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secant

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    Comment #36828037

    > Unfortunately this means that there's probably not much chance for a rich field of xenoarchaeology to exist since it's not even possible to do this on our own planet. I think you…

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    Comment #31685903

    I feel like these problems are all around and often present in games. There's one that particularly infuriates me in Hearthstone, a Blizzard developed TCG, where when a game ends i…

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    Comment #24242214

    Sounds like you'd be interested in https://ctftime.org/ if I understand you correctly. Contains list of current and upcoming CTFs going on as well as write-ups for them when finish…

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    Comment #23951265

    Ah yes, dance being the superior exercise, I have to admit my father engrained it into me as a child.

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    Comment #20477592

    It's a portmanteau of "malicious software", so I guess goodware is fine.

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    Comment #16285344

    It's too long ago for me to remember the site's name but the subscription to it came when you signed up for a free Hotmail account back in the late 90s. You would get an email each…

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    Comment #15554390

    What system could governments use to replace SAS if they were so minded?

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    Comment #13067489

    A slight aside, but is Docker on Unix running natively then?

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    Comment #11837215

    What strikes me most about these documents is the mundanity of life back then. Like an agreement to pay someone back is one of them (a basic IOU), the other is a telling off for so…

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    Comment #11369823

    Think of it this way. Is browsing to a random HTTP address via IP on the internet and then screencapping the picture produced on your browser legal? Then using a VNC client in the …

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    Comment #10916223

    Nice! Any chance of making this open-source? I'm trying to learn node-js and it looks like you've used a few node modules, so it would be handy to see how it's done.

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    Comment #9648817

    I'm a bit of a math novice, but is the term "decidable" analogous with satisfiability (SAT), or is this a completely different set of modelling?

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    Comment #9557943

    The video game that first came to mind was the opening segment of Metal Gear Solid 2. Something about the rain in that first part of the game was done perfectly. I've placed a vide…

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    Comment #9291157

    As the guy above said, I don't think it's particularly novel about Bitcoin, rather that the temptation of something that has a large amount of value will always make a few give in.…