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Probably so. At some point I won some maths-heavy economy textbooks in an undergraduate probability theory competition. It was last updated a few years before 2008 (I would guess n…

Last time when nobody cared about a broken nest of security holes in the center of the Web, a small minority had organised a campaign to annoy people with complaints. I mean Mozill…

5% false discovery rate is true if the apriori probability of each result is 50%. If a journal wants to publish only surprising results, and accepts p=0.05 with a good methodology …

What does the calculation of advantage mean there? The advantage per one nice and one naughty roll (a pair of rolls) is multiplied by the total number of single rolls in a 4-player…

>MS Office is a de facto standard, and LO is not compatible with it Neither is a different installation of MS Office.

If the only trace a criminal activity leaves is on a single encrypted drive, is it important if it gets prosecuted or not? The police does parallel construction to avoid admitting …

Could you please mention the number of amendment that restricts the right to refuse self-incrimination in the same way as the 13th amendment restricted the right to own slaves?

Supporting or undermining it by unpaid distribution of its disgusting output material? If he was directly supporting it, he would be already convicted based on tracing the payments…

I think the effect described in the text has another side: imagine that at some point using XYZ was obviously a bad idea for multiple reasons for a specific person in specific circ…

In this specific context I'd guess startx/xinit

1. Losing uncommitted changes by making two mistakes in a row after non-intuitive behaviour by the VCS is not unheard of in Git. 2. Git is strictly worse than both Fossil and Monot…

Every legal protection creates a possibility of costly litigation, including a possibility of a litigation that is costly despite the claim being bogus. A design patent (and a regu…

There are non-US crawlers. Of course they have their own governments to direct censorship. But they censor differently, so you get a better chance. Surprisingly, Baidu does index t…

Another question is that determining what is sensitive information is a bit complicated… But there is an option of asking the user to edit URL to find anonymous enough form of the …

Well, given Micromax exists and has manufacturing (and HQ) in India, now Indian government can say that smartphones are not cutting-edge high-tech per se.

I would say that «a mathematical universe» would be more correct here, because they just cover some of the areas; for example searching for «Ramsey» will yield no results; «probabi…

* If I know the country and the timezone, I can automatically apply all the future timezone changes Wrong, Russia has combined some timezones into a single one and then has split i…

Asus Zenbook UX32LN (with a GNU/Linux system based on NixPkgs), RAM upgraded to 12GiB from 8 GiB just in case Pros: · works nicely with Linux whatever kernel build is used, · UEFI …

And the reason why you cannot check that the program performs no I/O is because you cannot check if the I/O instructions are behind an infinite loop or an impossible condition or n…

It will be large (after deploying the reflecting facets) and lightweight and in a low orbit. It will remove itself just fine faster than you manage to crowdfund a rocket.

A person who monitors transactions and immediately submits a competing transaction with ridiculously high transaction fee (50% of the payoff) may have a chance to induce miners to …

The article says «$50K in roubles» — the Russian-language site quotes 3.85 millions Russian roubles, and right now it is possible to exchange $50 000 in cash to 3850000 ₽ in cash.

Well, there are still terrains where Sherp would need to be carried by DT30 Everpresent http://www.military-today.com/trucks/dt30_vityaz.htm

Well, the space industry in Russia was never privatised in the first place. And I am afraid that moving parts of Khrunichev Institute out of Moscow (for example — it happens indepe…