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by SolarNet 6y ago
> they're not a monopoly As is well known with anti-trust lawsuits that depends on how one defines market. As is less known, anti-trust lawsuits don't actually require monopolies.
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by SolarNet 6y ago
> Or more simply, why not make it a member method to begin with? You may not be the author/maintainer of that class. > Why not just make your Extension an other class that would be inherited? Because now I have a down casting iss
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by SolarNet 6y ago
How? Gravity will make all such changes impossible to measure except at galactic scales. Again any "new space" doesn't stick around where it was created. The atomic forces, chemical forces, and gravity maintain the system dis
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by SolarNet 6y ago
> (the conspiracy theories around that alone have been absurd, despite all its excellent health programs for the developing world) I mean, super science mega charity is going to have worse conspiracy theories. It's going to be the G
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by SolarNet 6y ago
> You'll have to find a way to make them agree with it. If you forcibly take money from people then you're just an angry mob. Not really. They use the "mob"'s roads and banks to make their business work and store
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by SolarNet 6y ago
This is addressed: > To run a computer cooler than that would require a heat pump, which means adding additional energy to the system than what is needed for our computation.
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by SolarNet 6y ago
Because this expansion is so infinitesimal on that scale as to be negligible. It's about 7%/Gyr, or a billion years for an unbound structure's "space" to grow by 7%. Or about 70 picometers (10^-12) per meter every y
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by SolarNet 6y ago
Antitrust is kind of a nebulous smell test (I'll know shit when I smell it kinda thing), and from before the internet era, so I don't think the distinction exists. It's more about how consumers end up interacting with the mar
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by SolarNet 6y ago
Yea, requiring consulting fees from big companies is definitely the way to go. Some open source guy wants to pick your brain: Sure lets get lunch and split it. Some small single digit founder start-up wants to talk abut your work: Ok sure,
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by SolarNet 6y ago
I feel like this is a misapplication of that philosophy. Though my first exposure to (serious) exception handling was through the common lisp signal/restart system. So I view software has layers and the communication of errors up and d
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by SolarNet 7y ago
> I think you're reading it wrong. It doesn't grant immunity for perjury committed while testifying under immunity, which is a completely reasonable exception. Without it, a guilty criminal would have no incentive not to give f
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Read 18 U.S.C. § 6002 it does not grant blanket immunity. If I testify truthfully and reveal perjury in the past I can be tried for that perjury now. Again, this violates the 5th amendment.
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by SolarNet 7y ago
> However, I would argue that such a super-Turing machine is logically impossible. I mean we are discussing it so it's certainly logically possible. > In principle continuous values cannot be physically manifested with certainty
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Secret politically motivated court systems. Using a method which has been called incompatible with basic human rights (by the EU), has been labeled as torture (by the UN), and compared to the governmental processes of countries like North
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by SolarNet 7y ago
But that assertion is based on a set of assumptions that come back to information theory and hence computability. You are right that in modern information theory exact precision on a continuum is physically impossible (for others: as we con
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by SolarNet 7y ago
> $529bn would just not work. If the fine structure's purpose is to prevent companies from doing extremely illegal things. Then it seems to work just fine. Facebook would be unable to repeat this mistake. It's not like there ar
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by SolarNet 7y ago
I think the parent comment was more likely referring to using these devices for personal privacy. For example can a criminal steal my personal information in my phone vs. can the government spy on me. Where the government might spend a mill
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Except that the reference in question would have caused a lifetime error in rust which would have required the developrs to explictly acknowledge the choice they were making, likely by changing a bunch of types. Yes you could still do it in
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by SolarNet 7y ago
I think you missed the point. The valley used to be (still is actually) a windswept burning desert half the year. Which is part of what makes its 60's self comparable to Detroit.
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by SolarNet 7y ago
> I actually just mean DARPA NASA is the obvious next example. They pay for a lot of esoteric stuff that once made they don't actually end up needing - but having paid the startup costs - end up contributing to other fields. I think
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by SolarNet 7y ago
> The Valley is now the new East Coast people, the new Madison Avenue. Doing a hard startup in the Valley now is like trying to start Intel in 1960 New York. Hard startups are hard enough, without trying to do that. I think places like D
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by SolarNet 7y ago
It's pretty easy, you use an OffsetArray. Because Julia is composable the shape of the array and the values in it are orthogonal while reaming performant (as discussed by the article). As demonstrated by OffsetArray how one access an
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by SolarNet 7y ago
It's pretty obvious when one gets stonewalled for political reasons when attempting to contribute to a project. He doesn't need to provide specific examples or explanations, doing so just makes the issue worse. Often these issues
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by SolarNet 7y ago
> All the additional Common Core techniques seem to require some kind of visual representation, Yes, because humans are not very logical or abstract thinkers. We are used to visualizing things. It's a lot easier to help students bui
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Looking at it they don't even load crypt32.dll so unless one has a modified version of firefox, or an external plugin, it seems unlikely they have the vulnerability.
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by SolarNet 7y ago
> First of all, could someone enlighten the non-US readers about what common core is? A new set of standards for education that are meant to cut across state lines (e.g. California and Texas previously set education standards merely thro
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like firefox (and maybe chrome) would never have this vulnerability as they use their own cryptography libraries for everything.
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by SolarNet 7y ago
The game specifically does not have this problem. It is in the rules that the word is allowed to be spelled out. And in point of fact, using puns or sound alike words is forbidden.
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Sure, but the facebook app doesn't do that (or at least no security researchers have noticed it doing that). The point facebook is making is that if they had a backdoor that let them read the messages that it could be used for other pu
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by SolarNet 7y ago
Sure, but a lot of gaming hardware supports this, and it's a hardware issue. If one is customizing their editor to the point of using arbitrary modifier keys, they will probably be willing to buy a custom keyboard. Also while on the su

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