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25 @05:02PM
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Attached to: How To Make Any AMD Zen CPU Always Generate 4 As a Random Number
That's the problem with randomness. You can't never be sure
https://www.americanscientist....
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24 @11:27PM
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Attached to: Forty-Three Monkeys Escape From US Research Lab
Which movie is this? âoePlanet of the Apesâ or âoe28 Days Laterâ? I need to prepare myself
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024 @03:36PM
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Attached to: A California Boy Was Kidnapped from a Park in 1951. He's Just Been Found Alive
That is, "no"
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byDVega
2024 @01:04PM
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Attached to: Apple Must Pay $14 Billion Tax Bill To Ireland, EU Court Rules
Apple and Ireland appealed the decision in 2019
- Ireland: "We don't want to apply taxes"
- EU: "You are forced to charge taxes!"
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024 @01:51PM
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Attached to: Abolish the Penny?
Advice from a high inflation country. Stop producing them, and mandate that payments can be rounded down if nor the customer or the store have pennies
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DVega writes: ReiserFS lead developer and convicted murderer Hans Reiser a few months back wrote letters to be made public apologizing for his social mistakes and other commentary. In his written communications he also made a last request for ReiserFS in the Linux kernel
“Assuming that the decision is to remove [ReiserFS] V3 from the kernel, I have just one request: that for one last release the README be edited to add Mikhail Gilula, Konstantin Shvachko, and Anatoly Pinchuk to the credits, and to delete anything in there I might have said about why they were not credited. It is time to let go.”
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019 @11:40AM
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Attached to: 'OK' is Now a Hate Symbol, the ADL Says
In other news, 23 scuba divers were arrested for hate crimes
https://www.leisurepro.com/blo...
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18 @12:51PM
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Attached to: Apple Maps Has Surpassed Google Maps in Detail in 3.1 Percent of the US
Google Maps still ahead of Apple Maps in 96.9 Percent of the US
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Attached to: Google's Controversial Voice Assistant Could Talk Its Way Into Call Centers
Ask Piccard
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015 @04:05PM
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Attached to: A human will first walk on Mars ...
There have been at least eleven births in Antarctica, eight at an Argentine base (including the first one) and three at a Chilean base.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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byDVega
2014 @08:12PM
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Attached to: Apple Edits iPhone 6's Protruding Camera Out of Official Photos
If you get your lens closer enough of the phone to hide the camera you will get a fisheye view because now the lens is much closer to the center of the phone than the edges. You could correct this by post-processing the photo, but in the end you are still doing tricks in other to hide the camera
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byDVega
14 @06:53AM
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Attached to: Firefox 29: Redesign
Firefox changed "A" to "X", and instead of saying: "A" was better because all these reasons, you are saying: Where is my "A"? How can I restore "A" again?
These are not valid objections.
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Attached to: Blood of World's Oldest Woman Hints At Limits of Life
A few centuries ago, we could have concluded that there is an absolute limit to human life span because at some point someone can't eat anymore while he lost all his teeth.
Do you know about soup?
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byDVega
14 @02:16PM
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Attached to: MtGox Files For Bankruptcy Protection
One way to evaluate the value of any given currency is to look at its usefulness.
Paul Krugman, a critic of Bicoin, said:
Gold’s value comes in part because it has nonmonetary uses, such as filling teeth and making jewelry; paper currencies have value because they’re backed by the power of the state, which defines them as legal tender and accepts them as payment for taxes. Bitcoins, however, derive their value, if any, purely from self-fulfilling prophecy...
But what Mr. Krugman doesn't realize is that cryptocurrencies offer a unique advantage over other kind of payments. Instant, unblockable, long distant, anonymous money transfers. No other currency or payment method allows that.
Let's see some possible uses:
●You are a gay man in Uganda. You want to make a donation to an organization defending homosexual rights without disclosing your sexual preferences to the government.
●Some whistleblower revealed some corrupt/shade practices about your government. The government immediately blocks any financial money transfers to that site
●You want to buy any service or intangible asset (eg. porn, software, data) without the transaction recorded in your credit card and without revealing your identity
For the first time it is now possible to do these things. And these things are too valuable to disappear. Cryptocurrencies are here to stay.
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2014 @05:30PM
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Attached to: Why P-values Cannot Tell You If a Hypothesis Is Correct
There is a classic article by Jacob Cohen on this subject.
Also there is a simpler analysis of the above article
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