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I'm amazed we have gotten this far without something like that happening. Critical infastructure is built ontop of this pile of software that is all being maintained by. If every major piece of infastructure (power plant, water treatme
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That is true if you want a "perfect" algorithm, that can provide arbitrary M-of-N guarantees. But, if you are a bit more flexible in your requirements you can get some very cheep reconstruction. I worked on a system that uses a va
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The more tractable problem is {halt, loop, unknown}. That problem us trivially solvable, and solved by every static analysis tool and optimizing compiler. Or at least, the generalized {yes, no, maybe} problem for various properties is. The
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Using dev tools to trigger the mousedown event beyond the point where they should be too small to click; you can go until the tab crashes.
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There is a major difference between earbuds and sunglasses. There is a lot of subconscious communication that goes on with facial gestures (including but not limited to eye gestures). This is where the sterotype of poker players wearing sun
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> I conjecture that for every j > 0 in R, a number n exists so that any two n x n matrices can be multiplied together in O(n^(2+j)) steps. Is this stated correctly? Because it seems almost meaningless as stated. You start with "f
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How does payment help with addiction? Most porn sites would likely go with a flat rate for unlimited access. Addict levels of viewing would be no more expensive than casual viewing
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The ER is not the only place you can go for medical treatment. My order of operations for medical treatment are: 1) Virtual consultation. Free through my insurance. If you need to pay full price, this about as expensive as option 2. Also wo
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Section 230(c)(2)(a) is pretty explicit in allowing moderation. Just because they are not legally liable for what users post, Congress did not want to prevent platforms from going beyond their minimal legal requirements if they so chose. Th
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In the US, the legal reality of free speech applies only to actions the government might take to restrict it. Regardless of what is good policy, the legal reality at the moment is that private companies have no obligation to provide free sp
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Rust performs runtime bounds checks on array access unless the compiler can prove that the index is in bounds. As such, removing the check is safe, because it is actually true that the program will never reach that line with an out of bound
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In this case, we understand the cause of the problem incredibly well. Advances in technology reduced the amount of work that needs to be done in an office building; and a once in a century pandemic caused the resulting shift away from offic
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I just tested on my phone (4G LTE) and it sees a ~28-35ms latency to 1.1.1.1. For reference, by cable internet gets ~12ms.
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Eyeballing the graph, it looks to me like the increase begins around 1910. The red portion of the graph starts later because of the arbitrary temperature they decided to use as the 0 point.
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If you need to already know what the speaket meant in order to understand them, then there is no point in communication. Human language has a pretty clear distinction between syntax and sementics. This is how we recognize that "colorle
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You could implement it as a generic 'application metadata' field in the IP header. From the perspective of IP, it one more length prefixed field in the IP header. Routers may interpret it in conjunction with the value of the proto
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You are paying for the curbside pickup anyway, so the marginal cost of recycling aluminum is small.
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There is. A quick Google search found several companies near me who will by scrap metal off of me. The problem is that a pound of aluminum goes for about $0.45. That does not come close for paying for a weekly curbside pickup service, which
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This explains why atoms have 0 charge, but not why protons, which are stable even without electrons, have a charge of 1. Put in terms of elementary particles, why is it that the ratio of electric charge between a quark and an electron is ei
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Public schooling in the US is done at a very local level, so varies significantly across the country. Where I grew up, the 1 school in your district was required to accept you. However, some of the nearby districts would let you apply to th
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Excel maintains a recovery file of your open document. If it crashes, you can reopen Excel and will likely recover most if not all of your data. You are far more likely to corrupt data by keeping the files (primary and recovery) open in a p
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The core concept that makes TPMs work (in this usecase) is the Platform Control Registers (PCR). The idea behind the PCRs is to allow the TPM to know that the overall system is in a known state. In particular, there are 2 operations that ca
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This point is specifically addressed in the paper. The predictive power of SAT/ACT goes far beyond its corralation to socioeconomic status. > Importantly, the relationship between first-year college GPA and SAT/ACT scores is li
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Under current US law, it is a very meaningful distinction. Possesing pictures of real child abuse. Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition (2002) makes this distinction very clear. > The argument that eliminating the market for pornography pro
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It is still not particularly difficult to tell AI images from real ones. The problem is that "not particularly difficult" means minutues of a human looking closely at them. If you have a bunch of images, those minutes at up very q
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This is not about Taylor Swift. If you want to fight against non consensual AI porn, you need someone to be the face of it. Swift is a good candidate because: A) She comes with a lot of free PR, that you would have to work for if you wanted
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There called an in-law suite here, and are generally used as a form of multi-generational housing when old parents move in with their adult child.
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In the current culture bedrooms are more than simply a place to sleep. In multi-member households, a bedroom is typically a person's only personal space.
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Isn't this essentially essentially the ether theory of light? You can measure the round trip of light along two different axis. If the speed of light was dependent on direction, you would expect these results to differ. It is possible
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There are two sides to the transaction. The lender is offering a fixed rate loan for 30 years, with no option to call for early repayment. However, the borrower does have the option to repay early at their discretion. In exchange for this m

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