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by rictic 12y ago
The advantage of doing it from a user perspective is that people in practice don't tag their images, but others want to find e.g. CC licensed pictures of blue jays in flight.
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by rictic 12y ago
This may no longer be true for Chrome at least. They recently added protection against unauthorized configuration changes by third party programs. I'm having trouble determining whether that protection extends to root CAs though.
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by rictic 12y ago
Green threads (M:N) do seem to be available as a library though: http://doc.rust-lang.org/green/
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by rictic 12y ago
Agreed, though it looks like this device is a chromecast player as well.
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by rictic 12y ago
Do you have any pointers for someone outside the field to get an overview of critical responses to Pinker's thesis and work?
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by rictic 12y ago
And yet, people do get useful work done with spreadsheets. They build computer programs that solve problems for them. There are many programs that aren't feasible to write in a spreadsheet, but there are many useful ones that are. I th
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by rictic 12y ago
Browser makers and others have been trying to fix this, it is actually harder than it looks. HSTS, certificate transparency, and shipping pre-pinned certs with the browser are all approaches pushed forward by browser makers. As an example o
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by rictic 12y ago
Huh, in SF starting from my place to all of the places I might go Lyft wins consistently, and sometimes by as much as 1/2 of the taxi price.
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by rictic 12y ago
Those are all Android Wear features, so any of a number of devices.
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by rictic 12y ago
That's an especially pedantic correction, as it does not impact the meaning of the statement. s/the weak SHA-1 encryption/the weakened SHA-1 hash used to verify the certificate that's used to authenticate the encrypted c
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by rictic 12y ago
This isn't reddit. Sarcastic one liners and an expectation of downvotes make for bad comments here. You've been here long enough on the site that you should know this.
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by rictic 12y ago
This is an interesting article, and I dig the message of measurement and iteration. One big question that is left unanswered though is why drivers reject riders in the first place. Is it with the hope of getting a better rider soon (better
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by rictic 12y ago
It's still a thing, though it does depend to some degree on one's manager.
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by rictic 12y ago
This edit from the House of Representatives is pretty amusing: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?diff=616911728&oldid=616...
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by rictic 12y ago
Polymer is licensed under BSD so it shouldn't be hard at all to do that and comply.
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by rictic 12y ago
I empathize with your compassion but I've downvoted you because the existence of worse problems shouldn't preclude all other discussion.
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by rictic 12y ago
I'm in favor of direct cash giving, I donate to GiveDirectly. I don't know much about homelessness in New York, but in San Francisco a large majority of people who experience homeless will do so in a temporary way. I'm in fav
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by rictic 12y ago
I'll also add that I was skeptical at first as well. It was only after playing with the actual code for a while that I started to understand, and have actually ported a couple functions over to simple elements. One of them is an input
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by rictic 12y ago
It's under the control of the origin site (for client manipulation there are stable extension apis in most browsers for this already). The primary use case is caching and offline / partial connectivity, but it's full javascri
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by rictic 12y ago
Wow what a typo on my part, sorry I meant to say "I don't think it's anyone's position that something could n't be mute and immotile yet conscious."
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by rictic 12y ago
Even knowing the chemical makeup of a stone as being a simple lattice of inert unchanging material? I don't think it's anyone's position that something could be mute and immotile yet conscious, but we know a lot more about ro
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by rictic 12y ago
There's many more points on the gradient, some of which are of practical importance. A person in deep sleep is less conscious than someone in light sleep who is less conscious than someone blearily waking up who is less conscious than
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by rictic 12y ago
Just bought crap.today
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by rictic 12y ago
That's some elegant rhetoric and ideology but it doesn't address the reality of the situation. The evidence that I see says that this has been a practice for at least five years, and according to the Boston Globe[2] one reason for
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Microsoft's working on the implicit social graph of people you work with(blogs.office.com)
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by rictic 12y ago
"Cars can't make moral decisions." There are moral problems that I'd be uncomfortable putting to a computer. This isn't one of them. Am I missing something, is there something wrong with simply modeling likely impac
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by rictic 12y ago
Are there any studies that back up your claims that small cars would reduce the death toll? I follow the intuition, but China has over twice as many deaths per car on the road as the United States: (36 per 100k vs 15) http://en.w
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by rictic 13y ago
I suspect I am confused. If you're feeling generous (and notice this comment 6 days later, heh), would you mind correcting my mental model and slicing up the difference between NAT and firewall? Suppose that there is one external ip, w
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by rictic 13y ago
Typescript has a command line option for this as well. As far as I can tell, the language would also support a non-validating mode that would be more or less instantaneous (the transformations it performs are all local, and none of them inv
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by rictic 13y ago
I don't think that's so. A NAT also prevents random hosts from directly opening connections to the machines that it's obfuscating (module port forwarding), which serves a nice security purpose.

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