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by folbec 4y ago
"Regulators are underfunded and outgunned by those whose massive profits rely on outsmarting them." That's a feature, not a bug, and generally true in any country. If regulators were correctly funded and staffed, they would h
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by folbec 4y ago
The original link poster may have wanted to link to this : https://acoup.blog/2022/05/06/collections-when-is-a-tank-not...
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by folbec 4y ago
In a perfect world, yes. Statistics is a HARD subject, specially when you get a juicy believable story in front of you. And a lack of credit to do confirmation research because for administrators "it is not new". Richard Feynman
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by folbec 4y ago
With, however the caveat that scientific papers can be embarrassingly wrong, and the error can not be spotted for 17 years, and the paper can go on being widely believed and quoted many years after the full debunk (and the case I link is ap
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by folbec 5y ago
recently, I have used it to find the hotel, then booked direct.
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by folbec 5y ago
... something something like "civilized country not tainted by the historical legacy of large scale chattel slavery" American labor laws are inhuman.
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by folbec 5y ago
C. Stross - Saturn's Children. https://www.amazon.com/Saturns-Children-Freyaverse-Charles-S...
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by folbec 5y ago
My bet is someone did a DMCA claim on a file containing 1, either by mistake or as a joke. Then Automated Stupidity took over.
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by folbec 5y ago
Exactly. The Wiki feature in Teams is brain dead, but I'm still using it because it is right next to the rest, which mostly works .
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by folbec 5y ago
You will notice that ballistic missiles are regulated. Rocket launch are very publicly announced (and tracked). The known reaction time window of a ballistic missile is ~15 minutes (for russia) to 30m (for the USA) and is already too short,
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by folbec 5y ago
And the difference between a space solar farm and a military grade space ray is ? If you are beaming serous amount of energy toward earth, you better have a good answer to that. Or you will get the visit of very serious people with no sense
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by folbec 6y ago
Well, sadly this rule about password aging made its way into some regulations. We know it is idiotic, but it is the law.
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by folbec 6y ago
Not really, at scale. SSO is a must in any big organisation, there are tens or hundred of applications. People are incredibly and consistently bad with security. You really need a way to be able to cancel all accesses in one swoop for any i
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by folbec 6y ago
Except there was no shortage of apps that made the change silently, without asking (or asking for one, and changing many), hijacking defaults. I too find the new system annoying, but its better than go hunting thru file formats looking for
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by folbec 6y ago
The 4 things I love most in Powershell, from the point of view of a maintainer of scripts, is the relative verbosity of commands (at least I don't have to go hunting for obscure acronyms, or recursive puns such as yacc, when I read cod
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by folbec 6y ago
No the logical name is C@, the great successor of C# ( https://www.reddit.com/r/C_AT/ )
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by folbec 6y ago
I think one of the big problem of Word is that it is routinely used for things it was not designed for and which are still out of Microsoft target. It's a tool for not too long technical documents, for secretarial work, for basic mar
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by folbec 7y ago
"That’s why building a product recommendation algorithm was a hot topic 20 years ago, but nowadays everyone and their mom can just get a WordPress plugin for it and get close to Amazon’s level." Well, I haven't had a remotely
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by folbec 7y ago
not sure that we cannot allocate capital, the previous generation harvested most of the low hanging fruits, it can be argued that most modern progress needs more and more energy, and we are on a path of diminishing returns. See the various
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by folbec 7y ago
The reason why I prefer Mercurial to Git, whenever I can.
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by folbec 7y ago
- They are NOT speaking of the 1% (such as medical professional or high income technical professionals) - They are NOT speaking of the 0.1 %. - They are speaking of the 0.01%. One person out of 10000. Not multimillionaires. 100 milliona
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by folbec 7y ago
As a private company, as long as they are not a monopoly or a quasi monopoly( ), they can do what they want, no restriction. ( ) My personnal definition is a minimum of 4-6 participant in any market with at least 5%-10% share each (Exemple
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by folbec 7y ago
no girl in 216 birth is a probability of 1/(2^216) : it's either cherry picking or criminal. The article is ambiguous on the way the villages were identified ("a red zone" ???).
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by folbec 7y ago
Maybe you should have a look at roman successions, even if they were generally adopting relativelly close relatives. Paternity is a social construct. There are cultures where paternity simply is not important. In a matriachal society, a pe
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by folbec 7y ago
If you want to support it, and dislike PayPal, you can pay for it on the Windows Store.
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by folbec 8y ago
As a customer, not a seller, I'm now activelly avoiding Amazon as much as I can. Even if it is inconvenient. Especially since I read this article about commingling (you need to register (free) to read): https://ftalphaville.
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by folbec 8y ago
I can confirm that "The Tor Browser" works perfectly for libgen. I even get better access (but my ISP is often shitty). I woould not have tried Tor, but for this block.
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by folbec 8y ago
Yes, but I also think he has the right tone, even if the original question is stupid or badly expressed. So his answers are good and never condescending and generally newbie friendly. This makes him popular. I have a feed reader on his answ
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by folbec 8y ago
If the vote is before brexit it's 23.88% after brexit it's 27.42%.
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by folbec 8y ago
One thing I can certainly agree with is the "no horizontal scrolling" beef. I have a 4K laptop, evan on high res, the lack of horizontal scrolling in Azure portal and other Azure tools is a dailly irritant. Stop trying to badly em

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