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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Also, "prove you know something secret without exposing it" instantly suggests Zero Knowledge Proofs. That is precisely the problem they solve, and it's a problem orthogonal to encryption.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Oh neat! I didn't know about global marks before.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
I like vim-surround[0] and vim-unimpaired[1]. [0]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-surround [1]: https://github.com/tpope/vim-unimpaired
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Aiming to combat "you don't know what you don't know", here's a list of things to consider. How comfortable are you with: * find/replace/regexes * registers and macros * vim settings (spell, list, highligh
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Ah, knowing this policy is good enough! For some reason it didn't click in my head that an unrepeated title would probably be the articles original title. (Which in this case is clearly, unrepentantly clickbait.) Thanks for the clarifi
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
On a couple of stories I've noticed discussion about changing the title, which is not always universally agreed with. Is there a way to make this process more transparent, e.g. on changing title posting a comment "Changed title fr
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Morality is not a settled science, but yes. Or rather, that is what grounds my personal intuition and feelings when I try to reason about such things. As I mentioned elsewhere in these comments, I think elephants probably have levels of cog
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
If our only choices were exterminating elephants or raising them for food, I might agree with you. But that's not even close to the situation in the world today. Elephants are not in the same position as cattle. When lab-grown meat is
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
> Why does it matter if, say, elephants go extinct? If they're extinct they're not suffering. That's the same logic a cartoon supervillain uses to justify a plan for destroying the world. To answer your question directly.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
> I also think it is not hugely important whether the animals went there intentionally seeking medical care or happened to end up in the right place. I respectfully disagree with this particular sentiment. Elephants intentionally seekin
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
If white promotes to a queen, black will have no legal moves because the king can't move into check, and the pawns can't move at all. If a player can't move, the game is a draw.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
I'm not sure you read the same apology I just did. > SK: i dont want people to think i'm saying "i got caught being an asshole so i'm saying sorry" > SK: i want to say "I was accidentally being an asshole
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
The author is not saying Google Chrome is a security risk -- he's saying that malware has goals and behavior similar to Google's software updater. > Here are just some of the reasons Google’s software update system can serve as
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
With attitudes like that, it's no wonder he's a socialist.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
> How much longer does it take to load/unload a freight train versus a truck? To the extent that both use shipping containers, the process should be identical.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
One thing to keep in mind in this kind of discussion is that the US is really big. It has 13,500 school districts. Its population is almost half that of all of Europe. Put another way, it has a population roughly the same size as Germany, F
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
I was able to click through, and also the same content (save for a few pictures) is available in pdf form [0]. As someone else who has been casually interested in vertical farming, I was pretty disappointed with this piece. It didn't g
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What gets documented gets improved (2013)(jekor.com)
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
I think that sentiment adds to the list of things that make it hard for someone to go from an intermediate level of skill to advanced level of skill.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
I don't think it's clear at all what you meant by "pulling the race card". I don't know what you are recommending nor who should do it.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
> how often does the government dismiss cases because they are "too expensive to prosecute"? Arguably that is what happened to banks that are "too big to jail" (with expenses to both the government and society at larg
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Most people have not dealt with federal criminal law. Yes, a good lawyer should be able to help interpret where things truly stand, but that does not absolve prosecutors acting in a coercive fashion to secure convictions. It's true tha
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Sadly, yes. Trials can be ruinously expensive even if you win. 97% of federal criminal prosecutions end in plea bargaining [0]. Prosecutors often make offers that are coercive. Consider the Aaron Swartz case [1]. After his death the prosecu
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
>> are not a cohesive organisation capable of effectively directing the strategy of the company > They don't need to be: they just need to communicate their priorities to that manager. In this case, they communicated that they
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
I think a refusal to accept any generalities is also unproductive. To make a mathematical analogy, the first few eigenvectors can capture most of the information about a data set.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Delaying PoC raises the cost of exploiting the vulnerability; having it makes it easier to exploit and not having it means an attacker needs to invest resources recreating it. How much this helps depends on a lot of factors, but it doesn&#x
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Interesting, can you point me to a news article or link? Shouldn't that have been rejected as an improperly signed file as (update+payload) should have a different signature than (update)? I'm want to know whether I'm misinte
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Some scientists speculate that humans are currently constitute a new mass extinction event for the planet. [0] Animals that people like, charismatic megafauna like pandas, tigers, and elephants are increasingly endangered, largely because
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
>> The problem is that Windows XP is not working just fine, especially when connected to the Internet. It is full of malware and helps establishing botnets, DDOS attacks and thus feeds mafia structures. So we, as a soeciety, do have a
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
The Onion's take is relevant: > Harper Lee Announces Third Novel, ‘My Excellent Caretaker Deserves My Entire Fortune’ http://www.theonion.com/article/harper-lee-announces-third-n...

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