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by nroets 7y ago
I'm not a US citizen and I'm not a lawyer. But it I'm really worried that the US public will blame Exxon for climate change. If Exxon disappeared overnight, the current regulatory environment means that another oil company wi
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For most problems, a prefix tree will be just as useful. But suppose you want to look for the best match of string in a data stream with no predetermined length e.g. a TCP pipe. Then a suffix tree will allow you to process each incoming cha
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Additionally, it reduces carbon emissions because it allows more people to live within walking distance of mass transit.
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Furthermore, even if cell phones cause cancer then the risk will in all likelihood be so small that it doesn't justify banning the technology. [1] For example, eating barbecued meat causes cancer, but it we don't ban it. 1: https
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by nroets 7y ago
A shared passphrase with sufficient entropy is not trivial to compromise [1] My WiFi router was programmed with a 55 bit key in the factory. (Represented as a 11 letter alphanumeric word). [1]: https://hashcat.net/wiki/
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by nroets 7y ago
I recently visited the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. My ticket had an entry time printed on it. I arrived at the entrance a few minutes before that time. There was a long line. I asked a few people to see their tickets. All of them had entry
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And the museum on Ellis Island says that only a small fraction of immigrants were sent back. So thinks hardly changed.
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F-Droid will be blocked by the Great Firewall as soon as it becomes a popular way of circumventing censorship. On top of that, there is a real possibility that most Android phones sold in China are backdoored by the government in some way.
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Even if there is, it will only be at the beginning. So you can circumvent the intent of the law (e.g. filming the police) by starting to film yourself, pretending to stop and then point the camera at the subject.
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Some citizens will argue that net neutrality will kill internet services that's subsidized by advertising. For example free access to Facebook. Or the social network bundles in South Africa[1][2] Furthermore, I've met poor, conser
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free() could be wrapped in a macro, but it would not catch the case where multiple copies of the pointer is stored. #define my_free(x) { free(x); (x) = NULL; } Note that the extra assignment will often be optimized away because (a) the poin
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My vote is for moveable type: Suddenly Bibles became cheap and people could question the structure of the church. News papers came and people could debate the structure of the state. Scientific books and journals.
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If Warren Buffett is regular, it can't be all unhealthy.
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And you are not sleeping, or appear to be.
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Yes, I can confirm that about Hong Kong and I don't condone it. They are not a homeless shelter. I know they don't like it if people adopt a sleeping posture, e.g. by laying on your arms. I was never so tired that I had to that. I
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by nroets 7y ago
For 8 months I've been traveling in the US[1] and Europe[2] by bicycle. Most of the time I was camping and McDonalds was the most convenient place to charge my phone. I found that I could easily spend 2 hours per day there without get
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There is also another reason: If Uber employs the driver and he/she acts unprofessionally, then it's a lot of work to fire him/her before they can hire someone else. (Uber does not want to drag passengers into any type of lit
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Most people in the US are within a bicycle ride from a Walmart or similar discounter. (New York City is a notable exception). So $5 is has similar buying power throughout the US. I know because I spent 5 months cycling through the US on a t
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by nroets 7y ago
Facebook used to have a feature that allowed users to find a profile if they have a phone number. I found it useful when I received a text from an unknown number. Especially to protect myself from being catfished. If I understand correctly,
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by nroets 7y ago
There are protests by truck drivers and some of these actions can be seen as terrorism. https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/kwazulu-natal/two-truck...
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by nroets 7y ago
Should we really take a gamble that engineers will come up with enhanced technology ? If the future is uncertain, we should rather do too much than too little. That is how insurance works.
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I'm surprised to hear it takes 7 kWh to transmit 1 GB. My phone consumes only 0.3 kWh a month and I use 1 GB. So the power requirements are very asymmetric.
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If you use technology to break the addiction, you risk obsessing over the tech. If you rely on will power to break the addiction, you may face internal conflict. The stress is just as bad as the addiction [1] In my experience, mindfulness i
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by nroets 7y ago
The agency cost of any landlord is much larger than the savings in capital cost. For example, for a tenant there is an incentive to complain over the smallest problem instead of fixing himself or just living with the problem. Management age
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In South Africa, we still have capital controls. My mom earned dollars through PayPal. She couldn't spend it online and had to convert her earnings to Rand within 3 months. Bureaucrats will insist that the same rules apply to libra. In
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by nroets 7y ago
This reminds me of a bridge in Cambodia. It was made of bamboo and every year the Mekong washed it away. https://www.cycleblaze.com/journals/indochinapursuit/koh-pae...
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There are several glass bridges in China.
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I was in mainland China recently. Many tech and manufacturing companies realise they need Facebook and Google to communicate with their customers. So their employees routinely use VPN, even though it's technically illegal.
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Many businesses exclusively accept WeChat and Alipay. So there is a mechanism for paying rent, utilities and tax. Otherwise they would run out of cash. To replicate that level of success, Facebook must create a mechanism to convert tokens b
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It's a token i.e. a financial derivative. So Facebook is not giving it's users bank accounts. So there is less regulation e.g. Know Your Customer. A block chain will make it easier to build trust because (some) third parties can a

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