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by numakerg 7y ago
I don't think these are the same. If you get 15 marbles, arrange them into groups of 1,2,3,4,5 and give them the proper labels, you can trivially prove that the sum of two groups of 2 equals 4 and not 5. The proofs for round earth are
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by numakerg 7y ago
This kind of makes sense in the same way that AirBnb does. There are more users looking for work than employers looking to hire, just like there are more tourists looking for cheap accommodations than landlords willing to rent their space.
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by numakerg 7y ago
My main point was about developing countries. Eric himself noted that "the idea is to utilize mines within 300 km (186 mi) of the destination beach" and "or many of the first beaches, we will be looking to use tailings piles
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by numakerg 7y ago
Hi Eric, How do you plan to compensate countries who own the beaches or waters targeted by the project? Do you have an estimate of how receptive a community will be to having their beach turned green, especially if they rely on it for a por
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by numakerg 7y ago
I didn't see the cost breakdown [1] mention how much they expect to pay countries for dumping olivine in their beaches/waters. Would a country, especially those near the equator, willingly agree to take part in an experiment like
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by numakerg 7y ago
>spend the money and benefit people or ecosystems I think the kind of people buying $13 million cars often neither know nor care about the state of the world outside their bubble of luxury.
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by numakerg 7y ago
Panopticlick says I have "strong protection against Web tracking" but amiunique.org says I'm unique. Though amiunique also claims my TOR is fingerprint is one of six.
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by numakerg 7y ago
The writeup mentioned that (await future)?; is undesirable because it disrupts the logical flow. Could await be implemented as a prefix, with an additional macro? awaits!(foo()) that expands to (await foo())
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by numakerg 7y ago
It seems there's a conflict between the logical flow of prefixes going right to left and postfixes going left to right. I wonder if there's any value (for other future languages) in having syntax to swap post and prefix for conven
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by numakerg 7y ago
Why couldn't they use a macro or a function? EDIT: nvm. it says in TFA not the linked writeup
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by numakerg 7y ago
China is the poster-boy of doing things without repercussions. They could shoot down any commercial satellite and suffer barely any consequences.
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by numakerg 7y ago
>This wait time is almost twice as long as it was in 1993 when national wait times were first measured. Why? Are there more sick people? Are there fewer doctors and resourced? I've seen many articles covering the issue, but nothing
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by numakerg 7y ago
I don't know much about cryptography or low-level software, but could you hide the second profile inside the encrypted data? For example, I believe Truecrypt has a dual container system with two passwords in addition to their regular e
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by numakerg 7y ago
Would this system come with plausible deniability? Also, does anything like this exist for desktop operating systems?
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by numakerg 7y ago
Off-topic, but I wonder if there's a name for this kind of marketing, where a company will write useful and/or interesting articles that end up in search results or content aggregators. I don't know if it's more effectiv
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by numakerg 7y ago
>If Verisign were to charge him $10 million per year to renew the tucows.com domain name despite "the bile that would rise" in his stomach he would likely pay that renewal fee because it is only through Verisign that he can obt
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by numakerg 7y ago
>We need to stop letting people scare us into giving away our freedoms. It doesn't seem all that scary if everyone's doing it. Just look at the use of facial recognition in the movie Coco. They could have made up any magic to s
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by numakerg 8y ago
What about HN? Their response to deleting comments is halfway between the thumb and the pinky.