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by mcbits 9y ago
Not perfect synonyms, but we do have shorter words in the same semantic ballpark: virtue, vigor, zeal, concern, care, pains...
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by mcbits 9y ago
If web sites started serving an HTTP header saying "browsers with ad blockers are not welcome to view this content", I would allow my browser to honor that request. That's more convenient than solving the AI problem of identi
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by mcbits 9y ago
I want a VR interface that merely simulates a room full of monitors, controlled via a workout machine to keep me in shape while generating 30 watts to power the headset - or potentially the whole system.
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by mcbits 9y ago
For future reference in case you need to share a screenshot elsewhere... It's literally the same process to post a screenshot to imgur. No account needed.
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by mcbits 9y ago
If someone commits perjury, convict them of perjury. There's no need to invent yet another crime. But I suspect it's not perjury. If a laundromat has an extra $500k of income and reports it as income, paying all relevant taxes, th
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by mcbits 9y ago
If it is known (proven beyond a reasonable doubt) that the money was acquired illegally, then mission accomplished. Convict them of the actual crime. If not, then the "crime" of moving money around in unconventional ways does seem
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by mcbits 9y ago
The main difference is that devices store and transmit tons data that would never be stored in a safe deposit box, and which has always been inaccessible to law enforcement anyway, such as one-off drunken quips between friends.
578.
by mcbits 9y ago
My preferred analogy is paper shredders. Imagine if any criminal could just walk into a store and buy a paper shredder so effective that it's impossible for the FBI to piece the data back together, with or without a warrant, no matter
579.
by mcbits 9y ago
I think the theory is that the next customer scheduled for the dead rocket can share some other rocket instead. The internal satellite(s) on that rocket get delayed, but at least it would be loaded to capacity even if the previous rocket di
580.
by mcbits 9y ago
Chrome apps are being discontinued on most OSes, so they recommend migrating to Electron or NW.js if a normal web app or extension won't work. https://blog.chromium.org/2016/08/from-chrome-apps-to-web.ht...
581.
by mcbits 9y ago
A compromise would be to use Electron/Chromium as shared libraries so the bulk of those apps would be using the same 500 MB - nearly free lunch for users who would have Chromium running all day either way.
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by mcbits 9y ago
It's relevant to the hypothetical state stealing enormous quantities of gold from other states. They wouldn't do it to give all the citizens fancy necklaces and dental implants. The reason would be to shore up their currency. The
583.
by mcbits 9y ago
No, in fact it is not. To help you understand why, if the US were to switch back to a gold-backed currency and somehow do it relatively seamlessly, it would need to find enough gold to back a money supply of about $7 trillion dollars (or $2
584.
by mcbits 9y ago
$44 billion current US dollars worth of gold can back 10 to 100 times that amount of "money" (depending on how far you stretch the definition of money) in a fractional reserve banking system. It's no trivial amount.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Someone replied to me and deleted it, and I don't want to waste the time I spent writing a response, so here it is: No, that wasn't my claim. If I have a claim, it's that, instead of simply moving away, people keep building u
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by mcbits 9y ago
A more realistic analogy would be if the engineer said it's very likely that the California coast will be hit with an earthquake sometime in the next 100 years, but we have no idea when, which city, or how severe it will be. The safe t
587.
by mcbits 9y ago
Yeah, I don't think it's actually their reason for the change. It's just one hypothetical consequence that the decision makers probably failed to consider. Still, the decision makers should be investigated for conflicts of in
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by mcbits 9y ago
This will allow ISPs to track who is viewing particular patents and when. That would be very lucrative data to sell in some circumstances. I doubt the USPTO would distribute a list of IP addresses that accessed a patent without some kind of
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by mcbits 9y ago
It looks like the beep is sufficient for recording from a one-party state calling a two-party state, since federal law supercedes the other state's law. Actual consent would be required if the recorder is in a two-party state, even if
590.
by mcbits 9y ago
Any time someone complains about software startup times, I'm reminded of Blender, which starts in a fraction of a second on my old 1st-generation i5 with a cold cache. That should be the baseline: If a program is less complex than Blen
591.
by mcbits 9y ago
Apparently the legalese is "recorder warning tone" and it should be a 1400 Hz beep every 15 seconds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorder_warning_tone I mentioned it because someone working for a big organi
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by mcbits 9y ago
My reading is that he signed it because he was falsely made to believe he may have done something illegal and this would protect him from the FBI. I.e. he was coerced.
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by mcbits 9y ago
I think it may be enough to play a beep every few seconds to indicate that the call is recorded. At least that's what a bank I used to work for would do when I called offices in a two-party state.
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by mcbits 9y ago
With sensible indentation, and knowing nothing of SVG, the only unreadable part of that is the blob of matrix data, but I'm very glad they didn't go with something like <matrixElement row="0" column="0">0
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by mcbits 9y ago
Anecdotal evidence is evidence (hence the name). You just can't apply the usual statistical methods that assume the evidence was sampled perfectly randomly from an effectively infinite population. Empirical evidence rarely lives up to
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by mcbits 9y ago
Then click again. And then again. Oops, clicked the picture instead of the text? Go back and try again. But don't accidentally click on the whitespace or you'll have to start over. I'm pretty sure the UI is 100% driven by cou
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by mcbits 9y ago
That's probably referring to the time it takes to download 16KB on a 56Kb connection (about 2 seconds plus latency).
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by mcbits 9y ago
Another proposal: Give patent examiners X% of all revenue from the patents they approve. However, if any of their approved patents is ever found to be invalid, they lose all future revenues and their job. This would be strong incentive to
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by mcbits 9y ago
That points to a well developed individual memory. I don't think they're using the locations of nuts to encode knowledge for each other and future generations. (If they are, that's tremendous.) But imagine if the birds also c
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by mcbits 9y ago
I think written language is our primary difference. Prehistoric wild humans had spoken language for hundreds of thousands of years, but we didn't have the explosion of "intelligence" until the advent of written language ~5,00

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