Helianthus16

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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Is Groupon the new Kristen Stewart startup? creative license for a catchy title doesn't mean the title ought to be a bit of a muddle. does Jesus mean Groupon died but will come back? does it mean Groupon has divine authority? does it mea
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
My judgment comes from the scant information in the article. I don't see his actual technical analysis, I see some claim that we can technically (mathematically) define code as good, fair, or poor, which sounds ridiculous. You're cherry-pi
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
My point is that the press Stuxnet is getting is irrelevant to the actual stakes of the game that was played.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Whatever people say about the theoretically optimal nature of the virus, the fact is that it's practically the only example we have of governmental-level sabotage through black-hat arts. This is direct action. It isn't script kiddies, it i
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
>Parker wrote a tool that analyzed similarities between the Stuxnet code and the code of some other well-known worms and applications and found that the code was fairly low quality. well isn't that hand-wavy. >For example, the comma
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
>they're willing to put the time in and willing to learn. People who can't learn programming will quickly decide it's not worth putting their time in--this criteria will select out those people you are looking for...
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yeah, the keyboard/mouse question made me think "Which is more important, your body or your mind?"
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Because in a really bizarre way we're investing in the utility of a company rather than the money it makes.
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Sensationalist headlines are often a sign of poor writing/thinking. There's no way _everything_ I think I know about the Dark Ages is wrong. Don't insult my intelligence just because a smug title has a bit of snap to it. Good thing it seem
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
when you accept that the LOTR movies are just fanfics we've spent millions on, you'll understand why we need more fanfics.
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Previously compelling, no longer convincing. Lessig didn't ignore it, he overruled it.
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>LOTR is being actively commercially exploited and the commercial exploitations are darn good. Darn good, but not perfect. We are now denied the right to re-interpret LOTR, perhaps because we want to include the Scouring of the Shire--
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
>Here's an alternative ethics. Nontrivial ideas are not natural resources but are created by an author; just as a physical object is the property of its creator, ideas are an intangible property owned by their author. This is not an alt
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immune systems.
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I disagree with the categorization of this attack as 'military' grade, though upon reflection this is largely semantic. By military you refer to the degree and purpose of the accomplished action. But it isn't warfare proper in my mind. Mi
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Man, that makes me feel all warm and nostalgic. Of course everyone's young, learning about the freedom of the internet and using their creativity for the first time. In my day it was LUE on the GameFAQs forum, though I was more of a Forum
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
Interestingly this is actually untrue in a statistical sense. Purely statistically, we never prove an assertion, we merely find that we cannot disprove it for a certain strength of disproof. The old adage that 'you can't disprove a negativ
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
However, anecdotal evidence can point to a line of inquiry that might uncover important statistical evidence. It presents categories: "Crimes not addressed" as a cause of low incarceration. Truly, to combat his assertion, you should find s
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Well, that will shut down all those pirate sites that charge for their warez. ...
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Can't prove it, that's the sort of thing that's dependant on how guided/misguided you are. ;) Look at it this way. Our society can operate at at a high scale of efficiency, where everything is used to maximum utility and absolutely nothing
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
>Very utopian without the least bit of practical sentiment. Yeah. Welcome to the Internet. :) My point is _that_ most answers to this question will be off topic. >It's a question of copyright and how to enforce it properly Many of
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Because I personally want to kill the concept of copyright. Hear me out, I'm articulating probably a more radical position than I probably personally believe. I don't want to upset the status quo by fiat. I don't want to just destroy the
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by Helianthus16 16y ago
I found the adulatory tone of the article more than a little annoying, as well.
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Optimization: don't find the guy who thinks he is the smartest person in the room.
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>I wasn't aware that listing a set of things I've done counts as impressing people this is what he said. your statement is essentially 'i think i am a polymath and so are my friends' >My response was that I think there are, and that
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He brought in a capuchin monkey to the office on his birthday. (I work in the same building)
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>nope. It is just that we didn't have strong enough competition from other predator species to force the efficiency increase. Instead we use the extensive way of increasing the size, even if it is accompanied by decreased efficiency. Li
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How will we know the singularity is here unless we can authenticate its identity?
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I'm always amazed by such blatant anthropo-deprecating-centric (?) statements. -The difference in efficiency should tell you that that power spent is _worth_ something, like astonishingly superior abstraction capabilities and the ability to
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This is true but does not conflict with my assertion. The Declaration of Independence was an act of political power and influence. This is an idealistic essay that might spur actual acts of political power and influence. Veneration of a d

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