ectopod

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by ectopod 4y ago
He is plainly a vexatious litigant. Can you get him declared as one? It's a very high bar though and I've no idea what the process is.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Wachovia laundered more and received a much smaller fine. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico...
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by ectopod 4y ago
According to an article in The Times years ago (early 2000s?) the money was used notes from the Bank of England that was going to be burned anyway. With insurance, security, and a BoE employee to supervise it was expensive, but not a millio
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by ectopod 4y ago
A bus ticket is something "that confers value or benefit to its owners".
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by ectopod 4y ago
On your second point the History menu has a Restore Last Session option (or something like that) when you reopen the browser after inadvertently closing a bunch of tabs.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Scientifically speaking, the human death rate is a surprisingly low 93%. This is the obvious calculation: the number of people who died divided by the number who were born.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Sure, but you still don't know who or what actually wrote the text that got posted.
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by ectopod 4y ago
My understanding from the book was that CO2 is an essential part of the mechanism that transfers oxygen to your muscles. If you breathe too much you have too little CO2, your muscles can't get enough oxygen and they don't work eff
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by ectopod 4y ago
Many years ago I wrote a C compiler in assembly language. It wasn't hard, and C hasn't changed that much. The complexity in modern compilers is in the optimisation, which you don't need if you're bootstrapping. It&#x2
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by ectopod 4y ago
An example in the UK yesterday. Climate protesters glued themselves to a petrol tanker and were charged with tampering with a motor vehicle. The protesters argued that the bit with the petrol was a trailer, not a motor vehicle. The judge ag
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by ectopod 4y ago
You can bootstrap the compiler. It's a chore but not impossible. More usefully, you can check that your builds are identical to other people's, so at least your compiler isn't uniquely compromised.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Also botox.
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by ectopod 4y ago
The whole point of pronouns is to reduce cognitive overhead. If pronouns become something you have to remember for each person then you might as well drop them from the language and use names all the time.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Medical forms tend to ask for sex, not gender.
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by ectopod 4y ago
Yes. The identity verification seems like the point of this nonsense.
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by ectopod 4y ago
The design choices make a bit of a difference but most of the overhead is Defender. When you try to read thousands of files your computer spends most of its time running Defender. Turn it off and the problem goes away.
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by ectopod 4y ago
ddrescue works with blocks and bytes. Audio cds are different. They contain a single physical bit stream interpreted as several interleaved logical bit streams representing e.g. audio, position, metadata, error correction. They are not a se
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by ectopod 4y ago
An automatic driving ban for passing under (being generous) the second red cross on a lane would weed out the arseholes. Just enforcing the existing law would help. The cameras and anpr are in place so it should be cheap to implement. But w
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by ectopod 4y ago
I attended a prestigious university. You could pretty much do what you liked (including nothing) for the three years and the degree was awarded for 30 hours of exams in a single week. In the exam room you couldn't copy work or pay som
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by ectopod 4y ago
Gas stoves might be constantly leaking, but they only produce particulates when they are alight. Assuming you don't have an ancient appliance with a pilot light.
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by ectopod 4y ago
What's the holy trinity?
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by ectopod 4y ago
She didn't return. She deigned to attend the trial via video link from the US.
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by ectopod 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Unive...
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by ectopod 4y ago
What it is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Cestius
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by ectopod 4y ago
Or a menu developed with react that takes a full minute to load.
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by ectopod 4y ago
I mean that the researchers submit jobs to the data owners who run the jobs, possibly in the cloud, and return the results to the researchers. The researchers don't need direct access to the data. I, along with millions of others, have
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by ectopod 4y ago
Researchers don't need access to the data. They need to be able to run analyses on the data and get results. This can be achieved without handing over the data and in the UK the NHS actually built a system to do this. And then the corr
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by ectopod 4y ago
This is illegal under GDPR. After someone has signed up for a service you can't then demand additional personal information as a condition of continuing to supply the service.
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by ectopod 4y ago
In the UK second hand DVDs are very cheap on eBay. A classic film might cost $2.50. Action trash is buy one get one free for $2. Both prices include postage.
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by ectopod 4y ago
You don't have to read every story on HN. Maybe in future you could avoid any obviously unserious ones. The word "buttocks" in the title is a good hint of what to expect.

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