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 Discussion on question by Luna: How t…

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JollyJoker
Oct 30, 2024 15:27
He might be assuming people get feedback at different times and is trying to get an advantage by being pushy and getting his own feedback before starting the second essay while others will have to make substantial rewrites
 

 Discussion on question by Von: Fixing…

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JollyJoker
Oct 22, 2024 09:27
This could just be trolling. Have you actually hired completely new people and tasked them with handling, and I quote, "inventing new solutions, helping multiple teams", which is what Alice no longer does?
 

 Discussion on answer by political_noo…

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JollyJoker
Jan 11, 2024 16:19
The Wikipedia page for Apartheid does discuss the use of the term in the context of Palestine en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…
 

 Discussion on answer by user6726: Is …

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JollyJoker
Jul 15, 2022 22:17
@Will The direction this is taking makes me wonder if there are existing rulings on modifying the software of cars
JollyJoker
Jul 15, 2022 22:17
@Synoli Good point, I actually missed that. Then it becomes a matter of switching on simple enough functionality that it can't be argued it's copyrightable. Assuming BMW licenses any copyright involved and tries to make the raw heating elements inaccessible.
JollyJoker
Jul 15, 2022 22:17
@Synoli They're not being copied though
JollyJoker
Jul 15, 2022 22:17
@Will I read it as the point being that the software isn't hacked while that's really irrelevant; you can hack the software to gain access to the on/off switch for the heater since the software isn't protecting copyright. If there was a device of some sort that protected the software from being copied you couldn't circumvent that. Maybe I'm nitpicking
 

 Discussion on question by cypher: A s…

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JollyJoker
Oct 21, 2021 08:33
@vsz First to mention inheritance that I've seen. I think people used to think in terms of families more than individuals back in the day. Nobility is an obvious example.
 

 Discussion on question by Theodore Ts…

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JollyJoker
Apr 10, 2020 17:17
@user253751 It's a company that would benefit if people believed this. They could even bribe people in IT departments to claim they believed this. Imagine having a deal with a big organization to buy all their 3-months-old computers for cheap.
 

 Discussion on question by Krishna: I'…

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JollyJoker
Jan 10, 2020 16:16
@gnat The accepted answer says to "take the high road" and lie
 

 Discussion on answer by gnasher729: N…

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JollyJoker
Dec 10, 2019 14:38
@RevetahwsaysReinstateMonica Isn't that an issue with the question rather than an answer?
 

 Discussion on answer by A J: How to p…

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JollyJoker
Nov 27, 2019 17:52
@JPhi1618 I thought they were from the same planet, but not a race as such. Wikipedia just confuses the issue. "Mandalorians are a race of people from the planet Mandalore" "the Mandalorian people are characterized in the expanded universe as a multi-species warrior people". Then again, perhaps I don't know English well enough and a multi-species race makes perfect sense.
 

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JollyJoker
Nov 25, 2019 15:00
@devouredelysium I'm pretty sure it would be false advertising in much of the world if unlimited has a limit, even if it's 51 weeks a year.
 

 Discussion on answer by Cadence: Woul…

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JollyJoker
Nov 1, 2019 01:31
Can you copy the functionality of a chip at a different scale and speed without having to change lots of stuff due to timing issues or somesuch?
 

 Discussion on question by jo1storm: T…

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JollyJoker
Oct 30, 2019 23:47
Maybe the Emperor sees it as the only way to create a galaxy-spanning empire and defeat the demons forever (or become a god, maybe).
 

 Discussion on answer by Matt Vincent:…

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JollyJoker
Oct 22, 2019 18:40
@Eternallord66 What would be the alternative to treating words that aren't game terms as normal English? I think it goes without saying.
 

 Discussion on question by Allure: How…

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JollyJoker
Oct 10, 2019 17:42
Do the people involved have daily or weekly status meetings? And what does "Alice is supposed to coordinate" mean if it's not clear she's supposed to keep track of who's doing what or waiting for something?
 

 Discussion on answer by Señor O: What…

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JollyJoker
Oct 1, 2019 23:19
Also agree with @Astariul . You don't push backwards when skating, you push sideways.
 

 Discussion on answer by user2768: Dat…

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JollyJoker
Jun 20, 2019 18:13
@KonradRudolph I assume someone applying for funding would need to take that into account, but it's not relevant for a CV
 

 Discussion on question by Erel Segal-…

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JollyJoker
May 14, 2019 17:41
@Buffy How about "recall that"?
 

 Discussion on answer by Benjamin Urqu…

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JollyJoker
Apr 11, 2019 22:37
BTW, completely run-length encoding the message gives >400 numbers, so I'm out of ideas for improvement.
JollyJoker
Apr 11, 2019 22:37
Oh damn, I didn't notice you updated your answer. If you want to include the run length encoding of 0000 for n->new java.math.BigInteger(str,36).toString(3).replaceAll("2","000‌​0"), I'll delete my answer as it's redundant. You can get the radix 36 string from here
JollyJoker
Apr 11, 2019 22:37
@KevinCruijssen Thanks, 379
JollyJoker
Apr 11, 2019 22:37
@KevinCruijssen Max radix for BigInteger is 36, but maybe some trick with expanding each char like ""+c/16+c%16 could work?
JollyJoker
Apr 11, 2019 22:37
370 Hope this is correct...
JollyJoker
Apr 11, 2019 22:37
@KevinCruijssen Can't you encode the original 1679 bits as a String instead of using these integers?
JollyJoker
Apr 11, 2019 22:37
Could you use a String with getBytes() and Integer.toBinaryString((b & 0xFF) + 0x100).substring(1)?
 

