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by jcranmer 4y ago
Fiat currency is not backed by military power. Note that there exist several countries without militaries, and none of those countries have worthless currencies. And there have existed countries that put significant investment into their mi
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> A life of a person in 8000 BC was not that different from life of a person in 7000 BC What about Çatalhöyük? 7000 BC puts you around the zenith. Not far away in Mesopotamia, 7000 BC would also be about the start of the Hassuna period,
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There are a few issues with this kind of assignment. The first issue is that it's really hell on the TAs with all of the administrative work needed to do the swapping between phases. Software engineering is already one of the more anno
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by jcranmer 4y ago
That's a poor argument because, even going strictly by the specification, DT_HASH isn't authoritative--the symbol table is provided by DT_SYMTAB. Personally, I feel that by the time you're messing with the _DYNAMIC entries
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Sorry, I should have clarified further. This is "world" in terms of European political discourse--as far as Europe was concerned, if you weren't a European power (and Russia most certainly was a European power), you weren&#
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Arguably, that honor goes to the Seven Years' War, which saw significant fighting both in Europe and in North America. The French Revolutionary Wars/Napoleonic Wars were equally grand in scale, and conducted at a time when the &qu
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by jcranmer 4y ago
My sole experience with credit card compromise was almost as good--there was one fraudulent charge, but the bank reversed it, canceled, and issued a new card before I could get a chance to notice it.
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by jcranmer 4y ago
If memory serves correctly, in the Thunderbird 1.0 era, all of the passwords would have been saved via encryption via NSS's secret decoder ring methods. So if you set up a master password, then the contents would be encrypted on-disk.
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> but I think you can probably throw it into a very contrived SYCL ugly-ugly-ugly pipeline and somehow get it on an FPGA. It's not a "very contrived SYCL ugly-ugly-ugly pipeline"--Intel's oneAPI explicitly has a FPGA
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by jcranmer 4y ago
What evidence have you that growth in self-driving capabilities is inherently exponential, much less doubling every year? Indeed, if I extrapolate your numbers into the past, when Tesla started self-driving it would have been crashing minut
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Perhaps when driving is no longer the main focus of the driver in the car, a touchscreen interface might make sense. Except that is not the case for any car on sale right now in any state of being (save for being parked and motionless). Yet
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by jcranmer 4y ago
If you want to compile a large fraction of C/C++ code, just take a distro and rebuild it from scratch--Debian actually does this reasonably frequently. All of the distros have to somehow solve the problem of figuring out how to compi
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Honestly? Convince operating systems to have a switch that enforces UTF-8 path names, and then convince distros to flip that switch by default for new installs. That is to say, we need to move the world from a probably to a definitely s
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by jcranmer 4y ago
On Unix, filenames are probably UTF-8. The kernel doesn't require them to be UTF-8, but if you're stuck trying to display a filename, you have to figure out what charset the filename is in, and UTF-8 is almost certainly the answ
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by jcranmer 4y ago
The biggest issue with Diamond is that he's just wrong a lot of the time. This is especially so in Collapse , where virtually every single case study he talks about is something where consensus opinion is that environmental degradatio
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by jcranmer 4y ago
Bret actually has an entire thread on this in Twitter ( https://twitter.com/BretDevereaux/status/1513255197597966341 ), responding to someone calling him "the orc logistics guy". The tl;dr is basically tha
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by jcranmer 4y ago
The way the allegations have escalated over the past week have moved the needle from "definitely not" to "maybe." The search warrant and the receipt has now been unsealed: https://storage.courtlistener.com&#x2
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> If you applied capital gains tax to grandpa's modest gift to his grandchildren the grand children may very well end up with nearly nothing. Quiz time: Capital gains is 0% for anything less than $40k, 20% for anything over than $40
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Both threads are only reading the array. For it to be a race, at least one of the accesses must be a write.
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Russia is probably suffering from the sunk cost fallacy: this war has been painfully expensive, but they don't have anything to show for that expense. Realistically, if you were to imagine what the negotiating table looks like at this
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> The Russians, which we believed to be inferior, actually adapted to the task and without mobilization are winning. The Russians are mobilizing. If you read the Institute for the Study of War's daily briefings on Ukraine (which i
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by jcranmer 4y ago
I suspect most houses don't have the capability to switch between different modes of heating: if you have a gas furnace, you're not going to be burning heating oil in it instead. I believe the plan in case of shortage is to reduce
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by jcranmer 4y ago
The prospective fuel shortages in Europe are mostly to do with natural gas, not oil and oil derivatives, no?
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> though only less than 1/r^2, not more! The electric field of a wire drops off like 1/r, which is larger than 1/r^2.
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> The "average" (when used undecorated/unspecified) generally means the mean. I wouldn't say that. Most population statistics--think "average" wages and the like--tend to use median. And when we're talk
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The price in 2020 was artificially low because oil demand dropped off a cliff due to the lockdowns.
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The difference here is that a cryptocurrency mixer serves exactly one purpose: to be used to provide a financial service. You're not going to be able to plausibly argue that you didn't know what it was going to be financial servic
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by jcranmer 4y ago
> Railways, as well as telecommunications companies, ISPs, public airlines, bus lines, taxicab companies, phone companies, cruise ships, motor carriers, freight companies, and others CANNOT discriminate. Funnily enough, several of the th
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The criteria I tend to prefer is "expected" versus "unexpected" errors. I/O errors, especially network errors, are things that are going to be expected under reasonable operation, therefore it make sense that code s
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I was answering for the general case more than the specifics of the lawsuits that Jones faces; you've already covered the defaulting aspect well.

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