mrybczyn

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by mrybczyn 8y ago
Not a "legitimate" descendant, whatever that means after 60 generations. However, he was an aristocrat, and a soldier, in a time when birth control was rarely practiced. I imagine he's got plenty of his DNA in the modern poo
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
Many fields are small enough, with infrequent enough papers, that experts will be able to tell the author from style and content alone...
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
Both of my kids are called by a nickname derived from their middle names! Awesome way to distinguish fake association attacks.
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
I applaud your optimism! Most places just enforce byzantine password requirements, 13 digits, must have ~, uppercase and a palindrome prime integer in it. Obligatory password XKCD, think of the children. https://xkcd.com/936
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
Sure, HSBC gets security right. They just deal with criminals directly rather than indirectly :-) https://www.google.com/search?q=hsbc+criminal+investigation
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
Sex differences in the genetic sense exist, and are founded on physics, chemistry and biology. Let's not hide from them either, veiled behind ideological double-speak. Balance.
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
There isn't a windows compile available yet 8( -- yes, i don't have a choice at work.
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
And yet it's more than 90.1% of the population posesses... Interestingly, some estimates of (formal) Polish aristocracy in the 17th century place it around 10% of the population. Maybe this is just some natural distribution of socio-e
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
Math teaching until upper years of undergrad is "The Technical History of Mathematics", which really could be taught very well by teachers yoinked by a time machine from the 1800s... My favorite math teacher was a linguist by trai
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
SOAP-XML request handling in C on a 100mhz embedded microLinux MMUless processor with plenty of processor and shitty kernel arch bugs ruined my life for a year once. I mean it's the obvious choice for a simple control UI implementation
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
Excellent visualization, however you have to use the units of measurement appropriate for a space faring people who have visited the moon. So your 500 sq ft apartment is filled to a height of 3 feet with salt. That is 400 billion grains of
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
I believe the key word is: "scaling" Great tutors are great. Irreplaceable. There are approximately 900 of them in the world. Good luck hiring one of them for your child. For an example of what kids can do in highschool, when
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
who is the manufacturer? what country is it manufactured in? basic information that no one provides, and you have to go to the store to look at the back of the box to see...
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
Thanks for the direct link! hacker news is the best. Also, I was very partial to Gorsuch's dissenting opinion, even though I believe patents in general to be a problem.
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
Damn, I thought another post in https://typesetinthefuture.com/ was being linked. Genius, that guy.
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
I think I'm going to start a 21st app that implements a new protocol that unifies the other protocols... https://xkcd.com/927/
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by mrybczyn 8y ago
When you say "field", do you mean algebraic field, or professional "field".
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
But then you get the great quip that 'freedom isn't free'...
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
Google+Alphabet yearly revenues are in the same ballpark as South Africa's GDP. Google/Alphabet is already a country in its own right, and libertarians would already be sceptical of Google's role in society. This is just anot
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
Well.... I'm pretty sure the field interpretation of EM also applies across the universe. So you could, on a dark night, with the electrons in the atoms of your body, feel the movement of electrons in a star, millions of light years
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
Article written by Russian banker living in Germany. Can't possibly be biased.
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
Seeing the rates of "single vehicle accidents" in small aircraft piloted by amateurs, I'm happier with the autonomy. Also, autonomy in the sky seems easier than autonomy on the ground. If Thrun is involved, chances are it wil
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
I'm pretty sure this is a literal "Not In My Back Yard" comment. I'm okay with it. Yes it will be for the 1% for a long time, but so were trains and cars and airlines...
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
If you pass triage, and wait your turn... And outside of hospital emergency visits, if you can find a family physician. Free has a large time cost associated with it.
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
I wonder if any tech companies are for or against this "surprising" turn of events... https://phys.org/news/2017-10-china-xi-zuckerberg-cook-beiji...
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
I wonder if this is expressing the culture inherited from the Japanese historical experience? An island culture, homogenous, inward-centered, idolizing the emperor, crushed in WW2, and then relying on the post war rise of the corporate wel
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
CCC.DE is slow for me, here's a youtube link to same video. Worth watching! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RKqof77pKBc
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
You can iodize mined / farmed salt. There's plenty in the supermarket for your organic local artisanal salt needs...
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
yup, notebookcheck is the only place I read for good reviews.
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by mrybczyn 9y ago
Nothing wrong with driving. Just drive appropriately. Car sharing. Taxi / Uber. Hybrids. Electric cars. Self driving cars. The freedom to transport yourself is a powerful force for good, and socialized public transport and bikes a

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