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by hopscotch 7y ago
Only a partial substitute.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
Most of the middle class and up in the UK have a significant chunk of their wealth tied up in property (their own homes, then investment property), so not really.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
That throws away entropy, but I suppose so long as very few hash collisions of a password are likely to be real passwords themselves it would be harmless.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
Why are you migrating from Scala?
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by hopscotch 7y ago
Wolfram don't make matlab. They make Mathematica.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
You could do that with a wrapper around sftp, no?
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by hopscotch 7y ago
It's a static file host with a nosql database and a text editor. There's a very clear migration path if you don't want to use their service.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
What security reasons? You can totally have a secure sftp endpoint on your filehost.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
Have you had a proper security review? I don't think you would have made that mistake with user-websites being able to log out the user if you had designed with security as an important objective. Like, it's OK that you didn'
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by hopscotch 7y ago
I meant control of the postal address, which is quite hard. A little harder than access to the physical debit card. Same for email and phone. Gaining control of the account.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
That was my point.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
> semi important I'd rate income inequality and poverty higher, personally.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
If you want to extract strings from XML that arrives in a well-known format that meets certain expectations that may not be rigorous, then regexes can be fine.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
Why are banks liquidating such huge assets without proper ID or delay? I guess people can't remember secrets, so you have to use something as a root of trust for password resets and so on. Would be good if the banks realised that the a
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by hopscotch 7y ago
When I last did mobile stuff, waking the radio was more expensive than many CPU ops.
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by hopscotch 7y ago
The best real sorting algorithms are often hybrid. Would be nice to see mention of parallel sorting algorithms. These have basically linear speedup and you can do them on GPUs. Obvious disclaimer that you should never care about your sortin
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by hopscotch 7y ago
Sorting algorithm complexity and implementation is rote-learnt at this point. Hardly tells you much. Traditional technical interviews don't seem to help you find the best candidates (Google famously studied their interview process and
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by hopscotch 7y ago
It can put registration and private messages, etc, under their control. They they can raise their anti-spam bar arbitrarily high to block alt registrations and enforce bans. Sight of all PMs could be used for anti-harrassment too, but don&#
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by hopscotch 9y ago
KSP has gravity assist built in: it's an expected consequence of newtonian physics (Which KSP models). Mods might be to swap to the Solar rather than Kerbol system, etc.
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by hopscotch 9y ago
Swiss law does not require shelters in all private dwellings, (you can pay a small amount at the time of construction for a place in a communal shelter) and I'm not sure that even that is required any more. Large public buildings maybe
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by hopscotch 9y ago
I'm pretty sure you can define commutive and associative relations in Coq.
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by hopscotch 9y ago
Ronald A. Howard has quite an interesting take on this situation in a conversation with Harris in the appendix. They both talk about lying as self-defence: > ... The next level is stealing: Needless to say, if I could steal a weapon from
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by hopscotch 9y ago
There is a relatively easy and proven way to eliminate Malaria already: Malaria was effectively eradicated in all but the poorest areas in the 1950s and 60s through vector management: indoor residual spraying, building better houses, eradic
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by hopscotch 9y ago
Sam Harris wrote a good short book on this topic: https://www.samharris.org/lying
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by hopscotch 9y ago
You could, but that would be missing the point of the whole honesty exercise by using an overly restrictive definition of lying. In 'Lying', Sam Harris defines a lie as an intentional act of deception (or something like that). Tha
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by hopscotch 11y ago
Crossref is a non-google site, sponsored by the publishers, that, in my opinion, is friendlier for automation. Anecdotally, I get better results from them, too.