EricBurnett

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by EricBurnett 10y ago
Tangent: orders of magnitude are exponential - if you want to say "half an order if magnitude" you have to do it along the exponential curve. 5x is about 0.7 orders of magnitude; half an order of magnitude is a bit over 3x.
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by EricBurnett 10y ago
Characterizing all data collection as 'snooping' fits in well with the 'existential threat' narrative, but I don't believe data _collection_ to be the threat you describe. Data misuse certainly is, but there's
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by EricBurnett 10y ago
'Ok Google' is a different problem though - needs to be a low resource, always-on listener with a low false-positive rate. That's quite a different problem space than general speech-to-text. I think I get about 50% hit rate w
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by EricBurnett 11y ago
Depends if you want _that_ music that you remember, or are looking for _some_ music that you'll like though. Once you're going into it with no prior values, price popularity and expectation of interest will dominate your choices,
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by EricBurnett 11y ago
You could guess that, but with no real expectation that it's right either. E.g. for a global service I'd guess it's better viewed as a sum of three offset distributions, one per continent, but even then the individual distrib
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by EricBurnett 11y ago
Thanks for the link, that's a nice critique. That said, much of their arguments don't apply here. The article take the publisher's ("businesses") perspective, but that's not consistent with a search engine in t
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by EricBurnett 11y ago
I feel like the banking industry needs to catch up here: in this day and age with digital fraud being easy and getting easier, they should be able to reverse any transfer internationally. This will fall apart when we get to cashing out down
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by EricBurnett 12y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9257187 If you've got the expertise to add it, sounds like it would be welcomed.
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by EricBurnett 12y ago
Here is one particular (opinionated) explanation: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2012/01/02/opinion/krugman-nobody-... In general, the foreign debt taken on by the US is similar - e.g. bonds issued by various
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by EricBurnett 12y ago
I am no expert, but I find it better to look at debts credits together. Debt looks scary, but when other countries owe the US trillions too, it balances out somewhat. The net international investment position is an aggregate measure of how
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by EricBurnett 12y ago
Fwiw, US deficit is about 700B. 18T is their foreign debt, which is not terribly meaningful. Net investment position is -4.5T. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_international_investment_...
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by EricBurnett 12y ago
You can't compare an average 'tax' against the lowest working wage. So I did some rough figuring based on annual income. Assuming forfeiture is spread across all income levels evenly, it would be better to compare against mea
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by EricBurnett 12y ago
I strongly dislike Facebook the product, and to lesser extent Facebook the company, but I'm continually impressed with Facebook's approach to engineering in the open. I find this an interesting dichotomy. Would I want to work ther
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
Do juries ever "find innocent" then? My understanding is that innocence is presumed until guilt proven, in which case a jury simply not finding them guilty is sufficient to say they're (legally) innocent.
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
My first thought on seeing that is it would be great for a DNS amplification attack. Not sure the value as an advertisement though...
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
I get the query "$1.50 1945 today" with no answer. What am I supposed to see?
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
All this speculation about what any TLA's may or may not have done seems fruitless to me. If the keyboard seems legitimately suspect, send it to someone to do a teardown or plug it in and capture communications, and find out. That way
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
Security, not really, in that I don't think anyone but state-supported actors have the resources to tap into them at present. But privacy (from governments local and foreign), yes.
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
Predictive policing systems seem like they will be very difficult to properly validate. On the one hand, it could go like the drug industry where there are bodies "testing" potential solutions, but the money, incentives, and sheer
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
A few examples: * Companies like Google and Yahoo will encrypt their internal fibre links, and more of the information crossing internet backbones, making passive information gathering more difficult. * Funding isn't guaranteed. The NS
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
What proof would satisfy you? It seems like you're asking for something impossible to provide.
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
The larger internet has the same problem - duplicate content farms, making the "original" of a piece of content hard to discern. It's certainly not a solved problem but by tracking which copy is seen first, using links to imp
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
What does this even mean? Which freedom, compromised how, and what makes it unretrievable?
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by EricBurnett 13y ago
BGP was designed for AS-level routing, but that doesn't mean it can't be adapted to work at a smaller scale. iBGP is for in-network routing (as compliment to eBGP), although I couldn't say whether they are using it directly o
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by EricBurnett 14y ago
That's only true to a point. In addition to the consumer-directed packets, large volumes of traffic for Google and Amazon never leave their networks. Shuttling data between datacenters for Google; moving data within the many cloud services
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by EricBurnett 14y ago
> Given user reports and experiences of Google DNS, it seems at least its stated aim is barely satisfied in the general case: it is often slower than local ISP servers. I don't think the claim is being made that it's better in all cases
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by EricBurnett 14y ago
The major benefits would come from mitigating the (generally) higher latencies and lower bandwidth of mobile. What gains you'd get on desktop would be countered by the extra hop traffic would require. Overall I doubt desktop users would get
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by EricBurnett 14y ago
This could actually be due to DNS, rather than anything particular to that edge-cache/CDN. Resolvers that aren't actually close to you (network-wise) could cause problems like this, or TWC partitioning their network in a way that causes geo
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by EricBurnett 14y ago
In case it isn't clear from the article, these pictures are actually from a number of different buildings. They're all together on the street, so it's still one "office", but only some of the pictures are from the newest building. We've bee
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by EricBurnett 14y ago
Here's two, from a quick search: Monticello, Minnesota (2008): http://www.ilsr.org/monticello-fiber-network-fighting-frivol... Lafayette, Louisiana (2010): http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2010/05/lousiana-fiber-ne...

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