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The I Ching, Random Numbers, and Why You Are Doing It Wrong(aleadeum.com)
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by Zanni 8y ago
I loved Dan Lyons fake Steve Job columns, but Disrupted didn't work for me at all. He presented himself as the lone adult in a sea of misfit children, but came across as a clueless and bitter crank. The same (admittedly keen) observati
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by Zanni 8y ago
I'm using $15/hr and $7.25/hr in "value" for convenience here (though I didn't make that clear). Really, I mean $15/hr plus benefits + overhead + margin. But, to my argument, I think that jobs will have
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by Zanni 8y ago
Presumably you don't have extra staff; you have the amount of (relatively unskilled) staff that can (and will) do the job in the time allotted. As soon as you have to pay them more, you expect more from them. The workers that can&#x2
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by Zanni 8y ago
Working link: http://time.com/3222543/wage-pay-gap-myth-feminism/
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by Zanni 8y ago
You're staking out a pretty extreme position there. Society has already accepted: helmet laws, seatbelt laws, mandatory health insurance, age limits for alcohol and tobacco consumption, food and drug regulations, etc. You can argue tha
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by Zanni 8y ago
$5/mo seems high to me, but that's irrelevant. I'd happily pay it, if this could be a replacement for Facebook. But it can't, because $5/mo would be insanely high to most of my friends, many of whom decide what th
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by Zanni 8y ago
Yes. A character falls to their death off a "cliff" that would be imperceptible to humans. Another striking feature from the novels, not mentioned in the article but hinted at in the illustration, is the extremely strong magnetic
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by Zanni 8y ago
I love these books (Dragon's Egg and Starquake). Robert Forward isn't great with the human characters, but they're only in a handful of scenes. He really brings the cheela to life, and the speculative physics is outstanding.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Possibly. It was 20 years ago. I'm reconstructing via my (possibly flawed) understanding of the linked article. (My vague recollection was something like 250 digits for a 4-digit passcode.) And I just realized I mistakenly conflated 5-
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by Zanni 8y ago
I was introduced to this idea on the comp.risks forum, where it was presented as an attack on an answering machine with a 5-digit passcode, which, naively, would require an average of 50,000 guesses of 5 digits each, or 250,000 key presses.
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by Zanni 8y ago
But they die later. No one’s dying of obesity in childhood. This is still an improvement.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Never trust the client of a client-server system (not the client that hired the programmer). The server needs to own the truth. He was able to hack the app because the wallet was stored locally.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Yeah, this framing is really odd. FFS, I don't want any "content," serious or otherwise, in my feed. Just the original, first-person posts and photos of my friends.
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by Zanni 8y ago
If you can, I'd suggest you edit your options to "no copyright" and "current copyright." The double negative is confusing. Does "no" mean "no copyright" or "no, I don't prefer no copyri
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by Zanni 8y ago
Yes. The word "clone" has been so abused by popular media that people have wild misconceptions and objections. We should call them "elective identical twins."
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by Zanni 8y ago
Make that "how many times someone honked their horn at you" and I'm in.
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by Zanni 8y ago
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle makes a good case. [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start-up_Nation
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by Zanni 8y ago
But is it actually "solving" itself? Or just recording the scramble and playing it back in reverse order? I realize it's an artificial distinction, but if the cube is tracking its state and then running a solve algorithm, tha
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by Zanni 8y ago
If you read the article, there's an explicit mention of the possibility of tagged pointers for some implementations, where the low-order bits represent the address and the high-order bits are used for housekeeping and might change dyn
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by Zanni 8y ago
Quotas really are everywhere in real life too, but, as you say, they are paired with word limits. Writing to a particular length is an important skill for professional writers. Novels, non-fiction books, short stories, magazine articles, ne
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by Zanni 8y ago
Specifically with regard to smoking, I imagine if you can go one day without smoking, you're probably not chain-smoking the other six days. You have to adjust your habit so that it's not onerous to go without for a 24-hour perio
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by Zanni 8y ago
Uber doesn't need a visual refresh, they need a values refresh. People who are choosing not to use Uber now aren't put off by the logo but by their corporate culture. Maybe, maybe if they got that sorted out first, they could co
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by Zanni 8y ago
> "Quantum supremacy is the idea that, at some point, a quantum computer will be able to do any task better than a classical computer." Actually it's the idea that quantum computers will be able to do some tasks faster t
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by Zanni 8y ago
My lust for the Roadster is at least partially offset by my desire not to be the kind of guy that drops $250K on a car. We'll see which wins out ...
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by Zanni 8y ago
Definitely this. I used to think I preferred manuals for the sense of control. When I got a Tesla, I realized what I was really looking for was responsiveness. I also have an Audi TTS which is automatic but has a "manual" mode. Ap
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by Zanni 8y ago
Ha. I was using Scooby-Doo as a descriptive handle for an interpretation that's been in my head for years. I had no idea anything like this existed. Thanks for the link!
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by Zanni 8y ago
Someday I want to direct the Scooby-Doo version of Hamlet, where Horatio, as an agent of Fortinbras, dresses up as the ghost of Claudius to sow chaos in the kingdom and stir Hamlet to revenge. Later he administers the coup-de-grace to Hamle
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by Zanni 8y ago
Great idea. Even if it's not fair use (as amelius suggests below), I can imagine a lot of publishers would get on board, especially for technical books. It would increase the value of books that you buy, and if you search books you did
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by Zanni 8y ago
I did the trans-Mongolian train (Beijing to Moscow through Mongolia). The first bit is well worth it. The back half (Irkutsk to Moscow) is days and days of unrelieved boredom, with no stops longer than 10 minutes and no scenery.

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