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Bagel, pretzel show twists of Nobel Prize-winning work in physics(reuters.com)
1 points by alister 10y ago|0 comments
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by alister 10y ago
What happens to cause and effect? If you break a vase in the "time hole", will the vase be broken or unbroken after the time hole?
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First Demonstration of Time Cloaking(technologyreview.com)
10 points by alister 10y ago|2 comments
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by alister 10y ago
> I am not actually concerned with financial success or growth. The nice thing about this project is I can just let it sit and I don’t need to maintain anything – leaving me time to move on to the next project. You should pursue this p
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by alister 10y ago
Not a single photo of him? Since they are studying him, watching his activities, and even trying to locate him by satellite, I wonder why they didn't try unattended, automated wildlife cameras at likely locations and trails: https:&#x
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by alister 10y ago
Traditional English usage adds to the confusion of bolt vs screw. Machine screw and lag bolt are common words among technicians, carpenters, and ordinary people, but each is actually the opposite of what the name suggest: - A "machine
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by alister 10y ago
> A modern analogy would be if AT&T was somehow able to ban putting protective cases on smartphones A couple decades ago, one of the telephone companies in Canada sued a business that was giving away free protective vinyl covers fo
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Cisco confirms NSA-linked zeroday targeted its firewalls for years(arstechnica.com)
2 points by alister 10y ago|0 comments
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by alister 10y ago
I've marveled at the difficulty of determining the direction and origin of unknown sounds, esp. low pitch sounds. For example, the people of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, have been hearing a rumbling noise for six years and have been unabl
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by alister 10y ago
A list of valid phone numbers isn't needed. Calling every phone in a desired area code -- or even every phone number in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) -- is perfectly feasible for a robo-caller. My back-of-the-envelope calcul
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Nigerian Scammers Infect Themselves with Own Malware, Revealing New Fraud Scheme(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by alister 10y ago|0 comments
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by alister 10y ago
Not only was "made in Japan" established by 1985, but it was already thought to be superior in popular culture: In Back to the Future Part III, Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown--the 1955 version of himself--discovers that the DeLo
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Google Tests New Crypto in Chrome to Fend Off Quantum Attacks(wired.com)
3 points by alister 10y ago|0 comments
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by alister 10y ago
It continually depresses me that privacy and software security products have such a difficult time. I very much hope that Silent Circle makes it, but the landscape is littered with privacy/security products that went nowhere. But there
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Life Behind the Stacks: The Secret Apartments of New York Libraries(6sqft.com)
3 points by alister 10y ago|0 comments
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by alister 10y ago
> answer detailed questions in order to evaluate the percentage of your comprehension Did you consider the possibility that they rigged the test? You read a difficult text at your normal slow rate, and you score 90% comprehension. Then t
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What’s the deal with online journalism? (A: Can't measure story impact.)(cringely.com)
2 points by alister 10y ago|1 comments
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by alister 10y ago
They got it down to 473 genes, but let's say that minimal life is some 20 of those genes. A brute force approach would require trying 10^34 combinations[1]. And that's already with the simplifying assumption that 20 genes is the m
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by alister 10y ago
> wheels of a bicycle rotate into the opposite direction Your example reminded me that on a very rare occasion something that sounds stupid and counter-intuitive is true: A train wheel always has some point on it that is traveling backw
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by alister 10y ago
Apple's very first camera accessory, the iSight camera, had a physical iris that you could open and close for privacy: http://static1.squarespace.com/static/50271a61c4aab6c54f9af5... I thought that was beautiful U
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by alister 10y ago
Indeed. I had a ThinkPad with a physical switch to turn wifi on and off. The OS got into a weird state one day (a driver or OS bug) and I was shocked to discover that wifi was working even though the switch was in the off position. So even
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by alister 10y ago
Their individual membership is $399/year[1] for "unlimited" books and videos, but there's no obvious place on their website where they actually list the books available -- very annoying. I suppose their target audience i
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by alister 10y ago
Can someone who has actually bought this tell us whether this is as good as the print versions? Things like all the diagrams and photos being present, having good resolution, etc. I've heard so many horror stories about how great tech
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What does Bill Gates know about raising chickens?(cringely.com)
2 points by alister 10y ago|5 comments
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Even in remotest Africa, Windows 10 nagware update burns satellite link cash(theregister.co.uk)
35 points by alister 10y ago|7 comments
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by alister 10y ago
> The reasons people hold off on "upgrading" Windows versions is not mainly because of compatibility, but other factors like unwanted UI changes and removed features, and particularly with Windows 10, the increased data-collec
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No longer optional: Windows 10 will automatically install over Windows 7/8(theguardian.com)
7 points by alister 10y ago|2 comments
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by alister 10y ago
Is it possible to implement features similar to the above without being a ycombinator insider? Since upvotes aren't visible on comments, other than comments you made yourself, how could you calculate it? (Are the upvotes on comments av
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by alister 10y ago
> presumably the flaws in this approach have only become apparent since the book was published A nice concise discussion of Encrypt-then-MAC vs MAC-then-Encrypt can be found here: http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions
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by alister 10y ago
A funny and ironic law: Good software will grow smaller and faster as time goes by and the code is improved and features that proved to be less useful are weeded out. [from the programming notebooks of a heretic] If I were to quote the ab

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