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by kijin 4y ago
There's probably nothing malicious about most cases of missing or strangely uniform birth dates. In many parts of the world over a century ago, people simply didn't bother with accurate records. For example, both my grandpa and gr
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by kijin 4y ago
Unless the cost of oil goes down dramatically, the only way for hypersonic flight to become affordable for the masses is for new technology to achieve drastic fuel savings. If that happens, there would be no reason to oppose it any more tha
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by kijin 4y ago
The hypothetical plane can only carry a dozen people at a time and burns a lot more fuel per mile than a comparable subsonic aircraft, so the tickets will be very expensive. Most people will not be able to justify the cost, even most busine
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by kijin 4y ago
The courts for the most part. Or at least that is the public perception. The sentencing guidelines maintained by the courts have all sorts of criteria for reducing the sentence that can be compounded to skew the result heavily towards the l
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by kijin 4y ago
Yep, that should have been "extradite", not "deport".
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by kijin 4y ago
Any jurisdiction that has filed charges against him and has an extradition agreement with Montenegro. His country of citizenship probably has priority, though. If he doesn't want to be extradited, he can delay the process for quite a w
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by kijin 4y ago
Compared to bank accounts, real estate, and offshore corporations, it is certainly easier to hide your crypto (or rather, hide the fact that it's your crypto) if you know what you're doing. Heck, even the word "crypto"
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by kijin 4y ago
He probably believed he could have his cake and eat it too. Turns out he's not as clever as he thought. Now the only thing he has some amount of control over is which jurisdiction he will be handed over to.
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by kijin 4y ago
The South Korean justice system is notoriously lenient on white-collar crime, and it's exceedingly rare even for violent criminals to be murdered in a Korean prison. The popular perception is that you can spend a couple of years in pri
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by kijin 4y ago
"Cask strength" usually refers to whiskeys that have been aged in the cask, angel's share and all. It means that the manufacturer didn't dilute the product any further before bottling.
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by kijin 4y ago
I think you're grossly exaggerating the real estate implications. There are 25 million people in the capital region, and only a small fraction of them work in the semiconductor industry. Relocating 200-300K people to a new industrial c
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by kijin 4y ago
They seem to have taken the mantra "fake it till you make it" very seriously. A smart move, actually, since most people only care that their phone takes decent selfies at the Instagram resolution. Heck, I don't even know what
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by kijin 4y ago
Weird metallic aftertaste.
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Unfortunately, any product designed to be a drop-in replacement for sugar in a baking recipe needs to contain a bulking agent like maltodextrin. It makes the product take up the same volume as sugar, so that you don't need to adjust th
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by kijin 4y ago
The installation guide for self-hosted Ghost assumes that you have at least a virtual private server, and gives you a bunch of commands to type into a root shell. By that time, you've already lost 90% of the people who would have chose
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by kijin 4y ago
There's much more to WordPress than the ecosystem. If we just think of it as a legacy tool that is only limping along because of the plugins, we will forever be perplexed that it continues to exist. WordPress is the FLOSS alternative
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by kijin 4y ago
Perfect name if you want to develop electric rockets or somethin'.
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by kijin 4y ago
PHP has a lot of C-isms under the hood, not only in its infamous function names but also in how they signal errors in-band in the old functions. crypt() is one of those old functions with a crappy API, and password_verify() is just a thin w
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by kijin 4y ago
This is not the first time I've heard of TSMC reserving a very large portion of their production capacity for a single customer, especially in the early days of a new process node. I guess there's an inherent risk in being the lau
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by kijin 4y ago
The fact that the article raises the possibility of this limitation being removed in the near future means that it's not a law of physics, only a matter of finding a better algorithm. Even if it were a law of physics, engineers can oft
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by kijin 4y ago
:is(article) & That looks hacky at best. The excuse of parsing performance is responsible for so much weird syntax in web standards today. The standards are literally being dragged around by browser vendors' priorities. I
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by kijin 4y ago
The only reason DigitalOcean exists is because people have invested money in it. But those people have every right to invest their money elsewhere if they see a more profitable option, such as U.S. treasury bonds. As a result, DigitalOcean
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by kijin 4y ago
A speed of 9.81m/s is not free fall. Acceleration of 9.81m/s² is. If you're actually in free fall, you will quickly accelerate past 9.81m/s to whatever your terminal velocity is. A typical passenger jet flies at a speed
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by kijin 4y ago
This is Debian we're talking about. If you package something for inclusion in Debian, you're supposed to update it with APT, not some home-baked updater that phones its own mama and displays its own notification. If you want to pu
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by kijin 4y ago
Depends on what kind of warhead you have on that missile. :) A small nuke could definitely obliterate a 1-meter rock, if you don't mind contaminating a large part of Europe with radioactive dust.
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Think of a bell curve, more or less. It's much, much, much more likely for the asteroid to come down near the center of the predicted range than some place 5 standard deviations away.
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by kijin 4y ago
"position: fixed" puts an element in a new stacking context, freeing it from the z-index of its parents.
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Unfortunately there isn't a definitive source, only a bit of noise in the blogs for a few days. AFAIK it was difficult to pinpoint exactly which version of which program was the culprit, since people aren't free to install an arbi
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by kijin 4y ago
Even worse, there has been at least one "security program" that installed its own CA and went on to prevent any further modification to the CA list. It was probably meant to prevent malware from adding their own CAs. In practice
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Which really didn't matter back then. People just deleted the spam, recovered from backup, patched whatever flaw they found, and changed passwords. It wasn't the end of the world.

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