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by akjj 4y ago
I think others have addressed the differences between Python's class system and CLOS, both of which are very flexible, as I understand. However, as far as optimization, the point is that Python's class system is implicated in almo
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by akjj 7y ago
If I remember correctly, you're running roughenough [1] for the roughtime server, right? What software are you running for NTS? [1] https://github.com/int08h/roughenough
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by akjj 10y ago
The root of the disagreement seems to be that you read the article as condemnation and I read it as a news story. In any case, I stand by my reading that this a piece of news and any heavy moralizing is a gloss you've imposed. > so
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by akjj 10y ago
Why is this ironic? I'm struggling to find a reasonable interpretation for this claim other than "The NY Times has been wrong about issues of spying and propaganda before, therefore it's not worth my time to consider the clai
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by akjj 10y ago
Compile macros wouldn't be sufficient for Rust's println! because the type signature (even the number of arguments) depends on the format string. The format string has to be constant and has to be interpreted at compile time so th
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by akjj 10y ago
I once looked into their financial statements and came to the conclusion that per article published, they had about $2500 in costs and $5000 in revenue, so 50% profit margins. If you look at the price of comparable PLoS journals (i.e. not P
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by akjj 11y ago
This is mostly true, but you're confusing because there are two different levels: corporations are registered and regulated at the state level, of which LLC is one category. The IRS then categorizes registered corporations as either S-
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by akjj 11y ago
You could disable your network connection before starting Firefox and then change the preference.
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by akjj 11y ago
No, because Google, Microsoft, and Apple could have coordinated on implementing EME even without an official W3C stamp of approval. Or they could have implemented 3 separate APIs for DRM. Netflix and others would be mildly inconvenienced, b
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by akjj 11y ago
Remember also that a well-known limitation of economic measurements of GDP, productivity, etc. is that it doesn't account for personal work when no money changes hands. For example, a man who works full time and spends 100% of his sala
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by akjj 11y ago
Let me offer up another version of Dr. Coward's story: An employee is hired and does his job brilliantly in some aspects and along some metrics, but his employer has complaints in other areas, which are hard to read since we haven&#x27
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by akjj 11y ago
> the primary value is separating out metals (especially aluminum) and paper Especially cardboard. Cardboard is significantly more valuable than other types of paper. > Is it worth rinsing plastic to recycle it? I've wondered ab
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by akjj 11y ago
> Now women won't be taken seriously even with a degree from some fancy place. Why do you say this? The experiment was about hiring faculty not about student standards.
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by akjj 11y ago
The argument against this is that a URL starting with https means something, at least to some users and your proposal would undermine that. When I want to go to my bank, I type chase into the address bar and choose one of the suggestions th
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by akjj 12y ago
I agree with you that incumbent commercial publishers are sucking up a lot of money that could be better spent elsewhere. Where I disagree is on the specific numbers. It's not about the publishing platform or physical printing but the
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by akjj 12y ago
To me, $1000 per article sounds insanely low. PLoS is a non-profit founded for the purpose of publishing open-access journals. They charge between $1350 and $2900, depending on the journal, and only one journal is less than $2200. Another o
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by akjj 12y ago
"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things." - Poincaré
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by akjj 12y ago
Sounds like OpenSSL is keeping FIPS in a refactored form and LibreSSL is getting rid of it.
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by akjj 12y ago
The butterfly's migratory cycle is longer than its life cycle. The species needs milkweed throughout its migratory path in order to survive.
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by akjj 12y ago
Managed languages are very susceptible to timing attacks.
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by akjj 12y ago
There's a fork of Firefox ESR that supports OS X versions 10.4 and up: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/
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by akjj 13y ago
Because the cost of upgrading the infrastructure to do chip and pin has always been more than the cost of fraud associated with magnetic stripes.
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by akjj 13y ago
Exactly. So much of the article is about capabilities with little context for how broadly it is applied. Even the "millions" in the title is just about the server capacity for managing the infected computers, and later they admit
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by akjj 13y ago
It's not dogmatism. Debian just a conservative interpretation of the law the conditions of the GPL. It's fair to point out that Debian's interpretation doesn't seem to be very widely held outside the project, but believi
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by akjj 13y ago
But purchasing renewable energy also drives down its price, by allowing the industry to develop economies of scale and streamline its operations. This strategy is essentially the way most technology innovations work, by first selling to ear
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by akjj 13y ago
> It's a feel good. There's a third possibility: It's being done for reasons that have nothing to do with the US or the NSA, say to reduce latency in Europe or support the telecommunications industry in Brazil, and the Rou
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by akjj 13y ago
C++ and Objective-C both began as preprocessors for C.
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by akjj 13y ago
Protestors weren't taking over government buildings during G8 conferences.
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by akjj 13y ago
Umm, modern humans are perfectly capable of building pyramids or even much more complicated structures. You may have noticed that 21st century civil engineering is much more advanced than ancient Egyptian civil engineering. However, what we
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by akjj 13y ago
> If you choose at random an attack on the US outside of a combat zone within our lifetimes, you have a nontrivial probability that it was an admitted false flag operation. Really? What are the admitted false flag operations against the

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