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by wtbob 10y ago
With an inflatable currency, a government could always just inflate its currency in order to fairly tax everyone who holds any of it. It's also possible to build an anonymous, auditable cryptocurrency such that a government can verify
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by wtbob 10y ago
> How are you supposed to know that it is actually a UI controlled by google and not a simulation of a UI controlled by google? I have a certificate signed by Symantec guaranteeing that it's authentic!
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> For UK of course it's even worse, they're actively known for the bad taste and cuisine. Only by people who've no idea what they're talking about. British food got a bad reputation due to, I think, three factors: fi
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Where in the world do they care for British cuisine? Ever eaten pot roast? That's British food. Ever eaten a roast potato? That's British food. Ever eaten cheese, mushrooms, roast beef or rabbit? Those are all British fo
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by wtbob 10y ago
True enough — but it explains where British food got its bad reputation from. As it happens, real British food is delicious: savoury, flavourful and just generally wonderful.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> They don't have that kind of pastry in their cuisine at all and he can't get enough of them. Well, Italians have pastry in their cuisine — but they boil it and call it pasta grin
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Perhaps most surprising of all: discount big-box stores such as Costco, Trader Joe’s, BJ’s Wholesale Club and Walmart are as stringent with their standards as Whole Foods. That's not really all that surprising: they are large ente
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Understandable, but wasn't this always going to be inevitable given people treating BTC as an investment for USD instead of as a crypto currency? Fundamentally inevitable, no — there's no inherent reason for countries to care
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> For in case YOU didn't put the CA on your phone. How can anyone but me install a CA on my phone? And with this change, even I can't install a new CA on my phone such that applications will use it. That's no good at
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by wtbob 10y ago
This is just terrible news. Android's treatment of user-added certificates is already terribly broken (why does it warn me that my network connexions may be monitored when I install my own certificate, when Android already trusts e.g.
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> So police killing a higher proportion of unarmed blacks vs unarmed whites is okay because, um, reasons. The evidence which appears to indicate that blacks are more likely to be dangerous is a pretty reasonable reason for law enforcemen
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True; as digi_owl indicates, you could only ask for the next element in the path, too. Also, you are implicitly trusting each level in the tree to be honest, anyway: even if you say, 'hey com, give me example,' he could always giv
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Eli Zaretskii becomes emacs co-maintainer(comments.gmane.org)
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It doesn't actually matter: in a world which used that sort of addressing, one could imagine saying to com 'give me HTTP info for your example/foo/bar/baz,' to com/example 'give me HTTP info for your
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by wtbob 10y ago
> IIRC, blacks are 13% of the population yet 30% of the police killings. Yes, and blacks are 13% of the population but 38% of the murderers (to use your & the OP's numbers). The point is that in two random encounters with two r
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by wtbob 10y ago
> You start from the common but misguided assumption that "unknowns" are an absolute evil, whereas they are just another risk factor to weigh. > > ban SSD from critical systems. > That's an over-reaction if I&#x27
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But correct usage is never to use the definite article with a ship: it's always just 'HMS Indefatigable,' never 'the HMS Indefatigable.'
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Technically, all aircraft carriers are aircraft-capable cruisers — that's what the C in CV stands for (not 'carrier'; the V stands for fixed-wing aircraft). An aircraft cruiser is, as idlewords notes, a nice term of art. W
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> Is it normal to refer to a ship with a male name as "she"? Yes, in English ships are always referred to as 'she,' and also never with the definite article. I.e., one doesn't write 'the USS George H.W. Bus
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The former has 46 words/348 characters; the latter 20 words/176 characters. That's more than twice the tokens, twice the disk space, twice the cognitive load.
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I agree that GNOME and Unity have jumped the shark — I think that I started to notice when GNOME got rid of xscreensaver and replaced it with a screen-blanker, with an unfulfilled promise of adding screensavers back someday, c.f. https:&#x
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Now after months of using Ubuntu (unity, xfce) and Mint (Cinnamon) I'm convinced that OsX is best for average (and power) desktop user by a huge margin. I recently set up Ubuntu and Mint computers for some folks, and can report th
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Unlike backwards religious fundamentalists, the cute little devil hasn't harmed a single person. Even if one doesn't believe in the Devil, surely it seems in poor taste to use as a mascot a mythological creature who is repute
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by wtbob 10y ago
Good points, but surely all that knowledge could be encoded once into some CSS attributes, rather then rewritten every time for every JavaScript framework on every site?
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> Whenever someone makes a menu with CSS instead of javascript i go crazy as a user. The lack of delay is such a frustration. You like sluggishness? Whenever I see a menu with CSS, I'm delighted: it means I needn't enable JavaS
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> Mozilla (including Firefox) had XUL, but nobody cared. Have you seen XUL? Here's an example, from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tu... <?xml version=&q
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by wtbob 10y ago
> What do you exactly mean with "remote-execution-by-default"? As far as I know, all browsers have strict "same-origin" policies by default. Even with the same-origin policy, the default behaviour of a web browser is
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by wtbob 10y ago
True enough, and it applies to functions as well as macros. A function named getThingList which also sets the user's password and send a rude email to the Premier of Elbonia is just as bad as an unhygienic macro!
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by wtbob 10y ago
Very good point — that's why good abstractions are such a win. With functions, I don't need to think about all the code needed to read the body of an HTTP request; I just read it. That's also why I think that macros are so v
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> Why would Bill Gates say that? Surely he knew their e-mails were going plain text through a host of providers, network operators and mail relays, or weren't they? He had to rewrite his 1995 book The Road Ahead to cover the Interne

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