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by troymc 11y ago
Your comment only applies to US citizens, who make up about 3/70 of the world population. What about the vast majority of the world? There was a time when DNA and faxes weren't considered admissible. It just takes time for legal s
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by troymc 11y ago
It seem you also get a bit of buzz when you remove it.
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If someone uses my credit card to buy something I didn't approve, I get my money back and I get a new credit card, all for free. It's annoying, sure, but also reassuring. If someone steals my Bitcoin wallet and uses it to buy some
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by troymc 11y ago
Doesn't Google already have Blogger.com? Is this an April Fools joke posted early by accident?
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If only there was a web plugin or some other web client software that could login to your bank account for you and fetch everything you want, in convenient formats, with nice labels. It would support the weird interfaces of thousands of dif
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by troymc 11y ago
Okay, but are there any in-production file systems implementing that (or any other BFT consensus protocol)?
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I gather that XtreemFS and Quobyte can tolerate benign but not byzantine faults. Is there such a thing as a byzantine fault tolerant file system?
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The image is a derivative work; it's derived from the original stock image. If the stock image is protected by copyright, and you don't have a license to use it (for anything), is it copyright infringement to use it like this on y
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by troymc 11y ago
I guess this was an attempt to sound like a visionary with a "Big Hairy Audacious Goal" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Hairy_Audacious_Goal Instead, it reads like a parody. The world isn't a computer
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What is the default (because the majority of users will leave it set to that)?
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by troymc 11y ago
That is incorrect. Even if you don't republish the data, the scraping alone can be a violation of the site's Terms of Service, and you can be sued (and lose). See the Wikipedia article I linked above. Think about it from the point
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by troymc 11y ago
Is Wikidata only for notable data or any data? If only notable data is allowed, then how is that enforced? Who decides if some piece of data is notable? Can data be permanently, unrecoverably deleted, or is it more like Wikipedia where you
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by troymc 11y ago
There have been lawsuits where the company running the site-being-scraped sued the scraper and won. So while it's technically possible, there can be legal issues. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_scraping#Lega
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Scientific discovery often happens by accident, i.e. unpredictably. And when you're not expecting to discover something, you're obviously not being precise about it. A concrete example is the accidental discovery of the cosmic mic
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My brother made this as a sort of collectible conceptual art, for a hackathon that happened this past weekend in Berlin.
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Most of the no-longer-updated stuff in Second Life eventually vanishes completely, because it costs money to own land (rent it). A small parcel isn't super-expensive though, so some people forget about it.
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by troymc 11y ago
"Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn't explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan." - Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle The argument that "I understand this and you don't, so
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by troymc 11y ago
The article is about the summer olympics.
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When most people think of the olympic games, they don't think about the IOC. They could care less about the IOC. They think about athletes, and sports, and national rivalries. Most people would not give one fat hoot if the whole IOC go
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by troymc 11y ago
The solution is to use other sources of location information in addition to GPS.
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Actually, behind the scenes, they have a graphic designer madly making up new bands and band logos in real time. Just kidding. I wonder if something similar would be possible though? Maybe step 1 of a Captcha is to "write something slo
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by troymc 11y ago
According to news reports, the Mirabel terminal demolition began in November 2014: http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/mirabel-airports-...
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by troymc 11y ago
Java, Scala, and Kotlin aren't the only options for "one language on the client and the server." You could also use C++, C#, JavaScript, Lua, Objective-C, Python, Ruby, and more. See http://www.mobilechameleon.com&
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by troymc 11y ago
I got a good chuckle out of the sentence: "Then they turned to the fire prevention system. Smoke now channels upward through chimneys, in accordance with the laws of physics."
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Montreal had a different sort of airport fiasco in the 1960s and 70s: Mirabel Airport was supposed to replace the Dorval Airport as the "Eastern Gateway to Canada" for human travellers. Today, Mirabel is mostly a cargo airport. An
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Another possibility is that there's a steady outflow of drivers, but it's matched by a steady inflow of new drivers. The fees stay the same.
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I guess we'll just go back to manually making filters.
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What does this have to do with SMTP?
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At a high level, yes: develop using JavaScript, end up with a true native app, on iOS and Android. See also: NativeScript, Tabris.js, and React Native Edit: If you'd prefer to develop apps using a different programming language, see h
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by troymc 11y ago
> "I have this solution, what problems can I solve with it?" is not something a human being generally asks. Either you're being sarcastic, or you have no familiarity with the history of science. The rest of your answer sho

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