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by rdancer 11y ago
The fine article talks about the losers of the trade war. The winners are OK. If you look where the money is, it's with MindGeek (formerly known as Manwin), a company that has through the years bought bought most of the tube/cam s
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by rdancer 11y ago
As technologists, and as an industry, we are failing our customers by not having developed a credible alternative to SSNs. They're only used because literally everything else is an even worse fit for access control. Let's not also
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by rdancer 11y ago
Most definitely: if he slammed into the ground after the malfunction, there would have been no second attempt, the prototype is too fragile. Also, water provides uniform flat surface; spectators and their pets are excluded naturally without
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by rdancer 11y ago
John Gruber is fine; misleading headline!
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by rdancer 11y ago
They just don't use drones; instead, there will be a traffic accident or a suicide. Or a single-car traffic accident, where it's unclear if the driver wanted to commit suicide or not. The main thing that "stops" people f
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by rdancer 11y ago
Yes.
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by rdancer 11y ago
The government doesn't create marriage, it merely recognizes it, and provides useful services like ensuring bigamy or incest doesn't take place. It surprises no-one that the bride and groom entering (and consummating) the marriage
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by rdancer 11y ago
He won't make the same mistake again, that's for sure.
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by rdancer 11y ago
To many clever people it will probably seem that in the case of this young gentleman, and in cases of many similar people all across the nation, the battle picks them. Your advice basically boils down to: "If I could go to a bank with
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by rdancer 11y ago
"Outrage postmortem"
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by rdancer 11y ago
> New York Times, [...] the BBC If you set your bar this low, did you have to dig a trench first? What did you do when you hit the water table? Did ground heat ever become a problem as you edged closer to the Mantle?
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by rdancer 11y ago
What passes for DNA matching in U.S. courts is about as fit for purpose as "lie detectors" or "breathalizers". When the purpose is enabling police and prosecutors to put people behind bars with impunity, and justice bein
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by rdancer 11y ago
This was an engineering problem. There may be an assumption that while there are about a dozen people in the US who work for VW in an engineering capacity, the US part of the group is in essence purely a marketing operation.
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by rdancer 11y ago
They have additional filters. It's not like the emission targets are impossible to meet. They're just impossible to meet without the filters.
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by rdancer 11y ago
It's a good thing that there are stiff penalties for perjury during congressional hearings. Few examples just during this past year, when people lied under oath, got caught, and... Oh, never you mind.
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by rdancer 11y ago
If I understand it correctly, you're saying that The Economist based an article on your research, and you're spurned, because they didn't give you a byline or even a hat-tip. That's not plagiarism. Plagiarism would be if
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by rdancer 11y ago
I fail to see how this helps their users in any way, seeing as the data will be intercepted by NSA, GCHQ, or indeed ASD, retained wholesale (not just scraps of headers a.k.a. metadata) forever, and shared with whoever asks nicely?
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by rdancer 11y ago
Yes
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by rdancer 11y ago
The cost of living in India being much lower than the US, what prevents people from engaging in medical tourism for prescription drugs combined with a nice trip abroad? I think ultimately this is what will keep caps on the price that can be
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by rdancer 11y ago
The other classic cure to this disease would be competition?
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by rdancer 11y ago
I have seen ever-lower TTLs in the wild, sub-minute even, in the past few years. Even historically, TTLs have in my experience always been respected. I think what really tends to happen, and this gets the folks confused, is that the initial
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by rdancer 11y ago
I would love to see what the article's copy looked like when it landed on the editor's desk :-)
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by rdancer 11y ago
The problem is the idea that the worth of a scientist or their work can somehow be established by a title, prize, medal. Much less that the Nobel Committee members don't conform to the circa-2010s leftist/progressivist political b
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by rdancer 11y ago
That depends on the expiry time ("Time To Live / TTL") set for the particular record. Minimum TTL is 1s, and maximum is 2e32 -1 seconds, or slightly over 136 years[1]. Resolver libraries and daemons keep cached results in vol
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by rdancer 11y ago
I can imagine that such an attack would be dealt with a mix of manual intervention and technical measures, something in between the Google.com search page outage that happens once in a blue moon, and the false routes for YouTube.com IPs tha
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by rdancer 11y ago
Here ya go, citation! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_pill#Examples
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by rdancer 11y ago
"Making great products means making difficult decisions," says Evernote CEO Phil Libin. "Our choice was between great user experience, and new features. We are proud to announce that our next release will have many new and ex
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by rdancer 11y ago
> mistake [...] thinking they could get away with it and come out with more money Oh, you're funny!
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by rdancer 11y ago
Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. And maybe a 100% increase of price will cover the alleged loss, and then some. Regardless, anchoring at its finest.
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by rdancer 11y ago
America coming to its senses? Hard to believe that the Nation would really bring itself to acknowledge something so simple and obvious. But I have hope.

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