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by polemic 12y ago
Sure, but as a cloud sync product it's a "you had one job" situation. Not so much incompetence as a fundamental failure to achieve that basic requirement.
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by polemic 13y ago
> Comes across quite passive aggressive indeed. Oh so what. Tone arguments are the least interesting arguments (he says, passive aggressively). In seriousness though, this is a blunt assessment from an expert in the field. The tone is
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by polemic 13y ago
You can trust the certificates they produce. It's only users who were running exploitable OpenSSL who's certs are at risk through no fault of StartSSL. There will be many perfectly safe certificates from other customers affected
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Sound of Thunder – Keith Ng on Climate Change(publicaddress.net)
1 points by polemic 13y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 13y ago
"it is the javascript object notation." Except it's not, which is part of the reason this sub thread started. JSON encoded numbers are not IEEE754 floats either. And JSONP is purely a convenient hack around browser security
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by polemic 13y ago
In modern usage, you don't eval it. In modern usage is used for far more that just "javascript" applications. Of the four letters in the acryonym, the "J" is the least significant. Yes, it's javascript-y, but t
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by polemic 13y ago
It makes no such claim! See http://www.json.org/ - it is very cleary defined. *It's a string notation for a number. Don't get hung up on the implementations of floats or integers - it's irrelevant!
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by polemic 13y ago
Why is that awful? JSON is not JavaScript. The string encoded value of the integer 1 is not a IEEE754 numeric either - it's just the character 1. In modern usage: JSON is to JavaScript as JavaScript is to Java.
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by polemic 13y ago
And top it off with the most misleading name you could think of!
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by polemic 13y ago
> "I don't even see anyone telling him he's not correct..." If you've only got 140 characters, do you really need to spend any saying that he's wrong, because I certainly don't need that spelled out f
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by polemic 13y ago
> "But every time a company hires someone who is not a young male, they run the risk that the new hire isn't there to work, rather is there to scam you." Old white male, having accrued all the benefits of the privilege o
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by polemic 13y ago
"Maybe there’s a slight tendency for teams in the 10-20% range to win at a slightly higher rate than expected (and consequently teams in the 80-90% range to lose more than expected), but the difference is pretty small, and given the n
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by polemic 13y ago
From our office in Auckland we got to watch the massive AC72's trialling in the harbour before shipping off to SF last year. They're unnaturally fast, skimming along much faster than the wind. Amazing machines.
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by polemic 13y ago
A moot point by now, but publicly declaring a hack is a pretty good way of making it harder to actually prove fraud. Any potential defence will go along the lines of "hackers with malicious intent could have planted this evidence"
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Clue To Mysterious Lights That Appear Before Earthquakes(iflscience.com)
9 points by polemic 13y ago|2 comments
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by polemic 13y ago
"Location contains the timezone information for the time." So it should really be spacetime.HereAndNow :P
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by polemic 13y ago
Woah there.. citation required. There is limited therapy available for free, and often you have to convince someone that you are a high risk (ie likely suicide) before you'll get help.
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by polemic 13y ago
It's a shame you linked to that video in the same post, because Alan Watt's inspirational message is - I believe - deeply at odds with your final sentiment: "I wouldn't want to be obligated to anyone because they sacrif
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by polemic 13y ago
This is why, as a company, you always provide demand curve pricing that allows every potential consumer to spend as much as they possibly can. When it comes to pizza, the majority of the cost is labor plus fixed costs. The actual material c
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by polemic 13y ago
Heh, good times making ASCII art for a local BBS here :)
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by polemic 13y ago
Good question.. I assume its a relatively trivial question for a serious mathematician, but I suspect it's something like: there are classes of problems that, given infinite computation, require infinite storage. In this case it is
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by polemic 13y ago
Firstly, I said it was in invention. It's an argument that has the benefit of never having to provide any sort of evidence to back it up. But since I'm forced to attack the strawman: let me put it another way: if humans are respon
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by polemic 13y ago
Except that the entire "humans are responsible for say n%" is the latest diversionary tactic by climate deniers to sucker rational people onto opposing policy that mitigates climate change. The argument is akin to saying "y
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by polemic 13y ago
Regarding your anecdote: IMO it works for 4chan because the entire system is built around anonymity and a troll culture. If every message on 4chan is a trolling opportunity but every user is anonymous, trolling looses a lot of it&#x27
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by polemic 13y ago
I didn't get past this: "And Obama's new policy says American suspected terrorists overseas can only be killed by the military, not the CIA, creating a policy conundrum for the White House." So much WTF in one sentence
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by polemic 13y ago
"Why can we not look at hacking religion" I'm in the camp of people that considers religion a hack already - a psychological manipulation of emotions and thoughts to bring about a particular state of being and behaviour. In
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by polemic 13y ago
> "Just based on the number of tutorials and posts about how Git is difficult / hard / weird" So.. not from actually using it then? Git is as complex as you need it to be. Much of the 'complexity' in the
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The Petrie Multiplier: Why an Attack on Sexism in Tech is Not an Attack on Men(iangent.blogspot.co.uk)
3 points by polemic 13y ago|0 comments
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by polemic 13y ago
Very informative, and scary. I'm pretty sure there should be an OSM attribution on this map. https://www.mapbox.com/help/attribution/
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by polemic 13y ago
I don't agree with the conclusion that adblocking is leading to Upworthy style pap articles... Those are engineered for a social media world, to cut through short timelines and attention spans. The ad content is largely unchanged from

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