guardian article meant that they had subtracted debt from assets, but they stated it in a confusing way. The original report states: Once debts have been subtracted, a person needs only USD 3,210 to be among the wealthiest
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by breischl 11y ago
They wouldn't have touched it at that time anyway. The point of bailouts is to increase (or at least maintain) employment and the economy. Dismantling a sprawling industry which provides many jobs that are available without degrees or

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