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811.
by flatline 11y ago
China has historically been too big to govern. Few regimes over the last 2500 years have managed to hold any major portion of what is modern day China under a single rule for any amount of time. While the PRC may make token shows of aggres
812.
by flatline 11y ago
As a not-so-junior dev, I didn't think he was all that funny half the time, and there was enough extraneous verbiage that I didn't bother parsing it all to find out what he was actually doing. I like the humorous style, but IMO th
813.
by flatline 11y ago
You can't find any stats because the shampoo lobby has suppressed all shampoo death-related research... A friend of mine tried to bring his gun through security. He had it in an outside pocket of his duffel bag and just forgot it was
814.
by flatline 11y ago
They are also the best equipped to launder money through the banking system regardless of its origin: that is what they already do!
815.
by flatline 11y ago
My point being, Scala is a powerful and expressive language in which you can write something like a basic DSL. I personally think this is great, but a lot of Java secs will take one look at that level of flexibility and faint when trying to
816.
by flatline 11y ago
Agreed. The problem with Clojure and Scala is that they naturally target Java developers, due to their dependence on the JVM and tight integration with existing Java libraries. Companies choose Java for, among other things, the relatively
817.
by flatline 11y ago
Drugs are capable of ripping apart families without any help from the drug war, thank you very much. Alcohol is certainly high on this list and there are a slew of prescription drugs up there with it, but we shouldn't pretend that the
818.
by flatline 11y ago
Self driving cars can't come to mass market soon enough - but I bet this will beat them there by a modest margin.
819.
by flatline 11y ago
Agreed 100%, that was one of my take aways from the article as well. I suspect that this dominance is next to fall, and I feel that SV has already passed its zenith, perhaps some time ago, and that locals and those intimately tied to its fa
820.
by flatline 11y ago
They were chosen/bred to be flavorless, but that was a side effect of breeding for looks: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/06/28/155917345/how...
821.
by flatline 11y ago
> well, we have some tweaks that didn’t make it into the paper. Every single time I've tried to implement a newish, reasonably complicated algorithm from a paper and contacted the authors when I've run into trouble, this is the
822.
by flatline 11y ago
Indeed - my mother is entering the advanced stages of the disease, and it started to be quite noticeable in her late 60s. I don't even plan on having retired by then! Both of her parents had the disease, so I figure I have at least a
823.
by flatline 11y ago
"The books" in this case are likely referring to local employment laws. They are doing the bare minimum required, all that other stuff is window dressing on a shit job, and it is pretty clear that nobody takes it seriously or rea
824.
by flatline 11y ago
Last year WP put up a glowing review of Amazon's iPhone resale service on the front page. This was right before the 6 came out, and I was up for a renewal, so I figured I'd use them instead of gazelle, which had been excellent in
825.
by flatline 11y ago
I think this ignores the very real risk of simply forgetting the passphrase. It's not really an apples to apples comparison, but I do think there are significant, and in many cases similar, advantages and drawbacks to both.
826.
by flatline 11y ago
> it's cheaper to secure, transport, and hide Secure/hide: It has the same attack surface as gold, plus the downsides of potentially being exposed to online attacks, along with shoddy wallet implementations fail to use sufficie
827.
by flatline 11y ago
One of my coworkers who bikes through the district will sometimes follow behind a guy who plays NPR on a regular radio - loud enough for my coworker to listen for a while on his commute, too.
828.
by flatline 11y ago
I honestly don't think he was being dismissive. I think he was acknowledging that the student's uncomfortable feelings were legitimate, even deliberately provoked, and offered a prescription for how to best handle them. This is
829.
by flatline 11y ago
I agree that it is valid for regulated intermediaries to participate. The notion of someone else holding your bitcoins, however, is anathema to the entire PKI behind the protocol. Someone else has your private keys, they own your coins, p
830.
by flatline 11y ago
Coinbase holds the dollars for you. It's arguable to what extent bitcoin even factors in here after your initial deposit, since everything is under the control of Coinbase. You are effectively holding a note called "Coinbase bit
831.
by flatline 11y ago
French intelligence has heavily infiltrated the regional extremist Muslim community and they had no idea about these attacks in advance. Ergo, the terrorists were using encryption. That was the speculation I heard the other evening on NPR,
832.
by flatline 11y ago
The existence of the Planck length does not imply quantized spacetime, which is still very much an open question in the field of physics. To the best of my knowledge most models still posit a continuous spacetime. cf. https://w
833.
by flatline 11y ago
To the best of my knowledge, healthy food is in fact more expensive. This is not only the conventional wisdom, here[0] is a meta-analysis of studies from 29 countries which supports the hypothesis. For many people, eating healthy is jus
834.
by flatline 11y ago
1480 light years away...it's just too far for practical travel on any sort of scale, and I assume scale would be required to "do something" to us beyond taking a glance - and even that seems far-fetched.
835.
by flatline 11y ago
There must be some acceptable middle ground. Have you ever listened to BBC news radio? It's dry as chalk.
836.
by flatline 11y ago
Very informative, thank you. With regards to the quarantine facilities, ebola showed us that this can be a very touchy subject - the Americans/Europeans swooping in and locking people away. Perhaps the fact that TB is more readily tr
837.
by flatline 11y ago
It depended on a few things for me personally. I made it through several years of a liberal arts degree with a 3.5+ GPA by showing up to lectures and doing the bare minimum required on assignments. I did very little homework. Mostly, I
838.
by flatline 11y ago
I took a CPR class several years ago before our first kid was born and within a week I couldn't have told you 100% how to perform a Heimlich. You drill it a couple times and are somehow expected to be able to perform it in an emergenc
839.
by flatline 11y ago
The US finds out about attacks ahead of time the same way we always have: through intelligence operations, not data mining. I don't think anyone is saying that targeted, legal wire tapping is somehow off-limits now. I don't see h
840.
by flatline 11y ago
We just had a local pawpaw festival, I had no idea such a fruit existed - like a cross between a banana, mango, and papaya, but growing plentifully at 42 degrees north. Apparently they have a short shelf-life - the fruit must be eaten or pr

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