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by csense 10y ago
Does anyone know exactly what this is in technological terms? I'm thinking maybe it's a PKI that assigns an ECDSA private key to each EU resident? Then their talk about timestamping makes me think maybe there's a blockchain
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by csense 10y ago
As someone who grew up in the Rust Belt, US and world politics have been very interesting this year. It seems like the issues that are most important to my hometown are finally making an impression on world politicians. Entire local econom
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by csense 10y ago
I guess that makes Germany's record in world wars 0-2-1 then?
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by csense 10y ago
Only run an untrusted kernel in a VM.
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by csense 10y ago
Contrarian opinion: I think Brexit's good for Britain. The EU is an example of the "tail wags the dog" situation which I think is similar to the way the American colonies felt about being ruled by Britain in the 1700's
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by csense 10y ago
Your characterization of conservatives as "fascist" or anti-democracy is an accusation without merit (as is the oft-made, and IMHO completely unjustified, comparison of Trump to Hitler). As someone who grew up in the Rust Belt, I
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by csense 10y ago
If they're not trustworthy, let's remove them from the trusted CA lists of major FOSS browsers / distros. Anyone know the proper mailing list / bugtracker this should be filed on in the case of Firefox?
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by csense 10y ago
WoW takes place way later than the movie. The story shown in the movie is during the events of the original Warcraft: Orcs and Humans real time strategy game (from 1994).
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by csense 10y ago
Anyone know if AMD suffers from a similar "feature"?
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by csense 10y ago
Or some government(s) will convince, legally force, or clandestinely steal the key. I'd put the US and China at the top of the list of governments that have probably already done it...heck, ME might be a backdoor deliberately created
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by csense 10y ago
This. $200 for 4 months for 25 users works out to $2 a month per user. You could double or triple it and still be less than the personal plan. Those large multiuser plans probably come out of grants, departmental budgets, etc. So they&#x
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Artificial-Leaf Inventor Slams New Energy Finance, Blames Universities(forbes.com)
1 points by csense 10y ago|0 comments
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by csense 10y ago
A couple decades ago when the government wanted to get civil forfeiture powers, they said it was only going to be for the worst organized crime bosses and drug lords. Then within the last few years, a black kid who takes his life savings --
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by csense 10y ago
If you don't like Facebook's censorship policies, don't use Facebook. I suppose an argument could be made that due to its size, Facebook is sort of like a "utility" and has a duty to provide "service" to e
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by csense 10y ago
If the top Google results all tell you that you shouldn't do it, then why do so many people do it? In fact I'm writing this on Firefox, which has one of those things in the browser UI...
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by csense 10y ago
EV isn't everything; you also have to consider risk. If you put too much of your bankroll on the line, making even repeated high +EV bets will eventually lead to ruin with probability approaching 1. There's another element at pla
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by csense 10y ago
Assuming insurance companies are profitable, insurance is a -EV bet for the consumer. The only reason to ever buy insurance is if the potential loss would be ruinously large. Gaps in unemployment simply don't generate that kind of hu
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by csense 10y ago
This. If you're getting below-market salary (market salary minus some delta), plus substantial equity, this is economically equivalent to getting paid a market salary and then investing delta dollars into the startup. Where delta is
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by csense 10y ago
> .NET Core is about decoupling .NET from Windows. Allowing it to run in non-Windows environments without having to install a giant 400mb set of binaries. Isn't this what Mono is for?
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by csense 10y ago
The biggest "best practice" that needs questioning is the excessive use of client side JavaScript. 90% of the websites out there would be able to provide all their functionality with server-side rendering, except that's cons
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by csense 10y ago
If this happens on a regular basis and people find out about it, people will stop going to the hospital to give birth, raising the rate of mortality and complications for infants and mothers. Anyone who has a basic understanding of Bayes&#x
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by csense 10y ago
They can legally take your children away from you.
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by csense 10y ago
"...if you have two low-quality random sources...you can combine them in a way to produce a high-quality random number..." I tried to skim the paper, but it's really dense. Can someone who understands it explain how what the
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by csense 10y ago
Drug testing is absolutely a good idea for jobs where worker impairment presents an imminent physical danger to lives and property (e.g. trucking, medical professions, powerline repair crews). Likewise, limited use of criminal background ch
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by csense 10y ago
The most interesting part of this article is the bunch of home-brewed "learn programming" environments listed in these comments.
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Movies in schools the way of the future (1914)(clickamericana.com)
1 points by csense 10y ago|0 comments
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by csense 10y ago
I don't buy this piece's claim that the American left follows a "culture of critical discourse": There is a disturbing trend in the modern American left of suppressing and punishing people whose opinions do not confirm
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by csense 10y ago
If intelligence and success are truly largely determined by genetics: - How will our culture ever allow us to even admit the possibility? - If it's true and the truth becomes widely accepted, how do we prevent problems ranging from bas
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by csense 10y ago
This game looks awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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by csense 10y ago
I've played this and recommend it. I've also found another recently created game [1], Secret Hitler, which seems to be heavily based on Mafia, except in this case the informed minority / bad guys are Hitler and the Nazi party

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