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by x1798DE 11y ago
I don't know if you've ever read an MIT press release, but they overhype and misrepresent the science coming out of their institution like it's going out of style. It's endemic in nearly all universities, especially the
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Any person can buy bitcoin. You don't need an "account". It's not harder than setting up a proxy. Ransomware authors apparently have a pretty good set of tutorials.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
How similar is similar? Mars and Venus are "similar to Earth" in nearly every way that we could detect if they were exoplanets, but neither is capable of sustaining Earthlike life. I think it's far from a solved question how
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Why would the NSA "love it" when the average person uses PGP? It's like saying that the guy looking for a needle loves it when you throw hay on the floor because it's really easy to spot the hay.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I feel like it's a bit premature to say Anne Leckie has changed sci-fi. I liked Ancillary Sword, too, but there hasn't been enough time to change sci-fi in the last three years.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I'm wondering if this might because Australia has less traffic per node, so most of the Australian nodes aren't reaching the display threshold (top 500 or whatever nodes).
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I think most people in a position to spend $100k on a luxury car would not laugh off a breach of contract worth approximately $20k.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
If they are hard to guess, there's very little chance of collisions, so you'd expect the list of most common passwords and most guessable passwords to be the same anyway.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
That doesn't sound right in this context: > Where did we make that left turn into experienced, table flipping talent leaving the industry and the culture of brogramming scaring new talent away? That sounds like "table flipping&
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by x1798DE 11y ago
The same could be said for any form of cash. Probably you wouldn't keep large amounts of money in any form where you don't trust it to remain safely.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I'll curious - how do people manage to spend or otherwise liquidate these ill gotten Bitcoins? I've heard that mixing services are not particularly effective, so how are they not found by deanonynization efforts?
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I agree that it's not necessarily unconscionable to allow this, but I'm curious about appeals on grounds of legal malpractice - if the lawyer who crafted your "no appeals" deal was on violation of their fiduciary duty, c
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by x1798DE 11y ago
The parent comment said "off", which I took to mean that he measured his heartrate manually and compared to the device readout.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
You don't have to be paranoid about it, it's not like they sneak around when they do it. From my experience it's very common.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
My understanding is that the consensus is that Python 3 was the last time backwards incompatible changes would be made to the language. The author's point is that this makes Python 2 a special case, so you should make the default behav
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by x1798DE 11y ago
By the way, I tend to be quite good at these "whiteboard" style problems and I always make mistakes. Every single time. I get the impression that most interviewers would find it weird if you didn't, because they didn't
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by x1798DE 11y ago
FYI my understanding is that a sockpuppet has a connotation of an alternate account used to create a false sense of consensus. Generally people call anonymous accounts "throwaway".
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Both are oppressive, both are ostensibly done to protect the oppressed target (from rape and violence), both undercut the decisions of mature adults (women, parents). Seems like it's valid on at least a few dimensions. The major differ
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I'm not 100% sure, but I think cyanogen is different from cyanogenmod. One is the rooted power user rom, the other is some more standard style rom without root.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Why? What do you expect a 20 year old male to die from? I would guess it's mostly violent accidents of one sort or another, since something has to go pretty wrong for someone to die in their prime.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
That's basically nonsense advice without mentioning the baseline rates. If 90% of all sex offenses are committed by men, but the baseline rate of sexual predators is 10 per 100,000, your chance of running into a male sexual predator by
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I read the "only" as referring to the ratio of crime percentage to shot by cop. 96% of those killed are men, and men commit the same order of magnitude of the violent crime (even though they are 50% of the population). Following t
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I have zero information about the challenges involved, but a remote control vehicle is presumably subject to control channel jamming in a way an autonomous vehicle isn't.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
It would be almost impossible to enforce this. I've had several phones that try to force a shutter sound on me and I have always found a way to disable them.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
11s are practically free, though, in base 10. The algorithm "repeat the non 11 number twice" works up till 10 x 11, where the "add a 0" algorithm for 10 kicks in. So you're just really memorizing 11 x 11 = 121 and 1
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I think if you browse without JavaScript on, this information is not available to the sites you visit.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I don't think that's a good example. Packaging is deliberately designed to be hard to open as a theft deterrent mechanism.
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Almost none of my edits ever get reverted, including even fairly major changes, other than in contentious articles or when it comes down to an editorial decision. Generally I'm either making minor fixes (basically nothing you would d
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by x1798DE 11y ago
I always feel really bad for pedophiles, but one issue with comparing attitudes towards homosexuality and attitudes towards pedophilia is that the solution to the homosexuality issue was to stop trying to "cure" it and let homosex
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by x1798DE 11y ago
Leaving aside that finding Satoshi isn't a particularly laudable goal, isn't the original Bitcoin client open source? It's almost certainly easier to detect programming style from source code than from binaries.

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