amalcon

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961.
by amalcon 10y ago
The most obvious thing that nobody seems to ever explain is that a statistician can use both frequentist and Bayesian methods . In fact, most good ones do. Frequentist methods are generally better for finding the needle in the haystack,
962.
by amalcon 10y ago
They used to make a device that is essentially a tiny AM transmitter. You'd plug it into your MP3 player's audio jack, and tune your car's radio to a particular frequency. I'm not sure if this is still a thing, though.
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by amalcon 10y ago
It's a manufacturing cost estimate, not a market price.
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by amalcon 10y ago
To each his own, I guess: the lower brightness is actually the main thing I like about 3D. It's occasionally done well enough to add something to the movie. Other than those cases, the only benefit is having not as bright a screen
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by amalcon 10y ago
I mean, PCs from thirty years ago (when RAM was measured in kilobytes) were good enough to develop on. Quad cores and gigabytes of RAM sure are nice to have, though. Of course, for a barebones PC, you don't really need "Nice&quot
966.
by amalcon 10y ago
Most people who have recently been to a pro baseball game know that there are times to mistrust statistics. The home team likes to give attending fans something to look at during the long periods of relative downtime. For each hitter who
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by amalcon 10y ago
Massachusetts did this in the program that Obamacare was modeled after, so clearly that's not (currently) illegal at the state level. The fee structure is different (just a missed deduction on the state taxes, not a separate monthly ch
968.
by amalcon 10y ago
It is an impressively innovative way of recording value (transferring and securing, not as much, but that's a discussion for another time). Plenty of things are impressive without actually solving the problems they try to solve, thoug
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by amalcon 10y ago
> This is literally a revolutionary technology like the internet. You can't say things like this without supporting them and expect to be taken seriously. Blockchains look to me like a brilliant approach to a real problem, but the
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by amalcon 10y ago
The freight vehicle or bus is pretty similar to a robot today. They have much stiffer penalties for speeding, much more difficulty changing lanes (including often being banned from passing lanes), and much more difficulty stopping. Experi
971.
by amalcon 10y ago
It's kind of hard to tell with the low camera and no depth perception, but it looked to me like the hatchback did between one and three unsafe things there. An autopilot would presumably just not do these things, thereby avoiding the
972.
by amalcon 10y ago
DOS was and is an absolutely tiny operating system. The job of an OS is to act as an intermediary between you and the hardware. Sometimes, having stuff between you and the hardware is a problem. DOS lets you basically just use the hardwar
973.
by amalcon 10y ago
I'm not really an expert, but it seems to me there's a bit of a problem with the message structure (length + message + HMAC). You can't check the signature without knowing the length, so the HMAC can't cover the length,
974.
by amalcon 10y ago
Modern cryptography is typically in the class where, barring some mathematical breakthrough (a la the P/NP thing), it would take many times more compute resources than the Earth has for longer than the Earth will likely exist to break.
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by amalcon 10y ago
Why involve a blockchain when there's no coordination problem? The only benefit of a blockchain over a log is that multiple, uncoordinated parties can agree on an order of events, but order doesn't matter here.
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by amalcon 10y ago
So, using the US Federal government as an example, the sociopaths would need to convince 600-ish random people to do what they want on a continuous basis. Currently, the sociopaths need to convince ~100M random people to do what they want
977.
by amalcon 10y ago
This is a profoundly alien mindset to me. Which is not to say that it's wrong, or bad, just very different from how I think. Before spending money, in addition to "Can I afford this?" I also ask myself, "Is this worth
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by amalcon 10y ago
The theory that someone is valuable enough to be worth the compensation packages given to leaders of this type of company, but not effective enough to prevent this sort of thing if they give it an honest effort, strains credibility. The the
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by amalcon 10y ago
> For instance, a prison can't be too nice, lest it turns into a free vocational school and people will find committing crimes and getting caught to be an excellent way to get education. That particular problem seems technically eas
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by amalcon 10y ago
This comes from reason.org, which immediately should raise everyone's suspicions, but it's pretty well written and organized. We can evaluate it ourselves, and since I find my city's ban pretty annoying, I thought "Why
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by amalcon 10y ago
The VTI, for example, has an expense ratio of 0.05%. You'd need $1.2M invested to pay Vanguard $50/month (which is my Internet bill). Probably there are other optimizations with a better time-money tradeoff than manually managing
982.
by amalcon 10y ago
The shell is an invariant for script-based installers (i.e. required no matter what). My workflow is also apparently somewhat different from yours, because I tend to open a new shell for each distinct task. Still, if you're the type o
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by amalcon 10y ago
Copy and paste is 3 steps: - Select text - Start up a shell - Paste the text into the shell Download and run is 3 steps for a shell script: - Click download link - Start up a shell so you can access stdin/stdout/s
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by amalcon 10y ago
Why, though? Why is it better than asking users to download and run the exact same script?
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by amalcon 10y ago
Piping curl into a scripting environment is problematic for a lot of reasons. For starters, it has a worse user experience than "Download and run this program". I know we love inventing worse user experiences than what's be
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by amalcon 10y ago
If implies who , as it gives negotiating leverage. But that's kind of beside the point. Edit: I just realized I probably misunderstood you. The point about neighbors is meant to be relevant to the notion of the government having
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by amalcon 10y ago
If you live in the US (where NYC is), you can also tell the government who can stay with you per the third amendment. Therefore, they don't have more authority than you, just different authority. It's probably good that they
988.
by amalcon 10y ago
It doesn't make a whole lot of sense for the USA to take down the internet, as they benefit the most from it. A significant fraction of that economy is based on it, much larger than in the cases of China and Russia. It would be like
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by amalcon 10y ago
It depends on why you wouldn't give a user sudo. If you're worried that they might get bored and do an immature prank, or do something ill-advised (like changing the root password, or giving sudo to someone else) and render the s
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by amalcon 10y ago
Just the first few duckduckgo results of a search for "usa in person voter fraud": http://www.politifact.com/georgia/statements/2012/sep/19/naa... http://dailysignal.com/20

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