DividesByZero

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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Do you have any examples of such a virus? So far only the US and Israel have been implicated in the creation of 'weaponised' malware.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Thank you for the clarification. I think it's still a great cautionary tale.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
These landings have one of my favourite ever engineering failures, regarding Venera 14. Venera 13 and 14 were twin landers which landed at the same time on Venus. Both contained a similar science package - including an arm to measure the co
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
"but is the behavior worse than any other night club" So what? Other nightclubs aren't representing the hacker community. This sort of behaviour ought to be attacked anywhere anyone has the power to attack it.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
I've seen some organisations with an complete inability to learn these 'bicycle skills' in the interests of short-term savings because of misaligned incentives. Gigantic enterprise software/infrastructure projects with no integration test a
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Not too many prophecies ended up being fulfilled from these illustrations, though.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
We've been using cucumber with Rails at our startup since we started. Once we have clients trained up a little bit, they are able to use and understand our cucumber tests very intuitively. Non-developer people aren't stupid, they just need
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Minor point, but On The Wealth of Nations has nothing to say for or against Capitalism.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
I'm an engineer who visited Berlin earlier this year and loved the city - it's like my home town of Melbourne, Australia which I love, but just MORE of it. I already had the itch to leave my 9-5 and go somewhere for an adventure, so when I
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
I'll concede this point - there exists evidence that some physiological traits may correlate with intelligence. But there does not exist a model of why or how those traits influence intelligence.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
You invest your $10 in these shares of the moon I'm selling. When their value increases, you can buy many bitcoins.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
My point regarding not having a model was to bring the genetics/environment statistics onto the same footing - the black box statistical evidence does not accept that genetics is a factor in measures of intelligence, but does accept that en
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Refusal to allow investigation? According to these papers, their has been very extensive investigation with a largely null conclusion. However people continue to push the idea that intelligence is genetic.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Namespacing is a really good idea, and I think might be what they were trying for but didn't quite reach.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
I would also add, that the political agenda is not from those advancing the idea that environment influences human development, but from those that contend it is genetics. Consider the sorts of policies someone who wanted to maximise produc
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
The squirrel example is absolutely absurd - there are clear physiological, morphological differences between human beings and squirrels that influence whether or not squirrels even have the capacity to master fire, or whatever other silly c
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
This really confused me too. I still don't understand the innovation here, if there is any.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Internet libertarians are adorable.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
There is no abstract measure of an 'efficient market'. The efficiency of markets can only be regarded in the context of the utility they create for their participants (direct and as externalities).
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Is it really about humanising design? The man's expert knowledge came from very specific experience - despite the fact that you're a long time bike rider, he still had many tips and tricks to show you that you were unaware of. Maybe the rea
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
I enjoyed this story, even though I'm unsure about the message I should take away, it does make me think.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Things like the TSA are great illustrations of the pervasiveness of the surveillance-industrial complex at the beginning of this decade. Security doesn't need to be a motivating factor, merely sufficient justification - after that things li
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
This is my situation - I only really found out I loved code in University, and only worked out what I really need to do to do that kind of work I want to do since entering employment. I'm still relatively young (24) but even I feel this exp
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Mathematically speaking, this analysis is almost worthless. The inputs are not quantative in any way - he assigns values on a 1 to 5 scale, based on how he feels company to company rather than taking some representative metrics. Beyond that
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Government of Israel and the United States: Rationally protecting themselves with electronic warfare Russia: Crazy enough to launch cyber attacks. Nice doublespeak.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
No one who isn't a member of an oppressed minority ever has to 'deal with' policies of oppression. You can still contribute to the effectiveness and reach of those policies though - glad for your sake you're able to distance yourself. There
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Sourcing unnamed 'western officials' doesn't lend this too much credibility, however this could have grave consequences for how governments deal with communication networks, and therefore the internet
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
This is a fundamental property of the scientific method: that which is untestable(what you call unknowable)is inadmissible in reasoning. This is also the materialist view you are expressing (and my own view as well).
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
Why is induction not a logical process while deduction is? They are both logical processes of reasoning. You can do induction in philosophy also.
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by DividesByZero 14y ago
He mentioned the likelihood of existing in a simulated universe in the context of probabilities - the Boltzmann Brain is the construct I know of that directly addresses this.

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