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bmh_ca
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Comment #17061000
I had a few moments to work on tko (knockout 4) this morning and I just have to say how happy I am with the ko methodology. Not to knock (pardon the put) any of the more recent for…
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Comment #16947734
Thanks for posting. The claim is not especially bold or novel, unless I misunderstand. Math can be seen as a source of absolute truth. It’s long been noted that this butts up again…
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Comment #16920503
> It is backed by the obligation to pay your taxes in that currency. If it's a reserve currency, as the U.S. is, it is also backed by the demand of other states to hold U.S. dollar…
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Comment #16803561
> If I visit g00gle.com and sign-in using the Web Authentication API, my browser is going to use my credentials for g00gle.com, not for google.com; unlike me, it _can't_ be fooled …
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Comment #16773819
On #3 and #4 I had what I believed to be some reasonable conceptions to formulate parameters for a discussion, here: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/71522 Basically I sugg…
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Comment #16736896
> It started 24 years ago with the Clinton administration granting China "most favored nation" status.[0] A controversial move at the time, and one that broke a one of Clinton's ca…
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Comment #16196265
Is that not the Nissan Leaf?
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Comment #16057825
I'm one of the knockout core developers. Just a heads up, knockout 3.5 just went into beta, and 4.0 is in alpha. I spoke the other day with another core developer, Ryan Niemeyer, a…
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Comment #16036497
This is a great read. The principles are also applicable to other problems such as evaluating a constant time comparison function, symmetrical cypher, or hash.
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Comment #15943161
The devils advocate is literally a Catholic position occupied by a person arguing against conferring sainthood. The interesting bit is that historically the strength of sainthood h…
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Comment #15941076
Teaching became more open to women as men were killed in war.
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Comment #15894765
The rich, who benefit from tax breaks, spend copiously on issues that influence the poorest’ votes. Abortion, religion, military, immigration, homophobia. Emotional issues that inf…
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Comment #15778599
Make them judges. Almost all judges become less conservative and more liberal over time on the bench.
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Comment #15752586
SIGINT resources are under-allocated for domestic defence of civilian assets.
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Comment #15713373
FWIW, my personal anecdote: I chose Google App Engine for a large enterprise application almost a decade ago and it's been absolutely, undeniably one of the best choices we made. T…
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Comment #15686565
A positive result would require Toyota to advertise on Facebook, yes? This may not be the case. A better question may be car-related ads.
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Comment #15524007
Nailed it.
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Comment #15518103
Justice is an outcome. Law is a process.
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Comment #15458087
I love how you've capitalized "Human", as if to say there were some other race competing to complete the Hyperloop. :)
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Comment #15416923
> Do you really think the tools you use like your web browser, mail client etc, have less vulnerabilities on OpenBSD than on any other BSD or linux distribution, please... Yes. Ope…
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Comment #15413022
Note Google Spanner.
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Comment #15357252
For further reading on this, look to articles about how the Phillips Curve (the theoretical link between inflation and underemployment) is broken (if it ever worked). e.g. http://w…
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Comment #15332517
There is definitely a value for this. A useful integration for some would be using the hardware security/key modules in Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc.
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Comment #15330329
Not exactly on point, but I found this to be an excellent read & comfort: https://macdaddy.io/apfs-backup-software-developers-perspect...
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Comment #15302862
Aside: In your opinion what are good issue trackers and code review tools?