3pt14159

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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Almost a decade ago I independently invented the same idea. Discussion was here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2727750 It's a pretty simple theory, which I ultimately reject even to this day. If it were true, ho
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Yeah, that is a valid point that I've thought about as well. Though there is also the argument that pilots would be told less critical information if the people commanding them didn't expect them to commit suicide before capture.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Believe me, I know what it is to suffer. But even though I lean against suicide strongly since I've lived the whole "if you're going through hell keep going" thing, and the relief when the (years long) suffering is over
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Removing "hide" is the wrong call. People, especially in work environments, need to be able to hide links for all sorts of reasons. For example, if you work at Apple and there is an inflammatory article or if you've recently
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I know for a fact that The Canadian Revenue Agency has this type of system in place and it isn't reactive to a complaint. It's proactive. If you try to pull up, say, Wayne Gretzky's tax information the system is able to detec
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I agree that the law isn't designed to fight evil, but many laws are designed to fight evil. It's a subtle distinction, but one worth pointing out. Surveillance is part of sense-making for law enforcement and even though I don&#
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
> This software is free for personal use, and for commercial use by companies with an annual revenue less than $1B. I've been advocating for something similar: > This software is free for any entity that does not contain material
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Eh, I'm not sure I agree. I was contracted by The Government of Canada to help them with a recommendation engine that was built to help people. The problem? Some criminals had reverse engineered the algorithm and were using it for real
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Exactly. Also this: > Avoid skipping heading levels: always start from <h1>, next use <h2>, and so on. Isn't quite correct. For longer documents it is sometimes appropriate to skip a level if it is warranted. For example
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
So many ways to lose with cryptography. Cryptanalysis is a very alive field with very quiet buyers. So many websites use insecure cyphers for their TLS so many industrial systems have out of date cyphers or, worse, hand rolled "crypto&
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Closish, but not quite how I see it. Having information does not imply having knowledge of it. For example, an engineer may not know which material can withstand a given environment (temperature, corrosion, pressure, etc) but they may be ab
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
It kills the fewest number of people pre joule and the negative externalities are centralized, i.e., the people that made the mess need to pay to keep it stored safely. I fail to see how an underground bunker of radiation is dirtier than pe
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Sometimes Apple is aware of vulnerabilities before they are patched, and it only takes getting caught once for the app, company, and individual developer to be banned from the App Store. Also, I think you may overestimate most attackers. Mo
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Absolutely, but I still prefer the interfaces that come out of doing proper TDD. I minimize the use of mocks and try to pull in as much of the infrastructure as possible. I'm pragmatic though. I'll use fakeredis in tests instead o
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Well I do TDD around 85% of the time and I'm doing pretty well financially as a dev. Sometimes it isn't possible to do TDD, like when I'm iterating on a data science algorithm or exploring data and relationships before settli
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Yes, like I said, it's not perfect. There will still be deepfakes, but they won't be around every single nook and cranny. And once you ever invalidate a video, all other works by the same key are now suspect. Imagine two court cas
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Well, at first he was worried that he'd be known as a sucker and wouldn't be able to raise money for another company. "I sold XYZ for $100m, now fund my new thing ABC." Sounds a lot better than the raw truth. Since then,
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I'm surprised that there isn't a way to do PGO when compiling from scratch. A way of telling the compiler exactly what parts are, but build it into the codebase so that one could get the best of both worlds.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
What's needed is more cryptography. Build keys into sensors to sign media and use something like blockchain to broadcast the signature at time of capture / time when the device returns to the internet. Won't be perfect, but i
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Fraud is extremely common and the best way to avoid it is to get personal recommendations for anything important, like business contacts, lawyers, or accountants. Over a decade ago, a friend of mine was under the legal age when he sold his
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
(Disclosure, my mom works for AT&T.) For better, or for worse, content is the new strategy at AT&T. The physical layer of the internet is a margins game and it's getting harder and harder for large organizations to compete. I&#
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I bought it at the roughly same price, but sold like 80% of it once it hit $200. Once I actually made 50x my money the price just seemed way too high. Shrug. At least I got a decent return. Calling the top is hard.
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
> Whats there to think about it? Don't drink it There are social costs to obesity and diabetes. They should be taxed like alcohol and tobacco and selling sugary drinks to children should be curtailed. We should have warning labels a
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Canada isn't going to be building nuclear weapons ever again[0], but we're going to have drone swarms. They don't melt the face off of a bunch of civilians. They can selectively target. They're cheap. [0] Most people don
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
No. It's rational to focus on things like sugary drinks that lead to diabetes or to work on improving road conditions for motorists and cyclists. So few people die per unit distance traveled by plane that we're probably over inves
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
Agriculture is important, and software is driving most of the innovation. Whether its better software to design the machines that harvest crops, more efficient futures markets for selling grain in advance of harvest, better watering schedul
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I'm generally for more tech regulation, but I don't want to see Apple's position of power degraded. What may be needed is regulations to limit Apple's take, because 30% of a $2 app is fine in my eyes, but 30% of an app t
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
I respectfully disagree. When I was a structural engineer (Ontario EIT) I did not think that buildings were going to change the world dramatically. I thought software, biotech, and nanotech would. And so far, it's been software that ha
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
If you have enough savings for retirement, and no dependants, I do not think your wife gets to have a veto over what you choose to do with your life. An opinion to take into consideration, sure, but not a veto. But maybe this is why I'
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by 3pt14159 6y ago
It is an excellent indicator of value. Every single share holder could have been the person to have sold the share, but they choose not to. Yes, HOLD is different than BUY, but in terms of what a company is actually valued at market cap is

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