FabHK

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by FabHK 2y ago
Agreed that the short scale has become more prevalent, lamentably. I find 6n more pleasing than 3n+3.
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by FabHK 2y ago
> the Tabula Rasa theory is wrong Good book about precisely this (and in agreement with your statement) is cognitive psychologist Steven Pinker's 2002 book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature . https://en.
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by FabHK 2y ago
I think the line is > you would be lucky to get this employee to work for you!
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by FabHK 2y ago
Might be worth highlighting some of the problems solved (particularly those that earlier ideas haven't).
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by FabHK 2y ago
This is a welcome development. Next, I suggest to prosecute these individuals, named in the Bitcoin Core source code, for their involvement in the crimes perpetrated through Bitcoin. vSeeds.emplace_back("seed.bitcoin.sipa.be.
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by FabHK 2y ago
This, by the way, is another thing I dislike about crypto. The obvious need to regulate it could jeopardise the fragile consensus we currently have on private e2ee communication being allowed. In other words, the reckless behaviour of today
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by FabHK 2y ago
Somewhat related entertaining book recommendation (sci-fi thriller): Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez (from 2012). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kill_Decision
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by FabHK 2y ago
Yes. It's like giving a glass of ice water to somebody in hell (with apologies to Steve Jobs, who said that about iTunes on Windows, back when iTunes was not the mess it turned into later). Mind you, I have huge respect for Cleve Moler
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by FabHK 2y ago
You think mathematicians had it all wrong for centuries? Incidentally, I find it amusing that in Europe, the ground floor is zero, while in the US, it's one. (A friend of mine arrived at college in the US and was told that her room was
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by FabHK 2y ago
I used to miss "OOP" in Julia. The funny thing about the dot notation is that it makes the limitations of single dispatch seem natural. Once you get used to multiple dispatch and its benefits, the dot notation seems limiting. `x.p
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by FabHK 2y ago
Agreed. The "original" seemed to use a proportional font (with a very narrow "I"), while the fake seemed to use a mono-spaced non-proportional (with a wide "I"), which seemed more plausible to me (for a typewri
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by FabHK 2y ago
> issued by some trusted party
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Flood of Fake Science Forces Multiple Journal Closures(wsj.com)
2 points by FabHK 2y ago|0 comments
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by FabHK 2y ago
Or even too much/high vs too little/low.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Like the effective altruists bought themselves a castle with SBF's money - in the best interests of humanity, obviously.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Glad to see that this is being understood now. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28047376 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29926509
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by FabHK 2y ago
The Khan academy video is very impressive, but I do hope they release a British version that’s not so damn cheerful.
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by FabHK 2y ago
Eh, split any important message into pieces, put a piece each in Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram, Threema, Line, and then the Americans, Russians, Swiss, and Koreans will each have some parts, but if you're lucky, nobody has all...
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by FabHK 2y ago
> Telegram doesn't enable E2E out of the box because it wanted users to compare some image matches in person (akin to the idea of PGP sign parties I suppose?) That makes sense only in the context of e2ee to avoid MITM attacks, unles
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by FabHK 2y ago
> An alarming number of important people I’ve spoken to remarked that their “private” Signal messages had been exploited against them in US courts or media. Any sources for this except the private testimony of a Signal competitor talking
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by FabHK 2y ago
You can opt in to something and then have it enabled by default. Not so with e2ee in Telegram.
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by FabHK 2y ago
The non-standard crypto was also problematic, at least initially. Furthermore, as outlined, the claims on reproducible builds vis-a-vis Signal are debatable - both provide them on Android, neither satisfactorily on iOS.
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by FabHK 2y ago
> it’s very difficult to tell what is valid vs what is concocted The blog post contains many many links to sources. > someone who can beat three of their friends in chess deeming magnus carlsen a fool for playing moves they don’t have
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Elon Musk: Threat Or Menace? Part 5(blog.dshr.org)
20 points by FabHK 2y ago|6 comments
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by FabHK 2y ago
Might be worth a) highlighting that this extracts the audio track only (not everyone is 100% firm with their audio and video formats) b) investigating whether one could, instead of downloading the highest video quality and then discarding i
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by FabHK 2y ago
As the first article linked to explains: > the language family is generally called Eskimo or Eskimoan, because it includes the Yup'ik languages of Siberia and Alaska as well as the Inuit languages from the northeastern half of Alas
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by FabHK 2y ago
More than you ever wanted to know: The snow words myth: progress at last - https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/... Bad science reporting again: the Eskimos are back - https:/&#
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by FabHK 2y ago
A billion is 10^9, billions around 10^10, thus one or two orders of magnitude more suitcases.
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by FabHK 2y ago
One? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singapor...
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by FabHK 2y ago
> The goal was to create an object that would hold value outside the traditional financial sector, similar to things like gold. Agree with most of your comment, just to say that this was not the goal as originally described by Nakamoto,

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