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by rtb 9y ago
It is, in lots of languages. It is usually called "compile time macros" or "macros". In lots of languages the macros run in the language itself, for example in Lisp, Scala or Nim. In C++, compile time macros are run in t
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by rtb 9y ago
Previous thread from the time of posting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=119295
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by rtb 9y ago
The JVM plugin will only run signed applets these days, which costs at least $200 or so. Presumably this will allow people who have legacy unsigned applets a way out?
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by rtb 9y ago
This is addressed in the docs, at "stable_api_nonsense.txt": https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/... (You might disagree with that doc, but if so you should addre
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by rtb 9y ago
By that definition, your first comment was a meaningless tautology. If a "reasonable" fee is one that causes a transaction to be accepted, then your first comment can be rewritten as: "as long as the transaction [will be conf
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by rtb 10y ago
Sounds interesting. Do you have a website or blog where I can look for updates?
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by rtb 10y ago
Exactly. They extract money by addicting people and taking advantage of them. It should be criminal.
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by rtb 10y ago
ELIZA, is that you? Because a single-payer health system (like the NHS) largely prevents this discrimination.
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by rtb 10y ago
> People always say this Americans always say this.
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by rtb 10y ago
I think it's a joke. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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by rtb 10y ago
> I'm really not sure why we're still alive. Anthropic principle / many-worlds interpretation? All the outcomes in which these accidents lead to nuclear war are no longer observable ;-)
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by rtb 10y ago
Not in practice. To completely simulate the CRT refresh, you'd need to flash each pixel separately along the electron gun path. If your LCD has 1,000,000 pixels, you'd need 1,000,000 times faster refresh rate to do that.
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by rtb 10y ago
I've never seen "coöperator" spelled with a diaeresis before. Apparently it's a New Yorker house style: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-t...
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by rtb 10y ago
Does anyone know anything about the magstrip data? Is it signed in some way that they can't forge?
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Forged rail tickets sold on 'dark web', BBC investigation reveals(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by rtb 10y ago|1 comments
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by rtb 10y ago
I used to do that with SVN. What a pain in the ass. Git's version is miles better.
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by rtb 10y ago
I haven't checked the stats, but I don't think that there's less litigation in the US compared to other western countries, so if that was the aim it seems to have failed.
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by rtb 10y ago
Me too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_rule_(attorney%27s_fee... > "Nearly every Western democracy other than the United States follows the English rule." Does anyone know why the US decided on this
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by rtb 10y ago
> This guy built a million dollar business in a year providing a service that people want to pay for... I say "Congrats!" More like, this guy built a million dollar business that arbitrages the DNS renewal system by squatting d
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by rtb 10y ago
> The A380’s size has become its disadvantage as airlines prefer relatively smaller planes such as the Airbus A350 and rival Boeing Co.’s 787 Dreamliner that can fly nonstop to their ultimate destinations, bypassing major hubs such as Lo
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by rtb 10y ago
Just get a dumb phone. I don't have a smartphone because I'm sure I'd fall into the same trap. It's occasionally difficult, but usually just freeing.
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by rtb 11y ago
It's a very religious idea that "the justice system ought to be about meting justice", particularly a Protestant / Christian idea. The very phrase "meting out justice" is a biblical one. Secular societies are m
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by rtb 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballpoint_pen -- Wikipedia suggests that the ball point pen was first invented in the late 19th century, but that they didn't catch on until after WWII because they need "modern
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by rtb 11y ago
[citation needed]
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by rtb 11y ago
... but clients can guard against weak server-side DHE by rejecting DHE ciphersuites. So I think the GP was correct that this diagnostic should be updated.
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by rtb 11y ago
Exactly. Or maybe no commission at all on repeat bookings? Then there's no pressure for the relationship to jump the walled garden and you keep the customer on the site to come to you first for future searches.
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by rtb 11y ago
25% of the wages? Sounds like they were just greedy as much as anything else. Of course the customers are going to be looking to cut out the middleman as soon as possible with that kind of commission.
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by rtb 11y ago
> bringing a gun to a knife fight I'm so glad I live in the UK where both criminals and self-defence is mostly knife based. I think the American style of "bringing a gun to a knife fight" just escalates everything. You thi
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by rtb 11y ago
What is actually being proposed here? Is this a charity effort? A vulture capital fund that wants equity? Something in between?
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by rtb 11y ago
In babies, I would guess that some of the amniotic fluid is also absorbed into the blood stream. Both that and evaporation seem much less likely to work with perfluorocarbons.

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