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by dmurray 2y ago
The Libor bankers, for example [0]. Were they completely innocent? Nobody is completely innocent, Cardinal Richelieu knew that. But they were definitely whistleblowers who went to jail. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/busi
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by dmurray 2y ago
It feels a bit performative to me: the article goes out of way not to explain it by giving the C equivalent. Perhaps some day Zig will have replaced C and beginners will come to Zig having never touched C, and in that context this approach
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by dmurray 2y ago
On your nit, I think the author's use of language is good. If two things are "comparable", they must be "like" each other in some way. Otherwise they could be contrasted, but never compared. The author's questi
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by dmurray 2y ago
I don't know, if it was really millions of dollars for a single patient - I wouldn't pay a few million dollars to avoid a few bouts of illness for a random member of my health insurance group scheme cohort, and that seems like the
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by dmurray 2y ago
It's mentioned in TFA that it comes from the Mitsubishi family crest. So the logo is conceptually much older than any of their registrations.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Overwhelmingly likely to be human interference, even without "complete development of the moon's surface". Perhaps somebody thinks it would make a good museum piece back on Earth, or some bored spacefaring teen vandals destro
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by dmurray 2y ago
Or if your marginal cost is small (eg, if your primary product is software) so a slow or delinquent payer doesn't actually cost you anything.
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by dmurray 2y ago
> practical effects My favourite piece of movie trivia: Terminator 2 had the biggest CGI budget of any movie to that date, but some of the scenes that most obviously needed CGI - where the T-1000 shape shifts into the body of an actor wh
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by dmurray 2y ago
A better engine or running the engine deeper will show 0.0 (or you need to show there are alternatives for White before 40... f4?!) Though this may be a situation where the weaker engine is actually more helpful in assessing the practical s
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by dmurray 2y ago
> Fisher had said that he was seeking to complicate the game-- which is something that black wants to do, in general-- add uncertainty for both sides. This is not something Black wants to do in matchplay chess in general. Usually he woul
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by dmurray 2y ago
I was intending to put the test equipment in the hole. Since "flying over test antennae" was an option, it shouldn't be a problem that there's solid ground (the bottom of the hole) underneath the test equipment. I think
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by dmurray 2y ago
> Instead of flying the aircraft over test antennae, the airframes (usually minus their tails) are suspended upside-down, under or near the instrumentation. Why not make a hole in the ground and put the antennae under the airplane that w
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by dmurray 2y ago
Mounting a fusion reactor (largely automated - these ships have a skeleton crew) on every big ship seems ambitious enough, why would you...sure, why not, package an automated deuterium fuel refinement facility in a box on the ship too. In a
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by dmurray 2y ago
If both sides agreed to the analogy of giving the bank robber the blueprints to the vault, I think any lay judge would agree that endangers the bank's security.
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by dmurray 2y ago
> this part of the case is settled. Maybe for this case, but it sounds like enough hinges on the details of the system that in another database, a court could uphold that there "would" be jeopardy instead of there "could&q
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by dmurray 2y ago
And this part seems self-defeating: > Attackers like me use SQL injection attacks to recover SQL schemas. The schema is the product of an attack, not one of its predicates”. If it's the product of an attack, but not the end goal, su
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by dmurray 2y ago
I've definitely worked somewhere they tell all the users they have individual codes, not to share them, and if there is unauthorized access it can be traced who leaked their code. Everyone gets told the same story and given the same co
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by dmurray 2y ago
The discount supermarket ones we use seem just as good. Also based on the absorbent gel, no leaks, no irritation.
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by dmurray 2y ago
Right, but theres a difference between "economically inefficient because every dollar spent here translates to less than a dollar of direct returns" and "economically inefficient because every dollar spent on this requires sp
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by dmurray 2y ago
Good points! Showing what constraints have to be met and proving that the prime numbers meet the requirements does seem worthy of a paper. But once that paper is in, hopefully we don't need 300,000 papers, one for each other sequence i
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by dmurray 2y ago
> But they never will be a viable alternative to decimals. Computation is too hard with them for one. I think this is too narrow-minded. You could make the same argument for ideograms vs alphabetic writing: one is clearly superior and yo
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by dmurray 2y ago
This seems like an incredible magic trick, but once you look closely, it is a magic trick - any series of numbers can be expressed as a constant with this formula. In a different world, we settled on a system of notation based on continue
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by dmurray 2y ago
You should look into options - you're describing various forms of options contract. None of them solve this problem, though: > Now, of course, one can hope to sell your shares in “yes” or “no” 5 years from now, but there may not be
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by dmurray 2y ago
Even without a cap, gravity "should" prevent the drain leaking - the connection to the hose is some height above where it joins the U-trap. If the drain backs up and the pressure is high enough to force water out, it might be enou
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by dmurray 2y ago
So the federal government hasn't insisted that non competes be enforced, it just no longer holds that they violate national law, and returned the power to regulate them to the states? This seems like a good and sensible thing. Most oth
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by dmurray 2y ago
> Windows setup still follows this pattern of installing a miniature operating system to bootstrap the setup program. But today, the miniature operating system is Windows PE, the Windows Preinstallation Environment. So, 30 years later, M
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by dmurray 2y ago
I assume this was originally played with normal decks, but the screenshots show special decks with only suits. Doesn't this make a difference to gameplay? With normal suits, if you trade a few times, you may be able to establish that t
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by dmurray 2y ago
This game seems like it shouldn't work playing one-off games with no money on the line. How do you win in that context - by ending up with the most money at the end of the game? That would change the gameplay very significantly - a str
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by dmurray 2y ago
If you assume it's the size of a reasonable hallway, I think there's enough room for an average person to lie down on either of the halves. At least if the back isn't too thick.
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> If it weren't a rug-pull, why wouldn't they charge for it immediately, or at least tell us the price now? Because they haven't decided the price yet, or because they don't think the feature is mature enough to justi

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