 Discussion on answer by DevSolar: Why…

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JollyJoker
Mar 15, 2019 12:41
The farmers' way out of this is to stop being dairy farmers. Finland has smaller numbers but similar scale differences. The amount of dairy farmers is sinking by 7% every year.
 

 Discussion on answer by Stilez: In th…

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JollyJoker
Mar 12, 2019 12:43
@JMac A comment by Yakk had a ratio of 800:1 (with a height of 1m) and I just rounded a bit. Edit: Nah, I mixed up energy and mass here
JollyJoker
Mar 12, 2019 12:43
Wikipedia says 2,850,000 cubic kilometres of ice total. Roughly needing 3 000 km^3 of water, which at 1 000 m^3 a second is 3x10^9 seconds or 100 years. Roughly a hundred of those diesel pumps for a year then. Very doable.
 

 Discussion on question by user6760: H…

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JollyJoker
Feb 23, 2019 07:37
@StephenG So a short ton is 93kg short of a ton. It seems like it should make sense, but I'm still a bit confused
 

 Discussion on question by Peter Walse…

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JollyJoker
Feb 9, 2019 11:39
I remember when Ultima Online replaced a list of "dirty words" with letter substitutions, like @ instead of 'a' and $ instead of 's' etc. You could suggest the dumbasses blocking "Andreas" change it to "@ndreas" instead ;)
 

 Discussion on answer by Emilio Pisant…

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JollyJoker
Oct 5, 2018 03:06
Maybe a stupid question but aren't lasers monochromatic? Does that just mean narrow range of frequencies but not too narrow to be dispersed?
 

 Discussion on question by David Hook:…

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JollyJoker
Jul 12, 2018 14:31
Everyone; people interviewing for a job where people dress in suit and tie would not show up in t-shirt and shorts unless they were completely unaware this is a suit-and-tie job. There's nothing wrong with the candidates or the dress code, it's the mismatch that's a problem here.
 

 Discussion on answer by forest: Is mo…

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JollyJoker
Jun 14, 2018 17:34
@statox The person who wrote this answer may not be the one who lost the password. Just the one he lost it to ;)
 

 Discussion on answer by Dale M: Can a…

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JollyJoker
May 2, 2018 14:39
@owjburnham Amusingly, the unwritten parts are probably the hardest to change.
 

 Discussion on answer by why: Why is U…

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JollyJoker
Apr 20, 2018 00:31
#3 is what I've always thought was the difference. The government doesn't pay for rails in the US but does pay for roads, making rails uncompetitive.
 

 Discussion on answer by James K: Can …

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JollyJoker
Mar 15, 2018 02:58
@MaskedMan "The contracting states shall not ... expel refugees (Article 32)" Wikipedia
 

 Discussion on answer by Rob Jeffries:…

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JollyJoker
Feb 26, 2018 16:09
Well, what is the probability under reasonable distribution assumptions x? I've obviously checked the "our particular universe" case already since I have the list of stars ready, but the answer would be off topic here ;)
JollyJoker
Feb 26, 2018 16:09
Followup question: Is it possible to place a plane so that no star is sliced? (Not actually asking; the thought just struck me and I realized that gets more complicated)
 

 Discussion on answer by Philipp: Has …

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JollyJoker
Nov 24, 2017 00:19
@gman What I thought. Comcast has customers paying for bandwidth. Comcat and Netflix have no business relationship whatsoever.
 

 Discussion on question by CoffeineCon…

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JollyJoker
Nov 21, 2017 02:27
Is the only source for her living 500m away what she herself said? What about her father's phone number; do you know it's really his?
 

 Discussion on question by Federico Bo…

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JollyJoker
Nov 5, 2017 20:23
Can you tell the customer you're worried about losing the people they need unless they can work remotely?
 

 Discussion on question by The Spartan…

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JollyJoker
Oct 10, 2017 22:35
This is completely normal behavior for programmers. Unless you can help, just leave them alone.
 

 Discussion on question by Gray9: If m…

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JollyJoker
Oct 1, 2017 21:20
How does the sun work?
 

 Discussion on answer by AlexP: Could …

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JollyJoker
Sep 25, 2017 01:33
@AlexP Eccentric billionaire idea: The Chinese bought Roman glassware and and the Romans Chinese silk. What if a Roman founds a colony, say on the southernmost Japanese island, to blow the glass closer to the customer, trades for silk to ship back to Rome and gets filthy rich? Distance from Japan to Alaska is half that of Egypt to Japan.
 

 Discussion on answer by Thunderforge:…

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JollyJoker
Sep 20, 2017 22:03
@indigochild Thanks for the Prisoner's Dilemma link. At first I thought it was completely inapplicable, but I'm starting to see the point.
 

 Discussion on question by Wolfgang-1:…

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JollyJoker
Sep 18, 2017 17:31
@Chieron My first thought was that it wouldn't take long for the edge to move at the speed of light.
 

 Discussion on answer by tim: Did Karl…

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JollyJoker
Sep 17, 2017 16:35
It struck me that the question in the title can be answered with "No. He wrote that Proudhon would say so."
JollyJoker
Sep 17, 2017 16:35
What's the word for what Marx is doing here? Not quoting, not paraphrasing but ...? Edit: Also, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Joseph_Proudhon