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by dmurray 1y ago
Based on that description it would have been triggered by COVID-19, swine flu in 2009, and I think just missed out (depending on the fine print) on SARS in 2002. That's two or three in 18 years, so losing your money once every eight ye
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by dmurray 1y ago
Versions of this already exist with "this one lives in a low cost country, buys Steam games, Netflix subscriptions, (...) and shares them with family in high-cost country"
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by dmurray 1y ago
Not at Bloomberg's end of the market. I'd happily click through some "see this article for $0.49" or even 1.99, but I won't subscribe to "1 month for 1.99" because I've been conditioned to expect that
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by dmurray 1y ago
This seems a bit arbitrary since MMA gloves are lighter than boxing gloves. If you spar someone at an MMA gym you'll be throwing the exact same punches, but you won't be using 14 oz gloves.
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by dmurray 1y ago
> The union V_n = U_1 + U_2 + ... + U_n has combined length 1 - 1/2*n < 1, so it can't contain [0, 1]. This argument seems way less convincing to me than the diagonalization argument, because as n is going to infinity that l
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by dmurray 1y ago
It's not that ironic to have the view that a country is entitled to weapons to defend itself, while still complaining later on when they sell them to your enemies. It's just too principled to make sense to Americans.
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by dmurray 1y ago
It's not a special case, it's a change of the rules to allow numbers greater than 2048. Which are allowed in some implementations, but not this one.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Is that really the theoretically smallest? I think you can prove that some states representable by your proposal are unreachable. E.g. a board with 16 2s. So there might be another bit to spare.
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by dmurray 1y ago
> It has been suggested that these chromium alloys could be used for stainless cutlery, but the high prices of cobalt and nickel have prevented the use of such alloys Nickel and cobalt don't seem prohibitively expensive for cutlery,
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by dmurray 1y ago
What's the rationale for funding those niche sports? Mostly if a university gets some extra no-strings-attached funding it will set up a new research lab or endow a new chair or build new buildings or perhaps just stick it in the bank
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by dmurray 1y ago
That's an absolutely enormous amount. Your history curriculum must have been heavily influenced by a few educators of German stock or with a big interest in German-American history.
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by dmurray 1y ago
You can make arguments for it starting with "killing billions of people would definitely be bad" or "some fraction of those people will likely share my genes, which I have a biological drive to pass on". It encodes a sli
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by dmurray 1y ago
The other weird direction it leads is space travel. If you assume we eventually figure out long distance space travel and humanity spreads across the galaxy, there could in the future be quadrillions of people, growing at some kind of expon
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by dmurray 1y ago
I can't believe this is (2022). I would have confidently told you I read this 10 years ago and guessed that it was already a classic then.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Oops - I'm sorry!
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by dmurray 1y ago
It's important that he's hacking a system developed by (presumably) his lecturer or professor, not by the university's IT department. The professor hopefully has an interest in actual security research and some level of intel
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by dmurray 1y ago
Great post and great attitude. Little bit of a mixed message from this: > Within the aims of the module this is fine - this is an introuction to security module so if you can exploit it like this, you're not really the target audien
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by dmurray 1y ago
That seems massively relevant and should be in your post, assuming you're the author. Dragging on a touchpad is a nightmare for me: I would click and click with a touchpad, but would much prefer a mouse where I drag and drop. Click and
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by dmurray 1y ago
> And most of us aren't the megacorp-owners here. We're the customers. Actually, you're not. In the US, something like 40% of the stock market is owned by pension funds [0], and another chunk directly by individual savers.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Yes, it seems like the same method (a thin polymer mask of which a computer record exists) could be used in a completely human-driven process. Just allowing restorers to try a few different things to see what works would probably speed up t
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by dmurray 1y ago
Why would it have to be a single pixel instead of an array of sensors like any digital camera? Sure, we probably can't make Geiger counters in a form factor that allows an array of a million of them in a handheld device, but maybe 20x1
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by dmurray 1y ago
> Owning the complete stack was the right approach. It gives you the power to have something that work nicely on the devices you support. Imagine every application developer thought this way! For every app I want to use, I would have a
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by dmurray 1y ago
> During Uber’s big announcement, Kansal showed a video of one possible Route Share ride in the Big Apple. It covered about 3 miles from Midtown to Lower Manhattan, which would take about 30 minutes and cost $13. Definitely a weird choic
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by dmurray 1y ago
People might say the economy is more important to their voting, but it's not as prominent in the public discourse (which happens not only on the floor of Congress, speeches, and the occasional debate but in newspapers and on TV and soc
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by dmurray 1y ago
Really we just need more labels than "left" and "right", "liberal" and "conservative". Or to accept that political discourse has moved on. For the first 2500 years of democracy, the dominant topic of
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by dmurray 1y ago
> You're pointing to the Russel's Teapot of sigint. If there were multiple agencies with billion dollar budgets and a belief that they had an absolute national security mandate to get a teapot into solar orbit, and to lie about
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by dmurray 1y ago
Maybe the fights are more lethal for both crabs with a righty vs lefty fight, so it's no longer a zero sum game of winner gets the territory, loser gets nothing.
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by dmurray 1y ago
It's an offshoot of the Gregorian calendar, being offset from it by a whole number of years. And Thompson and Ritchie grew up and worked in a majority-Christian country: their individual faith doesn't have much to do with it.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Why wouldn't it be like human martial arts, where a left-handed fencer or boxer has the advantage of novelty over a right-handed opponent? Even in something like table tennis this has an effect. Baseball too, but for slightly different
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by dmurray 1y ago
> But now we have a single global standard, I think there is a huge amount of inertia against changing it - it is baked into untold millions of computer systems and business processes now. We have two global standards, both from the We

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