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1621.
by incompatible 13y ago
It is fascinating. Imagine if we did detect a radio signal from intelligent life elsewhere. What sort of reply would we send them? I imagine it would be every sort of reply imaginable, as everybody with access to a radio telescope gave it t
1622.
by incompatible 13y ago
Fads come but they never seem to go. Even COBOL is still out there in daily use. EVERTHING is still out there in daily use.
1623.
by incompatible 13y ago
I imagine you could do slightly better. Maybe from the edge of Siberia to the south of Spain, or Singapore to the north of Norway. Walking to London has a big obstacle in the way, the English Channel. I'm not sure how he intends to dea
1624.
by incompatible 13y ago
I notice a tendency with new interfaces that you need to know "secrets" in order to use them effectively. Things that aren't visible in the user interface. E.g., in unity, to open two instances of an application, you need to
1625.
by incompatible 13y ago
Which would be nice for owners. Recharge your battery until it shows signs of age. Then swap it out repeatedly until you get a newish one, then go back to recharging only.
1626.
by incompatible 13y ago
I encrypt some data with gpg -c before storing it online (offsite backups are useful after all). However I'm now contemplating whether my password is vulnerable to brute forcing. May need even more bits of entropy, while still being ab
1627.
by incompatible 13y ago
Of course the Afghans are going to hate the US if you are killing their children. Imagine the uproar if an Afghani had set off a bomb in the US which caused the same casualties. Actually you don't have to imagine, you have the recent B
1628.
by incompatible 13y ago
If you shop around a little, you'll find banks in Australia that don't charge account fees. And I'm not convinced that ASIC will pay decent interest rates, since the government cash rate is lower than typical bank rates for deposits (again
1629.
by incompatible 13y ago
I didn't realise that it applied to every account individually at a single bank. I'd have thought transactions through any particular account would be enough to show that none of the accounts are "lost". Any other activity such as logging i
1630.
by incompatible 13y ago
But you'd think in that case that any sign of activity on the part of the owner would be enough to determine that they aren't dead. E.g., logging in to online banking or answering a phone call from the bank. Now with this new Australian reg
1631.
by incompatible 13y ago
I'd go further and say the ability to switch off the logical parts of your brain is essential when dealing with the financial markets. Trying to understand why the markets are doing what they are doing is not only a waste of time when tradi
1632.
by incompatible 13y ago
I agree with you. The idea of "mining" these numbers using an ever-increasing amount of computing power is simply absurd. They'd have done better to allocate the coins in some other way .. I don't know how, maybe distributed equally among H
1633.
by incompatible 13y ago
Voting seems unattractive to me. If I trusted somebody and had enough respect for their work to give them commit access to a repo of mine, then I'd also trust them to merge whatever 3rd party patches they wanted. No point in tying things up
1634.
by incompatible 14y ago
Perhaps it would also have been useful if they had addressed the pre-1972 recording issue that came up recently. I.e., they don't appear to be covered by the DMCA safe-harbor provision, leading to unintended liability. See: http://arstechn
1635.
by incompatible 14y ago
I can't reproduce your results: I find typical searches give 1 or 2 links to Wikipedia on the first page. And if you add "-wikipedia" you can get rid of the lot. I do realise Wikipedia is far from perfect. So many articles don't cite their
1636.
by incompatible 14y ago
Wikipedia is actually a great example of how getting something started can eventually lead to something much better. Here's the first version of that article: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Abilene_paradox&#3... That's what Wik
1637.
by incompatible 14y ago
Nice article, since it's very similar to what I did. However, I had to work 11 years longer for it. I guess I wasn't as well paid, or not as efficient. Also, after 6 years of retirement, I don't know yet if my situation is completely stable
1638.
by incompatible 14y ago
I'm starving apparently, fewer than 50.
1639.
by incompatible 14y ago
Strange that there are so few here who are older than Paul Graham, who is about 49.
1640.
by incompatible 14y ago
The moral of the story is don't develop software unless you have the resources to fight patent lawsuits. I haven't, so I don't.
1641.
by incompatible 14y ago
What stops the buyer sending back an empty box?
1642.
by incompatible 14y ago
Yes, isn't saying that rational approximations of pi are useless the same as saying that all approximations of pi are useless? Or is there some meaningful irrational approximation of pi that can be made?
1643.
by incompatible 14y ago
This is outdated, I believe. These days there is no easy way for NZ citizens to become Australian citizens. However they can still live and work in Australia, but remain second class in various ways, such as not having access to many types