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by yarg 4y ago
"I am your wife," I told him repeatedly, "not your employee." "If you were my employee," he said just as often, "I would fire you."
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by yarg 4y ago
There's a surprising/wild girl I know, the security guard at the library explained the smashed window with one word - her name.
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by yarg 4y ago
Also: > ballsy: Attributes personality traits to anatomy. The balls literally produce testosterone, which literally increases risk taking behaviour. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
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by yarg 4y ago
This is good, the madness has begun to eat itself.
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by yarg 4y ago
There's no pushback because it's career suicide.
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by yarg 4y ago
Died by suicide? Suicide is a self-inflicted act; committed suicide is correct - and I say this as a man living on the edge. To diminish that is to refuse to accept the underlying cause, which is a bad fucking way to stop it from happening
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by yarg 4y ago
Every single advertising company is exploiting every single side channel that they can. This should not surprise you.
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by yarg 4y ago
Fantasy books are guilty as hell on this front. I somewhat enjoyed The Wheel of Time, but the number of times the books had Nynaeve pulling her hair, or wearing a prettier dress than those made from stout two rivers wool - which she continu
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by yarg 4y ago
Skein always seemed interesting to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skein_(hash_function) But I've had a soft spot for Schneier since this (pre-Snowden) blog post on Dual_EC_DRBG: https://www.schneier.
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by yarg 4y ago
Anecdotally, some human kids don't like being tested and will deliberately fuck with a researcher. (I don't remember this, my mother was hidden behind a one way mirror.) I had some pretty severe co-ordination issues as a child, no
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by yarg 4y ago
Sure, but it's a visible problem; refusal to publish concerns me (in a large part) because its impossible to even estimate how large the problem is.
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by yarg 4y ago
Replication is a huge issue, but I've been wondering lately about refusal to publish. Even if all of the published papers were peer reviewed and replicated, there's a lot of science that never sees the light of day. Even non-resul
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by yarg 4y ago
Images unconstrained by vendor support. Incredible.
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by yarg 4y ago
Sony had a camera with thermal, stopped selling it because it saw through people's clothes. https://fossbytes.com/sony-accidentally-launched-camcorders-...
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by yarg 4y ago
I know this is meta, so off-topic, but I keep using the upvote as a "too long to read right now" button. Is there a better way to do this?
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by yarg 4y ago
End to end? Isn't that only required if the guy on the otherside needs to decrypt?
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by yarg 4y ago
Think Marilyn Monroe/Betty Boop.
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by yarg 4y ago
Lick your wounds, stop being so greedy, and learn not to fall for scams?
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by yarg 4y ago
Actual title: NASA Gives ICON $57 Million to Build a 3D Printer for Structures on the Moon So ICON won a bid, and is building NASA's spaceprinter.
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by yarg 4y ago
> imagine if A is "the earth is flat" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_by_contradiction
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by yarg 4y ago
Don't worry, there's no technically sound way that it can be done. There'll be bluster, but it won't lead anywhere.
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by yarg 4y ago
We get the odd fucking munter that destroys some shit for no reason. Like beating up the America's Cup, or chopping down the tree on One-Tree Hill (which we still haven't renamed).
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by yarg 4y ago
Proving the existence of noise does not prove the non-existence of a signal.
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by yarg 4y ago
Out of context, a q and a 9 might be hard to distinguish; but all you need (in context) to tell them apart is where they appear vertically in the line that they're on.
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by yarg 4y ago
With a license that prohibits OEMs from distributing forked versions.
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by yarg 4y ago
Decent handwriting recognition would help here - not as a full substitute, but as a lightweight alternative. Though I cannot imagine it working within the confines of the keyboard HID API. With non-defective keyboards (and non-spazzy hands)
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by yarg 4y ago
NZ's giving it a bit of a go. We're pushing legislation that moves the country away from democracy, and hate crimes laws that prohibit mocking religion.
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by yarg 4y ago
It's progressing, almost there, not yet ready.
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by yarg 4y ago
I'm not sure, but my recollection of the article in question is quite specific - that when there was a delay between exposures across strains, the hemorrhagic fever did not result. This article (The Autoimmune Mechanism in Dengue Hemor
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by yarg 4y ago
No, it's an argument against partial mosquito eradication - which is an intermediate step for complete eradication.

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