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by davvolun 8y ago
I could be wrong re: what OP intended, but "open standard" doesn't imply non-encrypted.
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by davvolun 8y ago
Biggest single deduction category relating to federal taxes, yes. But state-to-state varies pretty widely, looks like from 0.27% to 2.40% [1]. Notably, no one in their right mind would invest in, say, a hedge fund that charged 2.40% fees,
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by davvolun 8y ago
I've been through the relational algebra, I found this to be a nice, quick re-cover. More like a checklist than a full inspection.
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by davvolun 8y ago
I don't know enough of IEEE 754, but I don't think binary representation of numbers are guaranteed to be strictly greater i.e. I think you at least want Math.round instead of Math.floor. It might be fine, depending on the use case
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by davvolun 9y ago
I believe they acquired the rights to 'Java' and they're arguing that gives them the rights to 'JavaScript'. Which is fair-ish -- it should have never been named Javascript to begin with.
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by davvolun 9y ago
It's not (solely) an issue of speed. http://weitz.de/ieee/ Plug in 0.11 and 0.1 and click `+`. You expect 0.21, but since 1/10 isn't cleanly represented in base 2 using a finite number of bits... (just l
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by davvolun 9y ago
Feel like there's a few different things going on in your comment, but I'll focus on -- who are you blaming for "shifting the goalposts"? I believe I'm trying to return focus on the "pure context" of the g
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by davvolun 9y ago
That's the kind of joke that's great to chuckle over while you update your resume.
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by davvolun 9y ago
I think you're overestimating how many people who don't read places like Hacker News actually care about this. But I'll admit I could be wrong on that. In any case, the reason they might be able to at the current time is the
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by davvolun 9y ago
I'll tell you, I've worked for a business small enough to avoid needing to hire a "multi-thousand dollar legal team" and a few of the things that I know happened while I was there leave me very suspicious of the things I
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by davvolun 9y ago
Measures to protect users' data and privacy will not strictly kill a "free" internet -- there are lots of reasonable caveats such as number of active users, total revenue, number of employees that would allow a small business
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by davvolun 9y ago
Thank you. Sasse, in particular, really likes to sound smart, but hasn't done anything worth a damn.
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by davvolun 9y ago
> Ted Cruz clearly showing that he's a partisan hack. Didn't give a crap about users' privacy or the issues at hand, he had to make it about 'liberal Silicon Valley' and 'conservative persecution'. What
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by davvolun 9y ago
Are you making an argument that Python has caused us all to start writing pseudo-code using `=` for assignment?
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by davvolun 9y ago
I feel fairly confident I don't need to use 'no true scotsman' to argue the fact that no one with a "D" after their name asking Zuckerberg a question today has ever said "Kill all white people." On the oth
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by davvolun 9y ago
Maybe a clone?
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by davvolun 9y ago
I'm not a 'networking' person, but am I wrong in believing a VPN would (potentially, with caveats) prevent your ISP from "being able to see which IPs you're sending packets to"? Wouldn't all packets look l
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by davvolun 9y ago
Interesting. Can you point me to a deeper discussion of this division of "versioning"? I'm inclined to think something like Django data migrations or EntityFramework Code First Migrations tackles what I immediately thought of
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by davvolun 9y ago
It's interesting because according to my understanding, the U.S. is actually using a pretty good system for dealing with credit card fraud in general...which sadly seems to be the rare exception in regards to consumer protections in th
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by davvolun 9y ago
1) It's anecdotal evidence, so I'm not trying to argue you're wrong with it; it's simply not convincing enough even to me to try to do so. 2) You're making a lot of assumptions. I can tell you without asking her tha
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by davvolun 9y ago
I don't think that's true. I don't think I know anyone who doesn't at least occasionally use Reddit; my aunt told us a story at the family get-together that started "I saw this on AskReddit...". Certainly anecd
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by davvolun 9y ago
I think you vastly oversimplify saying "faulty persons should not be celebrated..." MLK Jr had, what I consider -- quite possibly with a modern mindset that people at the time wouldn't have shared -- certain personal failings
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by davvolun 9y ago
I think I understand what you're getting at. Additionally, how would you even prove "well I didn't hire that person because they belong to the wrong political party" short of someone actually saying it and documenting it
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by davvolun 9y ago
I mean....you aren't arguing JS is a paradigm of perfect design, are you?
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by davvolun 9y ago
AKA, I can't define it but I know it when I see it. I have nothing to add other than to say that's completely, unambiguously true about 95% of the time.
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by davvolun 9y ago
As long as they are used correctly, which apparently they are not.
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by davvolun 9y ago
Incidentally, the occasional griller is also the exact person who would most likely be least aware of the danger with a wire brush... sort of a perfect storm situation
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by davvolun 9y ago
Unfortunately, "union" is a basically a four-letter word where I am. Also, not trying to overstate my "struggle" or anything -- the reason I'm active politically is because of the impact on people I care about, not
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by davvolun 9y ago
> giving away your code for no return Open source is not actually giving away your code for no money , let alone no return. It's not free as in beer.
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by davvolun 9y ago
> If I wouldn't do something in public, I wouldn't post it to social media. I've been thinking about this a lot lately in calling and sending emails to my government representatives, attending marches and protests. By defi

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