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by mrgriscom 13y ago
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fucking-magnets-how-do-they-wo...
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Fucking Tides, How Do They Work?(mrgris.com)
5 points by mrgriscom 13y ago|3 comments
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
To me it just seems self-evident that monopoly telcos should be required to treat all traffic equally. That's what it means to be a common carrier. Imagine if you called your favorite pizza place to order a pizza and the phone said &
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
You'll find that over half those ROMs are not arcade games at all, but rather slot machines and video poker... and almost none of them are emulated. This huge explosion in the romset happened a few years ago, and personally, I feel sho
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
But if the information is "here are other people you might be related to", it's not your information; it's both people's. I just don't understand how that can be revealed to you first without being unfair to
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
Isn't the ancestry matching opt-in? At the very minimum, I'm pretty sure you can opt out when you give your sample. In that case, if you do have a match, obviously both people will have to be notified of the other's identity.
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
and they rise to full brightness immediately... and they're indestructible... and they're not filled with mercury...
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
I'm really sick of hearing about this idea. At least this one doesn't make the same mistake of suggesting it should be human powered, but the energy density of gravity is ridiculously low compared to practically any other technolo
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
I think a lot of that price is actually import duties.
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
Things that could be trivially done in SQL :(
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
wouldn't that traffic eventually get routed via asia?
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
I was disappointed that the article didn't address the issue of jealousy and conflict between those who receive the grants and those who don't. To me that seems like one of the biggest struggles in a scheme like this.
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
By law, a US citizen cannot be deported from a US port of entry. http://knifetricks.blogspot.com/2010/09/10-brief-responses-t...
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by mrgriscom 13y ago
I've lately been thinking about what would happen to all my digital data if I died unexpectedly, so I find this post quite timely. However, I wanted a scheme that did not rely on any single provider. Instead, I split up my master password u
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Survivorship in the Digital Age: ensuring access to your data after you die(mrgris.com)
2 points by mrgriscom 14y ago|0 comments
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A Plea for Password Usability(mrgris.com)
1 points by mrgriscom 14y ago|0 comments
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by mrgriscom 14y ago
Another way to back up your master password is with 'ssss'. http://point-at-infinity.org/ssss/ You can split a secret into N pieces, where any M of them are enough to reconstruct it. Even if you have M-1 pieces, you're no better off than
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by mrgriscom 14y ago
the correct calculations are 72^42 (1.0e78) and 72^6 (1.4e11)
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by mrgriscom 14y ago
I agree. These functions have completely changed how I approach algorithms and data manipulation. I was super-excited to learn Go, but it was a showstopper to discover that Go's lack of support for generics effectively made this pattern of
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by mrgriscom 14y ago
I made a similar minesweeper solver that employs many of the same techniques. It really is an interesting algorithm to play with and involves some deep delving into combinatorics and probability. Glad to see someone else had the same though
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by mrgriscom 14y ago
I really wish people would stop mixing up TSA and USCBP ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Customs_and_Border_Protect... )
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by mrgriscom 14y ago
Working remote is always a grey area. We reasoned that since we were not taking up employment in Brazil or being paid by a Brazilian entity, we didn't need work visas. The primary purpose of our trip arguably was tourism, so we all got tour
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by mrgriscom 14y ago
We also travel extensively for our work anyway -- projects in Africa, India, Latin America -- so we're used to setting up shop pretty much anywhere. And definitely in less hospitable circumstances than Sao Paulo. So that helped mitigate the
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by mrgriscom 14y ago
I think it's nowhere near that simple. You don't just want to open up a cascade, but a _quality_ cascade that gives enough information to work with to identify which cells are mines, or, failing that, won't involve a risky guess. A '1' in t