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by qb45 10y ago
Tycho Brahe suggested a geocentric system which explained phases of Venus before they were even discovered. AFAIK the first serious "proof" (as far as we can talk about proving that the Sun is the center of everything) was the obs
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by qb45 10y ago
Reportedly it was said by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Alexandrovich_Markov Seems legit ;)
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"We have [compromising materials] about Russia, about your government and businessmen," Mr. Assange told the pro-government daily Izvestia. "But not as much as we'd like... We will publish these materials soon." He
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by qb45 10y ago
> The latter is basically summarized to: imperial concubines, Armenian genocide, fought with the Axis powers in WWI, lost WWI, joined the light by shedding the religion and culture we don't like. The 800 years before that are simply
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by qb45 10y ago
You have been duped and it wasn't even me who did it. Just click this damn link already :) > you often land on pages that have a agenda Oh, that's totally true in this case. But really, any one will do. Or the first few if you
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by qb45 10y ago
On a tangential note, Google isn't easily fooled: https://www.google.com/search?q=Great+Wall+of+Don'Ald
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by qb45 10y ago
> This article itself felt like fake news Totally impossible, I say. Just how hard of a problem is it for an algorithm to determine real news from lies? Not that hard. ... hackathon ... just 36-hours ... classifies every post ... artifi
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by qb45 10y ago
Clickbait warning: anybody interested in the new disaster caused by "shield movement towards the reactor" will be disappointed.
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by qb45 10y ago
That's interesting. The Atlantic says: Take Novorossiya, the name Vladimir Putin has given to the huge wedge of southeastern Ukraine he might, or might not, consider annexing. The term is plucked from tsarist history, when it represen
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by qb45 10y ago
Yes, I feel like there is a growing social pressure to resist social pressure ;)
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by qb45 10y ago
I use silly passwords at sites where I don't care about security and don't want to be correlated with my other accounts elsewhere. Does this mean I'm bad at password generation and reuse? ;)
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by qb45 10y ago
Local File Inclusion is when you have PHP code like include("some/path/" . $_GET['some_url_parameter']); Adding &some_url_parametr=../../../etc/passwd (or ../../..&#x
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by qb45 10y ago
You can also do O(2^n) brute-force like a dumbass. Not sure if this is what GP meant. Maybe Facebook only accepts wrong case on the first position (simple to implement) or maybe GP just doesn't know what they do.
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by qb45 10y ago
Well, fwiw, here's a sample of Chinese propaganda I once encountered on HN (a few people said it's real): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10965313 I think (hope?) we haven't quite reached this level here
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by qb45 10y ago
Regarding popular election, "mandate" and "only 25% voted for him", it seems that all people who are now dissatisfied have voted for Clinton. Which suggests that the 50% who didn't vote maybe don't oppose Trump
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by qb45 10y ago
> Add 128 to a signed char and the compiler is free to assume it is zero/false To be honest, I hope compilers don't do such things. I would vastly prefer to see it run Tower of Hanoi simulation in Emacs at this point. But evadi
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by qb45 10y ago
> face the reality Talk about reality checks. You guys wanted to have it too fast and too easy. You though you can change things by passing laws and silencing criticism with media hysteria. You celebrated your superficial legal victories
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> Most men I know who love the anti-PC movement would, in the moment, gladly intervene if a woman is getting verbally harassed and is visibly shaken up. Mention Valenti to the same person and they fly into a rage. Like wut?! I'm a m
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by qb45 10y ago
This statement is true because Jesus promised to return regardless of election results :)
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by qb45 10y ago
0:0 would be fair. It won't be reached in practice, but if you make it the policy, you have an argument to take down any bullshit. With 50:50 it's going to be an endless quarrel over who has had enough so far, who is underrepresen
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by qb45 10y ago
The worst offenders in social media disinformation deliberately use social media to get in touch with others like them because of social's "clustering" tendencies so no, it wouldn't get much adoption. Internet is full
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by qb45 10y ago
Or a Russian living in Latvia and uneasy about all the flames "Ruskies" are getting in their former empire. Probably little point in arguing and even less in accusations of shilling for Putin.
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by qb45 10y ago
OK, I misquoted. But immediately after this "summary" you said you agree that we should listen to the majority (whatever it means) and try to make most people happy. And then you go on ranting how uneducated they are and how you c
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by qb45 10y ago
I've seen speculation that it's about forcing Intel's custom driver which supports some nonstandard power management features. https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/44694.html Apparently, there isn't much differe
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by qb45 10y ago
Or read The Game for case studies and some idea of possible side effects when people thought it can be reduced to few simple tips.
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What optimization opportunities does it give?
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by qb45 10y ago
It would be nice to have some indication when the asynchronous requests (votes, flags) fail. For now I'm using dev tools.
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> we should finally start to listen to his needs, ideas, fears and dreams. > his needs are obvious and simple as well. Give him a job that exhausts him, give him a wife, 1-2 children, a tv, if possible a single family home. Then he&#x
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by qb45 10y ago
Sweden, seriously? You guys should be grateful ;) And the biggest CO₂ emitter is China, not the US or Russia. Aactually, pulling industry back to the US could reduce global CO₂ output if efficiency was made more of a priority than in China
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by qb45 10y ago
> Is it possible that the world is too complex for the average citizen to make an informed decision about it? Truth be told, your whole post seems to contain more questions than answers ;)

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