Estragon

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by Estragon 14y ago
But these attacks are on the memory... I suppose there is a risk of the machine being stolen while it's turned on?
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by Estragon 14y ago
What's the hg equivalent to git reflog?
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by Estragon 14y ago
I really want to go after these stupid bastards who keep calling to offer me a credit card balance transfer. I can't track them down, though. Anyone had any luck with that?
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by Estragon 14y ago
Not marketing of the data, marketing using the data.
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by Estragon 14y ago
No one has scratched the surface of what could be done with data like facebook's. The example I gave in the grandparent is something that just couldn't be tried in a meaningful way before.
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A Harvard Professor Analyzes Why Start-Ups Fail(boss.blogs.nytimes.com)
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by Estragon 14y ago
I think this analysis ignores the marketing potential of facebook's user data. No one has even scratched the surface of targeted marketing with such data. An obvious thing to try would be to tailor the presenter of a product based on the
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by Estragon 14y ago
I have been programming python too long to make an objective comparison with R. I have had to use R libraries at times, and I've found rpy to be a workable bridge from R to python for this purpose. Depending on how it works under the hood
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by Estragon 14y ago
Matt Cutts seems like a good guy, but there is an unavoidable conflict of interest when he gives advice like this. Google's job would be much easier if everyone believed the only way to rank is to have popular, useful content. Also, that a
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by Estragon 14y ago
Thanks.
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by Estragon 14y ago
What does GA stand for?
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by Estragon 14y ago
Yeah, but how is someone going to get access to the laptop to do that?
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by Estragon 14y ago
This is cool. What are some plausible attacks via reading memory over firewire or chilling the memory to preserve its state at shutdown? Also, does anyone know what he does that the security of his laptop merits this level of care?
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by Estragon 14y ago
Um, it is an extension for every browser. On your computer, axis is a plugin that easily works with your favorite browser. As you can see, Axis is at the bottom of your screen and stays with you as you browse the web. Star
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by Estragon 14y ago
Someone should redo the Onion "Area man doesn't own a TV" article to target people like us.
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by Estragon 14y ago
He's nervous even in this interview.
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by Estragon 14y ago
It would be great to see the code used to make these modes.
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by Estragon 14y ago
What kind of business strategies would be compatible with that?
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by Estragon 14y ago
There's no argument or evidence presented for this claim, other than that Jobs was apparently a friend of Ellison, and Ellison is known to look out for his friends. (Third last paragraph.)
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by Estragon 14y ago
Yes. Also, would he really have bothered to attach a kickstand to it, in an emergency like that?
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by Estragon 14y ago
Sorry, not sure what your point is. Could you say a bit more about it?
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by Estragon 14y ago
Of course many governments have the capability. The main reason a government would want to do this is that control over the coin of the realm is a major source of state power. If a government ever concluded that bitcoin posed a credible th
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by Estragon 14y ago
Actually, at least as of a couple of months ago, if you are generating all new coins, you can prevent all transactions from being validated (by refusing to include them in your blocks) or undermine community faith in bitcoin integrity by do
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by Estragon 14y ago
Since the price of a use car is to a large extent determined by what the market will bear, doesn't that amount to the same thing?
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by Estragon 14y ago
It's a little different, in that as far as I know, no one is trying to flog off CDSs or other swaps on Student Loan Asset Backed Securities. So it will come as a shock to the higher education industry, but may not have the broad impact tha
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by Estragon 14y ago
I'm really curious about the actuarial basis of this policy.
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by Estragon 14y ago
No, never. The items method generates an intermediate list.
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by Estragon 14y ago
It's called destructuring assignment. It's been around for a while. http://dunsmor.com/lisp/onlisp/onlisp_22.html
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by Estragon 14y ago
You're assuming that the function-calling overhead is the same in python as in CL. I don't think that's the case, and it definitely wasn't at the start. I don't agree that this is a design flaw. As I recall it bit me once as a beginner, a
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by Estragon 14y ago
That avoids the construction of the list, but doesn't check that the sequence only contains one value, which was the point of the example.

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