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by pliny 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Cohen
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by pliny 13y ago
You don't, though. You get the 2nd shortest duration first (tens of days) then the shortest (days) then the fourth shortest (tens of months) then the third shortest (months) etc With the ISO standard every character symbolises a larger
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by pliny 13y ago
The Peek and Pull features exists on the iPhone - but the directions are reversed. Changing the directions means that app developers cannot develop the same app for both iOS and Sailfish since they have to place important information that s
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by pliny 13y ago
Probably not, since the correct response to illegal input is to never arrive at a halting state, and putting aside mechanical considerations, it doesn't seem like the boy is supposed to loop over anything in such a way that would allow
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by pliny 13y ago
>What's the justification It's along the lines of - if we're monitoring a service to catch terrorists or prevent terror attacks, it's counterproductive to alert the terrorists they're being monitored. Furthermo
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by pliny 13y ago
Lower the poverty line to the median income of people who are currently under the poverty line. You can repeat this as many times as you like to make the poverty rate arbitrarily low.
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by pliny 13y ago
Graphic designers are enraged at the thought of this one simple tip.
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by pliny 13y ago
Since you are a site that sells SSL certificates, it would be appropriate for you to enforce HTTPS when communicating with your website.
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by pliny 13y ago
Whoever signed for the internet.
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by pliny 13y ago
IIRC the MO for raiding nonviolent criminals is first to find and kill any dogs in the residence, so it really just depends where the barking is coming from.
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by pliny 13y ago
>Costs will rise to the minimum that everyone is known to afford Isn't the point to have a minimum that everyone can afford? There's also an unstated (and wrong) assumption that however much food / apartments / tran
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by pliny 13y ago
Is the error from A Serious Man that he wrote <p^2> - <p^2> and not <p^2> - <p>^2?
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by pliny 13y ago
The scale is from easy to impossible.
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by pliny 13y ago
Why is your writing so formal?
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by pliny 13y ago
If you can't get As in high school humanities because you're too busy managing a single desktop computer & residential internet connection, you're probably not half as smart as you think you are. You should take about 5-1
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by pliny 13y ago
A lot of vitriol in the comments of that post. I wonder how many people will stop using Google products as a result of this design decision.
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by pliny 13y ago
>Holocaust denial is not racism. You are welcome to read, as an example, the very first article of Mr Toben's most recent newsletter [1] in which he makes the case that jews do not value the lives of gentiles and are involved in eth
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by pliny 13y ago
Incitement to racism is not protected speech. Wikipedia claims Mr Toben, who is not an accredited historian, was arrested once for defamation and another time for inciting racism.
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by pliny 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93U.S._RQ-170_incide...
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by pliny 13y ago
Half can afford two, and the other half steal.
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by pliny 13y ago
You are describing indentured servitude, which is illegal because it is a form of slavery.
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by pliny 13y ago
I don't know much about the American healthcare system, but wouldn't it be the same incentive when selling any product? If you sell the same quality product for cheaper, you will get more business than your competitors. That'
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by pliny 13y ago
The more backtracking you have to do, the harder it is for a human to solve / more likely that your weak flesh brain will encounter a stack overflow.
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by pliny 13y ago
You could probably paste the code into greasemonkey without any changes.
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by pliny 13y ago
United States Dollar Dollar?
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by pliny 13y ago
>As a whole our society has become much more entitled than back in those days You should recall that less than a century ago people felt they were entitled to own other people, perhaps you mean that as a whole our society has grown avers
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by pliny 13y ago
You use it to make money, because the gatekeepers of social mobility in western society have decided (wisely or otherwise) that demonstrating an understanding of calculus is a prerequisite to being qualified in technical fields, many of whi
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by pliny 13y ago
You have to strike the balance between right and smart somewhere.
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by pliny 13y ago
The frontend for the internet is already "directly feeding information into our brains", but it does so wirelessly. For some reason doing it with wires, instead, is considered progress.
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by pliny 13y ago
>If you have some points round a 2D circle you can visit them in order one after another; but if you have some points on a 3D sphere, there is no order that places them one after another; and Can someone clarify why this is true? If we c

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