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by niftich 9y ago
Of course EV is broken -- of more like, people's mental model of the benefits that EV confers is broken. As noted in the article, an EV cert asserts that the domain name is controlled by a legal entity in some jurisdiction. This is a
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by niftich 9y ago
The github for this project doesn't use this terminology, but the keyword here is ' canonicalization '. That's the process in which you transform a document which can take any number of forms to a specific document that
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The Chukchi Sea is directly north of the Bering Strait. Choice excerpt, spacing added: > We also suggested a possible role of a strong oceanic heat inflow to the Chukchi Sea via Bering Strait. > In support of this view, in the summer
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Google can block YouTube wherever it wishes because their YouTube clients are either: - first-party, so they make them on platforms where they wish to be present on, and conversely withdraw from platforms on which they no longer wish to be
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Also being discussed at 'Google Is Pulling YouTube Off the Fire TV and Echo Show' [1], posted two hours prior. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15855198
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You're right, the posted Anandtech article does not mention x86_64; however, other prior and recent coverage of this topic does confirm that x86_64 is not supported, such as this Ars Technica article [1] from the same day. [1] https:&
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Why would that be the case? Do you foresee this putting a great deal of performance-related pressure on Qualcomm that wasn't there before, despite them being a top-shipping smartphone CPU vendor? Given Qualcomm's just-announced pa
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Last time [1] we speculated, some saying it's a straight tit for tat [2], others, like me [3], saying it can be because Amazon half-assed the implementation after getting no help from Google. At least this time, we know the real reason
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This roadway is known as "I-66 Inside the Beltway". It was built in 1982 [1], and runs from I-495 in Dunn Loring/Merrifield in the west to the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Bridge in the east, and except for short stretches, is
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Trump shrinks two huge national monuments in Utah, drawing praise and protests(washingtonpost.com)
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Instead, Chrome "won" the browser wars and pushed a different, incompatible format -- VP8 -- which [1] they bought from a private company on the world; a format they quickly deployed across Google properties, but took years to doc
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In many places, the freeway is already there. Self-driving cars/vans/etc are road vehicles and road vehicles come with the inherent advantages of being able to (potentially) traverse a much higher portion of the world than fixed-g
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World "timezone" boundaries, in terms of which regions of the world adhere to what offset, sometimes move around. This is what most people think of when talking about timezones, in that they're talking about regions of the wo
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Let's define Southeast as below the 36°30' and east of the Mississippi (i.e. we're definitely excluding VA, DC, WV, KY, and anything west of the Mississippi including Louisiana). Those actively gaining on rankings of 'pr
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Repealing net neutrality would only make sense if the layer underneath (the PHY consisting of fiber/copper/coax/wireless/whatever infrastucture including last-mile connections between every node) were subject to net neut
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I was surprised to find that the Kansas City Star's recent article on the 'Suicide Curve' [1] (also linked from the topic's article) fails to mention the fact that in Kansas City, Kansas, there is a perfectly good altern
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János Bolyai [1], Theodore von Kármán [2], Leo Szilard [3], Dennis Gabor [4], Edward Teller [5], Paul Erdős [6], John von Neumann [7]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A1nos_Bolyai [2] https://en.wikip
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I would say it's always been a bit of a self-affirming, self-fulfilling trope among Hungarians that Hungarians are good at math and science. Some of it is founded in history, and some of it is (make-believe) national mythos. But that&#
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I took my first eight years of math in Hungary; admittedly, some time ago. Though I'm not sure if things have changed since then, or were different at higher levels, the way the article describes it very much reflected my experience. S
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The US is a tough place to build out High Speed Rail because: - the dense cities with good intra-metro transit are either all already in the Northeast Corridor or somewhere else entirely and too far apart from each other: Chicago is much to
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There is not much point; the engineering and construction is extremely expensive (and more so in the US [1][2][3][4][5][6]), and there's perfectly good sunk-cost airports that let airlines operate this route at a variety of price-point
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These are good recommendations, because in the greater scheme of things these are (relatively) small expenditures that can greatly improve level-of-service. Many European commuter rail systems -- or mainline rail segments that end up hostin
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To expand this with more detail, NYC-Chicago is between 900 and 1000 miles on existing railroad tracks, depending on which way you go: ~910 miles through Philadelphia -> Harrisburg -> Pittsburgh -> Cleveland; ~960 miles through Alb
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At a not-even-breaking-new-ground level: 1. they could meld the treasure-hunt aspect of Pokemon Go with sponsored hyperlocal recommendations. ARGs (alternate reality games) are popular with Snapchat's core demographic, and if Snap coul
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It's not about the size of the userbase; it's about business models. They burned cash to acquire users, but once they wanted income they too have gone the advertising route. This leads to the dilution of the core experience as you
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Names for libraries serve a dual purpose: they must be resolvable by computers (i.e. package managers, linkers, etc) but also meaningful to humans -- the programmers who supply the name as user input in the first place. Version numbers allo
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11 000 years ago, the falls were almost 11 river-kilometers downstream from where they are now, as the falls began where the gorge now ends: at the Niagara Escarpment. However, in the last 200 years as the falls became both a societal touri
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by niftich 9y ago
"Wireless" transmission of sounds through the air to achieve some programmatic purpose is relatively widespread, although not very well-known. The air is a noisy medium, so ultrasound is often used to move the sounds squarely out
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By the way, GitHub's language detection is powered by their Linguist library [1]. [1] https://github.com/github/linguist
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For the typical personal (non-business) customer, Costco's biggest strengths have always been: - The ability to get a large bulk of a middle-class family's share of once-every-few-weeks shopping done in one go: bulk sizes, wide sp

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