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China’s central bank says all cryptocurrency-related activities are illegal(cnbc.com)
8 points by firebacon 5y ago|0 comments
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by firebacon 6y ago
Interesting to consider the total complexity of that approach though. An iterative fibonacci solution runs in linear time. Calculating the N'th fibonacci number requires O(N) serial operations. A fully parallel, recursive solution with
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by firebacon 6y ago
You don't need any specific instructions. The hex encoded double contains the final binary representation of the floating point number. So no conversion is required to load it, except maybe for swapping around bytes on some architectur
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by firebacon 6y ago
The average price of existing houses in the Netherlands increased by 55% since 2013. Source: https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2020/52/house-prices-almost-9-...
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by firebacon 6y ago
Does the chance of seeing a vaccine-defeating mutation increase after injecting parts of the population with a less-effective vaccine (compared to the baseline scenario of no vaccinations at all)? What mechanism is responsible for that? The
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by firebacon 6y ago
Unless I'm misinterpreting the tweet, she suggests that a partial vaccination campaign will somehow lead to a higher rate of mutations? As a non-biologist, it's not immediately obvious why that would be the case. What's the m
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by firebacon 6y ago
Maybe that was done to prove the point that the language, unlike most other programming languages, does not have any built-in English assumptions? Also I think the examples are actually quite comprehensible even to non french speakers.
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by firebacon 6y ago
There is https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4180 Most CSV files do not follow this standard of course. But you could normalize all CSV files to RFC4180 (or any other consistent format) as the first step of your processing
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by firebacon 6y ago
Well you're right, I misremembered. Also I just looked it up and I think it was actually a Panda and not a Punto (only owned it for a short time around 2009 and it was already close to worthless when I bought it). Still, I think it do
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by firebacon 6y ago
Some (maybe only slightly related or relevant) background: In Germany, there is a pretty serious problem with dangerous driving and street racing: In the last ten or so years, there has been long string of downtown races that have killed nu
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by firebacon 6y ago
This "tiny cube" weighs 500kg. For comparison, the first car I owned, a Fiat Punto, also had 500kg. In hindsight, I'm happy that I wasn't allowed to drive it at age 14 without a license; I'm pretty sure that I would
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by firebacon 6y ago
Unemployment in Germany didn't go up much because they reclassified the "unemployed" as "furloughed". The end result is the same though, recipients are living entirely off government assistance. 7.3 million germans
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by firebacon 6y ago
I also feel like the project recommendations on Github have become really... stale. At some point, the sidebar would display a new set of projects almost every time you hit refresh. Now, there hardly seems to be any rotation at all; I'
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by firebacon 6y ago
In Germany there are, as far as I know, also a number of ways to get an exception. The normal way to attend Uni if you did not get the right Abitur from your high school however is to simply repeat high school from age 18 to ~21. This is ca
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by firebacon 6y ago
The other difference of course is that in Germany, only a fairly small proportion of high school students is even allowed to go to Uni. People that were not placed into Gymnasium at age 8 are set on a course where, once they turn 18, do not
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by firebacon 7y ago
> Not that long ago someone decided that it is not a problem to ignore humiliated people who came back home from battle fields of I World War straight into poverty, however there was a certain Austrian painter, who managed to attract the
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by firebacon 7y ago
Maybe I should have added that I actually hold a german passport. I realize that posting a hitler quote here looks really weird, but before instantly writing it off as a case of Godwin's law, do your research and check out what the AFD
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by firebacon 7y ago
Things are starting to look pretty scary in Germany with the CDU coming out and defending their decision on this. The fascists have gained enough political control that the major conservative party is now starting to depend on their votes i
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by firebacon 7y ago
> operation will just panic at runtime if the array is too short Exactly, rust doesn't provide a good solution to this problem at all. Panics in rust are an escape hatch used to ensure the language stays "safe" in situatio
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Juttle – One query language to rule them all(juttle.github.io)
9 points by firebacon 7y ago|0 comments
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by firebacon 7y ago
Indications of a net change - not sure, but individual examples, yes. For example, some parts of Eastern Germany have seen a trend reversal in recent years. Also a number of previously poor ("cheap") regions in southern Europe are
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by firebacon 7y ago
True. Still, one alternative model to consider is one where the recent trend of opportunity concentrating in a few big cities could reverse. Either due to market forces (cheaper everything outside of the big cities), remote work becoming mo
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by firebacon 7y ago
In most places, except the obvious exceptions, the government can also create new land for construction.
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by firebacon 7y ago
1/420 :)
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by firebacon 7y ago
> Though this is contingent on arithmetic bugs in caller code elsewhere in the hypothetical program That was my point. The article claims to show how easy it is to introduce such a bug in the second snippet, but that isn't true. You
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by firebacon 7y ago
> This depends, obviously, on the code calling allocatebufs That was my point. The article claims to introduce a backdoor with the tiny change in the second example, i.e. "commit the change from the second example an you're in&
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by firebacon 7y ago
I don't think that what you are saying is correct. If you ask the method to allocate a negative number of bytes and the method returns a buffer which is greater than zero, that doesn't seem like a backdoor in the allocation method
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by firebacon 7y ago
But that is not what happens in the code shown in TFA. Passing a large value into the method shown in the article will do nothing nefarious (assuming sizeof(size_t) >= sizeof(int)). It will either return a large allocation, or, more like
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by firebacon 7y ago
> So a P < 0.05 means that there is less than a 5% chance that the null hypothesis is true. Conversely, this means that there is a 95% chance that what you’re testing is true. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-v
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by firebacon 7y ago
Check out these links [0] [1] or google for "p value distribution" or "p curve" [0] http://www-ist.massey.ac.nz/dstirlin/CAST/CAST/HtestPValue/t... [1] https://en.wikipedia

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