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I believe in PG's "what languages fix" criterion, and I'm convinced that C will be displaced by a language which fixes multicore programming. You can do multithreaded code in C the way you can do structured programming i
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Lithium batteries are interesting because they store 200Wh/kg, vs. 40Wh/kg for lead. But they're dramatically more expensive, about 500€/kWh vs. about 100kWh/kg for lead (difficult to compare precisely, due to diffe
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There's always an official good reason why some Tor user gets busted by the Feds, and it's never that Tor itself is pwned. It reminds me of Brits trying not to show that they pwned Enigma during WWII. If I needed to be shielded fr
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That's my core problem with her approach: she seems to takes for granted that having limited formal reasoning skills is a defining feature of being female, and therefore must be promoted by feminism. It is to my understanding of femini
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I see a fundamental issue with her presentation: she shouldn't have called the non-normative approach to modelling "feminist". Although it might help her grabbing a gender-studies grant, it's a loaded word, and it's
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I'm not sure, but it seems not to be. That we can't tell whether it's an actual thesis subject or a joke tells something about the state of academic social science... Now, since the underlying question seems to be "why w
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> "As soon as one of these kills a dog it's done for" As soon as it kills a dog, you'll have to put certified accelerometer-triggered parachutes on them, and that's it. When accepting a risk improves logistics dr
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100W at 5V means 20A. We usually recommend 4 A/m2 max for copper conductor sections, so it would require two 5mm2 wires in the cable here. It would feel more like a rod than a cable IMO. Anyone got an idea how they plan to address this
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TL;DR: you where hired as part of a team, acted individualistically, and got fired for it. Two possible ways to fix that: * stop selling yourself as a team member when applying to salaried jobs, become your own boss; * do the job you applie
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The code is perfectly standard plain Lua. The point is not about expressiveness; it's that while this code composes several higher-order functions, it's compiled into the kind of assembly code you'd expect from a fully optimi
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Beware not to get confused between explanation and justification. Whenever a social issue is worth struggling for, that's precisely because of the mismatch between how things are and how they ought to be, it's essential to have a
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Young homo sapiens males have a natural instinct for war, which can be expressed or not depending on circumstances. Going to war is the historical high risk + high reward option: you might be killed, but if you survive, you have a good sh
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An NPE not using its right to practice legal racketeering would be comparable to a company not trying to lower its taxes out of a sense of civic duty: it's possible in theory, but so nonoptimal that it's likely to go bust fairly q
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I certainly wasn't advising against decentralizing. Only warning against thinking of it as an easily implemented no-brainer, a la "just decentralize everything, and everything is going to start working smoothly, like magic".
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> But "the government" is people. The way matter is subatomic particles. The same thing at very different scales exhibit very different properties, and although technically true, it's misleading to consider governments
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I was looking at it from a more general viewpoint: there are more and more valuable things you can effectively protect against seizure with a password. This was not foreseen in the constitution, which thought of seizure as a physical proces
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A noteworthy side-effects is that it dramatically increases the incentive to reform the 5th amendment (or reinterpret it, which is the usual cowardly way to achieve the same result). From a strictly technical PoV, the concept of having seve
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You understood; the journalist didn't. It's scary to see how clueless mainstream journalists are, as soon as they touch a subject we're mildly knowledgeable about. Imagine the amount of BS they spread when talking about compl
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About poorly paid boring jobs: either they're socially necessary and will command higher wages, or they're not worth it, and we'll manage without them. The main interest of minimal income is to shift the power balance between
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The point is not that EE suck; it's that if the IoT market starts growing explosively, as many expect it to, there'll be a penury of EE skills, and the market will belong to whoever allows to circumvent that penury. Originally, we
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Again, in France it's not "_loser pays_". It's "_judge determines who pays, and does so in such a way as to deter financial bullying_". The very reason why we have judges, rather than only cops, is that mechani
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In France, this is left the the judge's appreciation. "Condamnation aux dépens", literally "penalty of the costs", is a complementary, optional penalty which forces to foot part or all of the winning party's le
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The first thing to fix is the economic incentive: when you lose a trial due to invalid or non-infringed patent, you have to be the one footing the bill. It probably means that you have to escrow a provision to start such a litigation, to av
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You know just enough about Latin countries and their laws to be mislead. There are some puzzling rules and laws indeed, but there's this cultural notion that it's OK to flout inconvenient laws, rather than fighting them frontally
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There are many things to fix in France to encourage start-ups, indeed. And containing bureaucracy will be harder than tax issues IMO. However, what's very important in this endeavor this that it's 90% financed by Xavier Niel, a si
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This exploit works because the sandbox designer failed to forbid bytecode loading, which is known to be much more unsafe than accepting only source files. I believe there are several known ways to crash a VM by loading bad bytecode, for ins
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As often with powerful tools, what we miss is an effective counter-power to restore balance. In this case, I'd investigate: * making it a crime for officials to use anti-terrorism provisions without a serious enough ground (this poses
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Sorry if this question sounds dumb to US people, but wasn't "obamacare" supposed to fix exactly that?
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> That's the result when the BS job class fully decides who does "menial tasks" Because there's a confusion between the need to dis-incentivise BS work hours (as pointed elsewhere, it's more about BS hours than
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I also live on a boat, in France, and the pressure on mooring places is unbearable in many places, including all of those conveniently close to "good" jobs. This is worsened by the waterways administration's Kafka-like madnes

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