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by wskinner 13y ago
As long as we have corporate tax rates, we will continue to see behavior like this. People who complain about corporations paying little to no tax would do well to examine the reasons why this sort of behavior occurs.
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Plain English Explanation of Big-O(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by wskinner 13y ago|1 comments
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Why SICP Matters(cs.berkeley.edu)
312 points by wskinner 13y ago|127 comments
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by wskinner 13y ago
Assuming they salt each password before hashing it and use a reasonable number of iterations, having relatively short password should not be a huge deal, right? The salt means that an attacker can't just use a rainbow table attack against a
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How to Use the vi Editor(washington.edu)
8 points by wskinner 14y ago|1 comments
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by wskinner 14y ago
If you look at the chart, it appears beer was on a pretty swift path to consolidation even before prohibition. It may not be that Carter saved the craft brewing industry so much as he allowed it begin.
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Understanding the Kernel Trick(metaoptimize.com)
1 points by wskinner 14y ago|0 comments
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Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit(insecure.org)
3 points by wskinner 14y ago|0 comments
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Hacker Koans(catb.org)
1 points by wskinner 14y ago|0 comments
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The Last Question(filer.case.edu)
219 points by wskinner 14y ago|63 comments
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by wskinner 14y ago
This appears to be javascript. Lots of games use scripting languages for certain components. However, it is pretty surprising that they would implement a supposed "security" feature in such a way.
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by wskinner 14y ago
This is a bad idea. "Some people have food allergies" is nowhere near reason enough for the federal government to require such labeling, if it would even have the authority to do so. Something like this would just end up hurting operators o
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Non-Uniformity of Distribution of Birthdays(panix.com)
1 points by wskinner 14y ago|0 comments
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by wskinner 14y ago
This is all well and good, but what you say does not invalidate the use of statistics. That is to say, even if there are, as you claim, common factors between the events, they may still be randomly distributed in time.
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by wskinner 14y ago
I have also found node+jQuery an effective web crawling combination. In particular the cheerio library https://github.com/MatthewMueller/cheerio greatly simplifies data extraction. And as others have mentioned, the asynchronous nature of
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by wskinner 14y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, as from a purely economic standpoint that is exactly right. I think the point other people are trying to make is that given you have already subscribed to Prime, things you would already have purchased