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by jkn 14y ago
Your mistake is to consider the Fed profits instead of the profits derived by the private sector from money lent to the government. The government is running a deficit, but the law (treaties in Europe) forbid it to fund itself by printing m
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Parents whose own math education was more traditional believe [...] that the presence of weaker students [in mixed ability groups] will drag down the better ones. These parents are so wrong. Nothing makes you better at math than to explai
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Exactly, and my point is that currently my ISP assigns IPv4 addresses dynamically, so I'll get a different one every time I turn on my ADSL modem. I think this is quite common, and as a consequence IPv4 addresses are not a reliable way of i
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by jkn 14y ago
But that won't change your prefix will it?
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Can someone shed light on how privacy will be affected by IPv6? From what I've read, the typical case is that the ISP assigns statically a 64 bit prefix to the user, and the remaining bits are assigned from the MAC address of the devices, o
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In the modern era of more and more families having only one child, I don't think replacing school by online learning at home is a good idea. Children need to be exposed to other children, kids with diverse backgrounds if possible. Also, the
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The Netherlands recently passed a law on Net neutrality stating that a warrant is required for internet wiretapping: https://www.bof.nl/2012/05/08/netherlands-first-country-in-e... I don't see anything wrong with wiretapping with a warran
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Ah I thought these features would be implemented outside of the WebM files, like on DVDs where menus and subtitles are separate from the mpeg2 files that contain the movie.
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It was meant as evidence that good Vorbis is indistinguishable from FLAC, but indeed the author mentions two good reasons for using FLAC. I'm not sure they apply to Lib-Ray since video will be lossy anyway, but here's what the author says o
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Video File Format: MKV container file with VP8 video and FLAC or Vorbis audio (this standard is similar, but a little more permissive than WebM, and is optimized for use on fixed media rather than downloads). It doesn't seem like they hav
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by jkn 14y ago
I'm really not sure how you imagine doing away with a notion of citizenship will convince a group of people to allow "others" into "their" group if the others don't offer the group something it values. That's a fair point and I don't know
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Without FRAND, standards would be fine if they required royalty-free licensing instead, which is preferable. Google/Motorola are definitely not the first to go to trial over high FRAND licensing fees (see below). The only thing remarkable w
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By the same logic you support nobility I suppose. s/citizen/noble/ in the following: I am a citizen of a wealthy country, but I didn't earn this privilege, I got it by birth, and that gives me more rights than a lot of poor people working h
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Governments might try to prevent people from leaving but at that point they are only buying time. That's not the problem with citizenship. The problem is, other countries will refuse to let you in, or make your life miserable and you won'
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I share you view. Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, many (most?) people are against unearned privilege, only when they don't have it.
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Sincere curiosity: are you, on the same grounds, against citizenship? Edit: to clarify, I mean against citizenship as a birthright.
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by jkn 14y ago
Ah good point. Indeed much of what the government does could be accomplished by private groups. So why should the government get involved? Let's look at the case of school meals. Many parents want them but it's not provided by the state sch
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Are we honestly expected to believe that a first world nation's family can't find room in the budget to give their own children vegetables and prepare food for them ? Well yes, it is sad but true that a first world country, in spite of it
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Samsung doesn't have to move plants to China to benefit from the lower wages, they can simply contract Foxconn to assemble the devices. And they do, according to this NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-
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by jkn 14y ago
It's one thing to say Africa is responsible for its plight (OP didn't say that), it's another to say they're stuck in a vicious cycle of dependency on northern help that we should not feed. Not sure that applies to bed nets though...
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This is not a correct analogy to "bad information is worse than no information". A better analogy would be a medicine that typically leaves patients worse off than they were before treatment.
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This is spot on. Does anyone know of a single instance of standardized teacher testing that recognizes important teacher qualities beyond their skill in imparting knowledge to students?
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Give me a better metric for success that you can measure over the course of a year. This is assuming that the net effect of the tests is positive, thus we should keep them until we find something better. But a lot of comments are pointing
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It's true this pattern of "Accept <wrong> to prevent <worse>" has nothing to do with left or right. However I don't think it applies to pro-gay propaganda, because the whole point of the left-wing stance on this issue is tha
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I'm in no secret quest to stain Perl's reputation you know... Just illustrating how easy it is to exploit unchecked user input in the open() function. It just happens that this particular exploit is way easier in Perl than any other languag
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It's vulnerable because the user controls the content of $userinput, the variable name doesn't matter. Real code would look like this: #!/usr/bin/perl print "Enter filename: "; $filename = <STDIN>; open(file_handler, "$fi
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by jkn 14y ago
True but perl makes it amazingly easy to exploit. Suppose that you know the source contains this line: open(file_handler, "$userinput"); How much work and what assumptions do you need to exploit this? In perl it's that easy: $use
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by jkn 14y ago
So when you look at how poor people spend money, the rational economist would never advocate spending the money on the lottery. The utility is low [...] This misses the point of the article, which is that gambling should not be regarded
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Yes to the extent that we accept as "did it first" the companies that were the first to do it right. Not the first in the field, that would be almost impossible, there's always some kind of prior art. For example there were many search engi
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By this line of reasoning, anything that is more popular among poor people is a tax on them? People pay to gamble to get something in return (entertainment as you say) and that makes it not a tax. It is quite natural that the gaming compa

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