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by maze-le 10y ago
Northern Ireland is a very tricky issue. Despite the majority in vote against Brexit, there is an almost 50/50 divide between pro-british unionists and pro-irish nationalists. As far as I understand it, the government in Belfast has be
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by maze-le 10y ago
With "finally", i just meant, that it is what we arrived with in the here and now. It is by no means final, it's just our current form of social contract. It is also far from perfect, but I consider it better than most forms
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by maze-le 10y ago
What? no of course not. I just tried to illustrate that the social contract evolved over a very long time period, and that the greater family -- ie the tribe -- plays no part in the social contract of todays society.
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by maze-le 10y ago
Interesting that you mention "the tribe" as basic unit of society. We have abandoned the concept of tribalism gradually in favour of (1.) feudalism, (2.) absolute monarchy and finally (3.) the nation state. Today, we don't ha
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by maze-le 10y ago
Would you also consider mailing your lawyer or your doctor not private? I mean, there are certain services that are per definition public, twitter for example. But on the other hand there are lots and lots of things you can do on the net th
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by maze-le 10y ago
Its never as easy as that. First of all, if anything the conflict was primarily between Geogria and South Ossetia, Russia only intervened on behalf of South Ossetia. And before the war started, both South Ossetian seperatists and Geogian ba
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by maze-le 10y ago
> faith means "trust", not "irrational opinion". Not quite, faith means "trust" in an "irrational opinion". Howerver, everyone should have the right to trust whatever opinion rational or irrational
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CodeMesh: Building a Graphical IDE in Elm/Purescript for an Embedded Language(youtube.com)
5 points by maze-le 10y ago|0 comments
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by maze-le 10y ago
"no theory" because we don't know what this matter really is. Up to now, explanations on the nature of the matter have problems in one way or another. High Energy Neutrinos are too light and not abundat enough. Axions were on
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by maze-le 10y ago
As long as there is no theory on dark matter it is not an explanation for anything. It's more a placeholder for a mechanism we don't understand. The best hypothesis so far is, that there is matter that doesn't interact electr
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by maze-le 10y ago
One problem might be the sulfuric acid rains. The SO2-cloud layer is well above the '1 atm'-isobar level (~50km). So we would need building materials that are resistant to sulfuric acid. But other than that I also find the idea hi
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by maze-le 10y ago
> ETA in Spain only disbanded when the government stopped banning political parties linked to ETA. The Basque country is not independent. This was the goal of ETA in the first place, and it was not accomplished. After the success of the
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by maze-le 10y ago
This may be the cure in this case, but unique/automated passwords can go horribly wrong too. I once was the owner of a Vodafone EasyBox, a cheap and crappy router with pre-configured wlan wpa-keys. They looked randomly enough, but were
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by maze-le 10y ago
> Coastal cities are unlikely to be flooded in our lifetimes. We're looking at about 1m [1] sea level rise in 100 years, or 50cm in our lifetime. Thats true, but what most people don't know is that sea level rise don't nec
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by maze-le 10y ago
The concepts you are referring to are called: Interplanetary contamination[0] and Planetary Protection[1]. There are precautions that take place before a spacecraft, targeted at possible sources of microbial life is launched. The operations
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by maze-le 10y ago
Have you ever heard of 'space engine'[0]? It is not a game, more something like static a simulation. But the generation of random planets works kind of like you just described. There are no rocks or living objects on the surface (
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by maze-le 10y ago
Under this definition, protesters hurling stones are terrorists. Not that I am a fan of idiots throwing objects during a demonstration, but I think nobody would reasonably accuse them of terrorism...
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by maze-le 10y ago
This is quite unsettling: "Those six acts include researching encryption, developing an 'encrypted version' of his blog, and instructing others how to use encryption.". If this is everything you need to be a 'terror
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by maze-le 10y ago
Interesting, I never even thought about this usecase. But fingerprints can change over long enough timescales, either by accident or simply old age.
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by maze-le 10y ago
A lot of banks still use COBOL systems from the 70ies in their backend stack[0]. It might be the same issue with this small C64 for business: "Never touch a running system" [0]: http://www.bankingtech.com/375941&#x
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by maze-le 10y ago
Damn, I just realized, that I wanted to post the original article, not the mention on 'erlangcentral'. But editing URLs is not permitted, so, for everyone interested: http://inaka.net/blog/2016/08/17
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Replacing JSON when talking to erlang(beta.erlangcentral.org)
2 points by maze-le 10y ago|3 comments
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by maze-le 10y ago
> we might also find out that there is no real way to travel faster than light We don't need to find that out, we already know that
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by maze-le 10y ago
Nope, I don't think so. I don't demand Microsoft to open up the Windows sources or sources for MS-Office for that matter. They make money with these products and I understand the incentive to keep them closed. Alas NTFS is a files
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by maze-le 10y ago
As long as key components like the official Microsoft NTFS implementation remain closed source, I see in this open source policy as a charade.
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by maze-le 10y ago
I might add: From my point of view, they are more often than not unnecessary. As a single without children living in a european city, the occasions where I really 'needed' a car come down to: change of residence and buying big chu
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by maze-le 10y ago
Do you seriously copmare the robbery of a bank with a homeless person stealing food?
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by maze-le 10y ago
Same here, I think it has something to do with WebGL
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by maze-le 10y ago
You forget that in both instances of the 'handful of revolutionaries' you quote had full popular support on their side. The terrorists have neither popular support nor superior weaponry (the pizarro example). I also doubt that thi
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by maze-le 10y ago
Lets forget the argument, that this sets a dangerous precedent for a moment... Even if you assume the strictest possible processes, even if you assume only the most genius techs working on a backdoor like this: In the end the people impleme

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