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by cdumler 10y ago
In science, you never trust your own eyes. By using machines to do the observing we can see all kinds of things, such as X-rays and neutrinos. Those devices can pick up patterns of radiation are the hallmarks of matter/anti-matter co
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by cdumler 10y ago
Except that civil forfeiture is extremely profitable enterprise [1]. [1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/11/23/cops-...
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by cdumler 10y ago
I cannot recommend strongly enough using Docker for Mac. It provides any form of environment of which you can think, all while running at native performance. For now, we're just using it for development. Postgres on Mac has subtle d
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by cdumler 10y ago
India has a law that a seller must source at least 30% of a product from intra-India businesses in order to do business in India. In my opinion, this is a very intelligent law. It's goal is to induce industry in India and limit (preda
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by cdumler 10y ago
Glancing through it, it almost appears that it's almost copy and paste. It has so many tangents and subject splices, it is hard to follow. It appears to be arguing that the Planck constant is defined partially by mass, which has never
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by cdumler 10y ago
First of all, talk to a lawyer. One thing that is really overlooked about harassment is that it's not about a single event. Realize a few things: * She's saying that it's ok because in the real world most companies will prot
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by cdumler 10y ago
I think there are few ways to answer it. First, Satoshi solved a very significant intellectual problem: how to allow a group of people, who may have antagonistic members, to collude successfully. It is known as "The Byzantine Generals
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by cdumler 10y ago
In the universe, certainly. Look at this [1] and you'll find that helium is an exceedingly small percentage of the Earth. Helium has an amazing ability escape containers over time due to it's almost completely non-reactive state
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by cdumler 10y ago
cdumler, please. Thank you very much.
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by cdumler 10y ago
So, my first thought on any note taking product is: So, how do I know that my work won't be lost after getting a ton of stuff into it? I see nothing about backup, ie. iCloud or anything else. My second thought is: When this product di
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by cdumler 10y ago
Actually, the present value is the consideration of the future value of the return: PV = FV / (1+r)^n. Anyone who is bit mining now is willing to do it at discount on the assumption the coins will have greater value in the future. I&
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by cdumler 10y ago
It's called Civil Forfeiture. The money was arrested and charged with a crime. Since he's not a party the crime, unless he wants to admin being a party to it, he can't defend the cash. Since it can't defend itself, th
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by cdumler 10y ago
Google doesn't go in a direction, it goes in directions. Very large companies, especially companies like Google that have enormous computing needs, begin to worry about lots of things that us little guys don't directly worry abou
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by cdumler 11y ago
It's intentional. I've seen the code in the repository. There are several more Easter eggs in there, including: what is the loneliest number (show calculator) do a barrel roll askew anagram Search for them. :)
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by cdumler 11y ago
To answer your question directly: Both Arq and Time Machine create differential backups. Thus, any particular backup can be restored back in time. However, Arq targets non-file-based media (although you could trick it by a little SSH magi
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by cdumler 11y ago
In my opinion, a hit piece. >Thanks to efficiency gains made under the current set of engine regulations, Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes W07 Hybrid is more energy efficient than the average electric road car. It also only carries one per
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by cdumler 11y ago
There is a tension between making batteries that are safe and batteries powerful enough to support consumer's ever increasing expectations for more powerful machines. Battery makers have to weight making a battery more devoted to batt
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by cdumler 11y ago
In short: they instantly lose by acknowledging and gain anything potentially unknown by not acknowledging. They had no contract with the title owner of the house. But, it's not unheard of to find that there is a problem with the deed
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by cdumler 11y ago
People do no have names that break computers. Programmers believe they have certain structures when they don't then his or her code fails. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...
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by cdumler 11y ago
The answer is: it depends. I remember the lesson my Stats teacher: How many Martians do you have to measure to determine the average height of a Martian? What if I told you that all Martians are exactly 6 feet tall? The correct way to samp
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by cdumler 11y ago
I commented on Discus the site, as well. I've been a long time user of DEVONthink. It can be used for many purposes, including document organizer, email, GTD, tagging, etc. My favorite feature has always been the Magic Hat, which wi
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by cdumler 11y ago
This is a good time to remind people about proper backups: the 3-2-1 rule. 3 backups. 2 backups (or more) should be on different mediums. 1 (at least) should be offsite (ie. home copy at work or in the cloud) You need three backups. If we
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by cdumler 11y ago
https://xkcd.com/927/
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by cdumler 11y ago
Simple economics: If the taxes pulled from the purchase of cars is used to facility other sectors that generates growth and that growth is greater than the contraction due to the lower demand of EVs then the net effect is positive to the ec
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by cdumler 11y ago
This appears to be a product demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rd0mEAPT0Y
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by cdumler 11y ago
TL;DR: "Rumours have begun to circulate about the re-emergence of the iconic VW hippy-van.." "Dr. Heinz-Jakob Neusser spilled the beans at the recent New York Auto Show that Volkswagen is in fact working on producing an elect
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by cdumler 11y ago
I've moved away from Keep for one reason: Keep on Android downloads everything. One day I was trying to figure out where my space went and found Keep with hundreds of megabytes in space used. I was it was a true cloud service.
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by cdumler 11y ago
No, Erlang does not mean that anything you write will scale. Your solution has to be broken into parallelizable pieces. But, the scalability of your solution is only as good as the mechanisms within the language and runtime to efficiently
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by cdumler 12y ago
I am a man. I find it offensive, too. To everyone else: sure sex sells in plenty of areas of society. It doesn't need to be in technical training.
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by cdumler 13y ago
A mind map is a database for tracking things when you don't know what is going to be tracked and/or how they are going to be related. You start with some central interest and then add pieces that relate. Good mapping software al

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