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by Iv 7y ago
The claim in the article is that the target was Ukraine, the attacker Russia, and Merck a collateral casualty at an attempt to disguise a state-sponsored cyber-attack as a criminal extortion attempt. One would need to dig deeper to get a re
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by Iv 7y ago
In 2019, with a budget of 100+M, if the WMF was really devoted to keeping wikipedia sustainably online, it would have found a way to store it in a P2P fashion.
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by Iv 7y ago
I am not sure but I think the new wysiwyg editor was a good use of that money. Nothing that would cost millions I agree.
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by Iv 7y ago
Selling the .org registry by that criterion was illegal as well. Laws that are not enforced are just words written on paper.
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by Iv 7y ago
Got it, thanks! I did not realize it runs in a VM, ok, that indeed makes sense to call it a different kind of application.
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by Iv 7y ago
That still requires citations. Except they are now weighted. I wish there was no incentive on forcing/accepting an irrelevant citation in a paper.
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by Iv 7y ago
So from my understanding, that's a kind of "secure" (I'd like to know more about the security model tbh) module that runs with kernel privilege with no scheduling (so it runs until completion). These are supposed to be s
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by Iv 7y ago
Actually I totally botched the intent of my first message. My point is that the publication process is used as a reputation metric, which is something the research world (not science) needs. It needs it for valid purposes and using number o
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by Iv 7y ago
The last Intel security bugs made them lose a lot of the reputation they had, at least amongst system adminstrators though. Now is a crucial time for AMD to strike back.
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by Iv 7y ago
On my first internship I worked at a lab and at one point a researcher asked all the staff to be nice enough to read his draft to spot mistakes. I obliged as well, not understanding he meant typos. I asked him about an equation I did not un
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by Iv 7y ago
There are 500 million members to the EU. I am in favor of all of them being equal, yes. We still have to quelch local nationalisms so there are some compromises being made to give state some kind of sovereignty, like the US used to need 200
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by Iv 7y ago
(Disclaimer: I am an enthusiast of discussions around planned economy and wish we talked more about it instead of dismissing it as failed communism) China tried centrally planned economy. It resulted in tens of millions of death in the grea
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by Iv 7y ago
That article is weirdly written and it is not clear how the title relates to the content. However if that metal has a good electricity conductivity and a low heat one, wouldn't that make it an ideal candidate for seebeck-effect generat
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by Iv 7y ago
Which is another way to say that smaller state want a way to undemocratically leech out things from more populous areas. Bigger states aligning and pushing measures that are in their interests rather than in smaller states interests is call
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by Iv 7y ago
Just look at that precise case: a practice that was detrimental to some male genes helped save a population. The people with a practice that favored individual genes went extinct.
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by Iv 7y ago
Evolution focuses on populations, not individuals. A lot of things make more sense if you consider that.
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by Iv 7y ago
I never said the new model was "give away everything for free" I just said that "Consider every copy needs to be paid even though making a copy is basically free of cost and that this forces us to put a terrible censorship me
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by Iv 7y ago
I remember the early days of piracy, Napster, Kaza, eDonkey. People were simply sharing all their files. There was pride in having a hard to obtain item, such as TV shows from the 60s, movies not released in DVDs, etc... P2P could have made
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by Iv 7y ago
I'm not skeptical, I'm outraged. This is corruption plain and simple. I hope OpenNIC forks the .org registry and lobbies DNS to accept their records instead.
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by Iv 7y ago
OpenNIC is actually a parallel organization to the ICANN and they manage a register that is in sync but with a bunch of additional TLDs. They could decide to fork .org and lobby ISPs and DNS to use their register instead.
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by Iv 7y ago
If you go directly to code, you'll hook the people who would end up being hooked anyway. You will lose all the other too embarrassed to ask what is a file and how you edit it, what is this folder thing, etc... Those are the one you wan
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by Iv 7y ago
Honestly at this point it is not programmers we need but more people with a solid general culture about computing: What's the internet? where is the cloud? Where are data stored? How do they pass around? What's a computer? A smart
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by Iv 7y ago
To be fair, even before the deep learning revolution, routing software had to use advanced algorithms to produce solutions. IIRC routing from a schematics has been proven to be a NP-hard problem.
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by Iv 7y ago
Oooohhhh! Nice! I'll install it right away!
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by Iv 7y ago
> the law, known as the Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (POFMA) Singapore is an english-speaking country, they used valid words to describe "fake news"
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by Iv 7y ago
I don't think it is very hard to make a personality or an individuality appear. Feed GPT-2 a lot of opinnonated texts about itself and you will already see a bit of it emerge.
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by Iv 7y ago
This is an is/ought confusion. You can explain why something is that way, but you can't explain why it must be that way. You can explain why our survival instinct evolved so it is tempting to jump to the conclusion that we ought t
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by Iv 7y ago
I guess you write hooks then, you don't convert on every commit?
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by Iv 7y ago
This is not a paradox, this is people managing morale. Real life is not a RTS with stats on firepower, range and healthpoints and units fighting until they die. People come to battle for a reason, fight for a reason, obey for a reason, all
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by Iv 7y ago
It is not a pyramid scheme, it is called a "pump and dump" scheme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pump_and_dump

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