forgotpwtomain

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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Well given that this party is funded by taxpayers, for the purported benefit of said taxpayers and their society; I do think its problematic that said party would hold such a view.
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> That database must be a wet dream for law enforcement. Because obviously people buying a few pills of ecstasy or a tab of LSD are a serious danger to society and should be taken of the streets. /s
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> For the latter, you are declaring your opinion as fact. Every language allows redundancy and variation of expression; if it truly provided no benefit, why have we not seen a popular language that only allowed a single expressive style?
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Curiously I find myself disagreeing quite a bit with Larry. > If a language is designed so that you can "learn as you go", then the expectation is that everyone is learning, and that's okay. It's okay if we never reac
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
>However, any possible password with a standard printable ASCII character set will typically be found in Rainbow tables up to 10 characters long making expensive cracking unnecessary. Umm what? Even assuming a limited set of ASCII i.e. B
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Interesting comment by Gorhill from the above discussion: >> I thought web extensions couldn't block that content. > I just ran a couple of tests, and I believe you are correct. > Legacy uBlock Origin can block the network
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Website administrators: Please do not disable everything except google bot in your robots.txt [0][1] - this is a terrible practice making our internet worse. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> I think AMP pages are 10x better than the ad-filled, slow as molasses, jump-around-as-JavaSript-loads, Firefox on mobile supports extensions, so you can use UBlock Origin / UMatrix. Also the built-in reader mode makes most sites a
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Hmm, I find the auto-associativity to be a bit weird for example: ≫ 1/12 c 1 / (12 × c) = 2.7797e-10 s/m
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
I remember last time I looked at their projects page it was very underwhelming. Doesn't seem like that has changed.
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> citation? http://www.businessinsider.com/pisa-worldwide-ranking-of-mat... > I didn't define useful either: > but if you can understand written instructions it doesn't matter what you happened to read t
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
As you say, they definitely aren't uncorrelated dimensions - otherwise we would have seen ~50 pilots within one stdev for all 10 dimensions. So this simplified metaphor really isn't telling us anything about how statistics apply t
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> It tends to be a negative correlation. This definitely needs a citation. It might not have significant correlation either way, but I cannot find a reference for the former (some cursory googling [0][1]). [0] https://www1.ude
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Somehow despite all the conversations around education in the US the education system still sucks. I went to one of the highest funded (amount spent per child) public schools in my state, and as far as I am aware it was far behind in terms
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> A qualified peer review would (hopefully :) have caught this and other latent issues if an HN commenter did. Would the qualified peer-review necessarily be reading the NodeJS code, or just checking the theoretical soundness of the pap
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
The entire concept of suicide being illegal is appalling to begin with. No one ever asks a human being whether they want to live life, and for any entity to presume jurisdiction over that is ridiculous. This is the legacy of centuries of re
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
At $9 per pound of tomatoes? I think the claim that it can, and do so affordably needs a reference to somewhere it actually does.
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
One of my primary uses for Skype has been phone-calls to family (international landlines) and it has at least been reliable in that regard. Most recently Hangouts no longer works on Firefox (due to Mozilla switching plugin API's), I ha
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
I've been using Skype since 2007 or so. While I haven't found a more convenient alternative, the application quality has always been extremely low. This includes failing to sync notifications / received between mobile and des
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Because you can't feed NY or SF with 'hippy-feel-good-low-tech'.
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
This is the kind of attitude that leads to low quality, scrappy code, akin to copy and pasting Stackoverflow; I don't believe that a developer should need a great memory but they should have a good understanding which examples do not
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Thanks for this spark of a comment in an otherwise perturbed discussion. I cannot reply to all the child comments but hopefully I can help elucidate the misconception you are indicating. > It's a rhetorical trick at best This is pre
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Why is this on HN? The top-voted comment here calls it fake, not a single comment adds anything substantial that wasn't written on SE. As far as I can tell it's just tabloidish voyeurism...
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> formal governance by the owners of the tokens. It is also proof of stake from the beginning. You mean the innovation that 50% can trivially rewrite history, or something else?
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Why do they need a specific target in-this case, it appears from the video like they can overlay the keyboard and simply grab all keyboard input? > that's something that should be straightforward for app stores to screen for. Also w
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> to understand why choosing random elements from a set is harder than it seems There is no sample from a set problem involved, just convert b256 -> b62, there is a correct way to do this.
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
Tl:dr Older form-culture losing significance for a newer generation, older generation grumbles about young impetuous whippersnappers.
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> Please go read the patent, it describes an "apparatus and method" that is much more advanced than traditional tiling window managers. I read/skimmed the patent, I cannot find anything described which is obviously novel.
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> Hardly morally equivalent. The Munich Agreement explicitly excluded the Soviet Union because the Western Allies hoped that Hitler would set his sights on the Communists and leave the West alone. By the time of the Molotov pact the USSR
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by forgotpwtomain 9y ago
> though it's irrelevant to my arguments and generally none of your business. I don't think it's irrelevant because certain foundations predispose one to certain lines of arguments. Particularly >> If adults with ki

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