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That page has the most blocks that I have seen uBlock Origin do - over 120.

"C also doesn't provide latency guarantees, as the same pathological programs can exist in C as well." But you have to code them. They are predictable, or you let them in by allowing d…

We have legal prostitution in my country (Aotearoa). We do have some problems with trafficked sex workers, but the police investigate them as crimes. The other prostitutes can cooperate with the poli…

"Nautilus uses cookies to manage your digital subscription and show you your reading progress. It's just not the same without them" Well, no thanks. No, it is not the same.

Another success for Clan McGillicuddy's defence strategy. To be clear, to all the non-fun foreigners, there is no New Zealand. Move right along, nothing to see here....

Have you a reference for that?

It is not that freedom and liberty are interchangeable. It is that free and costless are interchangeable. That is an ambiguity in English and not a big deal. We can borrow libre.

Like the way the Grateful Dead used a pair of microphones to cancel out feedback from the P.A. It worked for them and would work, so long as the person you are recording keeps their head very still. …

We had an alternative in Aotearoa for two generations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_housing It is possible to house every one. Even very sick drug addicts.…

"...the Dutch are housing Belgian and Norwegian prisoners to fill their prisons" Exporting prison space! Wow!

Clearly you cannot do math. It all depends on market timing, and if you get that wrong you will go broke as quick as your leverage. If you can get that right, well you would not be posting here, you…

Non-stationarity is enough to call bullshit. Really! How can a stationary bootstrap be used on data (financial returns) that are so prone to non-stationarity? Irreducibility is also enough to call i…

No. That completely misrepresents the problem. tl;dr A false technique can be described and it can be hard or impossible to detect the technique is flawed by using it For example the paper at http:&…

Omega is much more interesting. For informaticians...

The formula for alpha contains pi. Another pure number being the ratio of two lengths

People do use treated timber indoors, all the time.

"All information from in past prices is in current prices." All information from past prices is in current prices. Duh!

" weak form of the efficient market hypothesis which states that: future prices cannot be predicted by analyzing prices from the past ..." No. That is the consequence of the efficient mar…

Third world? This could be useful where I live in Aotearoa. We use septic tanks in my corner of the country and many of us are switching to composting toilets. We could really use this sort of thin…

Do you want to live in a building soaked in acetic anhydride?

"But that doesn't really work for blacks because they aren't a different culture, they are a subculture" There you have it. Deep racism.

You have energy subsidies up wazoo. From my memory banks, without doing any research I can think of three: (1) The prohibition on exporting oil, just recently lifted (2) Subsidies on corn for ethanol …

This time is different

Really this is silly. People who advocate nuclear power do not understand the difference between "risk" and "uncertainty". "Risk" is where the probabilities of occurrenc…

America is the country that sends the most on health for the worst outcomes America is the country that spends millions/billions/trillions invading desert countries and does not fund public …

That is right. More taxes please.

"Also, its important to note that even the machine owners wont make profits in a competitive market." That is economics 101. But if you had stayed for the later classes you would have had t…

I'll go with "lunatics"