Kenji

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901.
by Kenji 10y ago
Climate is not weather. Clearly you have no idea how modeling works and how similar such computer models for weather and climate are (usually splitting up the area in smaller parcels or a volumetric approach and running equations on them
902.
by Kenji 10y ago
It doesn't work that way. Climate change is so politicised that pretty much every source of information is biased. It is impossible to get a clear picture. Politics is absolutely toxic to science. Many people would like to establish so
903.
by Kenji 10y ago
This is a pessimistic view of optimism. You have to work on your optimism =)
904.
by Kenji 10y ago
This argument is like saying that if you build a castle to protect yourself from the attacker, you are responsible for the enemy's construction of trebuchets that siege the castle. Yeah, the castle builders are at fault. Nevermind that
905.
by Kenji 10y ago
When I first glanced at 'Library Anxiety', I thought they meant anxiety about adding another library dependency to your project, making it dependent on the API, maintenance and updates of yet another developer.
906.
by Kenji 10y ago
I went through years of undergrad without using the library once. It's really not much of a mystery how I did it. I bought a lot of books that were good, our Uni library gives us access to something like 100'000 books in PDF (well
907.
by Kenji 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what is the largest project you've worked on, k__ (as in, number of lines)?
908.
by Kenji 10y ago
Yeah. And rainbows and unicorns. Unfortunately, 99.999% of the population have other things to do and cannot all tend to their farms. Let alone, it would be far from the first time that biofuel has left people starving on the same or other
909.
by Kenji 10y ago
The single most reasonable comment to this submission and it has been voted to the bottom. Can't upvote it enough, it's actually a shame for HN.
910.
by Kenji 10y ago
What's the difference between social ownership/control of the means of production and very very high taxation that unconditionally funnels money from the (rich) owners of the means of production to the public?
911.
by Kenji 10y ago
UBI is quite literally the opposite of capitalism. It is a form of socialism, so saying it makes 'all forms of socialism obsolete' is a very strange thing to say.
912.
by Kenji 10y ago
> The SecureWorks team initially found the database by using the virus scanning tool VirusTotal to search for suspicious email attachments. I feel like they left out a couple of reverse-engineering/hacking steps here. Or is it tru
913.
by Kenji 10y ago
So, does that mean I am allowed to open up my Xbox One once in a while to maintain and/or clean it (the dust that accumulates in fan-cooled systems is insane, expecially over a timespan of years)? I feel like it would cost me more mone
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by Kenji 10y ago
Ah, another article about Bloom filters on HN. That reminds me, does anyone know if Windows 10 uses bloom filters? Specifically, if I have a folder with a lot of files inside and I paste a file into it, if the file name is different from al
915.
by Kenji 10y ago
Does anyone know of a good alternative? Are there good torrent sites behind TOR, that is, .onion addresses?
916.
by Kenji 10y ago
Gotta love the morons who think it is possible to avoid wasting food completely. Reliability is only achieved through redundancy. If we only ever had just enough of everything, we would always be on the brink of a famine if something went
917.
by Kenji 10y ago
Yeah because the guy who is putting in 80 hours per week will have issues in physical and mental health, marriage, sleep, social life, etc. Better work sustainable and look further than next week.
918.
by Kenji 10y ago
Let's be frank: Every source of information is tainted when it comes to topics where political interests play a role. Simply because part of politics is misinformation and dogmatism, and it's nearly impossible to strip that off th
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by Kenji 10y ago
I wonder if there was a way to resolve this standoff without her death. I.e. letting her shoot all the shotgun shells she has, or just waiting until she gets tired and slips up, gets hungry, etc. Yeah, it requires a lot of patience but hey,
920.
by Kenji 10y ago
As sad as it is - I agree with what they're doing. It cannot be that your land that you bought and own is turned worthless because of these laws and underfunded archeology.
921.
by Kenji 10y ago
Because the article makes it sound like Martin is an idiot who has a choice, he could at least try to understand it better, when really, Martin has no option other than resignating and sucking it up unless he's a brilliant doctor and n
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by Kenji 10y ago
> Martin’s resignation in the face of tinnitus isn’t rare, perhaps because tinnitus remains poorly understood. No. It's because you go to the doctor and you literally get sent home without being helped in any way whatsoever. Well,
923.
by Kenji 10y ago
tl;dr: Simply accessing a website with Edge leaks the user name and password hash to the attacker site. They mention that this is also default behaviour in Spartan, Internet Explorer, Outlook (though I do not know how effectively it can be
924.
by Kenji 10y ago
> Yes, because now the ability to control that program lies with the UE. That's how it works. Look, just because someone has the ability and legal foundation to do something doesn't mean they aren't a complete douche if
925.
by Kenji 10y ago
Look, it's a lack of goodwill. The student exchange could easily stay in place, it would be trivial to set up an agreement and if there are costs the EU would have to bear as a consequence, Switzerland could pay it. There aren't t
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by Kenji 10y ago
Yes, I'm sure I want this. Are you sure you want to get bribed with money for science to completely give up every single shred of independence and autonomy? The issue is much larger than science funding. The issue is that the EU bullie
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by Kenji 10y ago
Mathematicians need logical precision because they work in the realm of things which can be definitively proven or disproven. Not really, by Gödel's incompleteness theorems, they are always working in a realm where some things cannot
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by Kenji 10y ago
Again, something that is solvable with smart regulation. But then again, as I said above, I see business as a privilege, not a right. Wow. Stop considering yourself a libertarian, seriously. This is authoritarian talk. All I see you arg
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by Kenji 10y ago
Your alternative with regulations requires politicians to be perfectly rational. Checkmate. The argument that people can't be rational and think for themselves, therefore they need other people (a political class) to decide for them,
930.
by Kenji 10y ago
My libertarian view: Let companies add as much sugar as they like and consumers shall decide what tastes and feels best. If there's too much sugar inside your food, nobody's gonna buy it. Not the government should decide how much

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