mafuy

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   by mafuy 8y ago

   From your reply I think you did not entirely understand the parent's reasoning. I think you don't follow the consequences of your points to the end, where it becomes visible that they are not desirable. I believe that is what the
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   by mafuy 8y ago

   I don't agree. None of these is a real option. - I cannot just make a website or service. It is usually a huge project that only few people can solve. - I have no way to feed wrong information without diving very deep into that website
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   by mafuy 8y ago

   I can answer this :) Because in Germany, everyone uses Girocard. It has a lower fee, so it is preferred over credit cards. We also don't need the consumer protections that credit cards offer because most of them are law here.
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   by mafuy 8y ago

   Germany has had this for a while. It works relatively well.
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   by mafuy 8y ago

   It is about taking responsibility. That it not hurt right now does not absolve us from that. As an example, look into how Nazi Germany and the GDR used collected data. That is the reason why Germany has very strict privacy laws nowadays. Bu
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   by mafuy 8y ago

   Vaguely related, I implemented Busy Beavers in C#. It also has some support for automated proofs (i.e. making it run exponentially faster). It's open source at https://github.com/nerai/Nibbler
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   by mafuy 9y ago

   But... would you not use tools that have a guarantee of long term support for such a use case?
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   by mafuy 9y ago

   Just dropping in to say you are completely correct. It is called "maximum munch" and mandated by the C spec. I recently wrote a toy C compiler and was confused until I learned this.
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   by mafuy 9y ago

   The parent was probably referring to laws pertaining to secrets, not laws that themselves are secret.
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    by mafuy 9y ago

    Not sure if I misunderstood, but patents do have a time window.
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    by mafuy 10y ago

    Any specific machine can be proved to terminate or not terminate - albeit not always in ZFC. For instance, BB(10) can be computed, just as BB(10000) can, just that the latter cannot be computed in ZFC.
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    by mafuy 10y ago

    Cattle is easy to control. It does not pollinate across a fence. If it happens to escape, it is relatively easy to find it. Neither of these points apply to plants. So I think that part your comparison is entirely invalid.
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    by mafuy 10y ago

    Sorry if this is a stupid question, can I store chat logs of all (even encrypted) conversations locally?
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    by mafuy 10y ago

    Is the site down?
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    by mafuy 10y ago

    First off, you should make a difference between driving alone on a small country road and being in heavy traffic on the highway. Either way, your calculation does not take into account that moving the hands happens in parallel with the crit
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    by mafuy 10y ago

    Thank you. Wow.
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    by mafuy 10y ago

    Why do you think this is the reason system32 was protected? I think it was simply protected for the same reason the program files folder was, which is security. Not to prevent user mistakes.
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    by mafuy 10y ago

    I'm not sure what you mean, isn't this exactly what bounties on SE currently do?
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    by mafuy 10y ago

    I'm remotely involved there and my reply would be that TCS is research level while CS is not. There seems to be significant overlap in the questions, regardless.
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    by mafuy 12y ago

    This is quite funny http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2014/09/11/10557...