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by claudius 12y ago
The secrecy is a fair point, but both secret votes and one-candidate votes are fairly common e.g. in Germany: both the chancellor and the prime ministers of individual states are voted on in secret in their respective parliaments (Bundes- r
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by claudius 12y ago
There are numerous examples, although “like that” is of course a difficult requirement, given that we don’t know what happened yet :) Some examples (in no particular ordering): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_
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by claudius 12y ago
On the other hand, this: // Step d: IntList::iterator back_pred_iter = back_preds[w].begin(); IntList::iterator back_pred_end = back_preds[w].end(); for (; back_pred_iter != back_pred_end; back_pred_iter++) { int v =
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by claudius 12y ago
Hu? The European Parliament is elected directly by the people (a bit too directly for my taste, in fact, I would have much preferred if the 5% minimum had been kept…). The commission is approved by parliament and suggested by the government
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by claudius 12y ago
> How do they know you are good? Do you propose they grab a coffee with every candidate? Decent grades in uni or school and/or appropriate references from your last workplace. Or do you think a handful of interviews can give a more
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by claudius 12y ago
Tie it to the DNS. Globally, there is one root CA which is authorised to only issue certificates for ?. Then, each top-level registry (DENIC, Nominet etc.) get a certificate from this CA which allows them to issue certificates on ?.tld. Thi
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by claudius 12y ago
Yet even with a huge conventional army, the US were unable to secure the territorial integrity of the Ukraine as originally agreed upon in 199x in return for giving up their nuclear weapons. Hence, neither a conventional army nor human-oper
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by claudius 12y ago
A single nuke is sufficient to deal with any reasonable aggressor and nonreasonable aggressors are rarely if ever a serious threat to any country. As such, it is quite perfectly senseless to spend billions on tanks and fighters when your ne
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by claudius 12y ago
Checking my mail archive, the HTML part of multipart messages is on average 5 to 10 times larger than the plaintext part. Such a factor is essentially never irrelevant, even with decently fast connections it often takes me a minute or so to
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by claudius 12y ago
> What should be done, I believe, is that e-mail _clients_ should detect the 78-character convention and rejoin the lines into paragraphs if they think it would be best. That’s what format=flowed allows. The sending client line-wraps lon
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by claudius 12y ago
It seems rather egocentric to expect US national radio to serve Africa?
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by claudius 12y ago
Ah, that’s indeed a silly thing to do; thanks for the warning! :)
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by claudius 12y ago
What sort of IP do you have? If it is some residential IP where the PTR does not match the mailserver’s advertised hostname or the PTR does not resolve to the IP, I can fully understand blocking that IP (and do so myself). On the other hand
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by claudius 12y ago
10'000 people living in 10'000 log cabins, each of 50m² (5 × 10 m² sounds reasonable to me) will cover more space than 10'000 people living on 100 acres (= 0.4km²). Furthermore, if you consider a single spot of 0.4km² populat
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by claudius 12y ago
The park could be completely encompassed by company buildings and the hospital could be located on a remote oil rig. Both could, legally, still be accessible to the general public for use as they please, but due to their concrete nature, th
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by claudius 12y ago
It might come a bit as a surprise to you, but people are generally expected to have at least some responsibility for the actions of their government. After all, the latter is usually not some alien black box deciding things but rather a set
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by claudius 12y ago
Unless you were happy with the default configuration, in which case it is much easier not having to start the thing manually.
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by claudius 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocrystalline_silicon has 0.5nm for the lattice spacing, distance between Si atoms ranges somewhere between 0.3nm and 0.5nm, I guess. Even if you go to graphene instead of Si wafers, I d
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by claudius 12y ago
Except that primary/replica is of course not a drop-in replacement for master/slave (just think of the two devices per IDE bus). Furthermore, it is trivial to find offence in the word “primary” as well, especially in a context whe
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by claudius 12y ago
Sure. Look at https://webapp4.asu.edu/programs/t5/roadmaps/ASU00/LAPHYBA/n... for the physics degree at Arizona state. It doesn’t seem to have a bachelor thesis or comparable work, it has about 50%
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by claudius 12y ago
> because obscure terms force you to refer solely to (and eventually internalise) a precise and abstract definition. Unless some C++ people decide that “functor” is a wonderful name for a stateful function-like thing which somewhat resem
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by claudius 12y ago
If I understood the article correctly, a BSc costs $60k in tuition for an online course . I believe this to not cover required textbooks etc., which are likely more difficult to find in a library if you’re on the other side of the country.
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by claudius 12y ago
Yay, thank you for the handholding, it actually seems to work quite nicely :-)
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by claudius 12y ago
Sarcastic, yes, but mostly relating to Opera 12.x’s UserCSS features; I didn’t actually know about userContent.css. Thanks for the pointer, although it seems to be impossible to only apply it to certain sites?
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by claudius 12y ago
Hm, I’d be happy with some max-width:50em or so on the actual text. Now if only Firefox had a built-in way to apply custom user stylesheets to websites…
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by claudius 12y ago
> In the US at least, this is not a crime. If someone leaves their car unlocked by accident, why should they get punished if someone steals it and uses it for a crime? Negligence. If you own a powerful tool, you are at least in part resp
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by claudius 12y ago
Why do you think someone is innocent if they let some third party use their computer without permission? For essentially all malware that makes your computer part of a larger botnet, you have to be extremely careless to let it get on your d
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by claudius 12y ago
I can’t think of another platform (in the sense of programming environment) which is being optimised to be read milliseconds before execution from a networking socket, with more code being loaded on-the-fly from remote servers. In C++, you
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by claudius 12y ago
> Intel is ok too, but their hardware is not really targeted for gamers. FWIW, I find the latest graphics units from Intel, e.g. HD 4600, rather okay. Even graphically nontrivial things like Crusader Kings II or KSP run decently, althoug
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by claudius 12y ago
Tests are not the only way to ensure correctness (and they aren’t even the only thing you should use, even when they’re mandated by policy) – did you consider using strong types encoding exactly the assumptions you spot-check with tests?

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