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by gloob 17y ago
If you aren't vaccinated, then nothing that happens to you says anything about the effectiveness or the lack thereof of the vaccine.
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by gloob 17y ago
If "servers and embedded devices" are a "caveat" to you, I'm intrigued about the world you live in.
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm not entirely certain that "working for a living" and "understands economics" are meaningfully correlated. "Working for a living" and "being able to understand the basic concept of fiscal policy", maybe, but full-blown economic policy i
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by gloob 17y ago
Which, once translated out of engineering jargon, means "Practically impossible in the general case, assuming you are not willing to accept an approximation."
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by gloob 17y ago
While you are correct in principle, if we were talking about taxing, e.g. cars that sold for over 100 000 dollars, it would be silly to argue that it was hurting the homeless more than rich people (I am ignoring potential side-effects of th
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by gloob 17y ago
Example: People other than you claim to be sentient. You have no direct access to their first-person experience, and are incapable of coming up with a falsifiable method of testing for its existence. How can you know they are sentient? Ph
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm unclear about what you mean by "unnecessary". In the strict sense, rewriting the software at all was unnecessary; in the very strict sense, writing it in the first place was unnecessary. My best guess at what you mean is that they incu
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by gloob 17y ago
While what you say is true, I'm not entirely certain what your point is. If distributing Erlang applications is/was untested, and (assuming I understand the article correctly) this is a data point regarding distributing Erlang applications
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by gloob 17y ago
The American government is not well known for deliberately poisoning millions of its country's citizens for the lulz.
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by gloob 17y ago
The difference is that Amazon had a clear way to make money: make their revenue stream bigger. That doesn't and won't work for Twitter, because Twitter doesn't have a revenue stream to make bigger. Saying they're the same thing is like say
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by gloob 17y ago
I would put money down that what we'll see is it breaking again.
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by gloob 17y ago
True, but having to threaten a lawsuit in order to get a refund hardly counts as the company "backing their product".
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by gloob 17y ago
Thanks. From that perspective, what you said makes sense. That said, I'm taking the opposite position. My story is roughly as follows: I'm a twenty year old Canadian who has had open heart surgery twice, maybe half a dozen day surgeries o
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by gloob 17y ago
I'll rephrase, I guess. The impression I'm getting from the commenter's reasoning is more-or-less a "The government is trying to kill us all" type of thing. I assume I'm wrong, because I like to pretend that people are rational, and becau
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by gloob 17y ago
I'll give you that, with the side note that if "living a 'natural life'" is that important to a person, it would be rather strange for them to spend all their time surrounded by machinery and copper wires and airplanes and roads and tall bu
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm not getting the H1N1 vaccine for the same reason I didn't sign up to go breathe the air at ground zero. Apologies, but I'm not very good at guessing what people mean when they construct sentences of this general form. Could you say e
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by gloob 17y ago
Which is why it was defined as even. Similar reasons apply for why one is not considered a prime number.
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm aware of both those definitions. My contention is that, in the context of the internet, 11 years qualifies as "geological time".
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by gloob 17y ago
Your point is roughly "it doesn't give me information relevant to the situation." The point you are responding to is "it doesn't give information irrelevant to the situation." Both points can be right, and, in this particular case, both p
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by gloob 17y ago
A legitimate point. "Eon" might be a better word. Edit: I just had the terrifying thought of this sort of website coming back in vogue circa 2020 because it's "retro".
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by gloob 17y ago
That's grand, but "learn any language that has millennia of development in common with your native language in three months" doesn't have much of a ring to it.
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by gloob 17y ago
If you think "collapsed" is a legitimate description of the present state of the American economy, I tremble to contemplate the words you would use to describe, say, Zimbabwe's. Edit: That, alone, is a tad too much snark with a tad too litt
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by gloob 17y ago
Also, you registered just to make this post? I would suspect that a fair number of users have registered to make a post, so I'm not entirely certain what you're getting at. (Unless it's just curiosity, in which case I'll allow YorkSEO to
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by gloob 17y ago
Perhaps I'm misunderstanding your definition of "built for multithreading", but in my (admittedly limited) experience, Lisp isn't it. To my knowledge, McCarthy's Recursive Functions paper, the Scheme standard, and the Common Lisp standar
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by gloob 17y ago
If I'm not mistaken, the person who wrote the C++ FQAs has a blog ( http://www.yosefk.com/blog/ ) with some rather impressively technical content. He appears to have a fairly solid grasp of what he's talking about, and not to be some (e.g.
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by gloob 17y ago
I'm curious as well, but about your suggestion: what fun would that be?
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by gloob 17y ago
To be honest, a literate person with English as their first language will almost certainly mispronounce GNU the first time, particularly if they see the logo as well. Not that this in any way actually contradicts your point, admittedly; it
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by gloob 17y ago
Good job the Googlers giving the presentation almost immediately mentioned that you'll be able to turn it off.
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by gloob 17y ago
That makes sense, although I was already aware of it. I suppose I was wondering if there was anything else to it, really, though I haven't a clue what "anything else" would look like, or (for that matter) if the question (when phrased as s
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by gloob 17y ago
Assuming I understand you correctly, the hypothetical solution is now this: The attacker has complete physical access to a laptop with an encrypted hard drive for an indefinite period of time. Forgive my ignorance on the matter, but

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