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No, I think the buyer and seller should agree on what the being currency traded is, and how it's valued. I bid 40 quatloos for the newcomer.

passwordreseton [dead]

No, really, it's what part of America again? The _North_, you say?

passwordreseton Regular Expression That Checks If A Number Is Prime

98. Checking for primality ain't one.

passwordreseton 4 a.m. Is the Most Productive Hour

Beautiful!

passwordreseton $500 Lenovo Phab2 Pro Is the First Google Tango Phone

They demonstrated several use cases, live: furniture size checking, education about dinosaurs, distance measurements, and entertainment. Really, did you not see that?

passwordreseton Doom as a tool for system administration (1999)

related, admin your server with minecraft: https://github.com/simplyianm/sysadmincraft

passwordreseton FBI Paid More Than $1M to Hack San Bernardino iPhone

What? The government pwning some terrorists iPhone will prevent terrorist attacks from happening again? How? I'm completely gobsmacked at the line of reasoning here.

passwordreseton Exploding offers are bullshit

Wow. Should one got an exploding offer, the correct behavior IMO is to tell the recruiter to eat sh!t, or possibly, tell the recruiter that his attitude sucks, and because of it, you'll be waiting until the day after the deadline to make your decision. Alternatively, there is nothing about the GP or GGGP's comments that make the described behavior wrong. That's incredibly naive. You use the word _cheating_? "Cheating at the game we're all playing" is what you said. What the hell are you talking about? The game is negotiation, and if you can't do that, maybe you need to leave. If negotiating employment is shitty to you, you're doing it wrong. Learn how to do it right, and maybe that will adjust your attitude in the right direction.

edit: ok, you don't need to be as rude as I am, but I'm a known asshole, so ymmv.

passwordreseton Badlock Bug

Be correct or go home.

passwordreseton The failure of Davos

I thought the failure of Davros was the result of Dr Who. Wow, was I wrong!

passwordreseton CA assembly member introduces encryption ban disguised as human trafficking bill

Where the hell is Anonymous in all this? Shouldn't they be out there doxxing and haxxoring and whatever it is that they do to these kinds of people? I'd figure if someone stands up and says "Encryption should be illegal", they probably don't encrypt jack shit themselves, and they're probably easy targets. They might even take the hint and say "shit, I should have encrypted my internetz" and change their stance. Eh, doubtful.

passwordreseton Google's Android Generates $31B Revenue, Oracle Says

"rumors are" == "not true"

passwordreseton New Style of Police Training Aims to Produce Guardians, Not Warriors

Surely? No. Possibly? Yes. Likely? Both.

passwordreseton 100 years of general relativity

Don't feed the trolls, they'll only come back for more.

passwordreseton TempleOS: x86_64 HolyC Compiler/Assembler/Unassembler [video]

What the hell, man? "His fault is a mental disorder". "Behavior that ... is out of his control." "..blaming the patient for being sick."

So you're already calling the guy a sick, mentally disabled, out of control victim? That's all your words -- that's what you think of him.

Why can't he be an asshole, too?

Get over yourself, man. srsly

passwordreseton When It's a Crime to Withdraw Money from Your Bank

No, he couldn't, because that would have been against the law.

passwordreseton Let Snowden Come Home

The press.

passwordreseton All United Flights Grounded Due to Mysterious Problem

The phrase makes literal sense. Radio is a physical connection. Computers can be built without the wireless transceivers in order to avoid that physical connection.

passwordreseton There exists a classical model of the photon after all

I would greatly appreciate a link to anywhere that explains how to demonstrate "spooky action at a distance" in my garage or at a makerspace. Provided the materials aren't too expensive, I'd love to do a lab experiment showing it, especially if it can be done with common parts.

passwordreseton Torrent site Kickass.so has domain banned

That sure sounds like bread and fish piracy to me. We better lock this guy up. You say his name is Jesus. Is he Mexican, or is that an alias?

(BTW, Jesus is dead, his father was some schmuck who knocked up some girl that we now call "Mary" for some reason, and there is no God.)

passwordreseton Swift compiler crashes

The "HN crowd" consists of more than one person and can therefore have more than one opinion. Surprise!

passwordreseton Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart (2014)

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/matchstick/matchstick-t...

Update 16. It went out on Friday.

passwordreseton The Likely Cause of Addiction

Didn't make it past the 1st sentence. Any article that begins with "It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned" is going to be so full of similar misinformation that I'm surprised the author hasn't embarrassed himself to death. From the comments, I see that I'm not wrong. Rat park, though, is a really interesting story.

passwordreseton Conway's Proof Of The Free Will Theorem

Um, no. The model suggests that particles would be entirely predictable unless acted upon by an outside force. It doesn't matter at all if "signal-sending things" are deterministic or not. This "free will" wouldn't exist in the physical world, it's metaphysics.

If the pool table were the universe, the course of the billiard balls is predetermined until the shooter shoots. No shooter, no change.

If the solar system were the universe, the planets would be deterministic until the aliens blow up Jupiter. Aliens don't exist? Then the planets would be entirely deterministic for the full course of their lifetime.

If the universe were the universe, all particles are completely deterministic, unless spooky ghosts make magic. Whether the spooky ghosts are real is a question of gullibility.