gizmo686

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by gizmo686 5y ago
At that level of paranoia, a special Ethernet switch may be an improvement. I still don't see the benefit over using an optical cable.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Thats what I was thinking, but even so, it is a weird product. First, Ethernet does not have a ground wire; and ground is the biggest source of electrical interference for analog audio. Second, the Ethernet switch is a really weird place to
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by gizmo686 5y ago
For economic purposes, the EU single market behaves much like a single large entity.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
I win because I am not distributing your work. You want to sue the off-chain 3rd party who is actually distributing your work. They would then be required to stop infringing, at which point my NFT becomes worthless, as it now points to a 40
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Summary judgement applies when the facts not in dispute are sufficient to reach a legal conclusion. If there is a material dispute of facts, no matter how obvious the evidence is, it must go to trial. Further, summary judgement only reduces
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by gizmo686 5y ago
> Any proposal to do that in effect makes the police investigation a court of first instance, which either means creating additional procedural rights that apply before it can be completed (driving up costs) or a very real denial of due
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Whats the scam? The insurance company was hired to provide insurance for the other driver. By all accounts they did so. If the other driver had no insurance, your options would have been the same: hope they pay out of good will, or sue them
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Several projects I'm on already have one: https://creadur.apache.org/rat/ Granted, this focused on code within the project, not dependencies.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The terminal on the pump will ask for a zipcode. If you can't pay at the pump (which sometimes happens even for locals for no apparent reason), you can step out of the car, go inside, and tell the cashier which pump you are at, and pay
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Perhaps: https://old.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/qba11n/wp_t...
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by gizmo686 5y ago
We haven't even proven SHA256 and ECDSA are secure on classical computers. As far as we can tell, they are no less secure on quantum computers. However on both classical and quantum computers, their security is still just "we have
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Unless your "ciphertext" includes a header saying "this data in encrypted with 512-bit AES-cbc" Instead of auditing the code/file format, it may be less error prone to just re-encrypt the entire file thereby hiding
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Insurance. There are insurance companies that will have you download an app from which they monitor your driving and adjust your premiums accordingly.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
If we are within the event horizon, then the direction towards the center of the black hole is not a spatial direction, but a temporal one. The cental singularity is in the future. As it turns out, the temporal direction is the only directi
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Average lifespan has increased because of changes on the low end. Fewer people are dying young. There has been very little movement on the upper end of lifespan. The current trend of improvement has a natural wall at about 100-110 average l
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Is there a need to a sustainable population rate? There are about 8 billion humans on the planet. We can sustain a sub replacement birthrate for generations. There is a good chance we can sustain it for long enough to solve aging; or at lea
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The issue is where developers spend mostnof their time. Almost by definition, we don't spend time dealing with scenerio #1, because things just work and we are done. Where we spend our time is when things don't work. If it doesn&#
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Dark matter is not merely an observation. It is a class of theories to explain that observation. Specifically, if your explanation for the underlying observation is of the form "there is some matter-like stuff with mass that is causing
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by gizmo686 5y ago
If you create an algorithm, it is likely based on previous algorithms you learned, and millenia of mathametics. To implement it in a computer, you likely rely on an operating system to run on, layers of userspace libraries, layers of firmwa
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by gizmo686 5y ago
There is no such thing as building something yourself. When you make something, you use tools, materials and methods made by other people. The most important part of building something that isn't crap is being able to recognize the cra
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by gizmo686 5y ago
And coal plants do not require an accident to make cities that are located on the other side of the planet uninhabitable.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
A land deed gives you the right to have people with guns enforce your will on others who would use that land; and limits the amount that those same people with guns would interfere with your abilith to use that land. Further, in practice, m
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The official advice in the first warning: PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... To repeat, a tornado is on the ground. TAKE COVER NOW! Move to a basement or an interior room on the lowest floor of a sturdy building. Avoid windows. If y
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by gizmo686 5y ago
What is the counter factual where the workers' don't risk their lives? My intuition is that an Amazon warehouse is safer than a typical home during a tornado. And many homes were completely destroyed during this event as well. Wit
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The casimir effect is established physics that leads to negative energy densities on small scales
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by gizmo686 5y ago
The trial was not designed to test the efficacy against death. It was designed primarily to test against confirmed covid-19 infection, with a secondary goal of testing against severe disease.
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by gizmo686 5y ago
There is nothing new about the vaccine in this report. Only a change in the labeling in Japan. Frankly, even for the Japanese this is not that interesting of a development, let alone internationally. Here is a US CDC page on the subject ht
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Ethics. It is routine to terminate a medical trial early when the results are so clear that you know you are harming the participants by continuing; wheather that harm is by negative effects on the treatment group, or depriving the control
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by gizmo686 5y ago
> Is it? Take a look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply You have M0, MB, M1, M2, M3, M4, and MZM. I suppose the difficulty is more in defing money than counting. Apart from the M0 component (included in
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by gizmo686 5y ago
Counting money is complicated. When I deposit $1000 in the bank, then even if the bank loans out a portion of it, my account still has $1000, and I still act like I have $1000. Put another way, there are essentially 2 types of money: centra

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