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by lixtra 8y ago
TLDR: * students get a tag that pings every second so they can be personally located within the school * apparently the pinging continues outside school as well and can be used to track students
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French school distributes 24/7 traceable tag(laquadrature.net)
11 points by lixtra 8y ago|1 comments
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by lixtra 8y ago
It’s a probability game. The article states that he picked the problem that seemed easiest to him. Other people make different choices. And finally: even if you don’t achieve anything ground breaking till the end of your life it’s good you
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by lixtra 8y ago
Without a small excerpt it’s pointless for me. I don’t want to click each entry to see what it is about. Or is it because I’m on mobile?
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by lixtra 8y ago
Nowadays this has bred a generation that resubmit the same work again even if you tell them specifically what’s wrong.
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by lixtra 8y ago
If csv is your main use case, also have a look at qtextasdata[0]. [0] http://harelba.github.io/q/
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by lixtra 8y ago
It was a bad idea to focus on Flux vs SQL. It would be better compared to pig or pandas. I like the approach. I find it annoying that in SQL I need more than select privileges to write my own function or view (Aliases and WITH is all that y
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by lixtra 8y ago
> It's all just media manipulation. Don’t attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. [Hanlon]
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by lixtra 8y ago
You can compute which shard to use and if you’re in a border region you just use all shards that overlap with your 100km radius.
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by lixtra 8y ago
With apparently 13 k€ per month processed, how much could they launder? No harm would have been done by giving them a few months grace period.
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by lixtra 8y ago
I agree that certified education got more expensive. Education price in general got much cheaper with the Information Age. Just look at the body of knowledge that is available to everyone through scihub but also through legal venues. With e
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by lixtra 8y ago
Here are two examples where such claims were made: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2530405/it-careers/sap... https://www.t-online.de/finanzen/boerse/news/id_47703844/
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by lixtra 8y ago
The real price for the book is usually paid in time. The right book at the right time can pay off richly in time and money.
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by lixtra 8y ago
In that situation the open outwards/rope solution is indeed more save. In your case you could design it such that you can’t close the door after use without unblocking the other one. Typically people would like to close the door to the
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by lixtra 8y ago
Are you going to also make a conclusion video? Like wp is for x pw is for y?
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by lixtra 8y ago
I think assuming malice the problem becomes much harder.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Or shorter: You donate 1$. Of that only 0.9$ go to the cause and 0.10$ is used as premium to insure that goals are met. I don’t see how the insurers have any leverage to make the non-profits meet there goals. That means that they will prob
888.
by lixtra 8y ago
I usually use calibre for that.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Another call for boringcc[0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10772841
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by lixtra 8y ago
The main feature of the algorithm is to sort fast in constant time (for fixed n) for cryptographic purposes [0]. [0] https://ntruprime.cr.yp.to/ntruprime-20170816.pdf P. 48
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by lixtra 8y ago
> employees hooking up with each isn't unusual Of course they do. Employees are not slaves. They are free to bond as they like.
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by lixtra 8y ago
I remember reading about a guy giving away 1 BTC to interested people (when it was 7 USD/BTC). My first thought was poor guy, he sure regrets that he gave so much money (in retrospect) away. But at a second thought his remaining BTC p
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by lixtra 8y ago
I hope you get down voted not for taking a contrarian position but just because your comment does barely support the argument. Maybe anecdotes would help to illustrate your point?
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by lixtra 8y ago
It’s only a reasonable onetime effort to configure Jira to your needs. You can even pay a consultant for that. After that you can use it with your the sweet spot complexity. Or is it just that you don’t like their UI?
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by lixtra 8y ago
Here is the description of hierarchical proofs: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/proof.pdf
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by lixtra 8y ago
They could just flag it “volatile”, “unstable” or something. It’s very unlikely that Microsoft did not properly document the api internally and as you see it’s leaking out anyway.
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by lixtra 8y ago
I wait for google to ask for an opt in in robots.txt and reward this with a higher rating. Then, in a few years, they can exclusively serve opt in content.
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by lixtra 8y ago
The answer to this question I usually get is that you cannot oversteer because a) we are still far away from a fair state and b) even if you oversteer it’s fair to make up for past injustice.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Do you see a niche you could conquer with zig? For ruby it was rails. Python profited from data science. Etc.
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by lixtra 8y ago
Well, if you attack me like that I can always pass on the spoiled coins to a newly created account. Once I got rid of the spoiled coins my account would be clean again. In a regalutory framework there could also be filter addresses that lau

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