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I think others have addressed the differences between Python's class system and CLOS, both of which are very flexible, as I understand. However, as far as optimization, the point i…

If I remember correctly, you're running roughenough [1] for the roughtime server, right? What software are you running for NTS? [1] https://github.com/int08h/roughenough

The root of the disagreement seems to be that you read the article as condemnation and I read it as a news story. In any case, I stand by my reading that this a piece of news and a…

Why is this ironic? I'm struggling to find a reasonable interpretation for this claim other than "The NY Times has been wrong about issues of spying and propaganda before, therefor…

Compile macros wouldn't be sufficient for Rust's println! because the type signature (even the number of arguments) depends on the format string. The format string has to be consta…

I once looked into their financial statements and came to the conclusion that per article published, they had about $2500 in costs and $5000 in revenue, so 50% profit margins. If y…

This is mostly true, but you're confusing because there are two different levels: corporations are registered and regulated at the state level, of which LLC is one category. The IR…

You could disable your network connection before starting Firefox and then change the preference.

No, because Google, Microsoft, and Apple could have coordinated on implementing EME even without an official W3C stamp of approval. Or they could have implemented 3 separate APIs f…

Remember also that a well-known limitation of economic measurements of GDP, productivity, etc. is that it doesn't account for personal work when no money changes hands. For example…

Let me offer up another version of Dr. Coward's story: An employee is hired and does his job brilliantly in some aspects and along some metrics, but his employer has complaints in …

> the primary value is separating out metals (especially aluminum) and paper Especially cardboard. Cardboard is significantly more valuable than other types of paper. > Is it worth…

> Now women won't be taken seriously even with a degree from some fancy place. Why do you say this? The experiment was about hiring faculty not about student standards.

The argument against this is that a URL starting with https means something, at least to some users and your proposal would undermine that. When I want to go to my bank, I type cha…

I agree with you that incumbent commercial publishers are sucking up a lot of money that could be better spent elsewhere. Where I disagree is on the specific numbers. It's not abou…

To me, $1000 per article sounds insanely low. PLoS is a non-profit founded for the purpose of publishing open-access journals. They charge between $1350 and $2900, depending on the…

"Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things." - Poincaré

Sounds like OpenSSL is keeping FIPS in a refactored form and LibreSSL is getting rid of it.

The butterfly's migratory cycle is longer than its life cycle. The species needs milkweed throughout its migratory path in order to survive.

Managed languages are very susceptible to timing attacks.

There's a fork of Firefox ESR that supports OS X versions 10.4 and up: http://www.floodgap.com/software/tenfourfox/

Because the cost of upgrading the infrastructure to do chip and pin has always been more than the cost of fraud associated with magnetic stripes.

Exactly. So much of the article is about capabilities with little context for how broadly it is applied. Even the "millions" in the title is just about the server capacity for mana…

It's not dogmatism. Debian just a conservative interpretation of the law the conditions of the GPL. It's fair to point out that Debian's interpretation doesn't seem to be very wide…

But purchasing renewable energy also drives down its price, by allowing the industry to develop economies of scale and streamline its operations. This strategy is essentially the w…