fywacro

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by fywacro 5y ago
FYI, tungsten carbide (tungsten + carbon) is a different substance from the pure metal tungsten... They have very different physical properties. But I do appreciate your story about tungsten carbide, too :-)
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by fywacro 13y ago
"For street cleaning, he first reached out to Teddy Roosevelt, who basically said, ‘What, are you nuts? Nobody should do that. That’s an impossible job. I’m not going to do that.’ So Roosevelt took over the police department, which was
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by fywacro 13y ago
The salt is different for EVERY secret. When you hash/store a new password, you randomly generate a salt for THAT password, and you store each salt & password together. Because each salt is ~unique, the attacker must rebuild a sepa
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by fywacro 13y ago
I believe it should be noted that federal law requires an FFL for anybody engaged in a "primary business" of selling guns. There's no bright line, here. People who regularly sell guns (at gun shows, or otherwise) but don&#x27
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by fywacro 13y ago
I'm not so sure that most US firearm purchases are recorded. In many US states, direct private gun sales are perfectly legal. For instance, a Pennsylvania resident can directly sell (most) guns to another PA resident. They don't
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by fywacro 13y ago
Philosophically, I believe you're correct. But in practice, it's all too easy for a government official to harass political opponents for partisan ends, while steadfastly claiming to be objective and neutral. Barring an outright admission o
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by fywacro 13y ago
You appear to be missing the exact point, here. In a free society, it's specifically NOT reasonable for government to investigate anybody based solely on their political advocacy. Government powers should not be used to pursue or dissuade a
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by fywacro 13y ago
Your point seems reasonable & logical. But in my experience, it's also incorrect: Plenty of gun collecting is predominantly around modern, mass-produced, non-scarce guns. I believe it's because scarcity is not a significant driver of
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by fywacro 13y ago
These benchmarks DO represent meaningful results. Some benchmarks are designed to measure absolute performance, in order to answer questions like "How many servers should we buy, if we expect to handle X hits/second?" or "What's the limit
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by fywacro 14y ago
Um... What about Australia? Canada? Barbados? At least a dozen former British colonies established their independence gradually and peacefully, with the willing cooperation of the UK. No fighting, animosity, or anything that could be remote
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by fywacro 14y ago
Depends on what you mean by realtime. In most cases (stats-wise, anyway) analyzing a non-stored infinite-length data stream is a very different challenge from analyzing a stored, finite-length data set. Streaming algorithms do exist for man