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Would it work to do that by IP, and allow only X different IPs for an account to try to login on a single day? e.g. if you've tried to login with 10 different IPs on that day, you …

Yes and yes. Both didn't work, or didn't have enough effect to get me out of the no-motivation cycle. Ergo, SSRIs (which thankfully did work). Yes to the third question, too (as a …

I was going to respond to a few of the comments here, but then I realized I was going to say pretty much the same to all of them, so here goes: I've got clinical depression. What t…

Yup, that's part of the game. (Shameless advertising: go to DEF CON. Seriously. It's more fun than Disneyland!)

Hint: comments are for communicating stuff to people. Posting a braindump and pretty much saying 'just figure out what I meant for yourself' is both rude and annoying.

I do. You don't show up in a suit at DEF CON, you just don't.

Sigh. Feds have been an integral part since DEF CON 1. They're welcome, and booing them of the stage is just childish. Again, I'm pretty sure the majority of hackers don't agree wi…

"Edit: I should add that no chemical is good for everyone, not even caffeine." I don't think it's the caffeine that causes all these benefits. (Though, being an avid hacker myself,…

"China has done this to U.S. companies in China, repeatedly, over and over and over again." I'm curious. Can you can name a few examples?

Pah. You clearly don't have much experience with roguelikes. ;)

You could say that, but it would be wrong. A tangent is an equation of the form y = ax + b at point P , which just happens to have (well, by definition) a value for a that equals t…

And not even that is necessarily true. I'm a physicist, and I would be wary of trying to prove any commonly accepted theory wrong - even if all my data points that way. Contrary to…

"In the long run of history, do the conclusions of science get overturned more often than the conclusions of other fields?" This would not tell you anything about bias, though. It …

That would be an interesting natural oddity. For a perfect future, just get enough people together to predict all the different ways in which the world can end.

"which no one studies in school" In the Netherlands, German is compulsory in high school at the HAVO and VWO levels. Regrettably, I've pretty much forgotten all of it. That being s…

Yes.

" This is the core of the disappointment that many of us feel with the Sparrow acquisition. It’s not about the $15 or less we spent on the apps. It’s not about the team’s well-dese…

That was the reason (and the fact that an antiphoton IS its own photon, and, well, complicated stuff), don't worry. ;)

It's possible to write Python-scripts to use in Blender. Blender itself, however, is written in C.

Must-control-physicist-inside.

I'm inclined to say both, but I'm not sure, because working with hardware just so happens to be my area of expertise. On the other hand, my official job is that of a physicist, so …