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by nhaehnle 13y ago
You don't enter into a contractual relationship with the USPS when you mail or receive a letter. I would argue that that's a historical accident and in any case subject to change, especially in places where the mail system has b
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
I can't even fathom how it can be illegal. Those are Microsoft owned servers. How would you feel about the postal service opening the letters it transports in a similar scenario? Do you think it's morally a-okay for them to unil
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
the initial assumption that the creator of Bitcoin used his real name, contained in the headline, was extremely unlikely I'm curious: Why do people actually believe that this is so unlikely? By the time that I first read about Bitcoi
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Evangelizing was basically the only path for Bitcoin-the-currency to become valuable, so that's a bit of an odd complaint ;-)
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
there are expenses in the current system that bitcoin avoids Which expenses would that be that are genuinely avoided while maintaining feature parity, rather than merely avoiding the feature that is bought by those expenses in the traditi
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The first paragraph is probably intended to establish the author as somebody who isn't crazy. The disconnect between the majority beliefs about Marxism and its actual contents (as well as the beliefs of those who actually follow in Mar
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Honestly, writing safe C++ code means just following a few rules of thumb. Most importantly: never do pointer arithmetic, always use smart pointers. Basically, 99% of your work should use only about 10% of the feature set of C++ explicitl
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
It seems like a reasonable response to inquiries about a specific project. It is less likely as a general response to your general involvement in military contracts. Now ask yourself: Which specific projects had they been talking about,
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
What siblings haven't pointed out: Terrorism is supposed to terrorize people. If this was an act of terror, it certainly did not go as planned.
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
What is your story for the thought processes/internal processes at NSA that would have led to the creation of Bitcoin by them? I'm genuinely curious because it seems pretty out of character for an organization whose task is to pro
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The new Satoshi Nakamoto communication is really interesting. There have been quite a lot of stories over time supposedly identifying the real Nakamoto, and there was complete silence over this. So... did Newsweek get the real Nakamoto who
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Since C has neither garbage collection nor the RAII pattern of C++, it is very common for C functions to have a cleanup section at the end, where allocated memory and other resources are freed again. In many C projects (including the Linux
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
> rubber hose cryptography Shouldn't that really be rubber hose cryptanalysis ?
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
> ... sensible ... You probably meant to write "sensitive" or "susceptible" or something like that. (Just a well-meaning remark especially if you, like me, are not a native speaker).
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
One of the players acted as a server, though this was actually more to avoid the headaches associated with NAT rather than for bandwidth reasons.
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
What's more, governments usually don't wake up one morning and decide to start hyperinflation out of the blue. Instead, hyperinflation is usually the result of economic disasters that came before. In fact, I would "fix"
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Thank you for this comment, I was about to post something very similar. The thing about hyperinflation is that people are hypnotized by the many zeros that are involved and ignore the underlying root causes. Zimbabwe suffered economically f
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
I can confirm this, having been mostly responsible for the network code in Widelands. We exclusively used TCP with parallel simulation (i.e., only player actions are transmitted), and it worked just fine as early as 2007 even without any sp
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The code if fill of typedefs for AMIGA and OS/2. There's nothing wrong with that as long as those typedefs are properly isolated in some platform-specific header files. It's natural to have an initial feeling of being overw
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
However, a exec can make one decision that can save / make a company millions or billions of dollars. I understand how the current situation is justified. Two questions though: 1. How much of that is down to the skill of the exec? A
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
It is also unlike how administrative and executive staff are paid. Sure, exec positions often (though not always) have some performance-related bonuses. However, those are normally on top of a base salary that is already rather ridiculous
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
with better support for collaboration, with Word How? This is an honest question. I wouldn't use Word anyway, but I am just not aware of anything that could come close to Git + LaTeX in terms of collaboration support.
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
I agree that that aspect of LaTeX sucks. That said, as a matter of exchanging practical hints: If you haven't yet heard of \includeonly, you should definitely check it out ;)
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Thank you for that. As a European, I would add that you really need to be aware that the country seems to be split along historical lines: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/01/24
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
An interesting read, but there is one paragraph in particular that sounds a bit like an elaborate troll. Take a look at this: The most notable is participatory economics, or parecon. This is a worthwhile attempt, I think, but to me it does
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
As has been pointed out on the LWN thread, buffer overflows even on the stack can also leave you vulnerable by overwriting other automatic variables, e.g. a variable that indicates whether a client is authenticated as an administrator.
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
I don't even know how to respond if you don't understand the difference between making a joking threat while on stage at a comedy club, and making one when stepping onto a plane. While there are obviously differences, I think th
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
The gold standard is also inconvenient for progressive policies: it removes the floating of currency exchange rates, which tends to act as an automatic stabilizer. See the Eurozone to see how this played out over the last few years, since
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Just remember where the bread is buttered, pedestrians = homeless panhandler but car = customer. I'm not sure if you're trolling or just a bit tone-deaf, but this is an incredibly US-centric way to see things. Seriously, it make
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by nhaehnle 13y ago
Making love work is just as hard for wealthy people as for anybody else. It's less clear-cut with love, but at least marriage is much easier for wealthy people - or at least, non-poor people. Divorce rates are higher among poor peo

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