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by snaily 9y ago
A personal primary key that's semipublic, and when you do a financial transaction the institution performs know-your-customer identification checks - checking photo ID (with key printed), that sort of thing. Some even have federated sy
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by snaily 9y ago
If you actually look at the SAE J3016_201609 standard, your goalpost-moving takes you beyond level 2. "Giving ample warning" puts you in level 3, whereas "pulling over as a default action" puts you in level 4. The origin
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by snaily 9y ago
Until you look at an officer the wrong way. Or their friend. Or someone else with the ear of the boys in blue.
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by snaily 9y ago
From first principles, I'm not seeing how a LEO collision pushes a significant amount of debris notably higher, but I'm certainly missing something: Post collision, all debris orbits will still be passing through the point of coll
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by snaily 9y ago
At least in the case of Spotify, I expect a large (and growing) chunk of their traffic to come from Google infrastructure: https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/02/23/announcing-spotify-in...
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by snaily 9y ago
You're forgetting the CGI industry, as seen in movies.
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by snaily 9y ago
Assuming the LIDAR manufacturers do not achieve regulatory capture to lock out competing tech.
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by snaily 9y ago
There's some nuance here: It might be that a rational insurance provider encourages their clients to do regular checkups for conditions that can be caught early and treated at a much lower cost. Now, the parent comment still is correct
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by snaily 9y ago
Fom the flame graphs I don't get how there is a 10x speedup - the optimized piece (ExecOpenIndices) is less than 90% of the total?
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by snaily 9y ago
It's definitely used in FPGA chips, for one.
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by snaily 9y ago
Unlike biological contagions, digital ones typically aren't transferred just by physical touch. Don't run or open anything off the stick on your machine and you'll be fine.
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by snaily 9y ago
I suspect you could hack a similar collapsing thread UI together with styled radio buttons and no JS, if you really wanted to prove a point.
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by snaily 10y ago
If all you want is structured save points, git runs locally! See also git-svn and its ilk, which allow you to interface with a different SCM while you keep using a familiar git interface. Assuming you're entrusted to install software l
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by snaily 10y ago
Wait, what? While the Singapore MRT (subway, metro) system is top-tier (along with Seoul and Hong Kong) it is not a deregulated free market wet dream. The public Land Transport Authority built and still owns most of the assets, and enacts s
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by snaily 10y ago
Come to Singapore - there's plenty of native English speakers here who will use "can" in the same sense!
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by snaily 10y ago
Unlike in France, where for some reason a lot of symbolic signs come with text instructions on a separate sign: http://s3.freefoto.com/images/41/03/41_03_88_web.jpg (English: "Give way")
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by snaily 10y ago
Quick feature requests: 1) Foreign keys to users (for e.g. "assigned to", "team members") 2) Better programmability - right now, anything moderately complex requires a bunch of intermediate column (that then have to be
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by snaily 10y ago
Do you have a citation for your assertions - perhaps one with more specifics than unnamed "toxins"?
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by snaily 10y ago
A sibling comment points out that back in the carboniferous period, no organisms had enzymes to break down wood. Nowadays, dead wood rots, releasing co2 back into the atmosphere.
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by snaily 10y ago
The closure table is a neat solution, even though the adjacency list is by far the most natural to me. As the author notes, breadcrumbs and subtrees can be generated in the database layer by recursive CTEs, and support has become more commo
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by snaily 10y ago
Sweden has a whole bunch of not-yet-electrified lines - just not where most people are: http://www.jarnvag.net/component/customproperties/tag?cp[omr...
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by snaily 10y ago
As you rightly point out, my reply was not meant as more than a factual rebuttal - which of course is valuable in and of itself if you want to make a coherent and sound argument. You also conveniently cut out the point that the state will c
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by snaily 10y ago
Your example of Sweden having an official religion is no longer current. The Church of Sweden is since 2000 no longer a state church. That said, it's been possible to opt-out since 1868, and since 1996 membership is opt-in (upon baptiz
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by snaily 10y ago
While this is a case of "two wrongs make a right"[0] - anything that provides even some value without the backend up will still be connected, perennially at risk of getting taken over by a bad actor. [0] And a pretty strong argume
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by snaily 10y ago
My guess is that the lack of part-time testers is because there is no clear deliverable. You pay for time spent testing, not for an outcome, so why settle for less than full time once you've vetted a good tester?
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by snaily 10y ago
Honestly, though, of all languages written with an alphabet (Latin or no), English is the worst when it comes to mapping from writing to pronunciation. Sure, it might better than Chinese, but flaunting it in public looks rather absurd even
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by snaily 10y ago
It's not uncommon to project for infinity. When using the discounted cash flow (DCF) method you first use the current business plan to project cash flows (discounting for the fact that future money is worth less than money right now) f
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by snaily 10y ago
Most Singaporeans still have a concept of "proper" English, and can code switch across the creole continuum, but interestingly the acrolect ("variation most associated with refinement") is basically standard UK or US Eng
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by snaily 10y ago
Turns out Danish has the same construction in use ("thats just volapük [incomprehensible] to me"), so it's not just one conlang throwing shade at another.
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by snaily 10y ago
Overseas dependencies.

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