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by jfoutz 9y ago
I would guess taxpayers. But keep in mind the military has a huge budget for training exercises. I would guess they just cancel one of those and go blow this up instead. I doubt it's costing us anything 'extra'. Also I'm
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by jfoutz 9y ago
huh. when i read the spec, i thought comments were c like begin_sl_comment ::= '//' begin_ml_comment ::= '/*' end_ml_comment ::= '*/' maybe that ebnf is out of date.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
not sure if that's obscurity. changing the port means you have to scan the whole port range. port knocking gives you another 2-4 bytes of entropy. (a determined attacker will try all the port knocking permutations) Seems like putting b
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Well. probably more injuries, but much less serious. American Football, if you get hurt, you get hurt really bad
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by jfoutz 9y ago
IMHO, you run into the same problem as journaling. User interaction is basically a stream of deltas. If everything is perfect, it’s awesome. But really, you want checkpoints from time to time. It’s a cool idea. It’s cooler if your organizat
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Curse my poor geography recollection! Thanks.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Taxpayers wonder why the initial voyage went somewhere where the ship could be stuck for 3 months. Sure, they can train in port and that's probably a good move for an all new ship and crew, but losing even the option to go out to sea s
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by jfoutz 9y ago
by forgetting it in that one long clause.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I think they paid as much for google maps on their android phone as an iphone user pays for apple maps, right?
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by jfoutz 9y ago
My great grandmother saw the Wright brothers fly as a teenager. The moon landing was a big deal to her. You’re absolutely right. I was little when I talked with her, but my parents would surely say she would have completely accepted interst
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by jfoutz 9y ago
And weirdly, I can’t think of anything I can buy for 6cents a pound.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I always imagined spy satellites in a 'string of pearls' kind of configuration. Rather than having 1 in some specific orbit, have 4 or more in the same orbit. your 90 minute return time gets cut to ~20 minutes or less. Obviously,
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Does smarter imply more children survive to reproduce?
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Netflix hid a fake bio-tech booth in the middle of CES(engadget.com)
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I’m a little sad you got downvotes. Although a slightly better approach might have been, it’s a raw business license. 100% natural and regulation free. It’s easy to attack snake oil. The meta reference is a bit more amusing, because it has
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I think there is a time delay. Wait a few minutes or hours and you can reply. That cooling off period has helped me really think through my replies.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I don't think it's on purpose. It's decomposing a monolith down to microservices, without any verification. Since each player is only responsible for their little corner of the world, no one actually has any sort of responsib
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by jfoutz 9y ago
if i could wave a magic wand, taxes would be strictly progressive. I understand the difference between income and capital gains, but i find Buffet's comments about 'lower rate than my secretary' frustrating. I would support P
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by jfoutz 9y ago
One (absurd) solution would be to say, no income taxes beyond $127,000 (same as social security) and to pay for it, we'll just not have a military. The homeless person down the street wouldn't really notice. The homeowner would ge
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by jfoutz 9y ago
How about registration of sims for the tower that covers the prison?
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Ah, that's a much more direct interpretation. I'd always considered the /2 to mean find the middle element. take the biggest and the smallest, add them, and multiply by the middle. Which is a little closer to my drawing. My i
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by jfoutz 9y ago
> Gauss/two-triangles-make-a-rectangle mathematical method. I... I never thought of that geometrically. but your way... __ __ __ | || / | | | ||/ | | | / | / /| |&#x
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by jfoutz 9y ago
That's amazing! "A 2013 global study on homicide by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime found that males accounted for about 96 percent of all homicide perpetrators worldwide."[1]. I wonder what's so unique abou
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I really like the idea of park insurance. We will completely reimburse the full value of the destroyed property. But it’s a national park now.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Pr statement vs reporting. News needs the clickbait headline. An official corporate statement can be fully aligned.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
My first thought was this old chestnut http://bash.org/?464385
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by jfoutz 9y ago
It is disconcerting for an upstart like the New Yorker of co opt a dickens style. You’d think after 90 years they would realize it is just a fad.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
> it would be unreasonable to expect the government to be everywhere immediately eh, it really hinges on how much we want to pay. i'm not saying you can just throw money at problems to make them go away, but there are quite a few th
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Yes absolutely. Prolog would kinda sorta do the same thing. It would be much faster though. You can build a mechanical computer with gears and cams, but it’s big and slow. This style is much quicker than a deterministic computer with an rng
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I want to point out that Maxwell had like 40+ equations for electricity that wound up being 4. I suspect that many fields have rules, but those rules aren't the most concise representation. it will always be hard to get to the frontier

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