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901.
by not2b 5y ago
But he isn't really of "the left", he has mainly funded centrist Democrats, not the progressive wing; as you say, he is a capitalist. And his influence is greatly exaggerated.
902.
by not2b 5y ago
But Soros and his allies were not using confidential information; they were not insiders. I am not a fan of this kind of thing at all, but insider trading laws aren't relevant. As for your last point, yes, if the Bank of England had su
903.
by not2b 5y ago
Here's a physical example for those who have trouble intuitively grasping why the product of two negative numbers is positive. Let's say we have a water tank. We can fill it by opening a faucet on the top, or drain it by unpluggin
904.
by not2b 5y ago
The otherwise quite good article repeats the common mistake of not understanding that what Intel calls the feature size (e.g. 10nm) is not equivalent to what TSMC calls it, giving the incorrect impression that Intel is further behind than t
905.
by not2b 5y ago
Remember when the way to eject a floppy or other removable disk on a Mac was to drag its icon to the trash? That was weird.
906.
by not2b 5y ago
That approach is best for cases where it works, for example in areas where there is a large minority of speakers of a given language (Spanish in the US, for example). But if the patient speaks a language that is unusual for the area, findin
907.
by not2b 5y ago
People who have the wrong kinds of names pay a heavy price for this kind of thing. You gave an absurd example (15 names), but much more common cases tend to break. For example, my wife's legal name has a hyphen in it. It is astounding
908.
by not2b 5y ago
I just checked; "slave" is an acceptable guess in Wordle, as is "cunts". And I don't understand complaints about trackers; don't you know how to filter them out? I personally use Privacy Badger but there are ma
909.
by not2b 5y ago
It's an extra precaution: it guarantees that the people who are doing the implementation never see the original copyrighted work, so copying is impossible. If the same person reviews the product being cloned, writes a spec, has it revi
910.
by not2b 5y ago
This post is about when it is or isn't appropriate to directly contact the principal developer instead of using the established Slack or Github flows.
911.
by not2b 5y ago
If the public knows exactly what the algorithm is, they will game it. If they don't know but can approximate its behavior by observation, they will game that. I also think that lots of upvotes on influential sites will soon turn into i
912.
by not2b 5y ago
A local planet will not catch an object going 0.2c, and there isn't a way to slow it down significantly.
913.
by not2b 5y ago
Rather, videoconferencing has. If there were no Zoom we would be using its competitors.
914.
by not2b 5y ago
Most of the cultural references from early Usenet are missing, because the social and political groups weren't saved, with few exceptions. The early archives came from Henry Spencer and only included what he thought was worth saving. M
915.
by not2b 5y ago
This is from 1999 and should not be recommended today, as C++11 was such a huge improvement over C++98/C++03.
916.
by not2b 5y ago
A site like this should use the heat index or the wet bulb temperature. The reason is that 35 °C (95 °F) is fatal to humans within hours at 100% relative humidity, but relatively comfortable at 10% humidity for people who are drinking enoug
917.
by not2b 5y ago
It seems that you always want to use deflection, despite what they did in the movies, and it is doubtful whether a nuclear explosion would be better than attaching something to the object and generating enough thrust to alter its path, poss
918.
by not2b 5y ago
That's how "reality TV" operates. They record a ton of video, decide what the story they want to tell is, and chop things down to tell that story.
919.
by not2b 5y ago
NetBSD and FreeBSD have /dev/full as well.
920.
by not2b 5y ago
Right, and in times where price controls were imposed this principle (you can't force people to operate at a loss, but you can limit price gouging) have been applied.
921.
by not2b 5y ago
The Constitution says that the president is commander-in-chief of the armed forces. Commanders have been ordering their subordinates to get vaccines going all the way back to George Washington and it's unprecedented for courts to quest
922.
by not2b 5y ago
This point is discussed in the article. And since the FFT is n log n, any faster algorithm would have to be completely different.
923.
by not2b 5y ago
Counterexample: WW2, where most of US industrial capacity was repurposed to win the war. Producers got paid, but the amounts they got were limited. They didn't get to just name their price.
924.
by not2b 5y ago
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
925.
by not2b 5y ago
People are extremely sensitive to rises in gasoline prices because they are so visible. But the crisis was triggered by a wave of people bidding prices on houses higher and higher, taking out loans they couldn't afford, hoping to flip
926.
by not2b 5y ago
Some spammish senders will strip the + because they know people use it to segregate their mail into different buckets and they don't want this.
927.
by not2b 5y ago
But if the editors receive proof that a statement article is wrong, but that information can't be published on the Internet for copyright or other reasons, that means it is proven that the source of the information is wrong, so that so
928.
by not2b 5y ago
NFTs are going to crash, much like tulip bulbs did in the Netherlands long ago, and people who get out in time will make money and those left holding the bag at the end will lose. But if in the meantime someone wants to play in that casino,
929.
by not2b 5y ago
I agree that this is an issue with this specific library. But well-designed cryptography code is written to be resistant to timing or power side channel attacks.
930.
by not2b 5y ago
No, not "pretty much anything". Proper encryption code needs to be written so that the timing and power consumption does not depend on the data, to avoid these kinds of side channel attack. That usually means no conditional branch

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