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by schoen 2y ago
I wonder if there was another kid out there somewhere who was scared of wild animals (including cute ones) and who became more reluctant to use Firefox as a result of the rebranding.
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by schoen 2y ago
I think that's a genuine dispute, because people consciously deciding to make a new language is a relatively rare phenomenon. Most language change is informal and unplanned.
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by schoen 2y ago
Yeah, I think it's tricky to know how most sysadmins could make good decisions about this information, especially when misissuance is likely to be less than 1% of 1% of all CA issuance and automated renewal is working properly. Warning
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by schoen 2y ago
Right, and that's a fundamental sea change in PKI security posture since the Iranian "ComodoHacker" and the Soghoian and Stamm compelled issuance paper! My point is just that some attackers might be willing to have their atta
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by schoen 2y ago
As long as the victims are checking it and know what to look for!
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by schoen 2y ago
In the YouTube video linked elsewhere in this thread at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40805461 , someone breathing in a balloon-full of xenon gas clearly struggles to expel it afterward, remarking that he can feel its
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by schoen 2y ago
How does it do that without forming chemical compounds? Is it like a catalyst for another reaction or something?
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by schoen 2y ago
Yeah, how can the body tell which noble gas it's breathing? As the article mentions, the xenon is exhaled in its original form without having been metabolized or having caused any chemical changes in the body!
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by schoen 2y ago
Upvoted despite vast disagreement because I (sort of) appreciate someone openly arguing this.
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by schoen 2y ago
Would you accept any historical development that reduced demand for some kind of labor (or human interaction) as potentially positive? There are a lot of those. (I'm happy to hear if the answer is "yes".) For example, most
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by schoen 2y ago
I guess you can have something like a nofollow attribute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow although the incentives will be more confusing. There's an argument to be made that citing something to disagree with
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by schoen 2y ago
I don't know the exact connection between the two, but that article cites an article which is described as a preview of this paper. So I guess it was working with a summary of this paper's contributions.
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by schoen 2y ago
> There was a code path where you could send someone negative amounts of the currency and it would happily pay them a negative amount of currency and charge you a negative amount of currency, thus transferring their account balance to yo
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by schoen 2y ago
Bundling the time and the volume might be better called "forming a vector" or "forming an ordered pair" rather than "addition". You can then perform addition and subtraction with the resulting ordered pairs or
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by schoen 2y ago
These are great guesses, but it doesn't look like they match with what's known about the earlier forms of these letters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Latin_script#Ul... Particularly, the degre
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by schoen 2y ago
Usually Latin past participles are passive, but loquor is a deponent verb which has only passive forms with an active meaning, so locutus means "spoken" as in "I have spoken" rather than "the words have been spoken&
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by schoen 2y ago
How clear is it that someone can enforce the title conveyed by one of these instruments in order to physically take possession of the gold? Would the owner have to somehow prove provenance or chain of title offline? If it's at all uncl
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by schoen 2y ago
Do you mean to say that teaching people how to do things should be regarded, for this purpose, as a form of allowing them to do those things?
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by schoen 2y ago
This is really interesting and is parallel to some other stuff (like the research on a model that's obsessed with the Golden Gate Bridge and inappropriately thinks of things related to it in otherwise irrelevant contexts). It's wo
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by schoen 2y ago
I really appreciate seeing things that are named after the Internet as part of the exuberance of being able to do or share them on a worldwide network. Naming something after the Internet itself is probably most common in the 1990s.
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by schoen 2y ago
My friend has been making a working replica of the Patinho Feio. As I happen to know Portuguese, I translated some of his materials about this project, including making English subtitles for his (very wide-ranging) university lecture about
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by schoen 2y ago
> I'm absolutely one of those "migration is a human right" people, and if David Friedman is anything close to consistent, he'll be too. But most governments are run by people who vehemently disagree with that and you&
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by schoen 2y ago
Did you mean Dirac delta function? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_delta_function Maybe an autocorrect issue?
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by schoen 2y ago
I've seen a copy of this for sale at an antiquarian book fair. It would be very easy to overlook, but up close you can see that there's definitely something very different about the texture compared to ink on paper. I also agree t
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by schoen 2y ago
I don't think I can help you, but I hope you succeed in saving the world and getting rich.
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by schoen 2y ago
We just don't have a good way in place to reward people for saving the world. Maybe try to save the world anyway, and try to benefit in random ways from your (hopefully) resulting high status?
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by schoen 2y ago
Computer science sketch comedy, so to speak.
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by schoen 2y ago
I don't think there's a good mechanism in place for "getting paid for saving the world" which is essentially what you're looking for. Scott Alexander was working with some people on a kind of financial market for be
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by schoen 2y ago
All of the itertools functions are implemented using loops, but they heavily abstract over them so that users can think in terms of "streams" (or officially "iterators") without writing loop-oriented code themselves.
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by schoen 2y ago
Strictly, it's a Greek word meaning "seat" (καθέδρα), although it was borrowed into Latin with what I believe is a more restricted meaning. There is also a Latin word meaning "seat" (sedes) which is also used to r

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