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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Thoughts on next steps at the end of the article: "Senator Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, and Senator Leahy made it clear after passage that curtailing the phone sweeps might be only the beginning. The two are collaborating on legislatio
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Does anyone else out there think Javascript `const` should really be called `final`? It more closely mimics Java's `final` keyword by preventing reassignment ("rebinding") of the variable, whereas `const` makes me think of fu
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
In what way is the "Maud" name appropriate? I mean, I like it, but your comment makes me wonder if there's more to it. All I can think of is that Tennyson poem... I guess it's been described as "ironic"!
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Wouldn't use of the Payment Protocol address the blockchain scalability concern? Maybe the "Tip" button could really be a payment protocol URL or something along those lines.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I don't think the test is meaningless---it just doesn't mean what many people claim it means. It is one way of mapping people onto a 16-part space which, for half of people who take it, remains consistent across sittings of the te
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Account linked from the Wikipedia article: http://arstechnica.com/science/2014/09/the-little-known-sovi...
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Interesting idea, though I'm not a huge fan of the result. What else could be done to give Earth a visual identity? Images of the planet itself come to mind. Earth+Moon Our location within the solar system, within the universe. Human b
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I'm curious about the downvote here---is pointing out financial and other interests of authors unwelcome here?
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Error establishing a database connection
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I haven't read the article. But I've done something just as important---sought to understand the interests of those who wrote it. Here goes: The authors: "Peter C Gøtzsche, professor, Nordic Cochrane Centre, Rigshospitalet, D
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
"They had a serious bunch of wrongs to right, more than just some unfavorable sitcom tropes." I would argue that the way your sex is stereotypically portrayed in society at large _is_ serious.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I'm glad to see Jython make this progress. Unfortunately, it's still nearly 5 years behind Python itself---Python 2.7 was released in July 2010.[1] The leap to 2.7 is a huge deal, though, as that's the "gold standard&quo
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
What did everybody make of the benchmarks cited in the article? I couldn't really understand what they actually represented, or if I should put much stock in them. I was surprised that Rust didn't come out better in those.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
A listen through the old Woody Guthrie Columbia River Collection [1] suggests that powering heavy industry was a key justification for building dams on the Columbia River. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Columbia_
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
I have been hoping for something like this for some time. I do wonder how large the duplication will be if every app includes all of its dependencies. Maybe some core libraries will still be shared? The article mentions cryptographically si
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
"I guess a lot of the devices are going to landfills." I'm feeling doubtful that this will happen. More likely they live out their lives in insecurity until falling apart.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
This seems like great news---a small but meaningful check against police powers.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
(Having read the beginning and skimmed the rest) my impression is that this is a useful but vulnerable technique. Useful in that it provides an entropy source not currently available. But vulnerable in that it could conceivably weakened con
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
This seems like a great platform for spam, so if it's to succeed long-term there will need to be good antispam tools. Seems like a cool development, though, and I hope it works out.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Actually it is making such an argument: "Occam’s Razor argues for a simple theory: the net marginal impact of drinking on health is negative at all levels" They don't provide definitive proof, but that is their argument.
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Not working for me: "Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://10.30.229.27:15871/cgi-bin/blockpage.cgi?ws-session=1... . This can be fixed by moving the r
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
The localized text of the article based on where the user agent is located seems likely to screw up their SEO.
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I personally don't think the existence of Let's Encrypt makes mandatory encryption more palatable. Requiring encryption is a problem because it introduces one more filter I must pass through before getting my message/app&#x2F
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by pc2g4d 11y ago
Can you go into more detail backing up your assertion? At least with regard to JS, it seems to me like the honeymoon is just beginning. Or maybe it's a second honeymoon?
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Odds of Bitcoin getting banned by Argentine government? Odds of such a ban being effectively enforced?
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Difference is not the same as disease. Is me being shorter than you a disease? No. Perhaps things like OCD also deserve to be classed as natural variation that is more functional in some and less functional in other contexts---not wholly co
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
"They should know that most of the mental health disorders that people have in their 20s do dissipate. That can give you hope. But they should also know that if you're one of the people for whom it's not going to dissipate, i
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
I'm going to go with "possibly." End-of-final-term presidential pardons are not subject to quite the same calculus as decisions made during term, i.e. reelection is not a consideration. Obama's constitutional law idealis
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But what you've said doesn't mean you have a disease---it could just mean that what society expects of you is unreasonable given your temperament.
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by pc2g4d 12y ago
Perhaps by the limited vocabulary from which `type` can be drawn, i.e. don't name your function `text` ?

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