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by joshuaissac 7y ago
A Boltzmann brain can form with a false memory that it had paused to consider whether it is a Boltzmann brain. In other words, take a real human considering whether they are a Boltzmann brain and deciding that they are not. Any single momen
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
A space is a completely normal character that users quite reasonably expect to be able to have in filenames. Treating it as a regular character is not a bug. There are lots of Linux programs that can deal with spaces in filenames already.
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
Link is 404ing for me. Alternative link: https://www.businessinsider.de/international/airbnb-software...
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
How does preventing ASML from selling products to Chinese customers help it stay a world leader? A strong EU council would not block such sales.
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
What exactly is dishonest about the article? The author's criticism is that the Wikimedia Foundation isn't building up its endowment fast enough, and that it instead uses the donations on frivolous spending.
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
The summary is that the Wikimedia Foundation asks for and spends increasingly large amounts of money in donations mostly on things that are unrelated to Wikipedia. The writer seems to want the Foundation to use the money instead to build up
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
GNU's own page on GNUnet https://www.gnu.org/software/gnunet/ redirects to gnunet.org, so I would think that it is associated with the GNU project.
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
Candy Crush Saga, a game Windows 10 Home used to bundle with major upgrades.
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
The impression I got from their post was that businesses are just as prone to government influence as non-profits,[1] not that they are all extensions of government willpower. That does not follow unless you assume that all non-profits are
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
Many of the patents in their portfolio now have publicly-accessible crowdsourced prior art pools that defendants can use to invalidate more patents. They can still buy new patents, but because of what has already happened, they are down on
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
How is it the same? The newspaper is an actual non-profit (the shareholders had to give up control to get the status) but what you seem to be suggesting is to give for-profit businesses non-profit status for tax purposes even when they are
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
This is not true, in my experience. For example, the EU roaming charges regulations for mobile data allows service providers to apply a lower cap to the data if the home tariff is cheaper than €2.25/GB; but almost no providers actually
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
This is the definition I have seen almost everywhere, but I do not like it. Non-practising entities like ARM and patent-owning universities I would never consider trolls just for being an NPE. On the other hand, even practising entities may
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
A solution could be to tag both the dialect and the accent with language codes. Native speakers of Moravian Czech will probably have similar accents when they speak New Zealand English. Using Glottolog IDs as tags for example, this might be
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
Depending on how far "trust but diversify" goes, some countries could be worse off (OPEC would be harmed by a serious effort at energy source diversification, US by currency diversification, Netherlands by diamond supply chain div
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
What is user hostile about SSL pinning? Would the user not want to know when the certificate does not match up?
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
I think the argument was against the significant environmental problems and the lobbying (e.g. against climate laws) coming from the big players in the energy industry, rather than against electricity and central heating. We can still have
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
It is better to pick names with actual words. An attacker can otherwise say that the answer is just a bunch of random characters, and there is a risk that a naïve customer support representative may accept it.
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
The part about people with a visa for Canada, Japan, Schengen area, UK or US is just as the website says. It is not about passports. A person from a third country who holds one of above visas can enter Mexico without a Mexican visa. https:
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
Is that such a perverse incentive? It is roughly equivalent to the regulator hiring the teenager for $100 at the company's expense to check if the company is following the rules about not selling to teenagers, except the teenager only
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
The US accounts for just under the 19% of Chinese exports. That is not trivial, but the domestic (and non-US international) market is growing fast enough that it can absorb that hit faster than it would take other countries to develop capac
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
Who exactly will be demanding to liquidate their yuan? Offshore yuan deposits amount to under ¥2tn. China has foreign exchange reserves worth $3.1tn (¥21.8tn). Enough to buy back all offshore yuan deposits ten times over, and still have mor
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
The agreement was signed on behalf of the US by John Kerry. See here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JCPOA_Signatures.png It is the first one directly under the word "Action".
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by joshuaissac 7y ago
Username checks out. While is perfectly fine to investigate the collapse of a building, especially as the findings may help us make buildings less prone to such collapse, in this case, the academic who led the research claims results that c