MawNicker

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by MawNicker 10y ago
A vulnerability is a back door. The only problem I have with that statement is it's exclusion of open-source software. It's got more back doors embedded in it than closed-source software. Jimmy: a short crowbar used by a burglar
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by MawNicker 10y ago
There's merit in just pondering. This is a message board not a legal proceeding. What you're saying isn't totally orthogonal. I'm often surprised at how terrible modern software is. I suspect they actively subvert and di
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I regret saying color was the optimal encoding. It's an optimal encoding. Also only for our visual instruments, required operations AND cognitive capacity. Different organisms likely have different sensations. I suspect consciousn
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Subjective experiences are neurologically evolved and psychologically optimized representations of sensory input. Using only the objective world we ought to be able to infer something about them. Your thought process here is interesting.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I specifically didn't reference the psychological effects that are also a huge problem. Those just have to be assumed by reasonable humans. Hostility creates material problems that we can actually analyze . We can form metrics for t
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by MawNicker 10y ago
GDP is a terrible metric. It encodes all sorts of micro-regressions as growth. For instance, a hostile society induces more people to live alone; They purchase a new everything. GDP goes up but utilization goes down. If it was our own busin
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by MawNicker 10y ago
That... is a pretty interesting thought. I'm gonna go into hand wavy mode here. Noam Chomsky also argued [0] that the "language faculty" evolved as a spandrel. Meaning loosely (teleologically) that it wasn't it's ow
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by MawNicker 10y ago
If every known tool was a literal hammer... then all you'd ever have is a hammer.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
The brain would need to leverage quantum effects to achieve hyper-computation. Otherwise it follows the same rules as other turing machines. Here's a quote from Scott Arronson: "Indeed, I see no evidence, from neuroscience or any
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by MawNicker 10y ago
A turing machine can simulate the whole universe and everything in it.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
It is necessarily constrained by asymptotic computational complexity. With or without the memory bottleneck implied by the Von Neumann architecture. That it is a turing machine is not merely a pedantic fact. It has both implications and r
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by MawNicker 10y ago
It's even more necessary in meatspace (LOL!) but we learn to be subtle about it. This analysis is very insightful. Proper listening is cognitively expensive. In many circumstances it can't happen in real-time. Ideas are big and wo
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by MawNicker 10y ago
The brain is most certainly a turing machine.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Too pithy for the down-voters apparently. This comment made me laugh. What x86 taught me is that: CISC = RISC + microcode.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I'm amazed at the features they've crammed into x86 without breaking compatibility; Definitely impressive. That being said haven't they perverted the whole industry with this tactic? It seems like we ought to have switched fr
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by MawNicker 10y ago
In that case it's likely good to include it here just for the sake of clarity. They could maybe quote "front doors" to indicate the sentiment of the grand-parent's comment. > We will never implement back doors, "
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by MawNicker 10y ago
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences is an excellent paper: https://www.dartmouth.edu/~matc/MathDrama/reading/Wigner.htm... Also these quotes are interesting: https:/&#x
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Well I can't edit it now. It was mostly a rant anyway. The widely held assumption that OOP is a universal paradigm has done unfathomable damage to Computer Science. It implies nothing more than that every Turing machine is a Turing mac
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Object Oriented Programming simulates the restrained reasoning capacity of the real world. This is done by weaving state into every conceivable unit of computation. The result is a universal and inescapable notion of identity. It's a s
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I have this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011L8WJIA/ I'm very satisfied. Not coming apart is a significant feature. The case is nice too; I've used it several times to look at the back of my head. I haven&
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Meh. Sort of. He mostly sounds like someone with experience on both platforms who is surprised by the dominance of the one that he considers inferior. His prominence as a developer isn't relevant. I trust that his ability is sufficient
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by MawNicker 10y ago
That's exactly how it ought to work. I hope this gets noticed despite you being so heavily down-voted (and flagged... wtf?). I'd like to see it get properly refuted if it's not true.
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by MawNicker 10y ago
No it's not. You're being overly technical. A typical user expects to see where they're going to end up. Not the first link in a chain of transparent redirects. Even if you disagree it as at the very least controvertible. I c
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> This is intentionally deceptive. I strongly disagree. I would be quite proud of myself for finding a hack to maintain expected functionality in that case. As a user of the web I constantly mouse over links to see where they will take
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I'm talking about "playing marketing games" and not advertising in general. Then I'm talking about how hard it is to tell the two apart and the lousy compromises we've made in doing so. That being said I think brand
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by MawNicker 10y ago
The non-standard tracking system is super simple. That's the point of the comment you responded to. It's not a proprietary ad-tracker. It's 30 minutes of hacking on HN's source-code. Instead of linking you to the story d
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by MawNicker 10y ago
> I fear it might be impossible to link a ~year of invalidated blood testing as the cause of death. I can only see one way this happened. Someone got a false negative. They would have gone to another lab but chose Theranos based on marke
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by MawNicker 10y ago
It's only ever OK. That's just a societal agreement. It's never good. It seems like an extremely conservative application of innocent until proven guilty. Advertising has been deemed necessary despite the ways it can be abuse
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by MawNicker 10y ago
Ok I think I'm with you. Thank you for this actually. I really appreciate it. Range voting doesn't seem that bad. People are used to taking surveys. I have failed many times to explain IRV and this does seem to have the same benef
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by MawNicker 10y ago
I see what you're saying about Arrow's Impossibility Theorem. I don't think I was specific enough. You're right in the general case and IRV doesn't solve that problem. What I mean is that 54% could prefer Nader ou

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