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by jlgreco 13y ago
The opportunity cost of giving money to the ISRO is lower than what they would have done with that money otherwise. Money sent to the ISRO is an investment in India's domestic STEM talent. There are few better ways they could have po
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What bridge or power plants programs have been defunded because of the IRSO? The reason the IRSO is able to accomplish so much is because it is so efficient and damn good at what it does. The reason why other agencies and organizations in
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> How is consuming billions of dollars of the time of talented specialists a good thing in and of itself? Well, I didn't say that it is, I just argued that it wasn't a negative thing. Wealth was not destroyed or sent away to
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by jlgreco 13y ago
That is my suspicion as well. It doesn't strike me as correct that technical limitations prevent them from offering all languages in Saudi Arabia or Russia, but the Democratic Replubic of Congo has it figured out. Going from wikipedi
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by jlgreco 13y ago
One thing that space exploration detractors seem to have a difficult thing comprehending is exactly what happens to money spent on a space program. Seemingly, they are under the delusion that all that money gets stuffed into a rocket and b
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'd say that minecraft is in the realm of "AAA" profit and userbase, though not "AAA" budget or graphics. That is the only example I can think of though, and it is certainly a stretch. (also their X-Box version isn
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Apparently they lost scanning equipment.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
> "Some partner billing systems restrict the possibility of zero-rating all Wikipedia languages" What? Their billing systems can't handle a wildcard subdomain? Even so, it isn't exactly difficult to enumerate all
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It removed the upvote/downvote links for me. Most sites I've tried it on it does next to nothing on.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Buy high, sell low, and make up for it with volume.
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rsync's lawyers could argue that the sampling sizes were far to small for the trends claimed to have any significance, arguing that any discrepancy could easily be explained by a lack of good opportunities to bring it up. The court cou
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Why would mom and pop want to base out of Mexico?
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by jlgreco 13y ago
US Government agencies using "dirt" to smear and/or blackmail populist political figures is a historic fact .
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It would not be controversial to state that the Federalist Papers were published anonymously, despite the fact that the authors gave themselves the pseudonym "Publius".
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Drinking was by no means less acceptable at the time than smoking pot; the relative ease of getting pot was despite it being frowned upon much more. Think of it this way: who requires a black market for pot? Every single person who wan
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by jlgreco 13y ago
When I was a teenager, it was easier for me to buy pot than beer because pot was illegal in general while beer was legally available for most of the population. From what I have heard, this situation was not atypical.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
True, you just need to assign them enough authority that their approval is a technical requirement for compliance. You would then have to rely on them evaluating the provenance of the order and stopping any canary related activity if they
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I'm not really sure, I agree with you though. For whatever it is worth, it seems they still provide some speed trap related services: http://www.theaa.com/apps/safety-cam-iphone-app.html
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I can think of a example of canaries working in practice (I am not sure if they were ever challenged, but they weren't successfully challenged at least). Also, the example is from the UK: In the early part of the 20th century, the A
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by jlgreco 13y ago
While seemingly a sensible limitation to free speech, the "shouting fire" line was coined to justify prosecuting a man who was protesting the draft. (This man argued that the draft was a form of involuntary servitude. I think
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by jlgreco 13y ago
At a certain point, I think somebody with sufficient resources could mount a strong objection to such a compulsion on the grounds that it was either a violation of the 13th amendment or the 8th amendment (since the 13th has an exception for
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Without disclosing too much of your internal procedures, can you say if you have a mechanism in place to prevent an American being compelled by American courts to tell a Swiss national that it is okay to update the canary? Under a gag orde
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by jlgreco 13y ago
In the case of the rsync canary, compelling rsync to not remove the canary would not be sufficient. They would also need to compel rsync to periodically replace the existing canary with a new one.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
You need to include some sort of "or more" language.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
The reason I am confident in the rsync canary is that you are so proud of it. If a court were forcing you to keep updating it, I would expect you to talk about it less frequently and/or with less enthusiasm (how could a judge practic
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by jlgreco 13y ago
It seems to be at least standard practice to let the leading "f-" through.. rather pointless censorship if you ask me.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Re: the second image half-way down the article: I don't understand why people keep on coming up with novel overly complicated ways to censor images. Just use a black polygon. Not the "spray can", not a bunch of scribbles wi
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by jlgreco 13y ago
Well sure! To be honest, the only reason I stopped using CDs is that for the past several years my computers haven't had optical drives (netbooks, now a chromebook). Otherwise I tend to be rather resistant to change.
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by jlgreco 13y ago
LOC doesn't matter all that much, the main problem is the shear number of git objects necessary (basic operations start to become very slow when working on a massive DAG) and the shear size of the repo (making the initial git-clone
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by jlgreco 13y ago
I wonder how well this works if your phone is on an unyielding surface, like a tabletop, instead of against your thigh or in your hand.

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