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by peeters 10y ago
That's it. Thanks. So what makes it "black market" outside of Venezuela? Can Venezuela impose their desired rate on money markets in other countries? If I went into a bank in another country and purchased 100 bolivar, woul
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by peeters 10y ago
> On Sunday, Maduro made a surprise announcement that the 100-bolivar note, which is worth little more than two US cents, would go out of circulation. This math is not checking out for me. xe.com and Google put the exchange rate at 1 VE
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by peeters 10y ago
Testing for me is never primarily about getting it right the first time. Although writing tests in parallel with coverage can definitely help to validate your assumptions, particularly with negative testing that you might not test manual
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by peeters 10y ago
That's even worse. The guy writing the script might just be having some fun. He's not the one cheating. Breaking an old BASIC game was how I got into programming. If I did the same thing in Korea now, I could face 5 years in pr
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by peeters 10y ago
> The required data covers only the domain name of each site visited - www.facebook.com or www.bbc.com, for example - not the individual pages within them. So this article was the first time I learned the law only requires host logging.
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by peeters 10y ago
Why would osteoporosis on a 1-3 month journey to Mars be worse than after a 3-6 month mission on the ISS?
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by peeters 10y ago
Look I don't think Fidel was as black and white as most Americans make him out to have been, but people trying to just say "American presidents are worse" are just hilariously obtuse. Like comparing Nixon and Castro. Nixon&#
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by peeters 10y ago
Given the temperature and pressure of Mars' atmosphere, "permafrost" might be a better comparison.
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> The could reproduce the exact same scenario in simulation by replaying the telemetry as inputs to their firmware and see what happened in the software. They already have: > This behaviour has been clearly reproduced in computer simu
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by peeters 10y ago
Are you ignoring the part where I said "when you involve stretching?" The claim was that salting is irrelevant compared to stretching. It is not. It is still unbelievably important even when doing stretching.
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by peeters 10y ago
Even if you assume weak passwords, there's no comparison in effort when you involve stretching. No salt means you can precompute the hash for the 1,000,000 most common passwords. That'll take maybe an hour or two with aggressive
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> back in June* *of 2013
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by peeters 10y ago
> They don't want a monopoly, you want them to. Of course they do. Every strategic decision the company has made over the last two decades is to try to secure a monopoly on your data. You make it sound like it's easy to run yo
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by peeters 10y ago
> Gmail is part of the chain of technology that lets me communicate, so I think a comparison with a telco is fair. And it's actually harder to switch to a secondary. With my ISP, if they cut me off I can fall back on my cell provid
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by peeters 10y ago
It's not a question of backups. Even with no data loss, the cost of most people being shut out of their Google account is absurdly high. Missed texts. Missed calls. Missed emails. Can't log into third party sites. If Google w
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by peeters 10y ago
What's the reason for stopping you drawing as soon as it guesses it? I mean, it's great you guessed "swing set" from me making a basic a-frame, but wouldn't it give you more data if you let me actually draw the swi
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by peeters 10y ago
Nothing like being asked to draw "camouflage" in black and white.
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by peeters 10y ago
If I give you a stream of decimal digits, and you filter out everything except for 9s, would you call the resulting stream as random as the input stream? How about if you filter every digit that is not exactly one more than the last unfilte
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by peeters 10y ago
Sure, I find his articles are often "duh" to an experienced programmer. But on the other hand, it's a great resource to be able to point junior devs to. Instead of say explaining why value objects should usually be immutabl
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by peeters 10y ago
I'm more familiar with Postgres, but it basically instructs the table storage provider to clean up unused disk. Think of it roughly as defragmentation. You're trading work (in the form of writes and CPU) for reclaimed space. Unles
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by peeters 10y ago
I don't really get the mindset of "if Trump wins I'm moving to X country." The citizens in all of those countries are much more scared of a Trump presidency than Americans seem to be. It stands to reason that the best
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by peeters 10y ago
Couldn't you tweak that a bit? "Apple wouldn’t want the government to be able to track its transactions and gain valuable tax revenue."
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by peeters 10y ago
> I was no military threat at that time At least in Civ 5, that's a REASON for Civs to DOW you, not a reason for them not to. Expansionist Civ 5 AIs are opportunistic; they attack what they perceive as weaker neighbours. That&#x27
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by peeters 10y ago
Ok, apparently I touched on quite a nerve here. 1.) I never said you don't need UX designers, I said you don't need UX designers to tell you that your video shouldn't stutter in the middle of playback. 2.) I didn't downv
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by peeters 10y ago
Yeah but you really don't need "UX designers" to tell you any of that, nor can UX designers fix it.
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> That's nice, but I don't care. I could already get that information from my car's GPS and seeing how red the roads were. I guess people have different experiences. Personally, I know how to get home from work, so I don&
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Yep, and then the follow up is just as difficult...is this dev not delivering value because she's not a good dev, or because those above her aren't giving her opportunities in high value projects?
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by peeters 10y ago
> Ask yourself if your CEO is really working 100x as hard as you, or 100x smarter than you. That's distorting what shareholders look for in a CEO. Let's say you have two CEO candidates, one you can hire for $100,000 (A) and ano
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by peeters 10y ago
I'm really confused as to what your point is. Just because over-51s now represent their demographic in homeless population as well, doesn't negate the fact that there was a MASSIVE upward trend in over-51s in the homeless populat
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by peeters 10y ago
Interesting question. I really don't know what their plan would be, but it's worth noting that even with the Merlins, they land with only one of nine Merlins at its lowest thrust. And even then, it delivers more thrust than its

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