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by taejo 11y ago
It's true that not all of my criteria are included in the scorecard. For one thing, it's based on the statements of the developers, so if they say "it's encrypted", the EFF takes them at their word, and doesn&#x27
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by taejo 11y ago
Do you struggle to imagine that people born deaf can read at all?
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by taejo 11y ago
I don't understand why people on HN are still recommending Telegram. It's not open, the crypto is highly questionable, and messages are not encrypted end-to-end by default (and not at all in groups). Use one of the apps that gets
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by taejo 11y ago
By thinking your problem is a software problem when it's not.
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by taejo 11y ago
Der Postillion , a German satirical newspaper, reported this story as Rückruf unbegründet: Plastikteilchen laut Experten gesündeste Zutat in Mars-Riegeln (Recall unnecessary: pieces of plastic healthiest ingredient in Mars Bars, say expe
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by taejo 11y ago
In your accent (and lots of other people's too, but not in mine, and apparently not in that of the person you're responding to). The sequence /aɪl/ never appears in my English dialect: there's always a schwa-ish sou
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by taejo 11y ago
Which is exactly why it's distracting to fluent readers.
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by taejo 11y ago
> * I can't remember if this was the case in UK, but I noticed that transfers to some Western EU countries This is the law for all Euro-denominated transfers in the EU (even in the UK -- but unless your account is Euro-denominated t
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by taejo 11y ago
This is not conclusive, but the best deterministic primality test (an AKS variant by Pomerance and Lenstra) is 6th power. 1024^6 is quite large.
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by taejo 11y ago
I was responding to a comment specifically about China. Actually Janggi, the Korean variant of Chinese chess (yes, there are some rule differences, but it's recognizably the same game - like Chess without castling and en passant) is ve
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by taejo 11y ago
>a computer doesn't know the difference between formal and informal this seems to indicate that Alpha isn't truly above Fan Hui in strength. Also the formal games were played with fast game rules, I'm not sure if I'm
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by taejo 11y ago
But not as popular as Chinese chess (xiangqi) as a game people actually play, though. Go might be more popular than xiangqi as a spectator sport; I don't know.
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by taejo 11y ago
But they call it "permanent press" so those of us who didn't study domestic science don't know what it does ;) Thanks for explaining something I was always curious about in the laundry room but forgot about by the time I
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by taejo 11y ago
http://www.iers.org , actually: iers.org doesn't resolve.
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by taejo 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_faith The latter.
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by taejo 11y ago
bcrypt and HMAC fill different roles and have different security properties: bcrypt is a key-derivation function, and HMAC is a message authentication code. They're not comparable. In particular, HMAC should be used with a high-quality
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by taejo 11y ago
The "etymology" you speak of (and is often used in a Chinese context) has nothing to do with actual etymology. The origin of characters is barely related at all to the origins of words . The word 灣 wān (= bay, cove) might b
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by taejo 11y ago
That's not necessary. If we assume that both juries and judges pick the correct verdict with a certain probability independent of what the correct verdict is, then all that is required that the jury has a higher probability of being
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by taejo 11y ago
A thousand years earlier: What do you propose as the alternative to feudalism?
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by taejo 11y ago
I'd say that's a far more reasonable default assumption than that a business does make a profit.
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by taejo 11y ago
That's the point - a Reddit post can be much more substantial than a tweet usually is, so saving makes more sense for the former than the latter.
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by taejo 11y ago
Because they took money from merchant ships instead of peasants, where barons are supposed to get their taxes :/ (Actually, shipping tolls on the Rhine were supposed to be set according to guidelines set by the Holy Roman Emperor; the
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by taejo 11y ago
No, they're saying that unpopular, unfree DVCSes are less new.
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by taejo 11y ago
ESR's blogpost: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907
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by taejo 11y ago
It's much more beautiful close up than in pictures, IME. I had mixed feelings until I actually visited.
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by taejo 11y ago
BTW, the English word for abonnement is subscription .
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by taejo 11y ago
Even if all data is encrypted at rest, you can still learn a huge amount from access patterns. You need some kind of Oblivious RAM (which could perhaps be better named Oblivious Disk) where the cloud server doesn't even know the metada
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by taejo 11y ago
In the modern (post-1997) orthography, ß and ss have different pronunciations and ß acts like a single letter (doubled consonants make the preceding vowel short, but ß does not)
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by taejo 11y ago
imply, v. ... (transitive, of a person or proposition) to hint; to insinuate; to suggest tacitly and avoid a direct statement
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by taejo 11y ago
The Q&A video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThwLzeEpP5I shows a switch which disables side-to-side movement (and a joystick which can be used to turn when lean-to-turn is disabled).

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