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by Robin_Message 7y ago
You can tamper with data protected by checksums: they are not designed to be irreversible, just fast to calculate and good at detecting errors, not deliberate manipulations. Use proper cryptography and don't roll your own!
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
The problem with this kind of consequentialist ethics is that thinking the end justifies the means generally makes you very vulnerable to manipulation by others who tell you what the ends will be and then ask you to do the means. Remember,
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
That's interesting, it's effectively doing a radix sort but in a more scalable way.
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
SEEKING WORK | Cambridge/London UK or Remote I'm a software engineer with 16 years of programming experience. I've helped startups get started and big companies keep going. If you have web projects, then there's a good c
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by Robin_Message 7y ago
Not a rustacean, but the builder pattern lets you do things like validation and munging which just providing defaults does not do.
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
You're being downvited because, whilst this is a clever sounding idea, unfortunately it doesn't work like that. The noise is random, so you can't modulate it because you can't predict what it will be. A probability distr
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
You might like this clock: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Clock Although personally I think the gold is a bit much and doesn't tone well with the blue LEDs. I'd like to see your clock.
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
I understand he made a possibly illegal tweet to show off to his girlfriend, about and whilst on drugs, to the detriment of his company and his interests in it. That doesn't exactly smack of "sacrifice anything" - although yo
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
The difficulty is, you don't know the 100 thousand number is lower than the 10-5 million number in advance. An estimate can be made, but humans have a not unreasonable status quo bias in case like that. Come to think of it, status quo
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
Obviously not and I did wonder about phrasing in a more gender neutral way. However, looking at some data: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/risk/estimates/riskbehaviors.html - women are at twice the risk of men in het
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
Yes, as long as your partner is doing it correctly too. Many tragic cases involve women being infected by their cheating, promiscuous husbands.
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
19 upvotes, 1 hour, no answers... How often do you look at some code and think "an idiot wrote this", and then realise you're looking at your own code? Maybe all code is technical debt? That is, maybe every piece of code you
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
Good question. I believe that whilst there are a few drugs that have different rules for different sports, in general it is easier to just have the same rules for all sports. It's possibly this doesn't make sense with regard to &q
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
There are drugs that are banned in some sports but not others, e.g. beta-blockers. Source: built the UK drug database and peeing in a cup scheduling system around 2004.
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
Oh I see, fair enough, that makes a lot more sense! Good on you for taking an ethical stance and good luck actually cancelling.
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
Out of interest, do you feel so strongly that money laundering should be prevented that you are unwilling to do business with a company that might be not doing enough to prevent it? If not, what is it that Revolut has done according to this
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
Just thinking, I bet you could have a top level component (in React say) implement a state chart. Then the spec is the code, which is always nice. You might want parameterised states though (i.e. list into detail view) I wonder if that&#x27
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YouTube backtracks after Pokemon 'child abuse' ban(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by Robin_Message 8y ago|0 comments
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
You could use two hashes like that and stick with http. I reckon browsers would cope, and you could strip the second one.
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
Bill by the day and the problem goes away. Source: I do it; every post on setting contractor rates.
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
And the report I heard said they were happier and had better mental health, which has got to be worth something on its own. Also, only giving basic income to unemployed people doesn't give good data on what a society-wide basic income
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
That seems entirely legitimate and in no way harms the consumer, which is what the app store is always claiming to prevent. You bought it, you get to chose what code runs on it, and DRM shouldn't be used to prevent that.
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
Meta: I'm fascinated you've gotten as far as launching without anyone at YC mentioning a company doing something so similar three years ago. Seems like a failure on YC's part; maybe they thought there was nothing to learn fro
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
The UK typically uses the same system of fixed rates for (usually) 2-10 years. Story time: several years ago I took out a 10 year fixed rate of 2.99%. My thinking was that since the base rate couldn't really go down any further, I was
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
That's very clever but feels like breaking the game slightly. In the game Bridge, which involves communication between competing pairs of players, you can communicate a suit and a number, but it is meant to have some kind of meaning wi
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
(long time since I saw the movie) From what I'm reading here, the audience and characters don't know and aren't expected to know that. The name is hard for them because it is foreign to them. To turn the name into a joke that
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
Kudos on successful trial btw. If a bank account is a problem, then maybe do it through personal banking until you have the funds to make it not a problem. But do check how hard opening a business account would be; I was pleasantly surprise
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
Fiction or non-fiction? Fiction: Neal Stephenson, especially Anathem. Most things by Frank Herbert. Wool. The Sparrow by Maria Doria-Russell. Non-fiction: hmmm. Maybe Influence by Cialdini?
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by Robin_Message 8y ago
I'd suggest incorporating if you are serious and it's easy to do in your jurisdiction. I haven't used it, but Stripe Atlas is an option that is meant to make this easy. Another option is to draw up some kind of contract with
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3 points by Robin_Message 8y ago|0 comments

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