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by hetman 13y ago
The problem with fusion is that in the form accessible to us here on Earth (deuterium-tritium), it still creates radioactive waste. It is not the sort of long lived waste you would see from Uranium based nuclear fission, it is more comparab
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by hetman 13y ago
Not entirely. The article does make some inaccurate claims about the cracking of the Enigma.
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by hetman 13y ago
More accurately, the British and French had not managed to make any progress decrypting the Enigma until the work of Rajewski and the Biuro Szyfrów was handed over to them due to the shifting political situation.
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by hetman 13y ago
They are also immutable in Python.
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by hetman 14y ago
That assumes a rather static view of the situation. For Costco to maintain the advantages they gain from the wage disparity (employee loyalty, motivation, etc) they would have to further increase their own wages if such legislation was pass
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by hetman 14y ago
Why does that automatically preclude being motivated by good will? If their goal is to provide better wages to their employees then they would be best able to do so by increasing their competitive advantage by any means possible. Clearly th
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by hetman 14y ago
So I'm not a cinematographer but I find watching 3D at 24 FPS pretty annoying whenever the camera moves to quickly because you get a painful strobing effect. I had noticed it since the first 3D movie I saw and it has bothered me since. The
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by hetman 14y ago
It might only be coming into vogue now because strobing effects are far more noticeable in 3D than 2D and so the limitations of 24 FPS are becoming apparent as never before.
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by hetman 14y ago
I've always seen "garbage collector" used as a generic term for an automatic memory management system, not a reference to the specific algorithm used to do it. It could be a tracing garbage collector or it could be using reference counting.
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by hetman 14y ago
The patent system is not for encouraging innovation, it is for encouraging people to share the secrets of their innovation. Without a patent system we would go back to the guild system of the middle ages, in other words, the protection of t
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by hetman 14y ago
Yes but there are other ways to mitigate the risks somewhat. Temporary revokable tokens would at least mean an attacker doesn't gain a permanent foothold, and never discovers the password.
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by hetman 14y ago
The letter "ł" is pronounced like an English "w" not "l".
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by hetman 14y ago
The first Bombe was built by the Poles and its design later given to the Brits. It was called the "Bomba Kryptologiczna", i.e. the "Cryptological Bomb" because of the amount of noise it made. Turing didn't invent the Bombe, his contribution
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by hetman 14y ago
Yes, I can see how making an application more consistent and predictable would be terrible for the end users.
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by hetman 14y ago
When of the other guys posted some stats in their post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4531152
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by hetman 14y ago
You seem to be talking about a "potential" audience. Statistics for actual usage is quite different.
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by hetman 14y ago
The various languages in China do not begin to even approach anything like mutual intelligibility. They are not dialects but separate languages, much in the way Spanish and Romanian are different languages even though they both started as L
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by hetman 14y ago
Not sure why he's picking on the Asians. In my experience this phenomenon doesn't seem to be restricted to any specific ethnic group.
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by hetman 14y ago
Yeah. The public is going to mount a revolution over a music format. I don't think being contrary for its own sake is helpful here. The whole point of "tested by the courts" is that it's already gone through the appeals process. As in, you
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by hetman 14y ago
Could you elaborate on the alternatives?
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by hetman 14y ago
I think part of the problem is having someone without correct technical knowledge of the subject matter actually making decisions. It is not the foreman's fault for being picked for this task, however, his lack of competence is a perfect de
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by hetman 14y ago
You're missing the point. Perhaps it was my fault for using a word that is already loaded with meaning in the context of the patent system, but it wasn't my intention for it to be used in the same way. What I was talking about has nothing t
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by hetman 14y ago
The purpose of patents is not to protect your clever ideas because you're special and you deserve it. That's what copyright is for (copyright carries certain restrictions however). Patents are in fact an exchange; something for something. S
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by hetman 14y ago
Unfortunately you'd still have to contend with the trolls if you wanted to sell your product/service in the USA.
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by hetman 14y ago
That seems like a silly argument. The amount of time a person has to invest to be trained sufficiently to fly an airplane is huge. The amount of time required to then have to pick up completely different user interfaces probably doesn't see
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by hetman 14y ago
Thank you for this highly relevant contribution to the present discussion.
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by hetman 14y ago
Yeh, to be honest life imprisonment probably wouldn't be all that more pleasant than a death sentence. Also the US has, in recent years, demonstrated that its protections are primarily intended for their own citizens. Apparently it's OK to
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by hetman 14y ago
This still remains only an allegation. On another note, it's easy to remain on one's moral high horse while surrounded by comfort and taking relatively light responsibility on one self. I suspect the perfect moral hero that gives up all of
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by hetman 14y ago
The US federal government retains the legal right to the death penalty for cases of espionage.
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by hetman 14y ago
You've lost your time achieving exactly nothing. You may also lose the respect of those who have outgrown feeding their own ego. The worst part is that since the other person didn't actually listen to you, they have no reason to believe the

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