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by lixtra 6y ago
I guess GP is talking about Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib like prisons. While you can argue if you call that a concentration camp, it’s strange how fast people forget.
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by lixtra 6y ago
Standard C++ also has std::max_element [1] (and accidentally the possible implementation looks surprisingly familiar). Not that I know much of C++. [1] https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/algorithm/max_element
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by lixtra 6y ago
I couldn’t remember such a thing as MIN_INTEGER and what if someone changes the data type? Why not assume the first element is the max and start your search from the second. Ah, dam. Now you have to check that your vector has at least one e
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by lixtra 6y ago
Obviously not. But what if just scolding him leads to riots, your town in ashes and the boy lynched? Not every society is as peaceful as yours [1]. [1] https://news.yahoo.com/another-blogger-hacked-death-banglade...
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by lixtra 6y ago
But blasphemy laws are justifiable as well. They try to avoid riots on the streets by true believers and also limit the punishment to a well defined point.
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by lixtra 6y ago
Of course it’s just a gesture. No one would like a judicial system were you can outsource the punishment. It’s all about pointing out how wrong it is to send a 13-year old to jail for blasphemy.
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by lixtra 6y ago
Indeed, I thought for a moment about Switzerland, that might have one of the highest rate of multilingual websites at least in Europe. I wasn’t able to find what fraction of the Internet sites are multilingual but would be curious what’s yo
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by lixtra 6y ago
That’s a feature not a bug. >90% of the websites don’t care about multi-language. Why should their CMS be more complex just to carter the rest? Plugins nicely separate the concern and let the authors of the plugins get paid for their eff
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by lixtra 6y ago
> from a position that is fundamentally wrong I’m baffled how asking for data is revealing my position ? I had the hope that your position is well founded and it would be easy to point to actual data. I hardly believe that the complia
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by lixtra 6y ago
I would appreciate if you could point to some actual data (number of SARs per year in country, false positives...).
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by lixtra 6y ago
The thing is: one botched update and users drop you and never come back. I saw this once when Firefox deprecated something that the old Jira instance used. The next day Chrome was the default browser and has ever been since.
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by lixtra 6y ago
NBS and IBM were pushed by NSA to use 56 bit key length instead of 64 for DES. [1] NBS became NIST and they still have credibility to you. Whatever reason you come up with why it was okay back then also applies today. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by lixtra 6y ago
> Especially after I explicitly voice my concerns over this tracking, yet I’m not given an option to opt-out of it. vs > 1) You may alter the settings on your email system to receive such emails as text, this will remove all tracking,
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by lixtra 6y ago
> Switzerland did it and an out of control heroin problem went away and especially important, usage among young people plummeted. You still go to prison in Switzerland for selling heroine on the street. Also there still is a heroine prob
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by lixtra 6y ago
I don’t know if your name/year accidentally match his. Also it is not unlikely that he has heard of HN as a web developer. But the possibility gives me joy.
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by lixtra 6y ago
> “several” from “never” TFA: In 1972 the Robertson family from Staffordshire were shipwrecked off the Galapagos Islands after an orca strike (their book, Survive the Savage Sea became a classic).
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by lixtra 6y ago
30 years ago you would have said that Microsoft dominates and www is a niche thing. And Turing was already 50 years ago. It’s likely that something significant is going on in Europe that we don’t know about yet.
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by lixtra 6y ago
Linking your HN persona to your WP persona is something not everyone is happy to do just because some random guy demands it.
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by lixtra 6y ago
> large area into a wasteland, that will be uninhabitable for thousands of years Did you see what happened to the Chernobyl area? What you get is not wastelands but a wonderful nature reserve (with a for wildlife insignificant increase i
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by lixtra 6y ago
Use this an example, but for real stuff prefer using the official API https://github.com/HackerNews/API
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by lixtra 6y ago
The enpoint is possibly not the only adressee of the parameter. They may go to some middleware component. Or the JavaScript in the browser. So it makes sense to take parameters as messages that you ignore when unknown.
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by lixtra 6y ago
I first estimated 1% but decided that that is much too high. But let’s make an experiment. Let an average high school student memorize these names: A Calabi-Yau manifold is a compact, complex Kähler manifold with a trivial first Chern clas
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by lixtra 6y ago
I studied math in foreign languages, sometimes names are different (French, Russian) and it never caused a problem (except for the first encounter).
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by lixtra 6y ago
Some profiling would show that names increase the difficulty of math by 0.001%. I don’t see an issue here.
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by lixtra 6y ago
But letters in Shakespeare aren’t uniformly distributed either, so maybe it’s even more re likely.
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by lixtra 6y ago
The last modified header suggests (2000) Last-Modified: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 14:02:09 GMT
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by lixtra 6y ago
Be careful what data you collect: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joffe_v._Google,_Inc .
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by lixtra 6y ago
> available on all tenants Yes, but typically not across tenants. Maybe the flaw is only exploitable to admins of each tenant and they shouldn’t see other tenants data. I.e. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24216009
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by lixtra 6y ago
Definitions and theorems to prove are (in some sense) more interesting than the proof of a given theorem.
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by lixtra 6y ago
While the patient was infected with mild symptoms the first time he showed no systems the second time. Also no mention if the virus was still contagious in the patient. How is it with other vaccines? Do you see a small infection before the

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