The results (and therefore the summary) are pretty full of errors. For example, they proved that distance traversed correlates with increased odds of winning, not that increasing traversal distance would increase a player's odds of winning as stated.
That the quality of Slashdot summaries indicates inebriation on the part of the editor and/or submitter.
Since this is the internet, I'll clarify that I'm joking.
Nope. Actually I just made a typo because I posted it at 1am while drinking.
This confirms something I've long suspected.
Or 3) He has no intention of going through with denuclearization, and this is just a stunt to get sanctions temporarily lifted.
NK has a long history of making promises to end their missile and nuclear weapons programs in exchange for some type of compensation, then reneging on those promises when it suits them.
Many version numbers in software are meaningful.
If anyone depends on your software, then using major/minor/patch version numbers to distinguish which changes are backwards incompatible, feature additions, and bug fixes is very helpful to those downstream. See https://semver.org/
I would also be impressed, but I seriously doubt that it's true.
Sure, it's anecdotal, but I don't personally know anyone who's done more than change their privacy settings.
It's really hard for me to believe they lost 1 in 10 users in the US.
My thoughts exactly.
Bad example maybe? Doesn't seem to have happened. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
XKCD: https://xkcd.com/505/
As long as our universe's time doesn't run 1:1 with the simulator's universe, our universe could be simulated on a TI-83 calculator.
I agree that freedom of speech should absolutely be protected, but politically-motivated coercion is not simply "speech".
If you agree that incitement to violence would be unprotected by the first amendment, then it follows that a public official threatening someone's job over a political statement could fall into a similar category of unprotected speech.
Trump's comments were potentially illegal given his status as a member of the executive branch of government, and that he was encouraging a private entity to fire an employee based on what might be interpreted as a political stance.
See: https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
IANAL, so I don't know how well such a lawsuit would actually fare, but it seems like a possibility.
Would mod up if I had points...
Just remember that the yahoos cheering Trump's comments don't speak for all conservatives. While around 3/4 republicans currently "approve" of Trump (a pretty low bar, but it's a disappointing figure nonetheless), there are quite a few conservatives like myself who are vocally opposed to Trump and his attacks on personal freedoms in this country. I hope he gets prosecuted for this.
I agree that more training for those who want to carry firearms would be good, but gun owners rightfully fear more gun legislation. The government has a history of badly implementing good intentions when it comes to gun law.
As the other poster said, it's not really easy to stop cars from running people over. Happens all the time (usually not intentionally).
Also, it's not hard to turn a pressure cooker into a bomb as you're claiming.
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...: "Pressure cooker bombs are relatively easy to construct".
High explosives (like TNT, C4) are not required and low explosives can be used (gasoline, gunpowder), which is part of the reason for how easy they are to make.
Yeah, I agree. Most of the discussions in this thread seems to forget that tests should cover any type errors potentially introduced by using a weakly typed language.
I would go further and say that if you're using a compiled, strongly-typed language instead of a comprehensive set of tests, you're doing it wrong.
Nice! +1
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