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by desdiv 12y ago
How is this not extortion and blackmail? Among other things a legal threat may do the following: Constitute extortion, blackmail, or some other crime or tort involving improper threats of harm: for example, it is considered unethical, and
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President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology Reports(whitehouse.gov)
2 points by desdiv 12y ago|0 comments
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The Coming of Age of Millennials(goldmansachs.com)
8 points by desdiv 12y ago|2 comments
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by desdiv 12y ago
You don't need the full blockchain to become a miner, you just need a database of all unspent transaction outputs. The last time I checked said database was only a couple hundred MB. As for people who do need the full blockchain in t
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by desdiv 12y ago
P.S. Isn't the PGP web of trust also a decentralized solution to Sybil attacks? PGP web of trust requires a secure channel to broadcast the public keys, so it's not the type of P2P network that the Sybil attacks is applicable to
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by desdiv 12y ago
Someone posted a picture of a dress on Tumblr; some people perceive the dress as gold/white, while others saw it as blue/black. http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/2xbfxp/what_colo...
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by desdiv 12y ago
For context, Bastion was written in C#. Here's what the lead developer said on the topic of GC: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/lwljh/iama_dev_team_of...
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A Western Outpost Shrinks on a Remote Island Now in Japanese Hands (2012)(nytimes.com)
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by desdiv 12y ago
How come the neutrinos can reach us before the light does? I thought that neutrinos traveled at the speed of light? Sorry if this is a stupid question.
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by desdiv 12y ago
'Nonwithdrawable' means that if you earn additional income then your Citizen's Income will not be withdrawn. This is different from means-tested benefits which are reduced if earnings rise. Quoting from: http://w
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by desdiv 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unreal_Engine_games#Un...
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by desdiv 12y ago
This is problematic since, for example, Chrome 64-bit isn't yet the default release build. Surprisingly enough, there isn't even an official supported build of Firefox 64-bit for Windows. Coupled with the Chrome issue you mentio
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Jfxvnc – A JavaFX Based VNC Client(comtel2000.github.io)
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by desdiv 12y ago
No one - not a single person as far as I can tell - in the community calls them "drones"... It's not entirely unanimous though. A popular UAV community site is called http://diydrones.com/ This is analogous
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by desdiv 12y ago
There's an open bug report about adding the Federal Common Policy CA to Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=478418
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by desdiv 12y ago
...Protecting Israel's security is "part of my country's raison d'être," Merkel said in a March 2008 speech to the Israeli Knesset. "For me as German chancellor," she continued, "Israel's securi
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by desdiv 12y ago
Thank you so much for letting me know! I've emailed the admins about it.
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by desdiv 12y ago
car/cdr also enables things like caar/cadr, which I personally find much clearer than "headHead" or "headOfHead".
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by desdiv 12y ago
Their missiles don't have the range to hit launch sites that are far inland in North America or Eurasia. You're severely underestimating the range of SLBMs. The Russian RSM-56 can cover the entire continental US from both Saint
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by desdiv 12y ago
And the color scheme is paying homage to Scheme's logo.
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by desdiv 12y ago
Might be the font. He's using his own propriety font: http://practicaltypography.com/equity.html
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by desdiv 12y ago
It is not clear how the NSA may have obtained the hard drives' source code. Probably just a nicely worded letter: To whom it may concern, Under the authority of Executive Order 12333 and pursuant to Title 18 USC Sectio
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by desdiv 12y ago
The blood type obsession thing is basically their version of astrological signs. Wikipedia has more about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_types_in_Japanese_culture
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Subterranean Psychonaut: The Gordon Todd Skinner Story(thislandpress.com)
45 points by desdiv 12y ago|0 comments
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by desdiv 12y ago
They're very similar, yes. Here's a detailed article comparing and contrasting the two: http://www.motortrend.com/features/editorial/1010_unbolting_...
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by desdiv 12y ago
The per country break down can be found here: http://www.gallup.com/poll/165269/worldwide-employees-engage... Notably, Syria is at the bottom of the list with 0% of their worker being "actively engaged"
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by desdiv 12y ago
Tesla's current market cap is $25b. Isn't $75b too much of a price premium? To be fair though, Tesla's share price went up by 100% over the past 18 months, so a 200% increase over the next 18 month isn't unimaginable.
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Toyota Prius' Power Split Device(eahart.com)
105 points by desdiv 12y ago|32 comments
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7GUIs – A Notational Usability Benchmark for GUI Programming(github.com)
160 points by desdiv 12y ago|17 comments
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by desdiv 12y ago
Part 2 here: http://www.guigarage.com/2015/02/concurrency-ui-toolkits-par...

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