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by repolfx 7y ago
There is no chance of Saudi Arabia becoming a great world power any time soon. Fear is the combination of disagreement and power. The USA may disagree with how Saudi Arabia runs things but the KSA has no real power, so it doesn't get m
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't think engineers have any special insight into running governments, or are even particularly likely to beat lawyers at running governments. I know it's tempting to believe this, given how many of us here are engineers, but
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The Financial Times, his former editor at the Telegraph, obviously the Guardian I would note that all three of these are extremely anti-Brexit. Lots of people believe (rightly or wrongly) that Leave wouldn't have won without the supp
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by repolfx 7y ago
Theresa May wasn't "serious"? The woman who, on being asked about the naughtiest thing she'd ever done, said "running through a field of wheat"? Since the Brexit vote the only people at the helm have been ser
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by repolfx 7y ago
But if chip cards are much, much more secure than before and chip breaches are negligable (which they are), then why is the default presumption of fraud being the user's fault unfair? Users can and do write their PINs down, give them t
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by repolfx 7y ago
Wiki states (about the ACORN incident, which I guess is what you mean) The videos were heavily edited. The sequence of some conversations was changed. Some workers seemed concerned for Giles, one advising her to get legal help. In two citi
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by repolfx 7y ago
Because none of those things are done by governments. They're done by companies that provide water, food, medicine, airplanes, cars etc. Governments mostly just insist that good results happen, and can easily cause problems doing even
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by repolfx 7y ago
They are a lot more secure. Magstripe fraud is rampant, an accepted fact of life. Breaches of chip cards are extremely rare and not a fact of life. Or can you back up this insinuation that smartcard chips that digitally sign transactions
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by repolfx 7y ago
Which corporate currencies are you thinking of? The only big example I know of is Air Miles. That seems pretty well run for a currency. Central banks don't have inflation under control, they've just pushed it to places where it&#x
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by repolfx 7y ago
Whilst I see your point, the problem here is not "people want Science to be a source of truth" but rather "people want Science (and other journals) to strive for the truth", which is subtly different. A part of striving
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by repolfx 7y ago
Why though? Most of the good things I use in life are made by corporations. And governments have a long track record of mismanaging their currencies, whilst simultaneously preventing people from creating their own - something that can have
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by repolfx 7y ago
So the transaction fees get passed on to the people who buy into the funds (except, buying into a fund is also a "financial transaction" so may also end up being taxed). Moreover this logic seems to assume HFT is useless. It'
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by repolfx 7y ago
Is it culture? Or is it just that the JVM does the same thing, but with a bigger and older ecosystem, with more experienced people etc. Lots of startups out there using Java or JVM languages.
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by repolfx 7y ago
That's kind of weird. I recall Delphi could embed IE directly, maybe not in the version you used? Why was it easier to rewrite all your code than just buy a license to the component though?
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by repolfx 7y ago
Well, unless you counted the core Windows DLLS like USER32 as a runtime, Delphi programs didn't. The entire VCL was statically linked each time.
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by repolfx 7y ago
How did that vision not work out? Seems pretty on the money to me - only difference between then and now is that we ship components as JARs or node_modules etc, and the components are mostly free and open source vs proprietary products. The
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by repolfx 7y ago
I think the assumption is the symmetric key can be stored in AES-NI registers that aren't susceptible to RAM based side channel attacks?
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by repolfx 7y ago
Modern Intel chips can encrypt memory on the fly without performance loss (SGX does this). However I think it's not exposed for non-enclave use. Perhaps it should be. Note: inside the enclave there is a performance loss but that&#x27
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by repolfx 7y ago
I'm somehow both surprised at the comments here and also not surprised. A remarkably large number of people posting find no problem whatsoever in a supposedly top journal claiming "the field has moved on" from a major and fam
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by repolfx 7y ago
Not a malpractice lawyer here, but surely the answers to your question are somewhat obvious? Many countries don't have the same culture of suing doctors as the USA. Having read this I honestly was left wondering whether malpractice sho
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by repolfx 7y ago
From what I know, GraalVM EE (Enterprise Edition) does do loop vectorisation. This will lead to an interesting problem if they want to replace C2 with Graal. Are they willing to regress performance for some open-source-only users, even if
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by repolfx 7y ago
I have a Times login. The article says: "She claimed that she was surprised Google decided to punish her. “I had really felt the management and executives embraced the walkout,” she said. She further alleged: “People had said to expec
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by repolfx 7y ago
Not really no. I'd guess most tech firms have far more ideas than they can ever execute on. Ideas are cheap. Implementations are expensive. See how all the big firms file gazillions of patents but actual patent infringement suits betwe
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by repolfx 7y ago
But you're probably a developer? TechStop is/was great. But Windows users had locked down workstations where IT whitelisted binaries. I assume the approval process sucked about as much as normal. Many Google employees use desktop
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by repolfx 7y ago
The issue here seems more cultural than technical - it seems non-tech firms are vastly more paranoid about data sharing or leakage, despite usually having less valuable data. The amount of effort put into anti-exfiltration measures in finan
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by repolfx 7y ago
Do you? Why can't you let developers admin their own network? At least some of them will know how to do the bulk of the work and a lot of the typical admin needed for Windows machines won't be that important for them (how often do
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by repolfx 7y ago
My own eyes disagree. I read a lot of news. I read left wing news like the guardian, I read news that claims to be neutral but isn't like the NYT or BBC, I read right wing news like the Telegraph and Breitbart. I can't honestly sa
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by repolfx 7y ago
They used to. Since Zanny Minton-Beddoes took over it's basically the British version of the NYT but in magazine form.
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by repolfx 7y ago
The Troubles certainly got pretty close and are the best rebuttal to the idea of British stability, yes. And that unfortunate partition of India thing.
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by repolfx 7y ago
The last article I read on Brexit in the NYT started by claiming the British economy was shrinking, and went downhill from there. As far as I can tell Americans are receiving a completely garbled view of anything EU or Brexit related. Also

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