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by matteotom 5y ago
It would be more helpful if you could actually state an opinion or viewpoint rather than linking to a whole book (which, unless I'm missing it, doesn't even have a description).
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by matteotom 5y ago
Corrupt governments and central banks can be pushed to change the rules with methods like "voting" or "mass protests".
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by matteotom 5y ago
It's not about volume, but that to support a certain price bitcoin needs $x/day net inflow. To support $1M bitcoin, the market would need ~$1B/day of new money buying into bitcoin (at least for the next few years until the n
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by matteotom 5y ago
I think, fundamentally, physical locks _can't_ be solved. At the end of the day, given enough time, there will always be a physical workaround to a physical lock. Even with a "perfect" electronic lock, somebody could always
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by matteotom 5y ago
[1] is a useful overview. Somebody posted the ADL's "pyramid of hate"[2], which links biased views and actions as necessary (but not sufficient) preconditions to genocide. Some people saw this as going too far since "o
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by matteotom 5y ago
“Fell off the back of a truck” is usually a metaphor for either stolen or otherwise acquired in a way they don’t want to explain.
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by matteotom 6y ago
It's not exactly a table, but NYT has a vaccine tracker with much of this information https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/science/coronavirus...
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by matteotom 6y ago
One strategy, which wouldn't be applicable to most places in the United States right now, is to target a couple levels of potential contacts of every case. So when a person tests positive, you vaccinate all their contacts, and then al
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by matteotom 9y ago
Other commenters have addressed turning off kpti (nokpti boot flag), and Linus has said any additional protections should be toggle-able: https://lwn.net/Articles/743712/ So worst case you compile your own kernel
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by matteotom 10y ago
I've seen a few different curving processes: 1. Formula, like square root of grade times 10, that's designed to bring up grades. There're a lot of possibilities here 2. Top x% get A's, next y% get B's, etc 3. Look f
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Setting up secure boot on Arch Linux(bentley.link)
3 points by matteotom 10y ago|0 comments
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WebExtensions in Firefox 48(blog.mozilla.org)
106 points by matteotom 10y ago|69 comments
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Hackers vs. Hackathons(bentley.link)
2 points by matteotom 11y ago|0 comments
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by matteotom 11y ago
Also, the documentation is one of the best among all languages I have used
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by matteotom 11y ago
That's why I just made my own: http://mtb.wtf It's really just a personal experiment to see if I could write a useful webapp entirely in lua in my nginx config: https://github.com/matthewbentley/ur
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I Moved to Linux and It’s Even Better Than I Expected(medium.com)
9 points by matteotom 11y ago|1 comments
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by matteotom 11y ago
I was a big fan of the old Norad Santa Tracker from when I was a kid (~10-12 years ago?). It didn't have any fancy animations or games, just a map on Christmas eve showing where Santa had been, and some cool videos about the cities (an
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by matteotom 11y ago
She explains that: the converter outputs a size and a stream of rgb values, which are easy to parse and verify, and the worst thing that could happen is you get a bad output image.
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by matteotom 11y ago
It that case, wouldn't it be better to return something other that `null` for no-result (an empty iterator? an empty list?)? That might be where Optional comes in, but I'm still not sure why a new language feature is needed for t
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by matteotom 11y ago
I don't program much Java, but how expensive are exceptions? Wouldn't it make more sense to expect functions that could return null to instead throw a checked exception if something goes wrong? eg public dbResult doDatabas
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Google Hangouts service interuption(google.com)
4 points by matteotom 11y ago|0 comments
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by matteotom 11y ago
There is probably a middle ground here. For example, lock it down like the parent comment suggested, but have a process to unlock it, requiring (for example) physical access and some vehicle specific file from the manufacturer requiring pr
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by matteotom 11y ago
It states that (for non-white-hetero-males) there is no requirement to keep the license. I was under the impression that re-licensing is not such a big deal when the current license specifically allows it (such as this one does)?
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by matteotom 11y ago
It seems that it would be rather trivial to circumvent this: 1. Ask a friend who is not {male,white,hetero} to fork it on github 2. They make a small change 3. They change the license from this to MIT/BSD/GPL/whatever Regardl
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by matteotom 12y ago
In that case, you might be better off using a MIPS based device (old router, maybe?), since ARM is gaining popularity.
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by matteotom 12y ago
This looks awesome. I really like the look of ChromeOS (and ChromiumOS), but it's a pain in the ass to de-Google-ify, install new packages, and use on non-Google approved hardware. This looks like a good, actually open source alterna
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by matteotom 12y ago
If an ad comes on the radio, I usually change the station. During TV commercials, I mute and do something else. There's nothing that compels me to sit through the ads to listen to the music or watch the television show. Similarly, I
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Rocket Now Available in CoreOS Alpha Channel(coreos.com)
11 points by matteotom 12y ago|0 comments
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by matteotom 12y ago
More info here: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/634649/d31644d65227ead6/ TD;DR: There are still issues to work out, and working live patching might not be in for 4.0. > "So, while it is still possible t
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by matteotom 12y ago
A lot of people don't like systemd for various reasons, ranging from personal to political to technical. The Debian Technical Committee voted that systemd sysVinit needs to be replaced, and that systemd is the best option. Since then

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