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by rpearl 13y ago
On a single night in January 2013, 610,000 people were homeless in the united states. 215,344 of those people did not have shelter.[1] This is about 1 in every 500 people living in the United states. Furthermore, 15% of the nation is belo
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by rpearl 13y ago
You know what? great. I'm glad that there was so much political pressure that someone who does not support gay rights simply could not hold the position of CEO at a tech company. That's absolutely fantastic.
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by rpearl 13y ago
Your statement is useless, which is why it has been downvoted. It misses the essence of what currency is. Volatility makes bitcoin a poor store of value: you should not leave assets in bitcoin that you cannot afford to lose, because those a
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by rpearl 13y ago
why not just contribute to pyrasite to have this different method of injection instead of building out a new project? what is the tradeoff here?
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by rpearl 13y ago
chop wood, carry water. it doesn't change how things are ; it changes how you look at it, and that makes a difference. it is a personal experience that changes how you let yourself be affected by minor hurts and problems, and lets you
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by rpearl 13y ago
Check your privilege. Most people don't have the opportunity to do what they love; they are just working to make ends meet. They don't have the ability to fall back to something safe if they fail. If they do not have a job the
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by rpearl 13y ago
Here. I will articulate it. Each one of us is an unbroken chain of physical interactions since the beginning. There is no universe without conscious subjective experience; there is no conscious subjective experience without the universe. Li
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by rpearl 13y ago
And then you have to inform the service when there are relevant changes which requires secure communications to the service, retry attempts in the event of failure, and debugging...?
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by rpearl 13y ago
This no long has anything to do with drugs. The same could be said for fireworks smuggling, or smuggling anything that is taxed differently in different jurisdictions. The fact that the thing being smuggled is a psychoactive substance has n
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by rpearl 13y ago
You have failed to parse my sentence. Of course there would still be human trafficking. There would not be (drug-related human trafficking.) There would not be (drug-related organized crime.)
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by rpearl 13y ago
If one could walk into a store and purchase pharmaceutical-grade recreational drugs (manufactured by a company), as one might purchase alcohol or cigarettes, then there wouldn't be drug-related organized crime or human trafficking.
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by rpearl 13y ago
> "This will be the most effective on platforms where we already use open-source compilers to produce the executable, to avoid compiler-level attacks as shown in 1984 by Ken Thompson." Using an open source compiler does not pre
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by rpearl 13y ago
No, time is defined in terms of atomic properties. It is not a function of length. (Length is, however, a function of time). A second is defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition betwe
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by rpearl 13y ago
What is a meaningful life?
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by rpearl 13y ago
well, btc mining involves sha256(sha256(x)). Not being a hardware person, I don't know if the designs of the asic miners can be re-used to just compute sha256. Maybe, maybe not?
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by rpearl 13y ago
In the current iteration of the course, the first programming assignment's code quality is awful, sadly.
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by rpearl 13y ago
It would be odd except it's not true.
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by rpearl 13y ago
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/politics/nsa-snooping/ "In one 2004 case, a civilian employee told NSA security that she had spied on a foreign phone number because she found it on her husband&#x
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by rpearl 13y ago
I don't really understand; why not ask an actual substantial question in a phone interview? Poor candidates who would fail fizzbuzz would fail that too; good candidates would be expected to pass such a question anyway. Either way, you&
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by rpearl 13y ago
grecy, the meter is the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. A second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the
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by rpearl 13y ago
"The most dangerous thought you can have as a creative person is to think you know what you're doing."
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The Future of Programming(worrydream.com)
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by rpearl 13y ago
Yes, you can provide arbitrary URLs to the Saver and our (Dropbox's) servers will download them, assuming they are publicly available. (Note: I am an engineer at Dropbox and worked on this product.)
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by rpearl 13y ago
This HN post is a link to a disclosure from the security researchers who worked with Dropbox (note: I work for Dropbox). It is not generally the case that companies disclose quickly-patched vulnerabilities that were reported by white-hat se
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by rpearl 13y ago
...and you trust Chrome? Not even Chromium, but... Chrome. Google makes Chrome, you know.
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by rpearl 13y ago
Say it with me one more time: do not use fast hash functions for passwords.
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by rpearl 13y ago
Your website copy is misleading--bitcoin is not anonymous, and a user must take additional steps to obtain bitcoin anonymously.
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by rpearl 13y ago
You can see exactly how it is calculating the strength (and it includes spatial patterns; enough length and you do get some entropy out of it) here: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/209/zxcvbn/test/index.ht...
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by rpearl 13y ago
Given Google's ability to obtain processors before they are available to the public, and given that this paper refers to AMD's Barcelona processors, the results published here are probably approximately seven years out-of-date, and it's not
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by rpearl 13y ago
That really depends on what you mean by "crashing"

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