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by crystaln 13y ago
I don't believe that is correct. The core devs relied on people implementing workarounds.
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by crystaln 13y ago
The hatred for Mt Gox in the bitcoin community blinded them to the reality that the malleability bug is very serious. The way the bitcoin community responded was irresponsible. Regardless of whether there are workarounds, it's a tragic
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by crystaln 13y ago
CloudFlare, a product supposed to increase uptime, has been my product's only source of downtime for the past several months.
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by crystaln 13y ago
That can't be erased. So really it's more like a pen.
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There Is a Paranormal Activity Lab at University of Virginia(theatlantic.com)
1 points by crystaln 13y ago|0 comments
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This GIF Shows What Might Be Water Flowing on Mars(theatlantic.com)
2 points by crystaln 13y ago|1 comments
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by crystaln 13y ago
Denying that this is a bug is extremely disingenuous. It's very clearly a major bug, albeit with a widely known, standard, effective workaround. Is this an excuse for Mt Gox to withhold coins? Absolutely not. Who knows whether they are
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by crystaln 13y ago
I am simply saying that a single counterexample is sufficient to disprove a universal statement. That is logically unassailable. The only discussion then is around the credibility of the example. Scale is completely irrelevant to disproving
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by crystaln 13y ago
So, in your opinion, it was an idiotic injustice that Osama bin Laden was robbed of being Time's Man of the Year.
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by crystaln 13y ago
What constitutes credible data in a study? Obviously the more credible the reporter, the more evidence, the more witnesses - the more credible the anecdote. Are you implying that no story from a layman can be considered credible, but scient
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by crystaln 13y ago
And yet it's all correct. One can be convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that any given sequence has not been flipped, yet know that there is an infinitesimal chance of being wrong. We rely on this all the time in computer science. W
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by crystaln 13y ago
How are anecdotes any less credible than scientific data? They are both reports of observation, both subject to error and subjective influence. As with any other data, the credibility of anecdotes depends on the credibility of the reporter
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by crystaln 13y ago
Doesn't seem like anyone is so much upset as advocating for a reasonable change to remove an unnecessarily crass and unfunny joke from a standard.
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by crystaln 13y ago
How is it a sickening sentiment to consider the overall consequences of throwing one's self in front of a train to save a stranger? If my wife were in the same situation, I sure hope she'd consider the effect on me and our childre
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by crystaln 13y ago
Credible counter examples are indeed compelling evidence against a universal claim.
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by crystaln 13y ago
This came out of Cornell?? 1) Adolescents are well known to be more confused about sexuality than adults, often conflate friendship and charisma with sexual attraction, and often experiment with sexuality and later decide what's for th
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by crystaln 13y ago
You do realize that ideology is not cleanly divided between two political parties, and that neither party has a consistent ideology over time or at any given time? The two parties are simply political coalitions that evolve over time, and n
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by crystaln 13y ago
Given that there were only two Democratic appointees on the Supreme Court at the time of this case, and four Republican appointees voted in the majority - including Scalia, this his hardly the work of "Democratic justices." Majori
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by crystaln 13y ago
Feel free to enumerate any that would require the federal government to enforce marijuana laws. If there were any, I would have expected them to be mentioned in Gonzales v Raich, but none were.
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by crystaln 13y ago
There are enormous vested interest in marijuana being illegal. The biggest may be that most local police departments are funded largely by the seizure of assets from minor drug offenders and innocents who they can get away with accusing of
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by crystaln 13y ago
Non-profits don't have shareholders.
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by crystaln 13y ago
I agree it seems on the surface like a mutually beneficial PR stunt, which would be pathetically shallow. On the other hand, this could be YC's foot in the door to disrupt the high margin, high investment, treatment over cure model of
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by crystaln 13y ago
I'm trying to understand what if any overlap a pharmaceutical nonprofit has with any value YC could add, from the scale of funds required, to product advice, to business model - everything seems entirely out of the range of YC's e
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by crystaln 13y ago
> You're a assuming people will strive for the lowest common denominator of living standards just so they can get free housing. Not exactly. I'm assuming SOME people will take advantage of the system. Some people ALWAYS take ad
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by crystaln 13y ago
Many many people would rather accept state housing than work. I'm not even opposed to that choice on the whole. What I'm opposed to is rewarding that choice, and a more fair basic income takes care of that.
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by crystaln 13y ago
This is yet another short term positive but long term disaster. 1) This creates an incentive to become "homeless." Now any kid can drop out of college, declare himself homeless, and get a free apartment. While it takes time for su
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by crystaln 13y ago
Why would they not pivot to being an Earth Class Mail competitor? At that point, they are not competing with or undermining, but rather contributing to the USPS.
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by crystaln 13y ago
And others don't mind spending a little money to improve their lives and have conveniences and nice things. Not everyone lives on a ramen budget.
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by crystaln 13y ago
You seem to be assuming that HOV lanes are the result of some rational regulatory process. In fact, they have been shown in every study to disrupt traffic with little effect on carpooling.
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by crystaln 13y ago
You can't be serious. Facebook is used daily by hundreds of millions of people. The interface is heavily data driven and widely understood. What's clunky about the "mail client"? And compared to it's supposed compet

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