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by wfn 11y ago
Very neat. Thanks for the info!
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by wfn 11y ago
What's the language at the bottom of the post, the one that is able to allocate custom `structs` and has some OOP stuff in it?
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by wfn 11y ago
Also see Greg Egan's short story, "The Extra" ( http://eidolon.net/?story=The%20Extra ) and others, e.g. "Closer" ( http://eidolon.net/?story=Closer )
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by wfn 11y ago
> This means that you cannot set up multiple share classes during company incorporation You actually can - you have to select from a pre-given list of share classes, though, but I did a priority-and-ordinary shares setup thing online vi
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by wfn 11y ago
I'm sad to see this one being downvoted. It's a good poem, and not only eclectically on-topic.
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by wfn 11y ago
Check out this answer by RobotRollCall - a very nice fabula of a kind written by a physicist: http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/f1lgu/what_would...
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by wfn 11y ago
Hmm, decentralized search here should probably just use a Kademlia-like implementation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kademlia ) where a 'XOR metric' is used to measure distance between nodes. (That way the max
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by wfn 11y ago
Just a note to some people replying to 'bkst: what Berkeley developed was a kind of monistic (not dualistic ) system. Some may be committing a kind of false dychotomy by thinking "huh someone is saying consciousness is separate
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by wfn 11y ago
Huh this is very close to what happened to me - I had once installed Mandrake alongside Windows on my parents' PC some time in the middle school years, and it failed to install itself fully, but it was quick to put the bootloader (LILO
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by wfn 11y ago
Just to be clear, the official publisher page for SICP includes (and in fact) hosts the contents of it: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ (includes links to programming assignments etc.)
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by wfn 11y ago
> Still think it was 'cosmic rays' on SKS's machines? Just FYI, this kind of stuff seems to have been done before, with vulnerable keys found: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/064.pdf (2012), https:&#x2F
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by wfn 11y ago
...and this is a nifty Venn Diagram for all the different land names: http://qntm.org/uk
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by wfn 12y ago
Probably a matter of setting precedent vs. not setting precedent, etc.?
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by wfn 12y ago
Well if you tried reading just past the abstract... > To forestall misunderstandings, let me add a note of humility before going further. This essay will touch on many problems that philosophers have debated for generations, such as str
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by wfn 12y ago
I've been trying to make some kind of casual contact with these folk for quite a while now. Beyond understandable why they wouldn't want to be easily found. Still, if anyone knows of any Parisian gigs which may have something to d
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by wfn 12y ago
Oh my, there's some really magnificent stuff, I started giggling while reading this: The Quantum Mechanic monster is basically one big physics joke. Its attack will randomly teleport you, and eating a Quantum Mechanic corpse wi
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by wfn 12y ago
As 'blunder has mentioned elsewhere, you should use pluggable transports (try obfs3, scramblesuit, fte in https://bridges.torproject.org/options ) when in mainland China. Don't use vanilla Tor bridges or vanilla To
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by wfn 12y ago
Thanks for providing these details. (I didn't even know that Bill Clinton did actually sign the statute, even though it was effectively retracted (if only via (GWB) sending a note purporting to retract the signature, as I take it.))
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by wfn 12y ago
..but on the other hand, the US is not part of the ICC (it hasn't signed the 1998 Rome Statute of the ICC), and it also has this jolly federal law in place (2002): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Mem
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by wfn 12y ago
> And here, a full essay on Derrida titled "Philosophy as a Kind of Writing": http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Rorty-Philosoph... Thanks for this, I haven't read it before. For any
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by wfn 12y ago
Ah indeed, that's the one! > though I think that's actually one of the less interesting things to be found in that interview oh I probably agree, or at least in general - in terms of what kinds of things Tesla might have said
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by wfn 12y ago
It will soon be possible, for instance, for a business man in New York to dictate instructions and have them appear instantly in type in London or elsewhere. He will be able to call up from his desk and talk with any telephone subscriber i
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by wfn 12y ago
Ulam's spiral is fascinating, too. I've recently discovered this excellent prime number distribution visualization page, which combines the general idea of Ulam's spiral with other things: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk&
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by wfn 12y ago
> so what's the problem? I think that's a fairly naive point of view. Consider the simple fact that these devices are not to be used in isolation - e.g. you come to someone's home, etc. If you think this is too alarmist
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by wfn 12y ago
With hopes of not sounding too rude: Could you explain more what this is about? (These frontpages with nothing but a "give me your name and email address so we can sign you up for $list" are kind of irritating, personally.) Why sh
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by wfn 12y ago
> This is not how it works. The government is not just one body and there are many parts of it that probably don't agree with what the NSA is doing. This, I think, is a very important point. It is beyond naive to assume that a lar
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by wfn 12y ago
Roger's response here is probably relevant: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2014-July/03... Hi folks, Journalists are asking us about the Black Hat talk on attacking Tor that got
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by wfn 12y ago
These numbers are somewhat misleading, and the phrasing may confuse people. > The fastest python solution using an ORM is a tenth as fast as the Java solutions This may be true if your bottleneck is the ORM in the first place (this i
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by wfn 12y ago
Nitpicking/technical note: > The Tor project simply develops on and provides the Tor core library, from which, other users have taken and made products like TorBrowser. Note that this is not exactly true: Tor Browser is developed
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by wfn 12y ago
There isn't a definitive/exhaustive directory, but see this post: http://donncha.is/2013/05/trawling-tor-hidden-services/ tl;dr it's possible, and you don't have to rely on crawling the we

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