AretNCarlsen

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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Or even on the first page. (I notice because I always get to HN this way. Today is the first time I have ever seen it below #1 or #2.)
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Suddenly, Hacker News is not the first result for 'Hacker News'(google.com)
427 points by AretNCarlsen 15y ago|199 comments
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Just like I do when I want a sandwich.
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
This particular situation is more nuanced than the usual profit-from-the-poor story. Every bank and credit union receives these fees, and in the case of not-for-profit credit unions, the interchange fees truly support[ed] "free checking"
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
In the vein of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", no teacher ever got fired for storing all of their students' data locally, whether on a personal PC or a physical gradebook. I have worked with businesses that do not want to store data
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
I'll bet that you're thinking that this will have to wait a decade or two, until every car on the road has a new generation of computers installed. Look up a Mercedes product called Distronics Plus and a company called Autoliv. These guys a
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
What's to stop someone from spoofing your bank site while you're on the free wifi at Starbucks? I can imagine an aftermarket module designed to do just that, so free wifi is clearly not viable. In practice, they'll implement encryption and
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Yes, and "if Captain Sully had been flying an Airbus he would have crashed because they don't allow manual control". The objective is to reduce the total number of crashes, even if that means that you feel like you have less control of when
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
I am extremely surprised that cloud servers did not play a bigger part here. This Is What They're Perfect For: renting the equivalent of enormous datacenters for a brief period without much notice or prior/post capital investment. Password/
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
To beat the old drum: Email isn't intended to be secure anyway. Relying on email addresses to maintain privacy and authenticity is like relying on Caller ID to verify callers' identities. (See spoofcard.com.) Encrypt, encrypt, encrypt. Or,
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
If I were the Square founders, and I was expecting conventional credit card processors to go on the offensive, I might offer them a red herring: a simple technical limitation, something on which the competition would focus exclusively. The
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
> "He's not a scientist" Ironically, the OP didn't say anything nearly so insulting.
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
That's true, in the original fable the grapes were inaccessible to the sole character (the fox) and the moral was just that "IT IS EASY TO DESPISE WHAT YOU CANNOT GET." Colloquially, however, "sour grapes" is often repurposed to describe th
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
"[I]f you have people imagine the water going into an underground aquifer, for example, and then sitting there for 10 years, the water becomes much more palatable to the public. It budges even those most unwilling to drink the water. ... 'W
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Replicate each component of the original SNES hardware? That has been somewhat done: you can buy hardware clones of the SNES in many stores.
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Logarithmic in both directions (from average), or do we throw away information for either the brightest or the slowest students? Do we not have enough storage bits available for a linear representation?
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
In the U.S., we call the template spending ballots "primaries".
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
My impression is that they utilize a second conversion stage that is essentially a conventional solar cell. So the sequence is: heat => light => electricity. The novelty is the design of the first conversion stage, which is specific
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Certainly, you can get nearly 100% of people to do the right thing most of the time. That is what judicial deterrents accomplish. Those don't work if people are anonymous, however. The Milgram experiment was not intended to be "extreme". Th
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
> People are still essentially good. Experiment indicates that the majority (65%) are not: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment I am sorry to be a downer, and I agree that it is nice to pretend that people are essentially g
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Apple's PR problem: Even CNET likes it when an app avoids paying Apple(news.cnet.com)
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Good idea. The Daily Mail isn't responding to my email. Anybody know how to get ahold of Dmitry Bibikow?
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Looks like a garage-style 2D hoist. If I lived anywhere near Russia, I would bring him a couple relays and an RF remote so that he could run it himself.
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Great idea! I can suggest a few places to start your research: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality-adjusted_life_year http://www.wolframalpha.com
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
We already have examples of this. What happens to people with Down syndrome? Where do chronically brain-damaged folks work? Where can senior citizens who have fallen prey to dementia get jobs?
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
It is not. Taking the liberty of grouping C with C++, you get the most popular language in existence. http://langpop.com http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index....
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Do you know what the actual average uptime has been per operation? I have never seen that number.
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
I used to be the sysadmin for a high energy physics lab as we prepared for the ATLAS experiment to come online. (It was a long wait, following helium explosions and such.) The reason you see so many different numbers is that they cannot pos
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
I haven't used any of them, but you could try arbitrary betting sites. Someone has to be willing to take the bet, which would be an entertaining way of putting one's money where one's forum-mouth is. Betable.com seems like the best fit for
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by AretNCarlsen 15y ago
Includes an entertaining quote from "a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University who studies privacy in social networks" who believes that text content -- tweets, specifically -- can actually be deleted from the internet as long as

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