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by thyrsus 16y ago
"How" is necessary, but I think "Why" is more fundamental. There is always more to know about the universe than we can stuff in our heads (I can't even tell you the contents of my desk), but "Why" provides the motivation - a framework or o
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Joseph N. Welch and Edward R. Murrow managed to shame the red-baiters into some semblance of quiescence. I fear that American authorities and those they serve are now immune to shame. Cheer me up; please adduce some evidence to the contrar
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by thyrsus 16y ago
I don't understand: the article appears to report on the effect of Thioflavin T (ThT), which is not among the numerous synonyms for Sudan I that the wikipedia article lists. I followed the Sudan III and Sudan IV references, and didn't find
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Several points The study looks at income, not wealth ("riches"). To maintain a middle class lifestyle, one must today make a proportionally far larger expenditure for housing, education and transportation. In constant dollars, cost per squa
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Shared libraries can also make more efficient use of RAM and sometimes even of cache RAM. Every time you don't have to move something to where you want it because it's already there, you get a speed win.
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Aha! Business opportunity: create ad hoc facebook accounts, complete with "friends", games, lolcat photos, and all the rest, for a fee. Of course it violates the Facebook terms of service. Handing over your password already broke that.
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Do you refuse contributions (bug fixes/enhancements) the ownership of which is not explicitly assigned to you? What is the license status of those changes?
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by thyrsus 16y ago
A quick Google news search of "health data outsource india" shows that the outsourcers think they have something more than a zero chance.
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by thyrsus 16y ago
"all humans ... believe in the assertion that true things can be known" Actually, there are a minority who do not believe that. I take Richard Dawkins and Morris Kline ("Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty") as representing themselves accur
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by thyrsus 16y ago
When would one use this? When I install Fedora, it gives me the opportunity to encrypt any file system other than /boot. Since this requires you to enter the password at boot, that's good for a laptop, probably bad for a server. You need r
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Is there some interesting result in number theory that led you to take the absolute value of the differences?
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by thyrsus 16y ago
The script initializes the image from /dev/zero, which means that an attacker can tell which blocks of the filesystem image are data and which are empty. Unless you really can't afford to wait the minute or so for it to finish, use /dev/ur
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by thyrsus 16y ago
The article's recommendation that the U.S. imitate the "diplomacy and deception" of Byzantium is a complete non-starter. The commitment (even if flawed) of the U.S. to an open society plus new technology - emphatically illustrated in recen
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by thyrsus 16y ago
The cheapest data plan available to me is $180/yr. I've got wifi or better access any time I'm not driving, so I'm going to be annoyed if I'm forced to pay for something I'll rarely use.
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by thyrsus 16y ago
I'm an infrequent contributor.
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Please correct any misunderstandings I may have in the following: * Vacuum has no mass (gravitational attraction). * Normal matter has mass. * Vacuum is composed of matter and antimatter. * Therefore, antimatter has negative mass (negative
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by thyrsus 16y ago
The "tare" is the weight of the container holding the item being weighed, in this case presumably the weight of the wagon, which is why the question specifies that weight. If you ask Google "tare in bushels", your comment itself shows up a
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by thyrsus 16y ago
The article raises, but does not answer, the question in the title given here on HN. The article does provide a useful precis of the the history and implications of Novell's purchase by Attachmate, and it provides the simple answer "no", i
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[2007] [pdf] A Principled Approach to Version Control(cs.ru.nl)
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Why use the plane's internet when successful authentication to the (non-advertising) wifi router embedded in the bomb is the trigger? Which is probably less reliable than a timer or altimeter trigger, anyway, as I gather from other comment
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Ah. I'm in 3.5, and I was baffled at how to exit the video and start the site.
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Almost as funny as "You write a distributed map-reduce function in Erlang!". I think people are reacting out of bad experiences with other binary file configuration systems. Examples: windows registry; Solaris as LDAP client (ok, so the st
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by thyrsus 16y ago
I wonder at the many comments here that missed or ignored that the article's author was diagnosed with depression. That's a chronic and debilitating disease, only marginally better medicated now than in 1977. It does not deprive the suffe
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by thyrsus 16y ago
I like using a directed acyclic graph, presented as an outline. E.g., Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html
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by thyrsus 16y ago
The book "Thinking Forth" contains a quote from Charles Moore: "In my accounting system [...]"; the example shows two significant places after the decimal point for the dollar amount - whether the type is floating point or fixed decimal is
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Agreed, except that all three branches of the government have a duty to uphold the constitution, not just congress. I do, however, think there should be entities in a "common carrier" legal position: they have no legal liability for the con
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by thyrsus 16y ago
So long as Verizon happily issues new CAs to Etisalat, the following is a weak measure, but for the moment: is there a way in various browsers to declare that you don't trust specific CAs? I can't practically remove the Verizon certificate
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by thyrsus 16y ago
Currently, if you are continuously covered by health insurance, you can usually move from one insurer to another without being disqualified for a "pre-existing" condition. If you let it lapse for any period, you're in deep trouble. Disqual
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by thyrsus 16y ago
"Something seems to be wrong here, and tells us APP_ERROR. prezi.com/support might help." Or not. Adobe flash player 10 under Fedora 12. Should I try from a Windows box at work in the morning?
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by thyrsus 16y ago
I believe there are services that allow one to make annotations on web pages. Perhaps they allow one to control the degree of sharing; that might go some of the way toward what Mr. Pennarun wants. An annotation might link into or out of a

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