JohnStrange

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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I'm still looking for an ideal calculator, a fully programmable ruggedized device with a small form factor, a powerful CAS, an outstanding keyboard, clock and alarm, a sun-readable display (e-ink), and, most importantly, weeks of batte
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
You don't have to go that far to justify demonetization. It's a way to encourage higher quality content in contrast to low quality clickbait and sensationalism. That's good for the users and also in Youtube's long-term i
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Exactly. It has nothing to do with price regulation.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
net neutrality != government mandated price controls, so the argument goes nowhere. Companies can charge whatever they want. The other problems you describe could be solved by making false advertising illegal. Don't offer unlimited ban
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
What I find hilarious about this whole story is that the US government allowed highly intrusive software from a non-allied country on government machines in the first place. It seems fairly reasonable to restrict software on machines that p
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I suspect there is a secret background story, like every so often when intelligence agencies are involved. Maybe Kaspersky didn't cooperate with the NSA as much as they'd wished for, or Russian intelligence interfered to prevent t
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Seconded. This sounds like a reasonable deal that probably prevented a lot of civilian deaths of people who could have been caught in the crossfire.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Everybody wants to live in a country with a reasonably low Gini index. The disagreement is only about what "reasonably low" means and how to achieve it.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
He probably meant to say "measure of central tendency".
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Maybe you've got it backwards? Maybe many people trusted Intel until they learned about the ME and how hard it is to switch it off, and the fact that if you switch it off you should use a special flag requested by the NSA that was pr
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Can't someone please find and publish a hack that allows anyone to use the Minix for his own purposes? I'd rather have a commercial antivirus vendor control my "machine in the machine" than some arbitrary 3 letter agency
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
It is always possible to publish without affiliation, but I'd recommend you try and "get" some affiliation nevertheless. Many universities have interest groups, reading groups, loose projects, etc., that in principle anyone c
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Now that Intel ME is getting so much attention, are there similar efforts to analyze AMD's PSP? I wonder about that since I'm planning to buy a new PC next year and was planning to go for AMD this time. Should I wait until securit
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
In my experience, it would be pretty hard to consistently write unit tests that pass and at the same time don't test the code. They might not test the code complete enough, but they will test the code. That's still better than not
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
No, you don't have to worry about it, as long as you confirm the authenticity of the documents. Cross-check with the preview of the original publisher to confirm that it's not a preprint or otherwise non-citable.
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
As a scientist, I am unambiguously in favor of Sci-Hub and similar sites. We want and need to disseminate our results as much as possible and the paywalls are getting more and more in our way. You won't find many scientists who are aga
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Almost all top journals are in the hands of just a few global players such as DeGruyter, Elsevier, Springer, Sage, and Oxford Journals. These companies have lured independent journals into their traps by offering free Editorial Management S
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I'm not using web apps at all. To be honest, I thought they were a fad and am amazed that they are still deemed successful and trendy. I haven't seen a web app so far that would even remotely match a corresponding desktop applicat
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
I like that, too, and since my discretionary salary is not very high, I sometimes spend weeks comparing products, just to make sure I'm not regretting it afterwards. It's a lot of fun and often surprising how huge the differences
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
With his insulting Tweets and derogatory remarks, Trump is creating local pressure and strong incentives for foreign politicians not to negotiate anything with him. That doesn't seem very productive. And that is on top of some alread
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
My current main language for my own projects is Racket, but there are performance issues with text% and the support for parallelism is not good enough. So I guess with this respect Pharao will not be a good alternative for me either. Howeve
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Okay, so lot's of praise for a language. But I have three questions that aren't answered by the article: 1.) How fast are programs written in Pharao? 2.) Is it possible to write complete and halfway modern looking desktop end-cons
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
First question: If the size of the (known) dictionary is n words and the number of words in your passphrase is k , and if the choice of each word is made by a random number generator, then the entropy of the passphrase is k x log2(n) .
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Certain study programs at Harvard such as 'Global Governance' seem to be primarily designed to raise corrupt politicians and give future mass murderers the rhetorical means to justify their actions, so that's maybe not such a
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Downvoted for making sense...
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
They didn't ban the use in general, people are free to continue Kaspersky privately. They banned the use by US government agencies. Of course, other governments should ban the use of US products if they believe that the US might use th
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
It is pretty unlikely that there are no such ties, hence you should choose your security products accordingly. It's kind of obvious that government employees of one country shouldn't use software from another, not very befriended
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
Maybe, maybe not. In any case, if you want to primarily protect against US government snooping, Kaspersky might be a better choice than a US anti-virus product. If you want to primarily protect against Russian government snooping, Kaspersky
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
These are totally different things. In public relations the source is clearly identifiable. If the Kreml or White House gives a press conference, it's up to you whether to believe them or not. No problem with that, comrade!
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by JohnStrange 9y ago
If you have very simple concepts such as "thesis-antithesis-synthesis", "yin and yang", or "sheeps and wolves", then the conceptualization will apply to almost everything. That doesn't mean much, though.

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