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by cthor 11y ago
If that is wrong, what is right? Should the police instead do less efficient completely random searches? Should the taxpayers hire more police officers to make up for this loss in efficiency? Should businesses accept losses from fraud to pl
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by cthor 11y ago
The government would very much want to make an example of anyone who did that. The punishment would be as severe as they could get away with.
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by cthor 11y ago
The tenchess counterargument doesn't work in the context of Elo (from which chain lengths are derived). A has 150 more Elo rating than B in chess. Elo says A has a 2/3 EV on the game result, and B has 1/3. In tenchess, A will
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by cthor 11y ago
It looking "prettier" is pretty arguable. The body text is as close to black as it is white. #444 is borderline acceptable. #888 is absurd.
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by cthor 12y ago
The majority of Twitch users follow only a few streamers. If the streamers migrate, a substantial portion of their viewers will follow. Contrast with YouTube: most people view videos from a wide variety of uploaders. If one or two uploaders
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by cthor 13y ago
A lot of merchants (e.g. Amazon) don't use PayPal because is isn't a real bank, and so isn't beholden by laws associated with banks. The terms of service state that you cannot seek any legal recourse from them should your acc
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by cthor 13y ago
I really don't understand why some people are so afraid of regex. Sure, it's not perfect, but these symbol-less solutions feel to me like one step forward and two steps back. A more interesting development would be something along
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by cthor 13y ago
Is this true for most jurisdictions? That doesn't seem like the kind of law that lends itself to being universal.
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by cthor 13y ago
FocusWriter, listed in the parent as a native Mac application, is open source and works on and has compiled binaries for Windows, Mac, and most Linux distros.
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by cthor 13y ago
Looks really nice, and the HTML appears well formed at a glance. I might consider using it in an upcoming project. A few reservations, though: - JavaScript dropdown menus. Is it not possible to get a pure CSS (get it?) solution? Without Jav