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by namelost 9y ago
There are many countries which do not have the ability to print money, either because they use another country's currency or their currency is pegged. This usually comes about in order to ease trading (e.g. Hong Kong), because the exis
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by namelost 9y ago
The exact sequence of events you are describing happened between 2013-2016 when Bitcoin fell from a hype induced >$1000 to (at its lowest) $200, and didn't rise above $1000 until this year. It clearly did not kill Bitcoin, and Bitco
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It seems that the biggest difference between the American right and left is whether to preserve the wealth of the rich at all costs, or whether to prioritise some other objectives ahead of that.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction
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That depends whether the other occupants knew about the safety features and record of elevators. If they did, then they were making a sound judgement. If they didn't, then they were being completely reckless.
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I admit I know nothing about C++ modules proposals, but the post talks about an "acyclic graph of translation units". Does this imply that modules can't import one another? What happens when two .cpp files want to do the equi
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Betteridge's law strikes again.
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Singapore is in the northern hemisphere. It's north(west) of Pontianak which is on the equator.
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How does a tablet fix that? The distance between touchscreen and keyboard is even further than between keyboard and a trackpad.
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In the UK there is no such thing as an SSN, only "national insurance numbers" which are used for transactional purposes with the government, but are otherwise not part of daily life. Society seems to function just fine. It's
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Also it's pretty easy to detect if someone has a large piece of ferromagnetic metal inside them or not.
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There's nothing wrong if users independently choose to use code generation. However when a programming language starts to rely on it, it becomes a major problem. We've been here before with the C preprocessor. There's nothi
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Yeah far from finding a sweet spot, Go exists in some kind of type system ghetto, because its type system is so crippled users have to resort to code generation (go generate). Neither Python nor Java programmers have to do that.
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I'm aware I might be fighting a losing battle here but the term is "expansionary" not "inflationary". Inflationary means that the value of a currency tends to go down over time. Expansionary means that the supply of
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by namelost 9y ago
In the US, the value of someone's life depends on their citizenship, so they can perhaps get around this problem by only crewing their rocket with non-Americans.
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Not now, but at the time of its introduction, Chrome was significantly better than everything else. Once they added extensions at least. Chrome was the first web browser that didn't crash and didn't need to be frequently restarted
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British is an en dash separated by spaces, American is an em dash with no spaces.
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> Empirical studies have shown that older people are better than younger ones in terms of control over emotion, knowing themselves better, making better decisions that require experience, and having more compassion and empathy towards ot
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by namelost 9y ago
You can turn it off. Or you can apply a threat model and determine whether the people for whom TouchID/FaceID is keeping your phone secure against would have the resources to mount such an attack.
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Nobody is suggesting that Uber did anything illegal, their licence to operate is being revoked.
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Passive advertising is not an evil thing that needs to be eliminated. But when companies start building dossiers on all of us that even intelligence services would be jealous of, that is evil.
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This is a really observant point. Users expect every website to have a unique identity (unlike anything built with WinForms), that is what creates the complexity. If you actually use something like bootstrap, your website will look unorigin
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Even if there were a perfect HIV cure, and antibiotics were 100% effective, there is a risk of infertility from chlamydia, etc. So no, unprotected sexual freedom isn't a practical goal for medical science. Better to use condoms instead
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If the money is in a bank account in a foreign country, a court may have no jurisdiction to recover the money.
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The classic example of political correctness is the term "happy holidays" instead of "merry christmas". The use of political correct terms makes people mad because it contains within it an implication that they are being
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Bitcoin is not the only game in town, there would be a mad scramble to Ethereum et al.
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Who says? npm is proof that package managers need to do none of these things to be successful, and indeed the traditional design of a package manager as a constraint solver is self-defeating, because it puts a perverse pressure on libraries
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a|b would be the obvious choice, because it already works for set: {1,2}|{2,3} == {1,2,3} I guess the reason they went for the weird {∗∗a, ∗∗b} syntax is that it is not a commutative operation.
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Yes, the PIN is the least secure way of unlocking a phone, by a wide margin. If someone can shoulder surf while I unlock my phone with a PIN, then they can watch which buttons I press and now they can unlock my phone too. If I use the fin
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Complexity begets attacks. Apple's policy is "no rootkits". Allowing the user to modify the system software is basically a backdoor, and backdoors have an undeniable history of being abused by people other than their intended

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