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by caf 5y ago
Presumably it's possible to code defensively against this sort of thing, by eg. running the entire operation twice and checking the result is the same before committing it to the published log?
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by caf 5y ago
It seems like "go viral, get acquired by Lego" would be a reasonable game plan.
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by caf 5y ago
That's exactly what I understood it to mean when I read it.
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by caf 5y ago
This sort of mRNA work isn’t immune-driven at all, in theory, and if you need your target cells to keep producing your desired protein, you’re going to have to keep telling them that by sending them more mRNA. Once a day? Once a week? Who
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by caf 5y ago
I wonder if Microsoft will leverage this for Excel.
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by caf 5y ago
The regulatory credit income is about what they're spending on R&D, so another way to look at it is "Tesla have GM and Fiat funding their R&D".
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by caf 5y ago
I don't know what other people found interesting, but personally I found it mildly interesting to see the reasoning about choice of financial vehicles to "short bitcoin" without actually literally short-selling bitcoin. The a
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by caf 5y ago
Somehow Charles M. Schulz managed to perfectly capture the feeling of following a pinterest link from a search result, half a century before pinterest existed.
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by caf 5y ago
I suggest the Lucy pattern (as in the football running gag from Peanuts).
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by caf 5y ago
Let's look at the "Bernie would spoil Biden" example. The idea is that the Republicans endorse only one candidate, Trump, and the Democrats endorse two: Bernie and Biden. In the non-tactical voting case, the second-last roun
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by caf 5y ago
In reality you have a choice. You can either rank all, or if you are lazier you can just select your favourite candidate and then your first choice candidate's preferences will be used instead. This is not true. In the elections for
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by caf 5y ago
The two jurisdictions in Australia that use Hare-Clark (Tasmania and the ACT) no longer have a political duopoly. MMP would probably work well in South Australia (where overall the electorate is fairly evenly split right-left, but many of t
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by caf 5y ago
The non-monotonicity tactical voting possibility is overblown: it only really works in the toy "which is the favourite pizza of these 30 students" examples. In real world elections, the conditions where it is even theoretically po
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by caf 5y ago
The whole Ricky Muir / preference-whispering / group-ticket-voting issue was related to the Senate which is a combination of both PR (proportional representation) and STV, a whole additional bucket of worms over the plain STV of s
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by caf 5y ago
Actual results from the last Australian Federal Election showing how the count proceeded in each electorate/division: https://results.aec.gov.au/24310/Website/Downloads/HouseDopB... (The count continues
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by caf 5y ago
I think "I think it would be better to ask "What is causing the inflammation?" reads as if it is referring to the diagnostic process. At any rate, I believe we need to be researching both anti-inflammatory treatments and
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by caf 5y ago
Well, that is the implication I took away from your comment - I've re-read it, and I'm still getting that from the part where you talk about short-term gains and long-term costs. Maybe it's just my different life experiences,
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by caf 5y ago
This take ignores the fact that frequently the underlying condition is known, it just doesn't have any cure known to science. You've already been given the example of rheumatoid arthritis - another one is Crohn's, where &qu
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by caf 5y ago
The article says the looping versions also had the bug.
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by caf 5y ago
Consumers in this context doesn't literally mean consumers, it means advocates working in the interest of consumers. Advocates who would do things like insist that the cryptography be looked at by independent experts.
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by caf 5y ago
I'm 99.9999% confident... That's a lot of nines. It means if you were doing 5 of these tasks a day, for 250 working days a year, you'd expect only a 50% chance of finding a task too curly to do easily in the first 550 years
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by caf 5y ago
Working as a plumber, an electrician, or a carpenter can be quite lucrative, and they are certainly things that society needs. I hear this kind of thing, but I have to say it is less than convincing when most of the people saying it don&#
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by caf 5y ago
Merging two networks is problematic. The same nicks and channels are owned by different people on either side; in this case the server software is distinct as well with different features supported.
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by caf 5y ago
I'm sure the FBI is keen to come up with a suitable product offering.
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by caf 5y ago
This story is wild. The AFP and FBI apparently hatched up this encrypted chat app between them, then seeded it into the criminal world through undercover agents passing it on to a known drug trafficker. Three years later it's ended up
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by caf 5y ago
That's far from a settled position in Taiwan itself, though.
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by caf 5y ago
news.com.au is the umbrella for Murdoch's Australian print media.
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by caf 5y ago
Sumerian Seinfeld.
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by caf 5y ago
Out of curiosity I've done code searches on identifying substrings and found code from my stackoverflow answers all over the place, though of course the hits tend to be in that long tail of seldom used code out there. Pretty sure my m
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by caf 5y ago
I've looked at the 'people reached' metric and wondered: does this mean that, objectively speaking, the greatest impact I'll have on the world will turn out to have been a few stackoverflow answers?

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