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USENIX Best Paper 2016–The Million Key Question:Origins of RSA Public Keys(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
1 points by __Joker 10y ago|0 comments
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Moral Machine: Gathering human perspective on moral decisions made by machines(moralmachine.mit.edu)
2 points by __Joker 10y ago|0 comments
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by __Joker 10y ago
I have reconciled to the fact that, we will never be able to solve physics. There is recursive why, which we can never stop with, there will be always smaller and bigger things to deal with.
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by __Joker 10y ago
With all the privacy setting opted in, i.e. no data to be sent to windows 10, I still have Cortona process running on my machine, which I seem to be not able to kill off( not spending any more time doing it as it is only Windows specific wo
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by __Joker 10y ago
The problem with this kind of thinking at least in developing and undeveloped countries is water is seen as kind of right and most of the time expected it to be free. Most of the time there will be a political out-lash if water is commodifi
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by __Joker 10y ago
I really doubt whether any just society exists in today. Rich and powerful will always bend the rules. These days the rule ~breaking~ bending is more subtle than the previous. To quote Thucydides[1] "... right, as the world goes, is on
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by __Joker 10y ago
kairosDb which offers a time series data store uses cassandra. I had a very cursory evaluation of kairos and it was a while back. Don't remember the particulars though.
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by __Joker 10y ago
Practically, I like source libraries, because It was so easy find if there were any bugs in the libraries and fix them. I found it refreshing from other eco-systems and saved myself a lot of time. May be when eco-system matures more it woul
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by __Joker 10y ago
Yes. Still OPEC cartel doesn't seems to be working, neither does any kind monopoly. Given the wide and often conflicting interest between the oil producers I like to view this as less probable outcome.
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by __Joker 10y ago
Interesting times for the energy economics and geopolitics. If people believe that solar(renewable energy) is getting cheaper, the prices of the oil is drop faster. And you don't want to keep holding to oil when the music stops. I woul
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The Strange Case of the Woman Who Can’t Remember Her Past–Or Imagine Her Future(wired.com)
1 points by __Joker 10y ago|0 comments
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[pdf] Explaining the Predictions of Any Classifier(arxiv.org)
1 points by __Joker 11y ago|0 comments
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by __Joker 11y ago
I am trapped in extension jail with chrome. Past some months, the problems I faced with chrome(or extensions I use) made me look at alternates. I went to both Edge and safari, both(without extension) look better than Chrome. At this moment
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by __Joker 11y ago
This, daily TIL, like dairy has for me is nice way of introspection. I find whenever, if nothing else, I think for 5 mins about what I did everyday had immense value for me personally.
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Free Won't: Why You Shouldn't Take Any Single Thought Too Seriously(theemotionmachine.com)
3 points by __Joker 11y ago|0 comments
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22 Signs That Global Economic Turmoil We Have Seen So Far Is Just the Beginning(theeconomiccollapseblog.com)
4 points by __Joker 11y ago|2 comments
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by __Joker 11y ago
Yes, Vimium for chrome and Wasavi for the text boxes, makes life little more vim complete.
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The Facebook-Loving Farmers of Myanmar(theatlantic.com)
6 points by __Joker 11y ago|0 comments
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by __Joker 11y ago
I feel "evil plan" is a stretch. The worst case of malice you can attribute to FB is they are trying acquire huge untapped user base but disguising the fact under sheet of public good.
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by __Joker 11y ago
I too hope that there would some Linux equivalent in the personal assistant space. It simply runs on my machine/mobile with my data, and I am totally in control of it. Currently this seems little intractable for availability of data an
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by __Joker 11y ago
How does customer need to counteract if he needs a time sensitive ride? Lets say, I need to go to Airport at time x. Neither I can book earlier to guarantee a ride nor can I wait out the surge.
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by __Joker 11y ago
You hope, one of the areas where technology really solves the problem, through the self driving cars. But there is still some time for that as it seems.
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The Myth of Welfare’s Corrupting Influence on the Poor(nytimes.com)
95 points by __Joker 11y ago|183 comments
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Why It’s OK to Block Ads(blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk)
36 points by __Joker 11y ago|8 comments
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How to Make Our Ideas Clear (1878)(peirce.org)
1 points by __Joker 11y ago|0 comments
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by __Joker 11y ago
Random thought, do people quantify investment in politics, if not in pure numbers, at least in some ball park figures ? Like, markets are down, we are better off investing 10 million in presidential elections.
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by __Joker 11y ago
While lot of people are thinking about how the self driving cars will effect commute specially to work. We really don't know how the workplace is going to change. I think the conventional workplace is ripe for change. Will there will b
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Words, Words, Words: On Toxicity and Abuse in Online Activism(quinnae.com)
1 points by __Joker 11y ago|0 comments
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List of Attack Vectors(tecapi.com)
1 points by __Joker 11y ago|0 comments
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by __Joker 11y ago
Generally, people will be nice where they can afford to. I have been to cultures and regions, the developed or more well to do, or having enough resources tend to be more "nicer" toward each other. Competition seems to be get bett

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