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by srl 13y ago
Dammit! You're right, I'm (very) wrong. (The stackexchange answer I used as a "check" was wrong too. That'll show me.) I was lazily using Gauss's law and ignoring the fact that a torus isn't spherically sy
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by srl 13y ago
I'm not taking into account centripetal acceleration, but it is small in ordinary planets. In order for the planet to actually be a torus, it needs to be spinning extraordinarily quickly, precisely because gravity does not help maintai
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by srl 13y ago
(Lest I come across as a complete ass: this is a cool piece, of course.) At least the discussion of gravitation is wrong. Somewhat unintuitively, the gravitational force on the inner part of the torus (the surface closest to the center, on
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by srl 13y ago
No. I've never seen an interview with a Chinese or Russian dissident be particularly prominent.
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by srl 13y ago
The reddit comment pavanky links to (by Natedogg213) does a pretty good job pointing out the fact that this story simply isn't true, and is really just another case of lazy "mainstream media sux" claims. I'd like to add
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by srl 13y ago
And the media has been reporting on that, because that's what matters. It's out of Snowden's hands now, which is why front-page news stories tend to focus less on him and more on actual policy details, and the politics of a r
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by srl 13y ago
No, this simply isn't true. Watch the front page of any daily newspaper - a large percentage of the articles are about new revelations or stories on the politics of a reform bill, and I have not seen a single one (in the last 4 months
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by srl 13y ago
And it's people's prerogative to criticize, too. "If it bothers you, don't use it" is the most annoying criticism-avoidance mechanism I've ever seen.
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by srl 13y ago
Much as I love bashing modern web design, I do prefer having more than six words to a line.
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Wraith: A Bananagrams Variant(bytbox.net)
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by srl 13y ago
You use τ where you work? Where do you work (in general terms)?
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R-tree(en.wikipedia.org)
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by srl 13y ago
I really don't agree that that's equivalent, but I understand your point. Certainly if the power balance were different, it might be a legitimate fear. (If the french government gave me problems, it would be pretty easy for me to
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by srl 13y ago
Asking for it to end is unrealistic. Asking for reasonable limits, and for public knowledge of the general outlines of what is being collected and how it is used, and for proper oversight by the intelligence committees, is much more achieva
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by srl 13y ago
Section 4 has the real changes.
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by srl 13y ago
It will be extended, of course -- it's a cornerstone of our security establishment at this point. The more realistic thing is to hope for good amendments.
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by srl 13y ago
While that's a nice sentiment in principle, it falls apart in fairly obvious ways. Do we enforce our laws on citizens of other nations? When other governments act in ways inconsistent with our constitution, do you think we should use o
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The illusions of Net neutrality(america.aljazeera.com)
2 points by srl 13y ago|0 comments
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by srl 13y ago
No. Without knowing a priori what the writer was trying to say, his use of the word 'ruthless' /was/ confusing, because he used it in an uncommon (and possibly incorrect) way.
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by srl 13y ago
And you could write an Appendable instance for them as well, it would just fly in the face of what the word "append" means to most people. (Nitpick, of course.)
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by srl 13y ago
Is that actually a vestige of a hexadec system, or just a strange quirk? Note that 2 sounds similar to 12, 3 to 13, and so on. That implies there's a relationship between those numbers, which only exists in decimal.
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by srl 13y ago
The article didn't say they hacked routers. > The NSA calls the effort an "active defence" and has used the technology to monitor units of the Chinese and Russian armies, drug cartels, trade institutions inside the Europea
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by srl 13y ago
I thought the judge's name sounded familiar, so I checked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Haskell_Alsup Yup. This was the guy who learned Java because he felt he needed to know how to program to be qualifie
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by srl 13y ago
IIRC (because I think "Moral" is likely to be misinterpreted by people reading into it what they want) your response came down to "the moral landscape when working with DOD and DHS in particular, is forbiddingly difficult to
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by srl 13y ago
> I won't work with USG IT This may be none of anyone's business, but I'm curious enough to try asking anyway: is this a moral objection of some sort, or something more mundane (i.e. inconvenient regulatory burden)?
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by srl 13y ago
For any two points in N-space, you can draw an (N-1)-sphere around them such that the line between them forms the sphere's diameter. Then they appear to be opposites, within the artificially-limited domain you're talking about.
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by srl 13y ago
Such a proxy-net would intrinsically increase latency and lower bandwidth. Oops.
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by srl 13y ago
Other pages are still up (although I haven't checked that they're unmodified) - it does appear the attacker didn't bother to bring anything but the front page down.
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by srl 13y ago
I've used it. It's uncommon, but occasionally useful.
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by srl 13y ago
It came from a TOR ip.

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