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by gefh 11y ago
Taking it to a P/E of _only_ ~100...
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by gefh 11y ago
His note [5] links to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F4i9M3y0ew which is a demonstration of a siphon in a vacuum, so he's covered :)
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by gefh 11y ago
My bad; now I know what an air drop is, and it doesn't involve blowing anything up. Still, the above links are fascinating.
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by gefh 11y ago
Time to bring back camouflage cities[1] and ghost armies[2] then. [1] http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/100years/stories/camouflage... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Army
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by gefh 11y ago
The first call is to User.getCount() - 'this' refers to User, so the function returns 1. The second call is to a bare function - or more exactly, a function on the global scope - so 'this' refers to the global object, wh
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by gefh 11y ago
That's a 100-generation result and not expected to be that great, they do get better with more training.
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by gefh 11y ago
Local user to root privilege escalation is generally easier than a VM escape. Though both are possible.
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by gefh 11y ago
Fair enough - it was a good read.
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by gefh 11y ago
I love the internet. I love that someone wrote a whole article on something so arbitrary. I'm not sure why it's on HN though.
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by gefh 11y ago
This guy is amazing and his videos are well worth your time! There's something peculiarly, primaly satisfying about them.
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by gefh 11y ago
Now I know that this is more of a tax than a ban, the proceeds of corruption bit sounds more likely. No one likes to tell the government about their undeclared income.
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by gefh 11y ago
That sounds more reasonable, do you know the rate?
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by gefh 11y ago
Limiting capital outflow to $50000 per person seems like an effective way to keep well off people trapped in your country. While there are still millionaires in China who would prefer to live somewhere else, new 'banks' will sprin
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by gefh 11y ago
I second a usb authenticator. It's also an effective defence against phishing attacks - unlike OTPs.
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by gefh 11y ago
If you can figure out how to use your money after you're dead, I'll make an exception for you in my Kingdom.
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by gefh 11y ago
Yes, it seems there should be diminishing returns on opening extra branches. And if the bank just wants to own the real estate, they should be able to find more profitable tenants. I'd be happy to go an extra few blocks if a branch was
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by gefh 11y ago
This is one of the arguments in favor of inheritance/estate taxes - they should have a distributive effect that prevents the formation of a nobility or royal class. Of course, no-one with enough foresight actually ens up paying a signi
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by gefh 11y ago
Excellent news. These sites prey on the people who can least afford to lose and as the article noted seriously misrepresent the chances of winning. Shame on the NFL for their involvement.
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by gefh 11y ago
Because people have more money than sense? Same with any luxury item really. And I don't mean that more money implies _less_ sense, just that sense is limited and money isn't.
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by gefh 11y ago
Yep. If you need an unknown number of things put them in an array. The arguments object is just too complicated for perf critical code.
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by gefh 11y ago
A firesale, or buyout, or merger, or nationalization. It's strange, because few of those terminal events will get you a very high valuation, yet this doesn't seem to have a depressing effect on current values. But if no-one thinks
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by gefh 11y ago
Maybe some combination of DNSSEC and cert pinning? Of course, without slowing anything down!
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by gefh 11y ago
But this is the 4th or 5th similar announcement I recall, some of which have been malicious, some incompetent. Maybe CAs are getting better but 'trusted' is not the first word that comes to mind any more.
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by gefh 11y ago
Is the CA model just unfixably broken at this point? What should replace it if so?
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by gefh 11y ago
It's so sad that intrade got stomped by the Feds while fanduel and draftkings are advertising on TV. There's a serious social utility in prediction markets, whereas fantasy sports betting is just another way to separate punters fr
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by gefh 11y ago
I don't seem to get any iYogi ads - could you share a screenshot and I'll share it with the bad ads people?
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by gefh 11y ago
Right. This is only tangentially to do with autoboxing, the same would happen for (true ? 1L : 0.0).
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by gefh 11y ago
The data gets collated in a Google sheet, so I think he'll be fine. Or at least if he finds a bug, it'll get fixed.
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by gefh 11y ago
Wikipedia data is available under a choice of open licenses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reusing_Wikipedia_co... They're unlikely to sue because 1. They don't want to, making information freely av
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by gefh 11y ago
Bazel is the open source version of the internal build tool, it is multi-language. BUILD files in each directory specify dependencies and more.

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