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by huxley 13y ago
Ancient irrigation systems are often the ignored wonders of the world. My favourite is the Zarch Qanat, which is about 3000 years old and has a tunnel into the water table which is about 71 kilometres long with over 2000 vertical shafts int
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by huxley 13y ago
While I agree about your main point, your costs are a bit out of date. Most brand-new MRI machines cost between $1-3 million with an additional $300-500,000 for the room and ancillary equipment.
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by huxley 13y ago
If you were initially confused like I was, crate.io used to be the domain for an alternative Python Package Index. http://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1wcp93/what_happened...
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by huxley 13y ago
"The Official Secrets Act is not to protect secrets, it is to protect officials." - Humphrey Appleby, "Yes, Minister"
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by huxley 13y ago
Beware, link strolling through Wikipedia articles relating to Gary Powers and the U2 incident can end up eating your entire day. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Nickel_Case
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by huxley 13y ago
Hate to disagree with you but you can have plenty of flexibility with element and attribute white-lists without abandoning sanitizing. Sanitize as much of your inputs as you are comfortable with and escape the outputs.
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by huxley 13y ago
> "Perhaps this is why some Irish people prefer to spell their name using the letter Ó. After years of having their name mangled by naive software developers, they made a new letter." I hope this is satire, Irish didn't &q
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by huxley 13y ago
There has certainly not been a lack of work on porting, there was the neo branch as well, there is some interesting (for some values of interesting) discussion about the approaches to 2.x and 3.x compatibility: https://github.com
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by huxley 13y ago
You are correct, but the number of blockers is getting smaller. I sympathize with your situation, boto is a pretty big blocker (PIL was too until I switched to Pillow) and it impacts several of my projects, but thankfully I can work on port
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by huxley 13y ago
Since it's only bug & security fixes for Python 2.7.x from this point on, the momentum to python 3.x will pick up considerably. Python 3 compatibility far outnumbers incompatible packages now: http://python3wos.appspot.c
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by huxley 13y ago
WHOIS records come from the registrar not Cloudflare, perhaps they mean obfuscated traceroutes?
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by huxley 13y ago
An important US trademark case (Burger King of Florida, Inc. v. Hoots (1968)) also involved Burger King: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_(Mattoon,_Illinois) The court ruled that federal trademark registration
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by huxley 13y ago
The definition of 'kinfolk' was probably pretty minor among the list of fabrications by Forrest Carter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asa_Earl_Carter
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by huxley 13y ago
Interestingly, Orange as a place name (and the House of Orange) has a different derivation, it came from Arausio which was named after a Celtic water god. Latterly it came to be associated with the fruit and colour.
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by huxley 13y ago
The novella "The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate" is a great longer Ted Chiang piece, hard to find nowadays but Starship Sofa did an audiobook reading of it (starts at about 2:03 mark): http://www.starshipsofa.co
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by huxley 13y ago
Presumably it has some sentimental material on it, like emails or photos, that is considered more valuable than the iPad itself.
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by huxley 13y ago
If you think this is a problem that only applies to dictatorships, I encourage you to read The Melian Dialogue by Thucydides http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melian_dialogue All Great Powers fear losing face, democracies
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by huxley 13y ago
There are actually dozens of these apps for iOS (and have been around for years) including Manga Rock and Manga Storm. There's actually a tweet from Zac Bertschy, Executive Editor of Anime News Network that complained about how many ar
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by huxley 13y ago
A strike involves work stoppage, it's a very different tactic than mass resignation. In 1999, Major League Umpires Association (MLUA) were not able to legally go strike so they opted to use mass resignation as their negotiation strateg
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by huxley 13y ago
To clear up my own confusion, the 56 bytes only comes in when using bcrypt for encrypting vs hashing, however the "72 character" password limit for hashing is actually 18 words of 32-bits. http://www.gossamer-threads.co
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by huxley 13y ago
EDIT: I was attributing the 56 byte limit incorrectly to hashing, see the reply I made to this comment for what the limit actually seems to be. Maybe it's changed but the paper which defined Bcrypt specifically states: "Finally, t
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by huxley 13y ago
Django reverted the password limit change: "In Django 1.5.5, we’ve reverted this change and instead improved the speed of our PBKDF2 algorithm by not rehashing the key on every iteration." Incidentally Bcrypt does have a 56 byte l
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by huxley 13y ago
Very much so, with some philosophical differences http://everything2.com/title/The+difference+between+Everythi...
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by huxley 13y ago
On that note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusang
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by huxley 13y ago
And intended to be a real world "Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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by huxley 13y ago
The Thresher eventually sank to 8400 feet. According to this article: http://www.navytimes.com/article/20130404/NEWS/304040021/50-... the Thresher likely imploded after sinking to 2400 feet, "the wa
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by huxley 13y ago
Yeah, I think the rancher would direct you to the nearest apiary, perhaps gently suggesting that the proper collective noun is "swarm of bees"
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by huxley 13y ago
Haha ... true enough, though Ishmael is well established as an unreliable narrator. Here's my favourite fact: the white whale Moby Dick is based on a real-life white whale named Mocha Dick http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by huxley 13y ago
A discerning modern whale would know that it is a mistake to dislike a work of literature because its characters are flawed and distasteful. Ahab could give that whale insight into the often obsessive nature of humanity, its willingness to
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by huxley 13y ago
[TAYLOR falls to his knees screaming] YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! OH, DANG YOU! GOLDANG YOU ALL TO HECK! [TAYLOR buries his head in his hands, point of view switches to reveal half-buried in the sand and washed by the waves is MARINE WORLD

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