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by lightbyte 8y ago
I misunderstood what you were saying than, I thought you meant the rocket was exploding when it was already far into space away from Earth.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>If a rocket explodes with nuclear waste on board, the waste would spread over a large area. Space is very big. Is it actually likely that said waste spreading would even be noticeable?
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by lightbyte 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16727869
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by lightbyte 8y ago
I think it's more accurate if you replace it with "statistical analysis" instead. The computers are just computing very complex equations with your data as an input, but technically you could try doing it by hand.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
The only thing that drives him is praise, seems like an easy way to suck up to him regardless of what he actually did
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>Some people who work in the city live in Pennsylvania. That isn't really saying much. Easton, PA is almost exactly 90 min from NYC (though it has tolls).
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Elixir's multiple function heads are just syntax sugar for a case statement.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
However Erlang does include a static analyzer (dialyzer), which every production system should be using.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Is it actually possible for any system to have 100% uptime? Or do they just use that as a marketing gimmick and give out credit whenever there is downtime.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
That's not how averages work. If 9 people have an IQ of 100 and 1 has an IQ of 10, the average is 91. 9/10 people are still above that.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>but there's a big difference between using legal loopholes that are available to you and deliberately not reporting things to pay fewer taxes. Legally that's true, but I think the average person upset about this sees zero diff
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Alternatively, save the following as a bookmark and click it on the article page: javascript:location.href='http://facebook.com/l.php?u='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)
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by lightbyte 8y ago
They aren't using a copy of Maxminds DB, see: https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-precision-demo?ip=185.10.6... (No data) https://api.ipdata.co/185.10.68.114 (lots of data)
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>A new snooze feature also lets you temporarily remove emails from your inbox until a certain time, so you can avoid certain email threads until you’re ready to reply. How is this a feature worth developing? Is leaving the email unread
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by lightbyte 8y ago
I do this, and I was very confused to find out that if you try to do this at some government buildings (post office for me) they will completely reject your card and not let you use it.
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by lightbyte 8y ago
>it will protect someone who made a stupid mistake when they were younger having it haunt them for the rest of their careers or lives because it would otherwise have been the top hit when you google'd their name. I don't agree
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by lightbyte 8y ago
Why are we only forcing Google to remove this information when, as you say, it will still be in the public record. Why are journalists allowed to report on something that we aren't allowing a search engine to show?
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by lightbyte 8y ago
It sounds like the actual problem is >This makes every person they might do business with to withdraw. Hiding information from people sounds like a bandaid to the issue of people being overly judgemental. Maybe we need to be more accept
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by lightbyte 8y ago
"Right to be forgotten" just sounds so ridiculous to me, how did this become a thing? Are people going to want to burn the history books at their local library next because it contains some information they don't like remind
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by lightbyte 9y ago
>I have a very close friend that works for the clandestine service, Mussolini. Do you mean the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad? Mussolini was the name of the fascist Italian dictator.
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by lightbyte 9y ago
Sounds like this [1] case where a man received a credit card offer in the mail, re-wrote some terms and sent it back, and the bank accepted it without reading it. He did win the initial lawsuit from the bank. [1] https://www.tel
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by lightbyte 9y ago
It's also a sure fire way for the public to have to spend even MORE on social programs since you'll be even more likely to reach retirement with zero money. What good could possibly come from intentionally banning someone from sav
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by lightbyte 9y ago
We have a system like this in the US. >The Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program forgives the remaining balance on your Direct Loans after you have made 120 qualifying monthly payments under a qualifying repayment plan while wor
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by lightbyte 9y ago
It was an episode of Last Week Tonight a few years ago. They noted that you can not buy individual debt, just large blocks of it. So HBO let them buy a large block of it and they told everyone they wouldn't be collecting.
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by lightbyte 9y ago
An invasive species is by definition something not native to an area. >if Kudzu somehow (perhaps a form of geological change happens in thousands of years like a land bridge, or continental shift, or maybe the seeds are simply moved by s
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by lightbyte 9y ago
2006 - AOL search data scandal [1] >The release was intentional and intended for research purposes; Sounds pretty damn close to this event with Facebook [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
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by lightbyte 9y ago
A common method I've seen to get around that is to first hash the password with something like SHA512 before applying bcrypt. This allows you to use longer passwords as well as setting them all to a constant length for bcrypt (which c
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by lightbyte 9y ago
I think the name of the organization that is running the ad is also a problem. They seem to be trying to co-opt the "progressive" label for something that is completely opposite to what it is supposed to (over the last few years)
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by lightbyte 9y ago
Has the article been updated? I used google translate on it and the last line is >According to him, the accident is not caused by the autopilot system, with which the car can be controlled without the help of a person. "This system
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by lightbyte 9y ago
> If the state can just clamp down however it wants on private enterprise, then eventually all private enterprise becomes state enterprise. See China. The leap you just made from cities not being able to be extorted by corporations for t

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