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by allenz 8y ago
> making it just difficult enough to copy that most people will consider it not worth the bother I don't think that the analogy holds up. The deterrence only applies to uploaders and not consumers, because the processes for removing
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by allenz 8y ago
> I highlighted a fairly small portion of the article i believe is shoddy reporting > Jarek (and the author's) claim was the emails are important The claim is: "Duda says he suggested the exact technique Google is trying to
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by allenz 8y ago
> it's unrelated to the prior art... they've made no determination that what is in the emails is relevant to anything that I can see Paragraph 6.1: "The author of D1 [Jarek] provided in January 2014 in an on-line discussio
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by allenz 8y ago
Google could also buy the patent from Jarek. At minimum, they should have talked with him.
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by allenz 8y ago
I think you missed the other seven pages. Page 2 paragraph 6: > The present application does not meet the criteria of Article 33(1) PCT, because the subject-matter of claim 1 does not involve an inventive step in the sense of Article 33(
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by allenz 8y ago
This comes off as rather dismissive. Xiphmont simultaneously claims that Jarek's work is useless ("the performance claims just don't hold up") and that Google needs a defensive patent on it. As someone on encode.ru point
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by allenz 8y ago
Irresponsible implies a moral imperative. I think they're saying that "unintended consequences" often harm other people, and therefore business have the responsibility to minimize them. The stereotype is that American busines
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by allenz 8y ago
Accuracy is important, and it's steadily improving. I now prefer to dictate my comments and essays instead of typing, especially on mobile.
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by allenz 8y ago
The difference is that Veblen goods are luxury goods whereas Giffen goods are inferior goods ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferior_good ).
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by allenz 8y ago
I agree that it's a difficult social and political problem. Interestingly, companies are fine banning hate speech, for which the same can be said. There might be better solutions. One idea is to pay nonpartisan organizations to fact ch
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by allenz 8y ago
In addition to identifying the network, the authors also calculate that taking down as few as ten influential accounts can halve the retweets of misinformation. I'm not convinced that it's quite that easy, because the network woul
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by allenz 8y ago
Have you tried searching your browser history?
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by allenz 8y ago
There are several good articles discussing ARA: http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/the-importance-of-aligning-... https://ssbg.co.nz/about/media/words-with-meaning-the-import... https:/&#
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by allenz 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16200322
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by allenz 8y ago
Meta: I use https://hn.algolia.com to search HN. It has a nice interface that shows full comments rather than snippets.
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by allenz 8y ago
Probably this demo: http://coolwanglu.github.io/pdf2htmlEX/demo/demo.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528797 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5657988
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by allenz 8y ago
To arrive at $440 billion, IBD argues that the tax plan cut tax revenue by $1.69 trillion but caused GDP growth producing $1.1 trillion in new revenue. However, the $1.69 trillion figure already factored in GDP growth, so they double counte
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by allenz 8y ago
That looks like a big difference if you take the numbers out of context. But consider how much the economy has changed since the 70s: there has been a doubling of output through revolutions in technology, finance, energy, medicine, everythi
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by allenz 8y ago
Correction: the GDP grew 130%, not 230%.
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by allenz 8y ago
Your video argues that it's complicated to measure the growth of the middle class. But the best number shown is 23% growth over 31 years, 1979-2010. I think that qualifies as lack of growth. For reference, the GDP grew 230% in those ye
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by allenz 8y ago
Glassdoor seems like a pretty simple website, but it's still the main platform for company salaries and reviews. That data allows them to get a piece of the huge recruiting market. Compare to LinkedIn which is 20x more expensive.
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by allenz 8y ago
pandas is higher-level; it's more similar to R. It does a bunch of modeling, statistics, and time series stuff.
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by allenz 8y ago
It's the sequence of n such that 2^n doesn't contain the digit 0. This excludes 10 (1024), 11 (2048), and 12 (4096). See http://oeis.org/A007377
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by allenz 8y ago
To be fair, RAM is much more expensive to upgrade on MacBooks and other premium laptops.
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by allenz 8y ago
> Once they figure it out, they'll price this person as a person, and he won't be able to swing it as dramatically. Ronald Coase, of Coase theorem fame, believed that markets are rarely efficient: "Coase argued that real-w
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by allenz 8y ago
This article discusses the history of Bacon's cipher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon%27s_cipher
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by allenz 8y ago
Apps could potentially work in read-only mode. Plus it's pretty easy to design a tool to pretty print iMessages given raw data, and that alone would be very useful for law enforcement.
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by allenz 8y ago
Regarding your distinction between real and cyber crimes, digital evidence can certainly be relevant in a murder case, e.g. iMessages, location history, search history. Also, the read-only bricking chip tries to allow search but exclude ong
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by allenz 8y ago
Code signing and decryption both require access to the private key, possibly through a hardware security module. I don't see why decryption has less exposure.
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by allenz 8y ago
The government would be a single point of failure so it's cheaper and more secure to privatize. Also, private control of keys acts as a check upon government abuse.

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