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Can you share the name of some of these movies? I'd be interested in checking them out.

Such an approach might also provide a neater solution to the infinite time-slots problem mentioned in the article.

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Not true. The verifiability policy only really came into effect in 2006 ( https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2006-July/050... ) - five years after Wikipedia started.

I've run into this issue with jeans. They develop holes around the crotch six months after buying a new pair. A decade ago I'd buy jeans and they'd last years. Unfortunately my wai…

It's and old joke but: You can enclose a larger area by having the farmer take 4 pieces of fencing, constructing a square around himself, and defining him to be outside the fence.

https://youtu.be/Ame0j8jbMY4

My understanding is that the lines don't have the signalling infrastructure required to run trains that close together.

We considered doing something like this on a project once but we had concerns about performance. How much latency does your API proxy add in for responses with thousands of tokens?…

Mitchell & Webb did a sketch on this over ten years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E It's worth a listen.

Ha good point. Should have said hyperbolic growth.

Just an FYI. In Star Trek at least the warp system works like this: warp-1 is the speed of light and it then increases exponentially with warp-10 being infinite velocity. Source: h…

I was mainly thinking of this comment [0] and the story it was in response to. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8967902

I think that would be insider trading on Google's part.

This is actually very similar to a question I was asked when interviewing to read Maths at Oxford. In the Oxford version, your brother and you are also playing a game. You have a 2…

Funnily enough I was looking into this stuff recently as I was wondering what would prevent Niantic from showing adverts in Pokemon Go. Imagine playing outside a Starbucks and gett…

I am not the reason no one trusts you No one knows what you believe

There have been quite a few cases where malicious actors have been able to convince phone companies to forward sms messages to other numbers via social engineering to defeat this t…

This is basically the premise for Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez.

On the positive side you might end up with a Culture type situation where it's impossible to blackmail anyone due to it not being possible to verify the authenticity of any evidenc…

I've worked places where we will always deploy a feature request to an ephemeral environment. I find quite a lot of bugs are actually caught by this. But I've never deployed a feat…

That's true but it would seem like there would be other disadvantages to. For example, when do you do testing? If we test as soon as the pull request is opened, we know that master…

I'd be interested in hearing people's thoughts on deploying feature branches to production before merging them. I've generally followed more of a git-flow approach [1]. This seems …

The Hays Journal has a piece about this [1]. The article starts on page 34. [1] http://www.hays-journal.com/issue8/