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by decisiveness 11y ago
Stack Overflow tried preventing +1/-1 comments[1], and the community came to the consensus[2][3] that those comments can be useful. [1] https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/277314 [2] http://meta.stac
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by decisiveness 11y ago
So if the S.E.C. can't punish these agencies forcefully enough to seriously damage their margins, this may never change as they'll have little incentive to shape up.
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I'm unclear on whether the author is yearning to become blase about whether his ideas are valid, criticizing his own writing, blaming his pandering statements on imbeciles, or being cleverly ironic. He laments having to tone down somet
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by decisiveness 11y ago
> There is no basis to conclude, then, that Deputy Burns or Deputy Blake should have known that the field test kits they were using tended to yield false positive results. How does the deputies claiming they had "no knowledge",
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by decisiveness 11y ago
This seems like a pretty unfair generalization of Koreans. Assuming all scientists have the same shameful characteristics of a few doesn't seem very scientific, does it?
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by decisiveness 11y ago
They can't possibly share the same set of eyes, so you must be slightly ignoring the backs of both of their heads.
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> We hang over each other’s heads, more and more heavily, self-appointed swords of Damocles waiting with baited breath to strike. Unfamiliar with Damocles [1], I had to look it up. It seems to be quite a vividly pertinent metaphor. The
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by decisiveness 11y ago
Whether nationally or at the state level, it helps the movement to have a figure on the presidential stage doing everything they can to bring special interest issues to light. Lessig's strategy was wrong, but don't think its fail
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by decisiveness 11y ago
Whether or not you agree with this it has always been the core message of Lessig's campaign: Getting special interest money out of politics should be first priority, and until we get enough citizens to care about that, it'll be ex
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by decisiveness 11y ago
Unless you know what exactly caused A to outperform others, you won't really know if the process is biased or what made it biased. When asserting biases, you must first distinguish them from random noise. Using pg's logic, every
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The Limits of Correctness (1985) [pdf](student.cs.uwaterloo.ca)
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Easy-rsa[1] (OpenVPN's key/cert generation/signing tool) version 3 will generate a 2048 bit diffie hellman key by default. Previous versions of easy-rsa used 1024 bit as default. Here is a comment written in the vars configu
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The Limits of Correctness (1985) [pdf](student.cs.uwaterloo.ca)
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by decisiveness 11y ago
I wonder, exactly how might a cell "commit suicide"?
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by decisiveness 11y ago
I know this is slightly off topic, but after watching the trailer I just can't see Fassbender as Jobs. Fassbender is a great actor, and I can't think of any Hollywood leading man that could do a better job, but their personas are
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by decisiveness 11y ago
>“The difficulty is getting enough teachers who are trained in it, and trained well enough to make it a good introduction to computer science,” said Barbara Ericson, the director of computing outreach at Georgia Tech’s College of Computi
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by decisiveness 11y ago
Seeing `sudo rm -rf /usr` makes me cringe. A more harmless way to check: `sudo touch -a /usr`.
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by decisiveness 11y ago
The engineering of flight is something that's achievable through simple understanding of physics laws and principles. Birds did not engineer flight, we did, and we were only able to engineer a crude version of it. The natural abilities
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by decisiveness 11y ago
In an FPS like Halo the relevance of skill sets is much harder to measure, but I think it's a delicate balance. If I were forced to choose, I'd say motor skills and reaction time combined with spacial intelligence are the key driv
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by decisiveness 11y ago
A lot of the general ideas here seem helpful. I just have some slight issues with the section on rallying support. >Maybe you tell them that you used to work with a competitor who was quite speedy >I highly recommend this over a brut
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by decisiveness 11y ago
The difference being the robot wasn't telling a bunch of bad jokes which led to its deserved destruction.
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by decisiveness 11y ago
Not sure how much it applies here as I haven't looked at the code, but the Golang blog has a good article that talks about how to "Simplify repetitive error handling"[1]. [1] https://blog.golang.org/error-handl
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by decisiveness 11y ago
>People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it, because it doesn’t fit with what they already know. This can be true, but I think often, people tend to
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by decisiveness 11y ago
Assuming that smart autodidacts can't obtain sound statistics knowledge is selling many people short.
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by decisiveness 11y ago
Wonder if they'll ever ad support for Firefox.
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by decisiveness 11y ago
Constraints allow for only integers <= 9999999999999999 and >= -9999999999999999 which is interesting considering (-)10000000000000000 through (-)9223372036854775807 are also within the bounds of a 64 bit integer. It's ironic tha
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by decisiveness 11y ago
Snowden was someone with access who acted on what he thought was in the best interest of Americans. Whether it was or wasn't is debatable. But to assume foreign spies exist in the NSA, and would risk treason for foreign interest beca
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by decisiveness 11y ago
To suggest all foreign superpowers have access to the NSA goods because "security is hard", and "Snowden was able to wander through the NSA’s networks with impunity", is a weak conjecture at best.
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The NSA is not a corporation. They put exponentially more care in vetting before trusting with top secret intelligence access.
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by decisiveness 11y ago
Using keyboard shortcuts to quickly switch work spaces seems to be the best of both worlds. It allows you to keep distractions out of sight while requiring minimal effort to quickly access other screens/windows when needed.

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