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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
What's a TPM? Is it this? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module Again, forgive my ignorance, but do smartphones routinely include TPM chips that Google Authenticator utilizes? Never heard of that
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
The controversy of this tool vs Google Authenticator essentially boils down to how secure your laptop/workstation is vs how secure your phone is. Without being purely "conservative", i.e. it was first done on phones therefore
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
This comment is probably to be downvoted as off topic, but in case anyone missed this gem. Here Comes Another Bubble: https://youtu.be/I6IQ_FOCE6I
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Disclaimer: I don't know anything about managing a team, this advice is more for a solo developer or a developer joining a team. #2 is what I use. After one/two hundred tiny commits (even if it's sometimes just fixing grammar
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
This is essentially about cleaning up debt (though brand debt, rather than technical). Read atdt's comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19259543
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Oh well there's a misunderstanding. Conscientiousness is the psychometric term for self-discipline (not 100% the same, but extremely close): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscientiousness And I didn't both
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
I think we're agreeing. I didn't spell out that I do think consciousness is not understood, it's a mystery, at least for now. The religious solution is to slam some superstition on top of that mystery to make it more digestib
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Sure, the correlations between X1:{IQ, conscientiousness} and Y:{income, educational attainment} are stronger than between, say X2:{agreeableness, height, race} and Y. Y are examples of what people want (wealth). X1 are examples of "va
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Well that is genuinely impossible to tell apart. I mean you can always claim that a system or a person is "overfiting", and given enough time and/or data they/it will be proven wrong.
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
While I agree to some degree this also sounds overly dramatic. First, there's a ton of evidence that people also get promoted/appreciated for the right reasons, not just because they're a fancy Markov chain of buzzwords (exam
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
This is, I believe, one of the big reasons why people find it hard to reject religion (another big one being the difficulty of accepting death, of oneself or of loved ones). There's genuine mystery at work here, or so it seems. You nee
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
It's how banking works nearly everywhere outside of the US, that's why most brokers handle US money transfers on separate forms. PayPal was built on top of this banking insanity, in most other countries PayPal would solve a proble
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
> Our infrastructure is somewhat ossified these days: the new and exotic are not well accepted. I know that it does not involve storage, but Tensorflow is a purely infrastructure project. And it's certainly newer than the Freebase s
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
If you're talking about the income tax idea by AOC it'll only boost taxes by 0.3%, assuming no tax dodging: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.economist.com/leaders/2019/...
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Well but how about a cutting edge silicon fab that gave the entire world a powerful device that fits in one's pocket to access all of human knowledge, instantaneously? For 20B? Add to this the fact that technology is powered by science
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
This is humiliating to Twitter. The fact that someone can create a better spam filter without having access to corporate private information (such as user interaction signals, which are normally incredibly powerful) points to that they simp
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
That's just Google's philosophy of UI design, especially of Search. Tiny frontend (i.e. little controls), gigantic backend (that guesses what you haven't or even couldn't select). Works for >95% of population, probabl
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
If you (like me) didn't know what a Shodan safari is, you're in for a fun ride: https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/21/shodan-safari/
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
How well does it do? Would you have a link?
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Sorry but that is exactly what I meant: the world is a) either deterministic or b) partially deterministic and partially random (for example quantum), and in either of these cases there's no way you can construct free will agents. Argu
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That should be the end of this "story" (oh yeah, Pareto/power distribution, nothing of interest here).
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
It's a well known fact for anyone practicing palliative medicine that often you have to shuffle around opioids to see which one works. And there is really nothing special about oxycodone, it's just another opioid that's been
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
There's a very neat and often forgotten piece of math in learning, VC dimension (unrelated to venture capital): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapnik–Chervonenkis_dimensio... Also, the reason why black box method
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
If you're already a paying data subject consider ProtonMail with ProtonVPN. For example, ProtonVPN has a built in Tor mode. Works quite well for me - I can recommend.
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
This is crucial. The current way of governing the world depends on the pie of prosperity getting bigger and bigger each year, which allows the government to cut more and more pieces out of it. Without growth every policy that requires more
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
It should be fine - strong law of big numbers. They even computed some confidence intervals (99% CI ±3%), but it's not precisely explained how, just references a paper.
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
I was hoping to see there a block with unregistered domain names. One could do it by, for example, training a Markov chain/neural network to spew out (sample) domains, and then see how many are currently registered, to compute the gene
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
> After all, basic physics requires that there be a physical world we can observe in such a way as to make true statements about it. But that's the point of confusing free will with consciousness. You can experience something (that&
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
Randomness does not yield freedom. A robot connected to a truly random source (like a decaying radioactive substance) is no more free than a fully deterministic x86 chip.
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by YjSe2GMQ 8y ago
You're confusing consciousness with free will. There's indeed no free will (basic physics tells us that, can be also experienced directly via LSD or meditation), but to see if there's consciousness just inflict pain onto your

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