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by derleth 13y ago
I don't see how you'd get around the reason those houses were abandoned in the first place: They have more debt attached to them than they're worth. Buying the house at auction means that you'd be responsible for those d
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by derleth 13y ago
> it wouldn't affect home lines, so they'd still be able to contact 911. First: Land lines, not home lines. My home line is a cell phone. Many others can say the same. And this only helps when a land line is available, and when
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by derleth 13y ago
This will be responsible for a few deaths if it ever becomes widespread. The obvious way is by preventing people from calling 911, but the other way, potentially just as deadly, is preventing people who are on-call from being called into ho
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by derleth 13y ago
> javascript libraries for core functionality like the cryptographic functions. Clientside JS for crypto? No. Bad idea. http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/ Their reasons: > Secure deliv
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by derleth 13y ago
> the details end up changing every 2-3 years, so you need to re-compile all your code I could be wrong, but I think that was part of the original plan: Machine code would be thrown away along with the hardware, only the (implicitly C) s
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by derleth 13y ago
> Along with that you can't make it portable on other architectures. Not only that, but it seems from other stuff I've read that you'd have a hard time making x86 code performant on more than one microarchitecture or famil
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by derleth 13y ago
I think cutting off a key piece of the title counts as editorializing, don't you?
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by derleth 13y ago
> The downside was that it took several minutes to compile <100 line sources that produce <1000 instruction programs. This sounds like the Stalin Scheme compiler. Simple benchmark (vs C (gcc), Stalin wins): http://justin
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by derleth 13y ago
> However, R lends itself to ad-hoc analysis much better. Less cruft and weird transformation to set up for ad hoc analysis. Classic domain-specific language: Good fit for the problem domain, even if it's weird in every other respec
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by derleth 13y ago
> The original ASCII standard defined characters from 0 to 126. 0 to 127. 127 is a power of 2 minus 1, which should be a hint; in specific, it's two to the seventh minus one, since ASCII defines codepoints for all possible combinati
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by derleth 13y ago
Only fools and ideologues argue against systems which have been demonstrated to work.
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by derleth 13y ago
Stormfront is fairly notorious for being a racist forum, which is populated chiefly by racist whites (and those who wish to act like them) and run solely for the benefit of racist whites. It is a hateful place and its rules should be viewed
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by derleth 13y ago
It's part of a disturbing presentism that is (and probably has always been) rampant in popularized history. It's as if authors think we can't understand anything unless we see it through the lens of some popular current techn
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by derleth 13y ago
> I'm baffled by the HN title of this article. There is no place in the article that claims a 100% success rate for curing leukemia. > The title is: "Has Carl June Found a Key to Fighting Cancer?" And here we see the ot
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by derleth 13y ago
Fuck you and anyone who uses the concept of social justice as a hammer to try and silence people they disagree with. That is another serious barrier to actually solving any of these problems.
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by derleth 13y ago
"Area 51 therefore chemtrails" isn't a sound logical chain. That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.
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by derleth 13y ago
> a freaking text editor (something that was solved LONG ago) It wasn't solved, it was replaced by a different, and worse, set of problems. Other people having minds organized differently from yours isn't evidence of a usabilit
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by derleth 13y ago
> - here actually negates the ordering of the numbers in the list. -1.0.0 === 0.0.1. Well, I've certainly never seen that before.
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by derleth 13y ago
> version -1.0.0. Version negative one? I don't think I've ever seen that before. Usually, the very earliest versions of software are numbered like 0.0.1 or something like that.
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by derleth 13y ago
Except, governmental delusion aside, the existence of Area 51 was not actually secret. Everyone knew the place was there, and the most reasonable explanation for it (spy planes) turned out to be correct. Also, A only implies B when there is
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by derleth 13y ago
> Well, it take likes 5 seconds in the System Preferences Why do you think you'd be allowed to? > I think Apple Engineers smart enough to think out something, after all, we pay a premium amount of money for those devices, and sho
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by derleth 13y ago
The worst side effect of this is the initial confusion trying to type on anyone else's system for an extended period of time, especially if you know Ctrl-based keyboard shortcuts for whatever you're using.
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by derleth 13y ago
Momentum (or kinetic energy) as modified by human reaction times, which in turn are a function of the road design and other local conditions. That implies signs which are not only tailored to their location, but can automatically adjust b
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by derleth 13y ago
It's best to think of a mesa of driving skill: The slope on the left side is where experience is gained, the plateau is someone's prime driving decades (hopefully!), and the slope on the right side is when inevitable physical deca
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by derleth 13y ago
> Also, the great side effect is you don't have all the ludicrous results of trademark law, like ownership of letters, words, phrases, shapes, and colors. Except if you don't have that, or its equivalent, the system can't
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by derleth 13y ago
Then how would you prevent people from tricking customers with confusingly similar names and packaging?
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by derleth 13y ago
As I said elsewhere: > A Good Ol' Boy network is a wonderful example of groupthink: "If my friends like this person, they must be good!" > As opposed to doing your own research and developing your own standards. > Ma
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by derleth 13y ago
A Good Ol' Boy network is a wonderful example of groupthink: "If my friends like this person, they must be good!" As opposed to doing your own research and developing your own standards. Maybe other peoples' definitions
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by derleth 13y ago
> It's a groupthink thing that I personally try to avoid Because the Good Ol' Boy network of references and handshakes is a groupthink thing you've gamed better.
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by derleth 13y ago
> "no data caps," What, if anything, does this mean to you?

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