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by waqf 15y ago
My very limited understanding is that they have built a kind of analog computer that solves minimization problems. They claim it's an "adiabatic quantum computer" (a relatively-recently theorized implementation of quantum computing) but th
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by waqf 15y ago
I wouldn't say that society views industrial quantities of fertilizer as dangerous, but the FBI keeps track of who's buying it.
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by waqf 15y ago
The government won't forbid the sale of transistors and solder. They don't have to, for two reasons. Firstly, nobody can build a computer to the standard of a contemporary desktop out of transistors and solder. It simply can't be done,
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by waqf 15y ago
Thanks for following up. I think you're confirming my assumption on the definition of "pseudonym", but correct me if you disagree. Oh, and since I seem to have zeeg's attention ... why is it that every site I care about works just fine on
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by waqf 15y ago
This page seems long on cute fuzzy pictures and short on content. They don't say what discussion forums they sampled: most likely, their own. They don't describe their methodology in detail (I looked in vain for a link to or citation of a
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by waqf 15y ago
I'm curious what led you to that conclusion (about the Gmail incident)?
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by waqf 15y ago
Why would any sane person want to live in Nevada? I hear it's mostly desert.
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by waqf 15y ago
Ed Schröder, the initial accuser who recanted, states in summary: "4. It is not possible to state categorically from the available data whether: " 4a. Vas took Fruit source via cut and paste and converted to Rybka; " 4b. Vas kept a co
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by waqf 15y ago
Which did you see as the conclusive evidence that code was copy-pasted? Section 4 of the article made the point that the Rybka source was missing and the accusers' evidence was decompiled code which they had arranged to look as similar as
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by waqf 15y ago
Just because the government sometimes gets away with unconstitutional things, it doesn't follow that there is no check whatsoever on the government's power. For example, the government might get away with indefinitely detaining a few people
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by waqf 15y ago
> (were you there at the ThirstyBear meetup where they bought us all beers?) How is "must live in the Bay Area in order to receive friendly customer service" a reasonable hidden addition to the T&C of a supposedly global service?
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by waqf 15y ago
(devil's advocate) Your analogy is bad because "rounding up" is something one Does Not Do Without Due Process, whereas deleting an intertube site is not. (America managed for 200 years without any intertubes at all, you know, so it can't
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by waqf 15y ago
What virtue do you see in "1. Must register for protection"?
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by waqf 15y ago
"exercised [...] shares"? That's not a meaningful sentence, so it's not clear what situation you're trying to describe. In any case, either your partners can (in this example) dilute you or they can't . Neither of these is a fundamenta
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by waqf 15y ago
Meanwhile, the person quoted in the article argues that everyone has computers and e-readers now. Right, so close the libraries and make sure e-books are free for everyone like library books used to be.
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by waqf 15y ago
For those who don't know, if there weren't nonlinearities in the ear you wouldn't hear difference tones ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_tone ). Those nonlinearities are interactions within the audible range though, not interacti
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by waqf 15y ago
Are they stupid? Or has heavy regulation made them afraid to use common sense they in fact possess?
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by waqf 15y ago
I considered answering that question in my post above, but I thought I'd wait for someone to ask :). The "in-person" requirement is dropped for the Visa Waiver Program, which applies if you're from a "nice" nation and you want to stay no
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by waqf 15y ago
For most Britons the two words are homophonous, which makes it a great deal less odd. (Americans also make typos which look odd to Britons, for example "mute point".)
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by waqf 15y ago
Right, because AIUI there are huge fixed costs in setting up and running an LCD fabrication plant. So the biggest market wins.
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by waqf 15y ago
> If you like, you can think of unwords . words as an orthogonal projection onto the subspace of strings on which unwords is a genuine left-inverse of words (cf. Moore-Penrose pseudoinverses). It's even more like a reflector in a htt
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by waqf 15y ago
> Note that this is for reciprocity against the USA requiring the same in-person application for Chinese nationals visiting the USA. So what you're really saying is that most of the trouble with the U.S. visa system is the requirement
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by waqf 15y ago
For a lot of purposes I have switched to Wikipedia. Automated web search simply isn't the right tool these days for many of the niches in which Google got its foothold in the '90s.
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by waqf 15y ago
I don't see why. The whole point of the difference between ads and results is that results supposedly can't be bought (hence the demotion for "cheating") and ads can be.
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by waqf 15y ago
I don't think you read the email properly. The seller implies that their preferred outcome was to have the violin returned and, presumably, the price refunded. That dispenses completely with your reasons (a) and (b).
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by waqf 15y ago
I disagree, the section quoted by GP continues "[...] $65/hr equivalent salary [emphasis added]" which makes it even more clear that a full-time position is being referred to.
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by waqf 15y ago
When do you people have time to listen to podcasts? Reading blogs/RSS is much less time-intensive. Also, for those occasions when people insist on delivering information via embedded video only, why don't contemporary embedded players have
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by waqf 15y ago
Why are ongoing contracts different?
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by waqf 15y ago
Many consumer contracts in the U.S. (for example those for my credit card and my mobile phone) do require binding arbitration. Why doesn't your argument apply to them?
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by waqf 15y ago
Thanks, that's the one I was thinking of.

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