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by geographomics 11y ago
In the UK they've sidestepped this concern by making the refusal to decrypt an imprisonable offence: https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/Regulation_of_Investig... Though of course it doesn't help if the own
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by geographomics 11y ago
Useful to know, thanks. I was quite surprised by the furore as in the UK it's typically not deemed quite so offensive.
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by geographomics 11y ago
What a curious turn of events. Is "retard" particularly offensive in some cultures? I wasn't aware it had such inflammatory power behind it.
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by geographomics 11y ago
At its core, this article isn't so much about reddit, rather it's reflecting on the benefits of harm reduction via an altruistic, personal narrative of recovery from opiate dependence. Reddit is just the communications medium.
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by geographomics 11y ago
Not much, according to this article, as there are many firmware blobs that are still entirely opaque: http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2015/02/23/the-truth-about-pu...
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The truth about Purism: Why Librem is not the same as libre(blogs.coreboot.org)
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by geographomics 11y ago
I also get coredumps from openssl, ssh-keygen, and smtpctl on the first boot. The common factor for all of these is the XGETBV instruction - unfortunately it looks like DigitalOcean's setup of KVM doesn't support it. This was just
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by geographomics 11y ago
I was sent this document a while ago from an acquaintance who dabbles in nootropics; it may be of interest to those looking to try something new: https://bit.ly/1CHzody
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Noisedive(vimeo.com)
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by geographomics 11y ago
Agreed, it's a most frustrating website to use on mobile and tablet. If it helps, here are mirrors of the content: [pdf] https://bitstampincidentreport.files.wordpress.com/2015/07/2... [docx] https:/&#x
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by geographomics 11y ago
Same drugs but with different intent. Assisted suicide is a compassionate medical treatment for end stage incurable diseases, with full consent of the person being treated. Execution by the state is a coercive, non-medical procedure that de
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by geographomics 11y ago
Surely that message must be a parody of the overzealous Linux user? I find it hard to believe that the author is serious there.
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by geographomics 11y ago
My university blocks access to sci-hub on the claim that it has previously hosted malware. Apparently it attempted to infiltrate the visiting computer and act as a proxy server and/or grab the user's institutional login credential
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by geographomics 11y ago
Could this be worked around by using a pseudonym, registering a PO Box address, and using the number from a pay-as-you-go SIM card? Not false information as such, but not particularly revealing either. Alternatively, one could enter informa
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by geographomics 11y ago
The way around it is, rather than opening the CSV file directly, to create a new blank workbook and import the CSV file using Data --> Get External Data --> From Text . This opens the Text Import Wizard and from there one can def
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by geographomics 11y ago
A model containing only neurons may be too simplistic - glial cells also seem to modulate cognition in ways that haven't yet been fully elucidated. Then you also have rather more asymmetric synaptic behaviours such as volume transmissi
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by geographomics 11y ago
Preserving the connectome is probably insufficient for full restoration. Even if you could record the entire structure of the brain at the synaptic level, you're still missing the functional states of the neurons and glial cells that i
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by geographomics 11y ago
Apple uses Shazam as the backend for their music identification service on iOS 8, so at least they're not having to compete there.
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by geographomics 11y ago
If that anecdote is true, it means the medical school would have a bias against anyone who doesn't identify as Hispanic/Latino, and not necessarily a specific bias against Asians.
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by geographomics 11y ago
Yes but even if it could be confirmed that racial quotas that are significantly unfavourable toward Asian applicants exist for some medical school admissions, that doesn't mean it was the reason for your friends being rejected. We just
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by geographomics 11y ago
I think that unless you're privy to all the information that the admissions staff are using to judge acceptance, including the quality of the competition and a myriad of other factors that you or I may not have considered, it's a
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by geographomics 11y ago
It's difficult to conclude that from those statistics alone, as we don't know the distribution of MCAT and GPA scores within the self-identified Asian applicants - a higher mean may be because it is positively skewed. In that rega
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by geographomics 11y ago
Describing it as "just a mod" rather downplays the significant development effort that OS X has undergone since its inception. The code originally borrowed from Mach and BSD only applies to some parts of the kernel, and a few user
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by geographomics 11y ago
That's an interesting point, and indeed NT has a curious history in that regard - Microsoft was originally planning an OS/2-based API as the dominant one, and it was only due to the success of Windows 3.0 that they ended up adapti
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by geographomics 11y ago
Maybe it's just that the accepted applicants were of the same quality or better, in terms of their predicted suitability to practice medicine. The fact is that not everyone can get into such highly competitive programmes, and unfortuna
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by geographomics 11y ago
But OS X literally is a Unix derivative. Its precursor NeXTSTEP was built on top of the Mach kernel and BSD. In comparison, Windows 10 has its roots in the Windows NT lineage (starting with NT 3.1, and including Windows XP), which is separa
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by geographomics 11y ago
In the case of wanting to stick to a text-only workflow, rather than taking advantage of the structured data features, then you only need a tool that converts the binary log format to your preferred text format. Which isn't too arduous
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by geographomics 11y ago
That's not a limitation of the Event Log system itself, as you can easily write freeform text in the message rather than building it up with localised strings and structured data, e.g. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us&#
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by geographomics 11y ago
This is also just anecdotal, but I used to work with a Chinese sysadmin (I was in the UK, he was in China) who found it much more preferable to work on the localised Windows servers we had installed over there, as all the UI and messages we
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The difference is that a general purpose database typically organises data by fixed-size pages, so new data could be anywhere in the file as there is no guarantee of page ordering with regard to inserts. Whereas a specialised file format fo

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