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by noir-york 6y ago
> Interesting that you seem to have come to a conclusion that is basically the opposite of reality. The UK wants to have its cake (benefits of trade and travel ties) and eat it too It is standard negotiating OP by both sides. Just take a
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by noir-york 6y ago
A mix of tactics and politics. While Brexit is bad economically, the political argument is different.
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by noir-york 6y ago
Just take a look at the EU's fisheries position which is basically the status quo as if the UK had never left the EU. Which is crazy; either the UK has left the EU and so cannot enjoy the same market access as a member, and the EU corr
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Barr faults Apple for failing to help in terrorism case(ft.com)
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by noir-york 6y ago
Godot is awesome, and Juan and the contributors are doing fantastic work. They deserve every success.
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by noir-york 7y ago
Awesome comment :)
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Chinese academic suspended after claiming Python clone ‘independently’ developed(ft.com)
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by noir-york 7y ago
It is indeed true - the extreme left and right (along with the religious extremists of any religion) all believe that they have the One True Solution, and have historically been ready to murder millions who they believe stood in the way. So
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by noir-york 7y ago
There is a significant qualitative difference between ideologues (left or right) and, to use Graham's terminology, 'accidental moderates' or the 'intentional' ones. Ideologues assume that there is a single version &
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by noir-york 7y ago
A child picks up an apple but doesn't know what an apple "is". It doesn't even have the vocabulary to describe it. As adults we know what an apple is because we understand it as a concept, the ideal "apple", an
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EU’s top court backs global takedown of Facebook content(ft.com)
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by noir-york 7y ago
For a worse screw-up read about the bureaucratic slug fights around the M14 rifle (the shortest-serving US standard issue rifle), and the M16 (substandard ammo, etc) in Vietnam that needlessly cost American lives. There are good reasons the
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Royal Scots Dragoon Guards show us around a sub-surface observation post(youtube.com)
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by noir-york 7y ago
As a Maltese, I can confirm :) Sahha!
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by noir-york 7y ago
Indeed. I wonder if its some version of Paul Graham's Bayesian classifier he had posted many many years ago...
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by noir-york 7y ago
If you find the article interesting you will most likely want to enjoy it to Ludovico Einaudi's sublime Petricor piece (modern violin / cello / piano). Its a beautiful piece of music. https://open.spotify.com/
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by noir-york 7y ago
> Does that mean that EU citizens should also pay for these services? Making people pay to access Facebook etc would be the best possible move for society ever.
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by noir-york 7y ago
> Is there a market for low hundred mile (two hundred KM or less) vehicles? I hope so, and I trust that Honda did due dil on potential market size. My wife and I are in the market for a small electric car - commute is less than 25km so t
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by noir-york 7y ago
I doubt there's any vulns in the code seeing as its job for th last 20 years has been to parse input from the wild west that is the internet, and survive. But I'm sure someone out there will fuzz it...
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by noir-york 7y ago
Got a point there; a I forgot that this was also the time of the Vietnam war / Civil Rights.
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by noir-york 7y ago
"The room also brought back memories for Kranz of a shared sense of purpose. "That group of people united in pursuit of a cause, and basically the result was greater than the sum of the parts. There was a chemistry that was formed
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by noir-york 7y ago
I wish I could triple-vote your post. The redefinition of words, the abuse of language, is Orwellian. > but if we accept this sort of repackaging with our PC and phone hardware; why should we not accept it in other aspects of our lives?
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by noir-york 7y ago
I had written a jail for Windows a long long time ago - it was inspired by Unix's jail. For an app you could configure what filesystem and registry access was allowed and you could redirect FS access. Implemented it as a kernel driver
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by noir-york 7y ago
The report doesn't mention how the intrusion was discovered. Someone just noticed the RPi one day? 500mb traffic to a Chinese IP?
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by noir-york 7y ago
Thanks for taking the time! Its fascinating learning about this in an area (storage) I know nothing about.
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by noir-york 7y ago
Thank you very much for taking the time!
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by noir-york 7y ago
Interesting post. Out of curiosity: aren't there others who have developed cluster storage exposed as NFS / FUSE?
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Facebook’s ad system seems to discriminate by race and gender(economist.com)
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How to Be Good: Derek Parfit in the New Yorker 2011(newyorker.com)
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by noir-york 8y ago
Excellent article. Thanks for posting!

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