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by ahelwer 6y ago
This distinction means literally nothing and its utterance has never once contributed positively to a discussion.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It definitely allows replay attacks. If you manage to get someone's JWT you can impersonate them for a couple of hours before it expires, unless the website has additional identity verification measures like known IP addresses and such
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Nature doesn't care about how something looks politically. Those decisions were bad and aren't vindicated because nothing went wrong (there are other cases where things went very very wrong, as another commenter mentions with DDT)
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Taleb's position in general is one of extreme conservatism when meddling with ecological systems (for example he is also against GMOs). The basis for this conservatism is his general concern with risk in a nonlinear world. He does inde
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Maybe you didn't click the link, so I guess I'll ask you: how many humans would die if we did exterminate the mosquitoes? More or less than 700,000? Do you know? You have no way of knowing how ecological systems would react.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Intentions don't always match outcomes when it comes to fiddling with these systems.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Of course it is, very popular among the Thought Leader circuit: https://www.sciencealert.com/bill-melinda-gates-funding-scie...
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I grew up in Manitoba so have a very healthy hatred of mosquitoes - 50 of them once followed me into a car during the <1s window of me opening & closing the door (I know because I killed them all before driving) - but anyone leanin
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I actually read through all of these (the summaries, not the papers) in the process of writing the TLA+ wikipedia article. Some favorites: * On the oft-misunderstood significance of the bakery algorithm: https://lamport.azurewebs
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by ahelwer 6y ago
All of this has happened before: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2018/may/01/unexp...
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Probably a combination of chance, ease of contact, and working for a large tech company thus signaling general obedience. It's not like it happens all the time, only happened once.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I can confirm I've personally been asked to post things on HN because I have an old account and so it would look more organic (I did not, not saying who asked because I'm not interested in starting a brouhaha).
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Technical interviews aren't a hazing ritual that we should all suffer equally out of some misplaced idea of equality. They're just one way of informing the decision of whether to hire someone.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Reminds me of: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768?lang=en How exactly could a PM interview process (which is just asking you to walk through a bunch of design scenarios) give a stronger hiring sign
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I wanted to read this blog post but it seems uncertain about its intended audience. It goes over a whole bunch of basics like turing machines, circuits, decidable languages, NP, etc. - but too briefly for people unfamiliar with those concep
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Oh sure yeah, but I don't think it has any logic/constraint programming functionality.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
LINQ is just in-language SQL with type checks, unless I'm ignorant of a bunch of its functionality (which I really hope is true, now).
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by ahelwer 6y ago
There's even a historical graph of this, called the Shiller P/E Ratio: https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe We are still at the highest point ever except for the dotcom bubble and black tuesday of 1929 (and directly
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by ahelwer 6y ago
What is with this ridiculous fixation people have on participation trophies? I'm serious, where is this idea coming from? Was it an object of moral concern in the media before I was old enough to remember or something? Getting a stupid
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by ahelwer 6y ago
One of the more insightful passages in the unabomber manifesto (worth reading, especially for technologists) details how technology-driven encroachments on our freedom are inevitable because to stop this people must be continually motivated
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by ahelwer 6y ago
While this is certainly one method, it is not the only one. Change from within is possible and requires organizing with your colleagues. Otherwise we become like locusts, forever driven from place to place in search of ever-shrinking fertil
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It's easy to use yelp or google to find restaurants. Then just look at their menu online & call them for pickup.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Americans by and large don't mind sacrificing their young as long as they get good value for it. With Vietnam they saw soldiers sacrificed for utterly pointless things like defending Khe Sanh or taking Hamburger Hill (both were abandon
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I'm not conflating them, it's just impossible to talk about one without the other; it was pretty much just one long war with America steadily increasing its involvement. Given that communism actually won in Vietnam, we don't
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The US didn't "intervene" what? Vietnam was colonized by France. Northern Vietnam was fighting for unification and liberation from French colonial power. The US lent their support to France in Vietnam because France was flirt
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I wish people would stop comparing US coronavirus deaths to the Vietnam war. The comparison is intended to increase the perceived gravity of coronavirus pandemic - "Remember that war 50 years ago which had massive cultural & social
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Sadly no mountains (I am actually moving to Atlanta in a month, for other reasons). Decent rock climbing though. And great fruit selection.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
At the start of covid lockdown I realized I needed a new pair of sweatpants. Where was the first place my brain thought to look? The nike store. Why was that? What specific ad or celebrity sponsorship can you trace that back to? Probably so
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by ahelwer 6y ago
A place with the highest housing prices in the country, where software engineers make over six figures and still have roommates, also happens to have a large number of homeless people - nope, no causality there, it's just that they&#x2
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by ahelwer 7y ago
Nothing to do with the 60s. Having a campy boss with electrical powers imply continued violent rape of Snake's romantic interest was off-putting, to say the least. Plus the constant objectification. My girlfriend watched me play it aft

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