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by desdiv 11y ago
To be fair, the taxes were lower and the government was smaller back in 1847. /s
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by desdiv 11y ago
FYI HN recently added a "past" link that takes you to previous discussions.
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by desdiv 11y ago
>I really hope they have thought about the implications of putting this sort of knowledge out there for the world to see. I don't think they had a choice in the matter. Form 10-Q[0] are mandatory for public companies, and apparently
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by desdiv 11y ago
Dumb question, but what's preventing SpaceX from raising their bid significantly now that they know they're guaranteed to win? Not just in this case, but plenty of government contracts are sole-sourced. How does the price get deci
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by desdiv 11y ago
Did you mean halal? Kosher is a Jewish requirement.
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>Many people (including my friends here in Taiwan) believe it's an attempt by the PRC to influence the elections which are being held here in about two months. How would that even work? 1. Most people in Taiwan hate the Community Pa
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by desdiv 11y ago
San Marino is in the UN though, so it's a proper country country.
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by desdiv 11y ago
>2013-11-15 18:55:05 Look at the timestamp. The article you linked was from two years ago. The "parents can have two kids if at least one parent is an only child" policy described in that article was overturned today. Now every
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by desdiv 11y ago
The JS code sent to kentonv's browser might be safe, but you can't really meaningfully comment on hobs' situation, since you don't have a copy of the JS code that was sent to hobs' browser.
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by desdiv 11y ago
FYI your Scala example doesn't work. Welcome to Scala version 2.11.6 (Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, Java 1.8.0_45). scala> var h:Option[String] = "Hello".some <console>:7: error: value some is not
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by desdiv 11y ago
>(On Tuesday, Baidu announced it had achieved the world's best results on a key artificial intelligence benchmark related to image identification, besting Google and Microsoft.) And a week later was found to have cheated in said tes
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by desdiv 11y ago
Can you explain why the XKCD scheme is weak to dictionary attacks? Using the 2048 common words example from the comic, there would be 2048^4 = 1.8e13 four word combinations. I don't see any possible attack that's faster than brute
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by desdiv 11y ago
It's Scala. They show the definitions of the "When" and "And" in the post: case class And(contract1: Contract, contract2: Contract) extends Contract case class When(date: LocalDate, contract: Contract) extends
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by desdiv 11y ago
I wonder whether any over-zealous publishers started to put EURion constellations in their books in order to deter photocopying and scanning.
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by desdiv 11y ago
>Realistically, the number of people who can actually access customer data such as email and documents is probably quite small and heavily audited. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/oct/30/goo
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by desdiv 11y ago
To add to that, here's an article about this particular case: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/will-playboy-article-delay-...
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by desdiv 11y ago
$1700 is amazingly cheap when you consider that it costs $4300 [0] to transfer that same 50TB out of EC2. [0] https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ $4300 = 10000 * $0.09 + 40000 * $0.085
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by desdiv 11y ago
They have [0][1]. [0] http://i.imgur.com/mQZ1ST9.png [1] http://i.imgur.com/Hi1x4Ab.png
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by desdiv 11y ago
Good thinking, but the researchers already adjusted for smoking status [0][1]. [0] http://i.imgur.com/mQZ1ST9.png [1] http://i.imgur.com/Hi1x4Ab.png
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by desdiv 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect >The term cobra effect stems from an anecdote set at the time of British rule of colonial India. The British government was concerned about the number of venomous cobra sna
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by desdiv 11y ago
>Same policies exist in Israel for those who visit muslim countries in the Middle East. I find this hard to believe. Do you happen to have a source? Israel does indeed frequently deny entry based on bigoted reasons[0][1][2], but I'v
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by desdiv 11y ago
>I've never heard of China having their own oil fields China is the world's fourth largest oil producer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_produ...
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by desdiv 11y ago
According to grammarians, you're supposed to use italics for emphasis in English.
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by desdiv 11y ago
>San Francisco >Population >City and county 852,469 >Metro 4,594,060 >CSA 8,607,423 > >San Jose >Population >City 1,015,785 >Metro 1,952,872 >CSA
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by desdiv 11y ago
>@airbnb Co-founder & Chief Product Officer. I design things. https://twitter.com/jgebbia
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by desdiv 11y ago
In this case, it's more like: "A person being paid 50 cents[0] to pretend to sleep cannot be woken up". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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by desdiv 11y ago
Indeed. >Which States Does ZenPayroll Support? >ZenPayroll is nationwide! https://support.zenpayroll.com/hc/en-us/articles/207605278-W...
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Yeppp: A High-Performance SIMD-Optimized Math Library for X86, ARM, and MIPS(yeppp.info)
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I was hellbanned for a while and didn't know it until someone told me. I emailed the mods and they told me they never banned me and that it must've been a technical glitch.
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by desdiv 11y ago
It's a pun on Perl Compatible Regular Expressions. You're being downvoted for bikeshedding over a name.

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