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by yk 11y ago
Two things, first we do not 'pick on Germany.' We acknowledge that Germany had the most murderous government in all of history. And no, Britain did never set a explicit policy of extermination and it did not construct factories of
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by yk 11y ago
Depends on the details of the system, but in general it is highly unlikely. Usually already a binary star system does not really have nice orbits, since a too close encounter between a planet and a star basically acts like a fly-by-maneuver
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by yk 11y ago
Yes, but it is the reaction of the search desaster by a guy who moderates almost 200 subs. So I included it as a primary source to show the frustration of the mods.
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by yk 11y ago
As far as I understand, reddit did introduce a new search function yesterday, which pissed off mods of several subreddits. [1] Additionally they fired(?) an employee who acted as a interface between the r/IAmA mods and the people who d
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by yk 11y ago
This way around is perfectly obvious. But assume that you are writing a website that prints a man page, for example by piping the output of man $URLPARAMETER to the user. In that case it is only obvious to check if man can execute arbitrary
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by yk 11y ago
Yes, I stand corrected. Luckily I made that mistake twice, so the overall argument still works.
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by yk 11y ago
That is the question basically, is being human a necessary precondition to being a person? And assuming that it is, which humans are not persons ( otherwise human and person would just be synonymous).
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by yk 11y ago
Yes, it is amazing. However, it is quite annoying to have to switch on js just to view the site. ( Actually it would be kind of cool to get it as a deck of punch cards. )
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by yk 11y ago
So NASA can send a probe to Pluto, but can not show pictures and text without resorting to Java Script. I believe this conclusively proves that HTML is not rocket science.
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by yk 11y ago
Depends. If we take the example of a library, then there are some tests which should never break ( except if the major version increases). But it is entirely sensible to check if you broke something internally during development.
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by yk 11y ago
That is in no way certain. In the case where a AI is the result of a evolutionary algorithm for example, there is a distinct possibility that the AI has necessarily a taste for competition. Or if important parts of the AI are modeled on the
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by yk 11y ago
Actually "wrong speech" could always end careers, there are several examples of public figures in the fifties who had to step down for being insufficiently anti-communist. What is new, is that social media can propel a message fro
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by yk 11y ago
Indeed. Unfortunately the German economic policy debate is stuck in a past that never happened.
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by yk 11y ago
The important thing about the three sided chessboard is, that one or more parties may actually play capture the flag.
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Courtly Magic in the Middle Ages(medievalists.net)
5 points by yk 11y ago|0 comments
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by yk 11y ago
Blatter's strategy was usually too go against the UEFA, the European soccer confederation and the most powerful continental confederation. For example, he championed the South African World Cup bid for 2010. ( After the UEFA managed to
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by yk 11y ago
Not too interesting ( a is the derivative axis and x is x): https://i.imgur.com/mFEGQ3d.gif Basically it just interpolates between two lines, one with slope 1 and one with slope 0.
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Emmy Noether changed the course of physics(arstechnica.com)
120 points by yk 11y ago|31 comments
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by yk 11y ago
You have to look at center of mass energy, the energy actually available for reactions in a collision. The collisions of ultra-high-energy-cosmic-rays (UHECRs) with air occur at hundreds of TeV center of mass energy. And they may be nucleon
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by yk 12y ago
It should be possible to link to individual pages. ( So that one can show where the opening line of Neuromancer or the first paragraph of The Library of Babel is located.) But otherwise really cool.
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by yk 12y ago
Neat, free Audis... But seriously, which kind of person believes this is a good idea? It is obvious, that Amazon needs to track the vehicle until delivery ( with a system that may or may not be switched off, if not needed) and DHL needs a s
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by yk 12y ago
Well, people should not trust TLDs in the first place. So this is actually progress.
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by yk 12y ago
Well, right tool for the job. So 90% of the time math is used in physics to either calculate some quantity, like a scattering amplitude or the position of a planet, or to build models. In both cases you are right. But there is the entire ar
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Transistor Production Has Reached Astronomical Scales(spectrum.ieee.org)
3 points by yk 12y ago|0 comments
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by yk 12y ago
A conversation is probably the best measure of general intelligence we have, at least if you allow the judges to formulate arbitrary challenges: please solve exercise 3a from Caroll. Simply because you can encode almost all human experience
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by yk 12y ago
Firefox nigthly just refuses to connect. The reason is, that the site only accepts a RC4 cypher. $sslscan digitalsecurity.intel.com|grep -i acc Accepted TLSv1 128 bits RC4-SHA
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by yk 12y ago
Thank you, I always thought that one needs special hardware.
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by yk 12y ago
Is BadUSB possible with any USB stick? ( Or is this only a risk if a modified USB stick was installed in the first place?)
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by yk 12y ago
Cool, but why? ( And shoulden't we invent digital Baroque art before inventing digital postmodernism?)
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by yk 12y ago
Actually even that is not feasible: Assume that you split a m byte string into k byte decompressor and l byte input data. If k+l < m, that is you actually compress, then there are only 2^(k+l) possible output strings. And since sum

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