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  1. This is a famous mathematician but he's also in his late 80s and in recent years has made claims to other big open conjectures that didn't hold up to muster.

  2. I've just never had a situation where systemd did anything bad to me. Granted I do development in a rather small hedge fund startup these days (only a few employees) and we just containerize everything - so I don't rely on the underlying OS to do very much for me. Perhaps its a bigger issue for large companies with long time scale infrastructure (I hate the connotation of "legacy" as it makes it seem like old code is bad code, but I digress) that can't leverage containerization.

     

  3. I think you put it in yourself so you know that it was counted without tampering. I believe the machine has a hopper of all the scanned ballots that can be used as a paper trail.

  4. In my polling place, you stick your ballot on the machine on the way out and you can see it tick up a mechanical counter on the top.

  5. In Connecticut, we feed our own ballot into the scanning machine on the way out..

  6. Optical Scan has a killer feature. And that is you can have as many people voting as you have tables. Theres no hardware to break down. If the scanner breaks, go find another one, delay of a few hours at most.

  7. Re:It's not the content, it's how you say it on Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You shouldn't. I certainly don't.

    You made it sound like the press is making a big deal out of it because of the affair. The story is that he got caught lying to the American People.

  8. Re:It's not the content, it's how you say it on Twitter Is Limiting the Visibility of Prominent Republicans In Search Results (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He said he didn't have an affair. He told us it was a made up story. Then we saw with our own eyes and ears evidence that in fact what he said didn't happen actually did. This is called a "lie" and some people prefer not to be lied to.

  9. Re: I smell a recession coming on. on Trump Officials Planning Escalation of US-China Tech Trade War (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The Democrats of the 1800s

  10. Re: No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Which, after transaction fees, would more than wipe out any expected profit from the short. That is like placing a bet that a horse will win, and another bet that it will lose. The only one making money is the bookie.

    What you are describing is actually a Long Straddle - as long as the price moves in one way or another more than the combined premium you pay to enter the position, you profit.

    Another option is a Bear Put Spread which bets on a declining price but caps the loss.

    People choosing to just "sell and hold" their short positions get exactly what they signed up for, unlimited upside potential and unlimited downside risk.

  11. Re: No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The spot price is almost always close to the last price for securities with a healthy daily volume.

    An investor who is afraid of a sharp spike in TSLA could by a call in sep for 28.57 at the current spot price so that if TSLA moved unfavorably their loss would be capped.

  12. Re: No they didn't Rei and Bruce on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Unless the market is in an extremely grumpy mood or theres some company-specific event causing serious pressure, its not going to move that fast. Last is an okay approximation for "market" especially if its between the spread which it often is..

  13. The market isnt binary on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of options, pun intended, for shorts to protect themselves. They can buy calls to protevt against a further upseing or close some of their position so they dont eat the whole enchilada if theyre wrong

    If they chose to hold to the botter end then they will reap what they have sown

  14. Re: Here's a plan... on Tesla Short-Sellers Lose $1 Billion (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Or they could just buy protective calls

  15. Re: I don't know how to feel about class actions on Supreme Court Upholds Workplace Arbitration Contracts Barring Class Actions (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    While I totally agree with you,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  16. Elon talked about a new fairing in future launches in the presser

  17. Re:Apple compatibility is a joke on Apple Prepares MacOS Users For Discontinuation of 32-Bit App Support (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I can still run Windows apps originally compiled in 1992 on Windows 10.

    Just sayin'.

    But you deal with the consequences in the limitations legacy support has put on windows development over the last 20 years.

  18. Re:Cue lots of nervous humour and outright denial. on UFO Existence 'Proven Beyond Reasonable Doubt', Says Former Head of Pentagon Alien Program (newsweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Or make paperclips.

  19. Re:Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    You're just being difficult now.

    You just need to have a box sitting somewhere doing the DNS request and getting the test cert for ya and copy it into test periodically. We use a docker container and a NFS mount to accomplish this in my environment but theres plenty of ways to make it happen..

  20. Re:Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    LetsEncrypt doesn't need to access your internal server - you can use the DNS version instead..

  21. Re:Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    That, and its really fucking easy and free to configure SSL everywhere these days. Stop whining.

  22. Re:Fuck off with this security bullshit. on Wondering Why Your Internal .dev Web App Has Stopped Working? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You don't own the .dev tld!

  23. Computer.. on Should Brokers Use 'Voice Prints' For Stock Transactions? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Computer, begin auto-destruct sequence, authorization Picard 4-7 Alpha Tango."
    "Computer, Commander Beverly Crusher. Confirm auto-destruct sequence, authorization Crusher 2-2 Beta Charlie."
    "Computer, Lieutenant Commander Worf. Confirm auto-destruct sequence, authorization Worf 3-7 Gamma Echo."

  24. " two lanes of 5Gb/s or two lanes of 10Gb/s operation "

  25. Re:People don't understand Microsoft. on You Can't Open the Microsoft Surface Laptop Without Literally Destroying It (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I most certainly did.