Petrushka

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by Petrushka 14y ago
I'm a student myself. Funny enough, some of us are actually intelligent and can handle complexity. To me, this is the equivalent of teaching military science by telling someone how to shoot a gun. Instead of trying to introduce someone into
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by Petrushka 14y ago
I'll agree I could be a little less demeaning. The point is though that cryptography more then anything else is about its practicality, and so by ignoring the difficult parts of it you render any statement you make pointless. Also, although
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Wow! Does this say that as long as key generation, key distribution, and message authentication are trivial, unbreakable cryptography is a cinch? What a shock, here I thought that all those billions of dollars of research and thousands upon
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Player Tracking Transforming NBA Analytics (2012)(espn.go.com)
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Hilarious. This is what happens when you have compulsory military service as a nation which (although constantly under threat) rarely if ever actually sees combat. I can't decide whether it's a better or worse waste of time then the Air For
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by Petrushka 14y ago
PG County is Maryland, not DC. It's the county that wraps around the eastern side of the District, and includes the University of Maryland. The rules of the District don't apply to what they're trying to do. I think the author mentioned the
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Looking at it through the economic lens that the author does, I think what he fails to recognize is the payoffs. War has immediate and substantial payoffs. Whether that is material gain, new energy or food sources, pillage, prestige, etc.,
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Obscurity: A Better Way to Think About Your Data Than 'Privacy' (theatlantic.com)
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by Petrushka 14y ago
It's Plato's Ring. Frankly though, people around here are generally as reasonable as you'll find out on the interwebs. Sure you'll have people come in and stir things up, but generally I get the sense that the majority of comments and their
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Religion was created to answer three questions. Why are we here? How are we here? How should we carry ourselves? Its secular cousin philosophy was designed to answer the bookending two. Empirical science answers the middle question, but it
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Knuth's up-arrow notation and the Ackermann function are both designed to make very large numbers easy to notate, but unfortunately I don't know how difficult it would be to write a program to find an expression for any number in one or the
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by Petrushka 14y ago
You can't tell me one and even larger one of these isn't going to cause some Q factor issues. This (the Truvativ) is designed for gravity riders though, where pure pedaling efficiency and fluidity is not at value. Same goes for durability n
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by Petrushka 14y ago
As a former bicycle mechanic and salesman, and someone who is still very tuned into the industry, I'd give this a zero percent chance of actually being successful. There are three big issues with this design. First of all, you're going to b
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Why do I have a feeling that for the majority of CS students, Shakespeare would be a less intuitive language then Brainfuck? Some more programming and CS errata for those interested here, a collection of esoteric languages, algorithms, and
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Quite true, but what your post doesn't do enough to recognize is how much this type of thinking has pervaded our culture, and the damage it is doing. The current generation of up-and-coming workers (25 or so and below) have been taught thei
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by Petrushka 14y ago
There are so many awesome and fascinating things being made and discovered now. I don't see why you need to go and make some ridiculous predictions about the future to be inspired as to where technology is leading us.
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by Petrushka 14y ago
From the guidelines: Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say about them.
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Is that a comment on the article or on Israel? Because this is a site fundamentally about start-ups, especially incubators, and so news about them is relevant. If you think the post shouldn't have been put-up because its not all that intere
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by Petrushka 14y ago
I have the Washington Post from Jan 1, 2000. Below the fold is an article on what the future would hold tech-wise for a child born that day. By 2010, we were all supposed to be wearing wristbands with all of our medical information on it, s
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Great story. I was expecting the team to win the tournament when a local official with no governing power stepped in and allowed them three chances to score a last-second buzzer beater though... (Hint: 1972 Olympics) As an avid sports fan,
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by Petrushka 14y ago
This was also my initial thought. Mao as well...
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Gold has a number of internal checks to massive price swings that Bitcoin does not, however. First, and most notably, it is a fully developed market that has been around for thousands of years. As such, it is easier to get a handle on for i
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by Petrushka 14y ago
The points I'm making don't have anything to do with transactions in a primarily Bitcoin marketplace. The issue is that there is nothing in place to maintain price rates, even including that, as you note, its primarily digital existence and
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Exactly. "No explanation why the price would have soared so high" is the exact reason why Bitcoin will have issues trying to tie into the larger financial structure without series difficulties. Ever seen Trading Places? The stock market sce
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by Petrushka 14y ago
Quite interesting that Bitcoin appears to be making inroads into the mainstream financial system (which being registered a bank would seem to imply). The primary issue with Bitcoin is that because it is issued by no one, and is no one's pri
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by Petrushka 14y ago
The threat of a "cyber-Pearl Harbor" is completely unfounded and ridiculous, but frankly that's what I'd expect from Liberman. Hackers are extremely good at taking down specific sites that have specific issues with their security, not disab
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by Petrushka 14y ago
This has been posted previously, yet remains hilarious. The best have to be: Diddy - No Content. Well, unless you count saying random bullshit over Biggie's lyrics something. Fresh Prince (Will Smith) - Moved Permanently. He stayed in LA. M
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by Petrushka 14y ago
I wouldn't consider the use of KISS to be unnecessary. It's sufficiently well-known to effectively be considered a word (sort of the way en cia is used in Spanish), and I define it, albeit not explicitly. I also read way too many military d
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by Petrushka 14y ago
KISS. Too much writing in the non-fiction world, whether it be academic, scientific, or related to business, is far too complex for its own good. This is seemingly to overwhelm, to simultaneously weed out and impress those who are not deepl