Zakharov

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by Zakharov 9y ago
According to the paper, Meltdown can recover memory at about 500 kb/s
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by Zakharov 11y ago
Negative income taxes generally mean high marginal net tax rates for low-income earners. In your example, there's a 20% marginal tax rate for people earning less than 60K.
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by Zakharov 11y ago
I suspect that would only make things more difficult for the players as they game the AI to get it to do exactly what they want.
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by Zakharov 11y ago
Expected utility is great, expected money is silly.
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by Zakharov 11y ago
Dodgy pharmaceutical ads are some of the most profitable dodgy ads, so SEO spam sites are likely to have content related to marketing dodgy pharmaceuticals. Dodgy pharmaceutical sites are also more likely to be based in Russia, due to lax l
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by Zakharov 11y ago
There's Neonflames: http://29a.ch/sandbox/2011/neonflames/
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by Zakharov 11y ago
Dictionary.com says that "share" is from German, and "slave" is from Latin. No common origin.
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by Zakharov 11y ago
I think that in areas where bigotry is a serious problem, not being bigoted might be more likely to drive off customers than being bigoted.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
I think it's the heating element in a thermos; "fraguccino" uses the same technique.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
"Designed by Apple in California" struck me as really weird when I saw it on a bus stop here in Australia.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
If he serves the full 28 years, he's not likely to survive the sentence.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
Governments usually try to work around that, including the staple food exception you mentioned, but that makes the whole system a mess of exceptions and exceptions-to-exceptions.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
Well, I'd assume "Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director" is the secretary for the no. 2 at the MTC, which doesn't seem all that unreasonable. The "Program Assistant to the Director" is probably a project
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by Zakharov 13y ago
The article never stated that they would do so.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
Most of the computers in a defence facility are unclassified or restricted. The rules are different for secret/top secret.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
The distinction between the two groups is not that clear. I suspect many users don't care too much, but if they stumble upon a "don't track me" option, they'll select it.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
This particular law is hurting people far more than it's protecting them, but in general, laws are framed as trying to protect people because the purpose of laws in general is to protect people.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
They talk about the money made storing aluminium in the warehouse, who's paying that? It sounds like Goldman owns both the aluminium and the warehouses, so all they're doing is buying aluminium and refusing to sell it.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
What annoys me is keyboards that don't have a pause music button, but have a pause button that does precisely nothing.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
Sure there can be an end. It'll end when enough people get fed up with it to demand an end, and the President follows through. As the memory of 9/11 fades in relevance and the wars in the Middle East die down, the public's to
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by Zakharov 13y ago
I managed to do Circle Pack 7 in one fewer than the minimum: http://sciencevsmagic.net/geo/#0A1.1A0.0L1.1L5.5A1.5L8.0L4.5...
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by Zakharov 13y ago
Their employees.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
Just a spur of the moment thought, but can you encrypt the master password such that you need passwords from three of four (or any N of M) people to decrypt it?
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by Zakharov 13y ago
Are you sure that min. speed isn't just for multiplayer? I don't see why the call-home would know or care how fast your internet is.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
Eh, there could be good reason for that. Using a fake identity could arouse suspicion, even if it is advantageous once the rendition is discovered.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
From their perspective they're not "talking shop", they're just discussing current affairs. Their position as intel people is incidental to the matter, as they presumably don't work in that area.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
I'd guess it's standard process to avoid redaction errors.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
Meeting someone interesting isn't the worst case scenario. Meeting someone creepy is the worst-case (realistic) scenario, but in any case, thinking about the worst-case is kind of silly.
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by Zakharov 13y ago
If you write code too slowly, go faster. If you write code too quickly, go slower. You can tell if you're too slow when you've spent two weeks thinking about the program and have neither working code nor a detailed design, or if you've crea
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by Zakharov 13y ago
The default vim shipping with Ubuntu (12.04, not sure about newer versions) doesn't have Python support.

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