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throwphoton

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    Argh is this real or not? Would energy radiated away as a result of inductance be analogous to energy radiated away by gravitational waves in the "water pressure analogy"?

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    You would also need to avoid any and every other way of revealing your location.

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    Interesting. Not casting a void pointer return value seems like a bit of a shibboleth for the "C is not a subset of C++" community.

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    > So those 1 in 6 know exactly how it will impact them because it already has. It could impact them differently if they contract it again.

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    > too much faith in dependency oriented programming Which is why it's a distraction to even consider this particular person's track record. Even if this same person pulled one crit…

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    > I'll be in the pub by the end of the year. Does this mean that you think the risk of serious morbidity or mortality is overestimated, or because you think at some point the reduc…

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    Wow... > Google Buzz publicly disclosed (on the user's Google profile) a list of the names of Gmail contacts that the user has most frequently emailed or chatted with. Google Buzz …

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    Any diagram like this should include an estimate of usage, and how much that usage will cost, for every "block of architecture" displayed. Absent that, it's impossible to tell whet…

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    What can you do with a void pointer without casting it, apart from comparing it to NULL?

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    You're missing the point by focusing on the job search information specifically. Any information provided without a clear understanding that it would be made public should not now …

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    Comment #23276551

    To keep it properly ventilated you'd have to have a fan blasting air directly down onto your head.

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    And once you did that, your content was on the "World Wide Web", not just some "Gopher server". The WWW name made the venue sound more intriguing.

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    That would only really matter if the poster were really close to the threshold. Moreover the gaming of the system would be unlikely to work forever, requiring too much coordination…

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    You'd lose any privileges associated with a high number of karma points, also all of your previous content would be removed, so people could cover the same territory in possibly ne…

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    Comment #23259164

    Same way term limits make sense. Hit the ceiling, then you're done. Make room for someone else. Avoid stagnation.

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    Someone should start a competing service then. My recommendation would be to have a "maximum karma" limit, at which point the account (mod or not) and all of its activity are delet…

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    It's becoming really difficult to figure out whether an X-core i5 is better or worse (even for a specific purpose) than a Y-core i7 or any other combination of [model, clock_speed,…

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    > It does not, however, sound like an attacker can establish arbitrary TCP connections Maybe not, but what if the ports you have open actually are HTTP servers for development purp…