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That would be a good point if the non-metric system we are discussing was based in binary. It's mostly (but not entirely) based around base-12 and uses 1/3 very commonly as a fraction (as well as 1/6). 1/3 and 1/6 does not have an exact floating point representation.

Hacker news was written in Arc, which, AFAIK, explicitly has no object-oriented features.

What about the ones that are on fridges?

Well, obviously, the result with p=0.052 is the will of the people and should be implemented to its most extreme.

> hexadecaplexes (pardon if my Latin fails me here)

decahexaplexes, I think.

Well, you can always sit on your phone wrong in the train (or do something physical 'wrong') and wreck 'something' (most likely the screen - coincidental evidence i've seen more phones with broken screen than ones with broken headphone jacks), headphone or not. Why aren't you advocating for the removal of screens from phones?

Talking about Turkey here; Long hair? Not sure, I remember one from early 2000s. Curly? Depends on what you count, an afro? Probably never. Naturally curly male hair shaped into something as close to 'anchor hair'? Pretty much every day.

Yes there' a 'justice' exemption/loophole in GDPR but I don't think "we're still saving the IP addresses anyway in case a court requests it" argument would fly.

IP adresses being protected as personal data has an interesting side effect. You can't be compliant under both EU GDPR and Turkish internet security laws (probably shared by a lot of oppressive and semi-oppressive regimes). That law states you have to keep the poster IP address of every post on the site and turn them over on court order.

Obviously, as with every law in Turkey, the enforcement is very subjective (for example, Twitter does not respond to most requests and nothing goes wrong for them. But say, if you're a non-Twitter scale website, you deny a couple requests or probably only one and you're getting blocked), and you might be able to get away with the "we don't store them/store them anonymized because GDPR" defence once.

Yes there' a 'justice' loophole in GDPR but I don't think "we're still saving the IP addresses anyway in case a court requests it" argument would fly. In the end, to be perfectly legal in both jurisdictions, you'll probably need to differentiate based on IP address ranges or something.

> code executed on your server. Epic's servers are used for login, where people send you data, and for game logic, where people also just send you data like "player x moved his avatar here, player y shoots etc".

Have you ever heard of the term 'buffer overflow'?

I think it was possible, but I'm not sure how usable that is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsJIrzRVTrw

I think it was done by the telco, not on a national level. Turkcell did it (not that Turk Telekom wouldn't - they just didn't think of doing ito\) and Vodafone, being a huge multinational, can avoid licking government ass so they didn't have one (Similar situation on TV; the only major network that occasionally supports the opposition is Fox - yes, in Turkey, fucking Fox is left-wing - kinda)

I remember a classmate of mine doing the exact same 'hack' and distributed it to the whole school (Well, it was posted on school's major Facebook group with 10k-ish members) but it didn't have the SMS bit (It notified you via E-Mail, AFAIK).

That seems to be an abuse of the security check feature by Facebook's part. 6 mile radius for a fire in a ridiculously large city? As mentioned in other comments, that feature can be very useful in cases of natural disasters or large terror attacks that prompted the creation of this feature. (Although, to be frank, living in Istanbul, it had become somewhat annoying to mark myself safe every couple of weeks or so - though this is more directed towards the Turkish government than Facebook)

The search isn't really perfect. I tried drawing a (pretty good, IMO) Hiragana "no" and that result was in the third place (First was, a latin small m. の looks nothing like an m). Then tried Greek small sigma (σ) but not perfectly (I draw ny sigmas in a weird way, looks like this: http://imgur.com/a/XYVHO), the top result I got (Malayalam fraction one quarter: ൳) kind of looks like the thing I drew, but the rest of the results are not really resembling it and there's no sigma there.

Has Amazon ever delivered less than what was advertised when you paid for it?

I mean, I never experienced anything like that but geniunely curious if it is a thing (Might be possible in AWS lambda etc.)

The site is up but the search isn't working. Nor is loading new videos.

In a perfect free market where literally nobody (not just super large corporations, anyone with any advantage, be it scale, efficiency, whatever) abuses their advantage, this would definitely not be a big deal. In fact, it would be detrimental to overall economic efficiency.

Unfortunately, the world we live in is not a perfect one and thus, there is a need for such regulations.

Well, the US seems both more advanced and more ass-backwards compared to here in Turkey. Our way of getting data is very archaic, with people checking the results locally etc. (Internet might or might not be internally involved in that). But the trust in the elections are very low, and so the coverage of the elections has been a BIG issue since 2014 or so, many news networks have a few sources in parallel, and had the numbers for each reporting outlet and their biases on screen at the same time (different outlets converge in the end, but the intermediate numbers they report can be VERY divergent)

In addition to all those, there is Oy ve Otesi, a non-profit does the entire thing with only volunteer work. Their coverage is pretty minimal in rural areas, though.

pi pops up in equations without using any numeric symbols. It might not necessarily be 3.14159... but the concept is still there

Some scammers can be honest. You might say "Transfer X amount of money to me. If you don't, you can never get your data back". Saying and acting on that doesn't make you dishonest, it makes you an asshole.

It's obviously more oriented towards testing and stuff (as something compatible with memcached, but lighter) more than actual production use. Security holes are a bit less urgent in that case.

Say, if you buy a laptop from Switzerland and don't unbox it in Switzerland, getting caught might be an issue. If you buy one in Switzerland, unpack it there (maybe log into it for the first time etc.) and then there is virtually no risk of getting caught. I mean, if you didn't declare that and customs find it, is the customs office go through all your credit card purchases or something(assuming that you didn't use cash)?

A language can grow in popularity while still remaining a niche language. Haskell is a very good example of that, but I really can't say the same thing about Clojure.

There are a lot of examples here, here's one more;

In Turkey, there has been a sort of central family-record keeping thingy for ages. It's centrally held, you don't need to go to your hometown to get one, but you had to go to a government office in your district of residence(you still need to, if you want an official hard-copy) (some records are, like place of residence, are kept locally though(. There was a project to computerize all of the process, mernis, it started in the early 90s and finished sometime around 2007. Since then, for most official businesses, you don't need the official document, just your ID card will do (or for emergencies, just the ID number printed on your ID card).

The real odd thing about this system is, for non-usual stuff, you actually need to go to court and sue the government agency for the change. Filing for a divorce? You need to sue NVI for that. Changing your official name? Sue them. Sex change? Not sure about that, but probably yes.

Disadvantage to that is having all the state records kept centrally, and knowing how Turkey works, probably under very lax security. In fact, the entire database(at least a copy of it made for the 2009 elections) got leaked earlier this year.

If "running every 10 minutes" model makes you a BRT, then that makes practically all (somewhat-)working high-frequency buses BRTs. I can give around 50 examples from Istanbul alone

french rouge and english red correspond to mostly the same shades of red, though. if you did a detailed study, you might find a slight difference but that's it.

US citizenship is a requirement if you are going to do something related to the US government. I've worked for them in a position not related to the US government(not a US citizen myself) and the number of technical people who also happened to be US citizens were quite low.

In general, Swedes are pretty self-depreciating people. But, down there, people might be just ashamed of being from Skåne :)

Something away from the scandal itself, non-American here and I don't get plea deals. I mean, normally, a trial can result in acquittal even if the defendant admits their guilt if there's very strong objective evidence(DNA records etc.) disproving it. There has existed previous cases where some new evidence surfaced years after a plea deal and the defendant, previously found guilty, was released. So, why does a plea deal result in no trial at all? Shouldn't there be an, even very hastened, trial even if the defendant pleads guilty? That seems to be result if we only consider the American Justice System and Logic.