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by hurin 12y ago
So what Mr. Levine is saying here, is that the expense for fund management is expected to scale nearly linearly with fund-size and New Yorkers have nothing to complaint about.
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by hurin 12y ago
To be clear: > Nevermore, my pet raven, is black. Is not evidence (This is because you don't know anything about the Distribution from which Nevermore is a sample): > supporting the hypothesis that all ravens are black. It i
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by hurin 12y ago
It probably amounted to a real crime. I had my driver's license as well. But you only live once and only a few of us even get a chance like this once in our lives.
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by hurin 12y ago
I'm not sure what happened here - but I've used HTTPSwitchboard (also created by gorhill) for awhile - and I hope the guy keeps making awesome software; he really deserves a lot more props than I can give.
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by hurin 12y ago
There was a good article I read awhile back (which was more global rather than limited to a specific nation) but I can't seem to find it now - nevertheless for example (random google search, an article about Mongolia (source: USDA; re
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by hurin 12y ago
It's an interesting topic. >But unless I'm mistaken I think you're implying that by removing beef production, you'd have to substitute it with additional vegetable or grain production. There are a lot of non-simple fa
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by hurin 12y ago
Why do I feel like some of the EFF articles are distinctly one-sided when it comes to certain topics? For example what about illegal government expropriation or interest-based selective-quasi-legal interference in economic affairs (i.e. Yuk
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by hurin 12y ago
A lot of land which is suited for cattle herding is not as a matter of fact suited for vegetable or grain production - the idea that vegetarianism is more ecologically sound is somewhat mythical.
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by hurin 12y ago
>> Perhaps reddit can even transition into being a reader (a la google reader) for people that don't want to set up their own node. >The issue of "abuse" which is harmful to people other than users of the forum shoul
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by hurin 12y ago
The second winner (Leurent) looks like a very weak entry to me.
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by hurin 12y ago
There are old established methods to guarantee sufficient security for message encryption, it's rather trivial and idk why every other new product has to reinvent the wheel. Key Exchange on the other-hand is hard and much more likely t
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by hurin 12y ago
I only scrolled through the article - but the guy's blog is pretty well written http://madmikethehippiebum.blogspot.com/2014/04/captured.htm... .
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by hurin 12y ago
You just need such a interpretation for 16 bits, that swapping one out of 16 bits will be able to generate any number 0-15 for x % 16. Trivial really.
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by hurin 12y ago
There needs to be a ban on this practice. I don't know about Canadian law, but most likely the spirit of: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures
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by hurin 12y ago
It really doesn't work for me. Here is why: A big part of manuals is being able to read or scroll fluidly into the next or previous section - very often one doesn't know whether what they are looking for is mentioned in 1.3.1 or 1
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by hurin 12y ago
Is there any advantage for consumers in such a switch? If so could someone explain what it would be?
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by hurin 12y ago
A circle jerk of academics salaried for writing useless things about a hypothetical situation.
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by hurin 12y ago
For some reason I thought it would be interesting to keep Windows 8 on my laptop to a dual boot with linux. Three hours of blank screen boots later I realized it was the microsoft boot-loader's fault (which absolutely refused to load L
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by hurin 12y ago
If you really want this site to have useful rankings for anyone aside from those looking to pay the bare minimum, consider gathering some additional information: a) Uptime statistics b) Customer-Support ratings c) Technical ratings (user as
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by hurin 12y ago
Is there a link to just the code somewhere?
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by hurin 12y ago
Here is a Julia version for anyone who is interested (print's to stdout instead of passing a struct though). https://gist.github.com/anonymous/23bbdf1f5077c7669844
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by hurin 12y ago
> Dealerships are market inefficiencies, as they create no real value or "wealth"[1]. This is very surprising complaint to hear - the whole capitalist economy is filled with inefficiencies! (and Paul Graham is hardly saying som
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by hurin 12y ago
I don't know much about the topic but I was under the impression a minimal 1 to 1 mapping is usually possible. ref: http://www.burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/perfect.html
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by hurin 12y ago
> if the data breaches we hear about almost monthly (Uber, Target, etc) are any indication, your password is just as at risk as your fingerprint. Two things - let's assume these companies follow best practices and both the fingerpri
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by hurin 12y ago
with technology that is much safer than traditional passwords From what I understand this is simply not true - could someone with a security background weigh in if this statement has any basis (were they comparing to <first_name>-&q
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by hurin 12y ago
You don't need a cellular contract - and the simcard is presumably stolen as well or a pre-pay account created under a fake name.
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by hurin 12y ago
If you're dumb enough to believe a beverage containing phophoric acid (commonly used in fertilizer) with a PH of ~2.8 is healthy, than you deserve it.
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by hurin 12y ago
That wasn't the point I was making - you're still relying on Yahoo providing the public key which corresponds to a given email-address, nothing prevents Yahoo (or whichever third-party service you use) from decoding your messages
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by hurin 12y ago
What GP is saying is not directly correct, but if the third-party service is compromised they could force you to leak the unencrypted message? More than that if the third-party service is compromised they can MiTM your encrypted communicati
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by hurin 12y ago
Is there something in the indictment that you find to be in direct contradiction to the petition? I couldn't find it - of course the Brian half of the story is missing here.

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