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by drodgers 10y ago
"The danger of being harmed or killed by terrorism is extremely low" Yes, but to be fair, she could be more angry about what islamic extremists are doing to people in the middle east, which is really awful and on a huge scale. It&
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by drodgers 10y ago
How is nuclear power not a "unilateral emissions cut"? If we start using more expensive nuclear power, then that will 'hurt' our economy (because we could have more nominal money if we bought the cheapest power). I think
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by drodgers 10y ago
This. He did a wonderful job of saying whatever people wanted to hear — even if he contradicted himself — and lots of people selected for what they liked. I think it's fair to say that we have very little idea of what he'll actual
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by drodgers 10y ago
"I have absolutely no fears about being a Muslim in a “Trump America.” The checks and balances in America and our rich history of social justice and civil rights will never allow the fear-mongering that has been attached to candidate T
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by drodgers 10y ago
> As a side perk, Australia has no equivalent to a National Security Letter, and FastMail is able to hence notify me of any government requests for access to my data. Unfortunately we've got something pretty close: ASIO can designat
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by drodgers 10y ago
Maybe the term has been overused to the point of meaninglessness, but I don't think so. The particular fascistic ideas Drumpf's movement expresses are: * Nationalism * A notion of racial or ethnic purity (see for example, th
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by drodgers 10y ago
That is what almost all JSON parsers do; even the spec says that you shouldn't rely on more precision than a double: This specification allows implementations to set limits on the range and precision of numbers accepted. Since so
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by drodgers 10y ago
"It won't stop a nation state modifying requests in transit and injecting their own js" It should stop a nation state if you serve up the JS via HTTPS and use certificate pinning.
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by drodgers 10y ago
Yeah, it's only in the beta/nightly builds at this point. I switched to the beta just for that feature; it's great.
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by drodgers 11y ago
Hi, Australian here. Our nominal prices (in AUD) are about the same as in the US (in USD) and our minimum wage is $17.29 an hour (+ 25% for casual employees). People who make minimum wage here aren't struggling to survive like they are
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by drodgers 11y ago
The government could achieve full-employment by drafting everyone or paying them to dig ditches then fill them in again, but that would be really wasteful. If there's actually nothing useful for some people to do (they can't find
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by drodgers 11y ago
The NRO has a history of interesting patch designs. This one in particular has always felt pretty apt: "Better the devil you know" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NROL49_patch.jpg There's also: "
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by drodgers 11y ago
The customer version already exists: http://clientsfromhell.net/
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by drodgers 11y ago
* Technical experts won't necessarily be good at teaching people to use technology, or helping to set up infrastructure in third world countries. * Other people (eg. teachers) will be better-placed to teach technical expertise to peopl
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by drodgers 11y ago
> Encrypted data is indecipherable from random noise. Which makes it noticeably different from all other (plaintext) communication.
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by drodgers 11y ago
"Batteriser can continue to deliver a 1.5 volt charge in batteries that have discharged down to 0.6 volts. There are more than eight 0.1 volt steps between 0.6 and 1.5 volts, so, in grossly simplified terms, the Batteriser can extend o
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by drodgers 12y ago
Wolfram Mathematica. It's very high-level language for doing maths. In some ways it's more like a software package with a text interface than a general programming language.
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by drodgers 12y ago
"Mihai'); DROP TABLE Donors" (from the donors page) is an asshole.
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by drodgers 12y ago
For anyone who missed the warning a few days ago: https://blog.torproject.org/blog/possible-upcoming-attempts-...
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by drodgers 12y ago
This is an old argument, it was made about writing, printing etc. The missing step is that these changes are actually optimisations because information really has become easier to access. If we were about to get transported to a pre-interne
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by drodgers 12y ago
They didn't think to weight the prior probabilities by usage frequency* - drawing a reasonable ? gives me ȓ, ᕉ, ╔, ᣑ, Ѓ, ק, ᒌ, ŕ, ᒤ, ᒦ, ņ, ᒯ, ѓ, and finally ?. I'm also guessing that they're directly comparing the handwritten
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by drodgers 12y ago
"the computer on which I am writing this could not possibly have come into being through the agency of physics alone. The issue is that these scientists are focusing on some strands in the web of causation that actually exist, and igno
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by drodgers 12y ago
This was one of them: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/muse-the-brain-sensing-he...
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by drodgers 12y ago
Yep. I just installed it and BibTeX is an export option.
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by drodgers 13y ago
C and C++ need this.