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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Social mobility in Germany is very low, doing consistently worse than e.g. the Scandinavian countries (I remember seeing sources claim that it is even worse than the US, but there seems to be no agreement on that). However, as far as educat
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
I would be curious about the rationale behind this. Move semantics are a clear win in many situations, and I don't see any obvious pitfalls associated with them. I am curious especially about mere std::move; I'm aware that using r
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Confining the parser to a namespace as in your second paragraph should be a sufficient solution, because it is already a well-known fact that allowing completely arbitrary control of the environment to a potential attacker is a bad idea, an
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
> So is this whole thing REALLY about the US Government losing access or more about them not wanting to expose their over-the-air code execution techniques? Obviously, the latter. More to the point, the type of regular police who would p
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
The answer is right there in the readme...
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
4) UoW has really bad reputation in the academical world and ppl doing basic research Not being related to Waterloo in any way I have no skin in the game, but their combinatorial optimization department (which is part of mathematics) is v
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Sure, but that's not an option if you actually want the line numbers. Given that it was possible to speed up the line number calculation by more than an order of magnitude, I do believe that fixing the code was the right way to go :)
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Not for string search, but I got fed up with the extremely long time it takes less to precalculate line counts on large files when I was working with log files of a size in the order of GBs. The result is here: https://github.com
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
NaCL is a good example that shows how inspecting code is not actually the mistake that was made by the Python sandbox that was attacked in the article. The mistake was that the inspection was based on a blacklist rather than a whitelist. Sa
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Except that nobody in their right mind would actually write code like this on a day-to-day basis. All languages allow the writing of insane nonsense. The question is how much nonsense is actually required in everyday work, and on that point
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
There was no belittling in melling's comment. Even with the little knowledge we have today about how the brain functions, it is perfectly reasonable to hold the materialist position that everything happening in the brain is built on th
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
It's important to understand that the medallion mess is a local issue. Uber is acting like a bully with no regard for the law even in places where getting a taxi license is basically just a simple extension to your regular driver'
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Conceptually, the working age population is divided into participating and non-participating. The participatings are further divided into working and unemployed (and working-but-looking-for-more-work is a useful category as well). It is ind
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
I liked your comment, and share a lot of your cynicism about the legal system. To be fair, though, I think you see technology and code in too positive a light, because code is also often a means for accruing power. Your own example of a c
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Okay, seems like things are a bit clearer now. I don't think it makes a lot of sense to answer quote-by-quote. At a high level, it seems to me that our disagreement is based on a different understanding of how markets work.[0] Market m
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
It is very common for natural disasters to temporarily obstruct infrastructure that had previously been working just fine, and which can be restored to working order in a short period of time (under a month, say). Or perhaps you just failed
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
What if the total amount of water available in a region is just slightly above the minimum required in that region? In this case, rich people will not stop buying water at the absolute minimum necessary - after all, people (a) like to be mo
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Please explain how superuser2's argument is undermined by that.
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
As a taxi user, I consistently prefer using taxis in places where I know that I'm not going to be cheated. I suppose taxis without price regulation are acceptable for taxi users who always use taxis within the same area/city. For
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Precisely. To put a finer point on it: Imagine a disaster that seriously impacts food delivery for several days, e.g. while access roads are cleared of debris/snow/whatever. You want some reasonable mechanism that distributes food
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Well yes. The main part of your comment is descriptive : you are describing the state of the world as it is today. However, there is a normative side to the debate as well. This is what I (and you in your first line) explicitly referred
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
It's still my data. Post office employees are not allowed to read my letters, even though I have given them into their care. There are very good reasons why we, as a society, have agreed to disallow many activities that are physicall
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
This is pretty much a cheap and default comment, but I would be so happy if everybody ( especially websites calling themselves the "DealBook") would start plotting prices on a logarithmic scale.
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Papers Please! has some elements of that, but of course it's set in a fictional country.
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Why not, indeed. The question is whether that would be a bad thing. It could serve as a great signal to those companies that they shouldn't send you any email.
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
"Traffic already on a road" is a concept that does not apply in this scenario, as all traffic is already on a road in all cases. There is no a priori way to distinguish between the circular road and the roads leading towards it. I
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
Hmm, probably we don't disagree by much anyway. Perhaps it's clearer if we put some numbers to it: Suppose that the occupied lane is doing stop-and-go (due to the natural waves occurring in traffic), with a maximum speed of 20km&#
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
dusing is probably talking about the (rather common in some places) situation where one lane has half a kilometer of slow-to-standing vehicles, while the other lane is entirely free. In this situation, of course you're going to pass
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
There's one more rule: traffic on the circular road has priority.
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by nhaehnle 12y ago
> (anything other than German. "Das Mädchen". Seriously? Das???) It certainly seems silly, but this is actually an example of one of the few rules in German. The "chen" in "Mädchen" means that it is a diminu

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