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by emmab 11y ago
Therefore, you should only continue to withhold the information if you think they've underestimated how bad it is. Therefore, if you continue to withhold the information they should increase their estimate of how bad it is.
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by emmab 11y ago
The water could have become dangerous before the river changed color?
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by emmab 11y ago
> Propranolol is used by musicians, actors, and public speakers for its ability to treat anxiety symptoms activated by the sympathetic nervous system. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propranolol#Society_and_cultur...
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by emmab 11y ago
I haven't found a way to block numbers in TextSecure or I would use it ... Oh they implemented it last month :D https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/222
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by emmab 11y ago
This could be mitigated to some degree by having multiple shared accounts per person.
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by emmab 11y ago
Is it just me, or was that not enough information to make that conclusion? There could be a lot of people sharing their password with people outside their household, and not sharing it with their household. Also netflix subscribers could
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by emmab 11y ago
I think your implementation of "RFC 862, the Echo Protocol" wouldn't work if the input doesn't end in a newline.
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by emmab 11y ago
There are good occurrences and bad occurrences.
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by emmab 11y ago
> for instance spy agencies spying on their own citizens is more broadly recognized as bad) An instance of the more general value of "personal privacy" which has nothing to do with such abstract constructions as "nations&q
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by emmab 11y ago
I use soylent when I have appetite issues because drinking is easier than eating when I don't feel hungry.
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by emmab 11y ago
Ideally the developer would be able to choose between paying themselves or letting users pay through micropayments.
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by emmab 11y ago
would be great if HN could just do this automatically
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by emmab 11y ago
> On the other hand, the end of swaddling and wet-nursing made possible the explosive modern takeoff in scientific advance. I don't see a citation for this one and I'm not sure why it would be true
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by emmab 11y ago
Also see http://www.givewell.org/ and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_altruism
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by emmab 11y ago
> No, it really wasn’t – it was perfectly fine, you’re just being a snob. The Web works well for me with the ads displayed. I have a lot of trouble reading when there is something moving on my screen
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by emmab 11y ago
"Code injection on live systems" is not allowed? what does this even mean? If I put ?param=' and it crashes with an SQL error have I performed code injection on a live system?
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by emmab 11y ago
I wrote a gem to help test that unique indices match uniqueness validations in rails https://github.com/emma-borhanian/schema_expectations If you only do rails-side validation, you have an (exploitable) race condition.
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by emmab 11y ago
it increases quadratically not exponentially
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by emmab 11y ago
It would be cool if there was a browser addon that let you submit a form N times in parallel.
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by emmab 11y ago
> The thing is, unless you are one of those unicorns, it's not necessarily a smart business move for you because you—unlike the VC's—are betting on yourself and not the aggregate performance of the portfolio. To play Devil&#x27
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by emmab 12y ago
Automatically downgrade to a more general implementation if those features are used. Add a flag to assert that a regex is actually regular and should use the fast implementation.
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by emmab 12y ago
The former is most definitely rape. We call sexual coercion rape because it can cause severe and lasting trauma even if physical violence or threat of physical violence is not part of the coercion.
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by emmab 12y ago
I hear voices every night as I fall asleep...
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by emmab 12y ago
Why not just subsidize internet service to areas which are not receiving service?
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by emmab 12y ago
The term is "time-bound kolmogorov complexity". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity It's a reference to time-bound solomonoff induction: http://www.scholarpedia.org/articl
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by emmab 12y ago
What about things like "Wow that's a really cool dress! May I ask where you got it?"
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by emmab 12y ago
Well, you could try anti-androgens like finasteride or spironolactone. They would lower your libido.
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by emmab 12y ago
I've seen what happens to people when they become "adults". They sit around and talk with the grown ups about really boring things like gossip. They stop playing tag. They start caring only about having relationships and stop
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by emmab 12y ago
When your top-down parser gets caught in an infinite loop, you'll need to convert the left recursion to right recursion. See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_recursion#Removing_left_r... Writing a compiler
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by emmab 12y ago
The article would have benefited from explaining in what situations you might prefer this to a UUID

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