lurker458

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by lurker458 6y ago
the ICO is toothless by design
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by lurker458 6y ago
They did so because politicians told them to, with the threat of withholding funding, due to lobbying by Boeing. Boeing management is the root cause.
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by lurker458 6y ago
in addition there are several mods that increase the depth of the production tree and materials used
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by lurker458 6y ago
At the other side of the fence we have JS/TS experts writing inscrutable one-liners by chaining 15 lodash commands. Having tried both SQL and the approach of using a programming language + framework of the day, I prefer SQL for data ma
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by lurker458 6y ago
I've also been looking for that. In an ideal world there would be a small, fast, standalone cli tool that can convert csv to parquet. There is a (sadly, unfinished) parquet writer Rust library in the Arrow repository that looks promisi
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by lurker458 6y ago
bloodthinners to prevent clots.
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by lurker458 6y ago
It's likely that rituals were they way they structured complex activities. Put the food beneath the snow and sing a song, using prescribed steps, so the gods will preserve it. Bandage a wound, put a poultice on it and sing a song, so t
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by lurker458 7y ago
Here are some considerations why: https://danluu.com/file-consistency/
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by lurker458 7y ago
a fun way to learn the basics, is to start playing at screeps.com. It's not applicable to web design though.
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by lurker458 7y ago
they share with GSK even if you opted out, because GSK is part owner.
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by lurker458 7y ago
Yes, a grey zone exists. That's not a reason for inaction in other cases. Where to draw the line between murder, manslaughter and unfortunate accident ? Where to draw the line between fair use and piracy ? If anything, start with poli
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by lurker458 7y ago
the UK one has no teeth.
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by lurker458 7y ago
any advice on how to invest in ETFs while in Europe ? Vanguard is not available and local banks charge high management fees.
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by lurker458 7y ago
Or it was started to improve their bargaining position against ISPs, and was dropped in return for additional concessions.
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by lurker458 7y ago
One of the predictions was that we'd get stronger heat waves in West Europe. We broke several old records this year. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49100271
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by lurker458 7y ago
"These sales were not made pursuant to a Rule 10b5–1 trading plan" They didn't report in advance.
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by lurker458 7y ago
If (nearly) every implementation of a good idea turns out badly, is it still a good idea ? It smells like the No True Scotsman fallacy.
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by lurker458 7y ago
the legal mechanism does exist, it's called Jury Nullification
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by lurker458 7y ago
Even better would be the amount of seconds each person is surveilled during their time in public space. Summed as an absolute number, and as a ratio of the total time they spend in public space. A camera in a busy street or at a chokepoint
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by lurker458 7y ago
They came back fast by bribing OEMs to only sell Intel and were fined for it by the EU because it was an antitrust violation. It's unlikely they can repeat that.
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by lurker458 7y ago
To even it out across space already exists. Temperature differences generate a force that vastly outnumbers our own energy production capabilities (including nukes). It's called wind.
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by lurker458 7y ago
applying price differentiation on a product that you already sold to double dip is pretty scummy
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by lurker458 7y ago
local admin on windows is similar to having sudo rights on linux. It can be used to access personal files and running sessions of other users on the same machine, to install malware that will affect other users, to change drivers, to block
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by lurker458 7y ago
flying requires an order of magnitude more energy compared to driving. It won't be be a feasible method of mass transportation anytime soon.
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by lurker458 7y ago
slack in 2015: "We have no indication that the hackers were able to decrypt stored passwords, as Slack uses a one-way encryption technique called hashing." slack in 2019: "In 2015, (...) The attackers also inserted code that
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by lurker458 7y ago
The US public consultation on net neutrality was famously skewed by bots (posting identical messages, sometimes on behalf of dead people). On Reddit some topics attract bot like behavior as well (groups of users from a non-US ip block votin
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by lurker458 7y ago
Even worse. The policies he advocates are keeping other people out entirely. Even Adi Shamir (the S from RSA) had trouble getting a travel visa a while ago.
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by lurker458 7y ago
Facebook is not even a safe place for your cat pictures. Why would they do a better job when it comes to your money ?
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by lurker458 7y ago
Civilization has improved _so far_. The underlying reason for that is the cheap and abundant energy source (fossil fuels). The bill for that is due and it will materialize by those metrics going down again.
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by lurker458 7y ago
A Saharah like climate won't feed 7.5 billion people. If the population crashes to a few million stragglers living mostly at the poles then we'll regress back to the stone age.

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