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by sirsar 8y ago
Fake student IDs can be purchased online for not much money, and I bet it's much less risky to use one to get into a student section than using a fake driver's license to buy alcohol.
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by sirsar 8y ago
(police police) [specifies what kind of police] (police) [people who do the policing] (police) [verb] (police police) [object that gets policed]. If (something)-police police (something), who police (something)-police? ((something)-police)-
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by sirsar 8y ago
It is said that Louis XIV preferred pepper, and this preference is what lead to pepper's eventual dominance in the West. I don't have a great source for this, but here's a gizmodo article... https://gizmodo.com&#x2
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by sirsar 8y ago
See Jevons paradox, where increasing coal-efficiency counterintuitively increased coal usage and pollution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by sirsar 8y ago
Woosh
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by sirsar 8y ago
Gave it a shot and found the highlighting to be distracting to the point of making it hard to read the current line. I'll try playing with the colors to make it more legible.
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by sirsar 8y ago
Some theaters charge a little more and have a one-warning policy before ejecting customers for talking or using cellphones. I watched A Quiet Place in such a theater and thoroughly enjoyed the experience - the high-quality surround sound wa
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by sirsar 8y ago
On Windows, AutoHotkey has all the tools you need for this. The built-in `Clipboard` variable contains only the textual data, and the `OnClipboardChange` event allows you to watch the clipboard for changes. You could then use regular expres
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by sirsar 9y ago
Thank you, that was a nuanced article that made me aware of some of the complexity of the issue.
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by sirsar 9y ago
Yes, the most generous interpretation of "eat food that naturally grows in their climate" is definitely "people in Canada should eat only Maple Syrup." Are you willing to have a discussion and apply the Principle of Char
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by sirsar 9y ago
Do you have any sources for this? I was under the impression that the goal of the "eat local" movement is to get consumers to eat food that naturally grows in their climate, not to start growing bananas under heat lamps in Canada.
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by sirsar 10y ago
How long do you have to drive a Honda Civic before it's free?
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by sirsar 10y ago
>> your browsing history stored in a public location mapped to your IPs. It's more anonymous than that. Most people can't change their IP, let alone generate a new IP address for every single page load.
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by sirsar 10y ago
Makes sense, thanks!
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by sirsar 10y ago
What does it mean to have a "double pumped" ALU? Google is failing me.
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by sirsar 10y ago
Sorry if this is naive, but: Don't we want intimidation/vote buying of members of congress, in a sense? As a voter, it's important to be able to verify that the people I voted for actually represented my interests, rather t
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by sirsar 11y ago
> Are the Sherpas better off with the climbers? Perhaps. It's hard to say, because while climbing brings a lot of money, the Sherpas might have moved to cities, to India, or even to America if that opportunity hadn't materializ
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by sirsar 11y ago
> Also, I still do not understand why TOR Browser Bundle allows scripts by default. The best diet is the one you can actually stick to. The best birth control is the one comfortable enough to use. The best anonymity software must be usab
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by sirsar 11y ago
JWZ used to detect the hacker news referrer and redirect all links that originated on hacker news to goatse. Now it's only slightly less graphic.
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by sirsar 11y ago
> Downloading of digits is no longer available due to the massive bandwidth requirements. Your best bet is to directly contact one of the record holders and see if they still have a copy of the digits. Seems like a case for the high-ba
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by sirsar 11y ago
> Captive animals, who have lost their freedom to graze naturally, are fed commercial products derived and processed from corn, soy, and vegetable oil. The ingredients are designed to keep animals alive in a confined and restricted envi
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by sirsar 11y ago
The three things to keep in mind about radix sort are A) It's noncomparative, while other sorting algorithms' performance is measured in number of comparisons, so there's a bit of apples-and-oranges going on. B) What is `k` f
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by sirsar 11y ago
Far within the bounds of modern computing. The Bitcoin network cranks out 2^61 hashes every 2 or so seconds .
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by sirsar 11y ago
Could you elaborate a bit more? I feel like I'm missing something. Let's say A puts $100 in the bank. The bank loans $50 to B while still telling A that his full $100 is available for withdrawal. (Fractional reserve.) B pays C $50
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by sirsar 11y ago
> [saying] inequality would arise because some people are "more driven" than others [=== saying] those with less money are simply less driven. Slow down there. You can't just take the converse of any old statement. PG is s
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by sirsar 11y ago
> then all PG is saying is that "the irreducible core of [economic inequality]" is having come into possession of wealth. Not quite. He's saying (in my reading) that even if you legislate away all the other sources of ineq
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by sirsar 11y ago
I do this, minus the "dedicated computer and printer" part. Pretty simple, really. Another option is dedicated smartcards that hold the keys. I'm genuinely curious. Can you envision any possible distributed internet currency
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by sirsar 11y ago
I read it as claiming that there are lucky driven people, unlucky driven people, lucky undriven people, and unlucky undriven people. And then that most rich people fall into the first category. This is totally compatible with all poor peopl
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by sirsar 11y ago
Facebook in the past has required me to authenticate during travel by showing me pictures in which my friends are tagged, and asking me to name them. Of course this was made more difficult by my friends' tendencies to abuse the image t
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by sirsar 11y ago
Sure thing. Using the bitcoin client directly: the addmultisigaddress command. https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Multisignature Using bitaddress.org, an "Open Source JavaScript Client-Side Bitcoin Wallet Generator".

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