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by ordinary 13y ago
Fibre is not required to beat the 2.5Gb/s limit. Standard copper Cat 6a cables already support 10Gb/s for distances up to 100m.
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by ordinary 13y ago
Open source is a development model that encourages sharing and redistribution of source code. It is not a term that can be applied to the making public of government secrets, which has nothing to do with the encouragement of information sha
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by ordinary 13y ago
From what I can tell, the use of '0' or '0.0.0.0' as a destination address is not official. It should only be used as a source address. From RFC 5735 - Special USe IPv4 Addresses: 0.0.0.0/8 - Addresses in this
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by ordinary 13y ago
IPv6 has a different representation format, where one (and only one) sequence of fields containing only 0 bytes may be replaced by a single '::', turning '2001:0:0:1:0:2' into '2001::1:0:2'. I never quite under
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by ordinary 13y ago
What makes you believe happiness (or any positive feeling) is limited, but sadness (or any negative feeling) is not? Because that's quite a radical hypothesis, and as the saying goes, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
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by ordinary 13y ago
I imagine it was because your comment added no more to the discussion than his did. When the standard response to bad comments becomes posting more bad comments, any community with a productive athmosphere quickly goes down the drain.
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by ordinary 13y ago
Dunbar's number is the number of people in a group in which every individual knows every other individual personally. This is not the same as the number of people an individual can know personally. The way you can split a company in tw
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by ordinary 13y ago
You are misinterpreting 'obscurity' to as much of a degree as the grandparent post, though in a different way. The 'obscurity' that the adage speaks of is meant to relae to the system you're using. ROT13 is securi
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by ordinary 13y ago
Stroustrup.
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by ordinary 13y ago
Conversation need not be audio-based.
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by ordinary 13y ago
This discussion takes place about once a day. The HN guidelines state "don't editorialize titles". This is one of the guidelines that is most visibly and aggressively enforced by the moderators. For better of for worse, it&#x
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by ordinary 13y ago
it is what it is. Let's work to make it better.
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by ordinary 13y ago
What's wrong with having a poor view of societies with high infant mortality?
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by ordinary 13y ago
There have been public complaints from Blizzard employees about Battle.net. Community managers and developers both have stated that improvements to Battle.net are far harder to push through than changes to the games proper. Why exactly this
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by ordinary 13y ago
I remember the endless complaints about how hard Diablo 3 was at launch. I therefore find it hard to believe you were able to accumulate enough ingame gold to buy gear 'within a few days' that allowed you to handle 'most ever
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by ordinary 13y ago
Jacques, back in 1986, you were looking for more freedom... but 27 years is a long time. Have you not changed since then? Do you still have that desire for freedom, or do you rather like the increase in responsibility?
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by ordinary 13y ago
This might interest you: http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/gas-prices/20133
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by ordinary 13y ago
As in most of these technological failures, the problem may just be between the keyboard and chair. What slightly complicated matters is that it is not certain who's occupying said chair: a user or a developer.
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by ordinary 13y ago
I clicked that link expecting to regret it almost immediately. I was pleasantly surprised. This is the most reasonable I've seen Gabe or anyone associated with Penny Arcade be about the subject in the almost 3 years it's been drag
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by ordinary 13y ago
What we're seeing here is a demonstration of the divorce between politicians' private beliefs and their public electoral platform, and even more problematic, a sign of the breakdown of our democratic system. Back in the day, polit
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by ordinary 13y ago
How about "X does some good, but far more harm, therefore X is a problem"?
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by ordinary 13y ago
Uhh, whoops! I can't believe that I messed that up. Sorry!
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by ordinary 13y ago
You can enter accented characters into emacs by hitting M-x 8: M-x 8 ` e -> è M-x 8 / a -> å M-x 8 E -> € The number of these binds does not cover all of unicode, but it's surprisingly high nonetheless. If yo
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by ordinary 13y ago
All you're doing by saying "ad hominem" is shifting the focus to technical delivery of the argument rather than focusing on the real matter of the discussion. I'm not sure I agree. The use of ad hominem is the shift aw
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by ordinary 13y ago
What if we had some big colony made for social/economic experiments? And a hundred and fifty years later: "We hold these truths to be self-evident..."
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by ordinary 13y ago
Your post contains no arguments, just a straw man with some accompanying unsubstantiated statements. No one is suggesting that any single measure will solve all the world's problems. But might we not solve one, or two?
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by ordinary 13y ago
The business model of websites supported by advertising is roughly as follows: I send you a bunch of data, and I hope that you parse, interpret, execute, display that data in a particular way. Some of that will be useful to you (interesting
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by ordinary 13y ago
So the way to fix this is to get involved and write some software instead of commenting in a forum as if software is a static problem. Why not open a bug report? Maybe we can prevent password reuse by the browser taking a hash of the passw
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by ordinary 13y ago
The M-x spook feature of emacs is not a new thing! I was just looking at the code for that, 5 minutes before I read your comment. It was written in May 1987. A comment near the top says "Help defeat the NSA trunk trawler!". It&#
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by ordinary 13y ago
Popular movements have accomplished incredible things over the centuries, and almost none (I'm hedging, I want to say there were none at all) of them were achieved by ticking a box on a voting form. The level of repression in the West

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