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by lazyant 11y ago
I moved from the US to Canada (European originally), Canada on the outside looks like the US but inside it's closer to Europe from my point of view (not everybody agrees and think we're very similar). In terms of politics and reli
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by lazyant 11y ago
> Given enough computing power, winning any game of complete information is just a matter of brute computing force. If by "brute force" you mean exploring all possible moves then in theory yes, in practice the computing power a
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by lazyant 11y ago
Setting Rabbitmq's "cluster_partition_handling" as "pause_minority" in theory ameliorates split-brain issues in clusters of 3 or more (odd numbers), where the majority would ignore the minority nodes.
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by lazyant 11y ago
Looks to me like scientific ideas, first thing you do (or should do) is try to shut it down. Also as a counter-example, I've had ideas that I dismissed because I found apparent flaws in them and then I've seen those ideas being bu
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by lazyant 11y ago
Are there any alternative treatments of pain that don't involve drugs? for ex http://www.570news.com/2016/03/06/waterloo-man-praises-local...
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by lazyant 11y ago
if (s)he broke a written rule or policy that's all they need, (s)he admitted to breaking a rule that (s)he thought was minor, like jaywalking, explicitly said it was not like harassment.
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by lazyant 11y ago
maybe login in with somebody else's credentials? or some other security-related or procedural stuff that he bypassed to make things easier? using non-authorized (personal) equipment or software? just speculating
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by lazyant 11y ago
Usually I browse quickly the HN comments before reading (or skipping) an article, in this case I browse through the blog post first and then I thouhgt, "now the HN comments are going to teach me a lot, pointing out all the errors in th
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by lazyant 11y ago
Has 'tc' been updated in the last 15 years? last time I looked (15 years ago) it was a poorly understood mysterious, unmaintained code.
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by lazyant 11y ago
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by lazyant 11y ago
There were different Enigma versions, even at the same time the different German organizations used simpler or more complicated versions (there were 4 or 5 iirc for Navy, Army etc) the Polish broke an earlier model and Turing's team br
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by lazyant 11y ago
Same here, the problem is that it takes a lot of time and effort to set up and run a meaningful standardized hiring process (and is very hard to outsource) and also people don't even consider planning for it, thinking they can just ask
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by lazyant 11y ago
I don't think there's any lighthouses left that require a keeper, at least in first world countries.
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by lazyant 11y ago
"In Ovid's narrative, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides he was "not interested in women", but his statue was so fair and realistic that he f
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by lazyant 11y ago
isn't this the judge that said that torture is not "cruel and unusual punishment" because the Constitution applies to persons and suspects conveniently labeled "enemy combatants" were not persons? good riddance
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by lazyant 11y ago
Hmm, in my case at least with a bunch of companies, they had laid out the interview process (say, 3 or 4 steps) and they stopped communicating after the 2nd or 3rd step (with more to come) so I don't think they had me as a secondary al
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by lazyant 11y ago
I get it that giving feedback can expose a company to lawsuits and takes a lot of time, now, what's the excuse for not even informing the candidate of the rejection? many companies simply stop communicating.
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U.S. Copyright Law Forces Wikimedia to Remove “Public Domain” Anne Frank Diary(torrentfreak.com)
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by lazyant 11y ago
what's its use case, other than transporting two people in rough terrain?
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by lazyant 11y ago
for the British Nanny Netflix, how do they do that?, do they have a transcript of every (or some) movie and then synchronize the sound? some of these projects are really good
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by lazyant 11y ago
"Faster, Higher, Stronger" book showed a study where athletes were asked what they would give up for an Olympic gold medal and from what I remember a good portion would give up their lives in 5 years for that (or some other crazy
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by lazyant 11y ago
$6k for legal, payroll and accounting? is this normal for a 6 people company? (I guess it depends on if you retain a legal team)
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by lazyant 11y ago
A bit disappointed that "superhighway" means making a few small holes in you fence.
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by lazyant 11y ago
I imagine the 1st (and 2nd in the example) buyer was asked by the agent "you'll get 300k for nothing" and he or she agreed, otherwise like you say it looks "illegal" like you said.
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by lazyant 11y ago
I always half-joke that I have a master's degree in computer science and I don't know the difference between those, as in two years out of school nobody cares and they are almost synonymous (exception: in some countries like Canad
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by lazyant 11y ago
"Hispanics or Latinos can be of any race, any ancestry, any ethnicity." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispanic
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by lazyant 11y ago
LinkedIn posts suck, just now I see somebody posted about a job that a friend of mine could be interested in, I see no way to forward that or copy the link, went to the poster's profile to see if it's there and I can send his prof
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by lazyant 11y ago
While philosophically or in theory agnosticism and atheism are separate things, I found personally in practice that they are pretty much equivalent.
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by lazyant 11y ago
http://linux.die.net/man/1/unzip
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by lazyant 11y ago
The key to good education is motivated students, motivated teachers and motivated parents, in pretty much that order. Of course some teaching methodologies are better than other ones, but all the success stories I read, stripped from the fl

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