BlackFly

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541.
by BlackFly 8y ago
> For an infinite universe or multiverse with infinite mass, you'd need infinite energy, right? Given that the current best guess for the geometry of the universe is (conformally) flat, this universe already contains infinite energy
542.
by BlackFly 8y ago
I remember seeing a paper that showed that at moderate correlations of "Good as an X -> good as a manager of Xs" you are still better off promoting people randomly. The reason being, promoting your best X eliminates your best X
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Well, GDPR makes forces them to make the tracking features opt in, so they have to collectively convince EU users to turn on the tracking as opposed to hoping the people won't disable it. They do this through a few devious practices, s
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by BlackFly 8y ago
In my mind, the right to be forgotten is implied by your bullet point "Let users clear way to tell company that they want to stop using their account (and related data gathering)" By the definition of data processing, streetlend h
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by BlackFly 8y ago
I'm not sure what you are trying to insinuate... There is plenty of nuance to copyright, such as public forums, public domain, fair use, etc. You have those defenses available to you. However, a person can bring a civil action against
546.
by BlackFly 8y ago
GDPR doesn't change anything in this respect. Copyright law applies. Why would the owner of the copyright make a complaint to the data protection authorities of the EU who might choose to do nothing when they could directly file a copy
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by BlackFly 8y ago
With one minor exception, you have just described GDPR. The exception being: there is no minimum for fines. So a small company could be fined absolutely nothing for an infringement if it was representative of the harm caused or they fixed t
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by BlackFly 8y ago
> Can we just flat out assume the GDPR won't indeed be abused to scare away smaller players though? The language of the GDPR makes frequent references to the scope of the processing activity and to its frequency. The law purposefull
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by BlackFly 8y ago
Yeah, the article claims that everything backfires but it seems to me the issue is that they are not using the strategies in tandem. Look at the Netherlands: residential areas are designed so that it is not possible for through traffic to h
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by BlackFly 9y ago
Having worked quite closely with cosmologists I can tell you that you have the wrong impression. Cosmologists perform maximum likelihood parameter estimations of models. Often included in these models are parameters that control deviations
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by BlackFly 9y ago
Beer where they allow a third party to slip a small pill containing an RFID tag and then follow your movements around to other shops.
552.
by BlackFly 9y ago
This was always the problem I had with the idea of having liability for cleaning the ice off the sidewalk in front of your house. The province/city/state isn't responsible if your car crashes because they didn't salt the
553.
by BlackFly 9y ago
Many times the works cited occlude (as opposed to illuminate) relevant research and the context of the paper. For example, if you read a paper and find details lacking, will reading the works cited help you understand the paper or just wast
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by BlackFly 9y ago
I strongly disagree. In this day and age, there are far too many laws to both understand and be sure you are law abiding. Ignorance of the law is a given. Ignorance not being an excuse for something like murder makes sense because you shoul
555.
by BlackFly 9y ago
The problem is, the definition of obscenity is community based in the USA. It is totally allowable for the government to censor things which the public considers obscene and the government used to censor literature explaining how to get a d
556.
by BlackFly 9y ago
They introduced talent as a bias in capitalizing on doubling events (the less talent, the less doubling events in proportion). A priori you would consider that this should lead to the talented being overrepresented in the higher percentiles
557.
by BlackFly 9y ago
The picture of him smiling with the Miami school band makes me incredibly happy. Look at their smiles. Those are infectious smiles.
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by BlackFly 9y ago
Exactly. There is no serious consequence for their actions. If it was more common to be permanently banned for such language, people would probably think twice. You are pretty anonymous if you walk into a bar and don't tell anyone your
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by BlackFly 9y ago
> I'm using the net (As a guy) for 20 years now ... Early on people said "There are no girls on the internet," and the sentence was supposed to embody the anonymity of the internet and the renaissance notion that a person
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by BlackFly 9y ago
> Men outrepresent women about 2:1 among perfect SAT Math scores. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that this represents a real difference in mathematical ability. Even if programming ability were 100% correlated with mathematical ab
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by BlackFly 9y ago
Don't worry, you will both be monitored and see the killer confronted with no evidence. After all, are you the killer in this hypothetical?
562.
by BlackFly 9y ago
Windows update worked a lot better for me when there was the notification of updates. I shut my computer down every day, so I would update my computer every Tuesday when I turned it off. Now, they have completely broken my work flow for sta
563.
by BlackFly 9y ago
Of course there is an answer to unbreakable encryption, the same answer to in person conversations at a private location: bug the location where the communication takes place. You don't need a back door on communications if you are &qu
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by BlackFly 9y ago
Short answer: to avoid side effects from other parts of the code rippling into the data class. Some objects are inherently mutable and exposing a reference to them allows mutability. You might not have control of all the class definitions i
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by BlackFly 9y ago
class AccessCountedInteger { private final int value; private int accessCount = 0; AccessCountedInteger(int value) { this.value = value; } public int getValue() { acce
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by BlackFly 9y ago
I would argue you absolutely need to be testing the internal details. That is the entire point of measuring branch coverage and performing mutation testing. Unit tests are not black box tests. They need to know that for special values, the
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by BlackFly 9y ago
People test private methods because edge cases occur in those private methods and the test for the edge cases do not belong in the unit test for the consumer of the private unit. If the consumer simply loops over a list of objects which it
568.
by BlackFly 9y ago
Not really, there isn't a presumption of guilt because first you must establish spoliation. Once it has been established that the video record is incomplete, it must be the duty of the police to provide evidence of the technical failin
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by BlackFly 9y ago
I hate buying text books in electronic form. I still more where or less to find the equations I am looking for in the 1300 odd page Gravitation by MTW, yet zooming back and forth in even a small pdf is an exercise in frustration.
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by BlackFly 9y ago
This isn't true. Given a manifold that satisfies the vacuum Einstein equations and given a world line in that manifold, it can be shown that the world line is undergoing acceleration using only local calculations/measurements. The

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