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by desdiv 12y ago
This little-known factoid might change your mind: an all out nuclear war has less than 1 in 10,000 chance of wiping out mankind[0]. [0] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2012/11/nuclear-winter-and-hum...
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by desdiv 12y ago
Now that you mention it, isn't this just age discrimination? I would get in serious legal trouble if I posted an ad saying "Hiring software engineers; ages 18 to 30 only." Doesn't the same apply to schools?
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by desdiv 12y ago
The most mission critical one is probably the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System. Here's Lockheed Martin announcing that they chose a (propriety) JVM to run "several critical subsystems" of the Aegis system in 2006[0]. He
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by desdiv 12y ago
>LLVM also has a JIT and a far more permissive license, making it more attractive to those not using a GPL compatible license. Not to mention LLVM's JIT is far more mature. If you're reading this on Safari then LLVM is JITing f
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by desdiv 12y ago
Streisand[0] also only takes about 10 times, but with fewer mouse clicks and is much, much more secure. By default it tunnels OpenVPN over stunnel so that your connections looks exactly like regular SSL sessions (albeit SSL sessions that la
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by desdiv 12y ago
Couldn't the absentee owners just rent the properties out to dodge that?
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by desdiv 12y ago
A 2011 study by Landcor Data showed that 74 per cent of luxury purchases in Richmond and Vancouver’s west side were by buyers with mainland Chinese names with no western variant. Not surprising, given that Richmond is 55% Chinese[0]. West
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by desdiv 12y ago
Wow, what a twist. To think that Obi-Wan is secretly Ian Betteridge.
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by desdiv 12y ago
I would love to see a second control group where the kids spent 40 minutes a day inside a 10,000 lux illuminated classroom.
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by desdiv 12y ago
While myopia was not associated with the month of birth, there was a trend towards a higher prevalence of myopia among conscripts living above the Arctic Circle, consistent with the hypothesis that ambient lighting might influence refracti
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by desdiv 12y ago
This is how those "douchebags" react when you make fun of their shiny new watch: http://i.imgur.com/kmOvbfU.jpg
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by desdiv 12y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Open_Source_Agreement OSI says it's an open source license, but FSF says no. In your case, I'd say you're in the clear, since you're clearly making an “origin
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by desdiv 12y ago
Oh, how the mighty have fallen. This is what developer.apple.com/java read back in 2009 [0]: Mac OS X is the only major consumer operating system that comes complete with a fully configured and ready-to-use Java runtime and developmen
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by desdiv 12y ago
Why so hasty? Tesla announced the Chinese pricing barely a year ago[0] and only started delivery last April[1]. [0] http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/fair-price [1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti
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Ravi – A Lua Dialect with LLVM-Based JIT Compilation(github.com)
3 points by desdiv 12y ago|0 comments
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Latest PhysX Source Code Now Available Free on GitHub(developer.nvidia.com)
2 points by desdiv 12y ago|0 comments
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by desdiv 12y ago
Your approach is "a website that irrevocably deletes itself once indexed by Google". What OP has done is "a website that irrevocably deletes itself once Google decided to publicly reveal the fact that it indexed said website
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by desdiv 12y ago
Googlebot's identity can the authenticated to prevent spoofing: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/80553?hl=en
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by desdiv 12y ago
But RFC3339 says: NOTE: ISO 8601 defines date and time separated by "T". Applications using this syntax may choose, for the sake of readability, to specify a full-date and full-time separated by (say) a space character.
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by desdiv 12y ago
Northrop Grumman seriously paid for a Super Bowl ad? Oh sure, next time I'm out shopping for a long range stealth bomber maybe I'll subconsciously remember the ad and choose a Northrop Grumman one. I've been a long time Boein
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by desdiv 12y ago
There are some compatibility problems between Signal and RedPhone. I can't seem to get the two to work together for international calling. Googling "Signal can't connect to RedPhone" shows that I'm not alone in this
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by desdiv 12y ago
People need to keep in mind that buying local food isn't necessarily better for the environment. Sometimes local produce production produces far more greenhouse gases than imported produce: http://www.salon.com/2008&#x2
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by desdiv 12y ago
Previous discussion from a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8947603
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by desdiv 12y ago
Interesting fact: the third largest non-government-owned employer in the world is a security company called G4S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_employers
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by desdiv 12y ago
At the pace and modality we're moving, we'll be creating powerful and destructive hybrids first (also known as computer-aided mega corporations) and long before a self-contained AGI becomes viable. Advanced chess[0] is the perfe
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by desdiv 12y ago
As a lowly pleb, I really appreciate it when a prospective employer think me honest enough not to lie about my current compensation. Some employers dispense with human moments like these and instead just outright demand W-2 forms: http:&#x
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by desdiv 12y ago
My only gripe with Protonmail is that they're closed sourced. The good news is that they intent to open source it when they come out of beta[0], so I'll be switching to them as soon as that happens. [0] https://twitter.
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Intuitive Rift Explorer: Oculus Rift and Robot with Head-Tracking Cameras(jolau.ch)
11 points by desdiv 12y ago|0 comments
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by desdiv 12y ago
I clicked this with the expectation that Elon Musk's Tesla is entering the aircraft industry.
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by desdiv 12y ago
$40 of the bribe goes to the retailer: Retailers can collect a cut of CEC’s $320 fee each time they present an offender with the option of signing up for the program—a form of restitution, said Caffaro, which usually ends up being around $

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