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by jimworm 9y ago
Interesting "stupid" idea there. Is there enough incentive on either side for a small nation to offer its entire population to scientific research for a large one that cannot afford the failure of a similar experiment on itself? I
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by jimworm 9y ago
"Stop using paper", says chief of a company that treats modified copies as if they were originals, "if we all carved our work on to this big stone in the middle of the courtyard then we'd be rid of our paper problems&quo
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by jimworm 9y ago
People sign contracts for terrible work conditions all the time, is that a reason to make one specific industry criminal? And this is before mentioning that a contract that specifies "everything" as the job description renders the
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by jimworm 9y ago
Even if the roads are deemed sufficiently safe not to warrant increased enforcement, it seems that the public purse could benefit from it, at least in the short term.
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by jimworm 10y ago
The tracking position - face-down, straight legs, arms by your side - lets you move head-first at very high speeds. There are claims of achieving a 1:1 glide ratio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracking_(skydiving) As
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by jimworm 10y ago
Once at the railway station in Dunkerque. I started by asking the ticket officer in French if she spoke English, but after she said no she refused to listen. Fortunately there were two booths open and my bad French was better received by th
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by jimworm 10y ago
Without knowing exactly what is required for making su filindeu, the video of Paola Abraini looks to me a lot like a la mian maker in training. I wouldn't be too surprised if a la mian chef picks it up right away and starts making su f
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by jimworm 10y ago
A several-gram spacecraft travelling at relativistic speeds would pack quite a punch. Definitely the most dangerous piece of space junk ever created. It's interesting to imagine making our first contact with intelligent extra-terrestri
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by jimworm 10y ago
Out of the several uses of 品, one is the verb "taste" which makes slightly more sense.
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by jimworm 10y ago
Slightly off topic: Do trees wake up? Philosophically speaking "growing, reproducing and consuming resources" is a better definition of life than "gathering/making resources for growth and reproduction". Animals sta
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by jimworm 10y ago
Imagine if all gyms were replaced with cocktail bars. Has science fiction done this yet?
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by jimworm 11y ago
You're talking about reasonable doubt on an order to murder, I'm talking about reasonable doubt on the possession of encrypted data. Strongly encrypted data looks random and the only way to tell the difference is to have the decry
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by jimworm 11y ago
Good one: brakes make it possible for bank robbers to travel faster than 80mph in a car, therefore the police must have a way to remotely disable brakes to catch escaping bank robbers. Oh you can trust the police the keep the brake-disabler
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by jimworm 11y ago
One of the problems with outlawing encryption is that it takes nothing to prove the crime, and therefore it is impossible to prove one's innocence. Would it be possible to outlaw the possession or transfer of data that appears random?
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by jimworm 11y ago
Having received feedback in various channels, do you think you can devise a strategy to deal with "what women have to deal with" in an effective manner? What advice do you have for other female entrepreneurs in similar situations?
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by jimworm 11y ago
...especially if it's the only language one speaks fluently.
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by jimworm 11y ago
I'm currently on a month-long crusade against what initially was a single small poor code choice (a denormalized model in Rails) from 4 years ago. As it stands, over 5% of the codebase has been deleted so far without reducing functiona
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by jimworm 11y ago
If nobody sends them money they could just print more. There is only one power company and it's owned by the state.
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by jimworm 11y ago
Of course they can - if you're talking about tapping submarine cables or other attacks from the "outside". I was asking more about the legal situation, whether they have enough independence to enact laws to prevent the author
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by jimworm 11y ago
Speaking of havens, does Jersey have enough independence to become a data haven?
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by jimworm 11y ago
Wow, this site is blocked in the UK.
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by jimworm 11y ago
It has been known for millennia that confessions obtained under torture are very effective at reducing the workload of the courts. So much so, that a billion-dollar industry can grow its own market at will with a minimum increase in judicia
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Ask HN: Telco support horror stories
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by jimworm 11y ago
You can disable mediasource extensions in your browser to get the old download-it-all html5 video.
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by jimworm 11y ago
Ruby is a super-readable language with a powerful syntax, and Rails (3+) used in Rails-like ways gives the user a similar amount of power over db and web delivery. Just because clarity of thought cannot be measured it doesn't mean the
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by jimworm 11y ago
It's important to remember that this test only focuses on the pitch of the notes. Some of the tunes cut off before the phrase finishes, which feel weird and wrong but isn't part of the test.
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by jimworm 11y ago
It's possible that some advertising will merge in with regular content and become covertly invasive over the long term. Publishers become credibility farms, where credibility is built using real articles and sold via "propaganda&q
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by jimworm 11y ago
Misleading title - the article asserts that spin wins matches without describing the physics at all. It's a barely-veiled advertisement for Wilson's rackets. In tennis, the spin that "wins matches" is the topspin. In a t
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by jimworm 11y ago
From personal experience in target sports, strength and fitness plays a surprisingly big part in weapons use. Being able to handle a weapon with the least of effort while maintaining a low heart rate makes aiming a lot easier.
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by jimworm 11y ago
Pointing out a lie does little when it can't be punished with consequences; you were relying on the freelancer's conscience for a favourable outcome. Border agents have the law, manpower, firepower, and territory on their side and

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