anatoly

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by anatoly 17y ago
I don't see where you contradict anything I've said. Sure it wanted this kind of control to extend it to publishers. It preferred the interests of the publishers (its suppliers) to the interests of the readers (its customers). How is that b
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by anatoly 17y ago
You're missing the point. It isn't Amazon that needs to want to delete your content, it's the publisher. Amazon enables the publisher to do it. In this case, Amazon didn't want to delete 1984 off your Kindle, the publisher did. Say you boug
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by anatoly 17y ago
I don't think it does. Where Amazon is the single largest online player in the book business, Sony is a small-scale newcomer. Where Amazon can exert an extraordinary amount of pressure on book publishers, Sony can exert bupkis. These differ
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by anatoly 17y ago
Sony is able to sell ebooks for its reader w/o being able to retroactively delete them. Why can't Amazon? I'm not sure they "hate it as much as I do". They may hate the fact that they're out of the refund money in this case, but love their
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by anatoly 17y ago
You can use pdflrfwin to read full size PDFs on the Reader pretty comfortably. It can rotate the file landscape-wise, and cuts it into 2-3 chunks, smartly merging across page boundaries.
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by anatoly 17y ago
If Twitter said "publish nothing", that's exactly what TechCrunch would do This claim is not supported by any statements from TechChrunch or Twitter, and contradicts Ev's claim, quoted above, that they haven't given TechChrunch a green li
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by anatoly 17y ago
There is no right way to go about doing that.
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by anatoly 17y ago
(despite the elaborate caveat below, thank you for the detailed answer to my question; it seems like a very promising thing to try) But if you treat the 10-minute homework as something not worthy of praise or mention, the child might feel c
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by anatoly 17y ago
I'm not sure I see how that'd work with the really smart children. They can often get their homework done with the fraction of effort required from other kids. Praising the effort will then look ridiculous and seem like a lie. "Oh, I see th
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by anatoly 17y ago
or - another fun possibility - you could have a provably polynomial-time algorithm that seems to solve SAT, but you can't prove or refute its correctness.
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by anatoly 17y ago
I think your evaluation of the post may have been somewhat rushed. - The poster is a notable complexity theorist and is not "just trying to get attention". - Doron Zeilberger's "a lot more interesting" take is completely subsumed in Richard
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by anatoly 17y ago
I think you're knocking down a strawman; many people don't think he's a retard so much as a mediocre author who writes a sometimes exasperatingly mediocre blog. None of that means he can't be a brilliant programmer. I'll admit to being a li
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by anatoly 17y ago
One comment in the first reddit discussion about this explained that irc regulars became suspicious and asked his family to check up on him. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8u5dp/erik_nagg... This doesn't say outright that hi
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by anatoly 17y ago
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. I see, and appreciate, your link to Hamming's article and raise you Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape in counterbalance: https://www.msu.edu/~sullivan/BeckettKrapp.html
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by anatoly 17y ago
I don't know a way of saying the following without looking like an asshole, considering the occasion. If you find yourself admiring Naggum's acerbic wit and online presence, that's fine. But please please look for ways to live your life so
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by anatoly 17y ago
The way you phrase it - "given that one of them is a girl" - the answer is 2/3. The people who argue that it is not 2/3 and yet aren't confused are choosing a different interpretation of the problem. When your acquaintance tells you "one of
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by anatoly 17y ago
Seeing vs hearing is a red herring. What really matters is whether information about one child being a girl fixes a particular child. It doesn't matter how the child is fixed (a popular variation is "I have two chilren and the older one is
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by anatoly 17y ago
The reason it's important is that the problem, as usually phrased, is a conditional probability problem. Say you picked door number 1. Given that Monty opened door number 3 and it's empty, what's the probability you'll win by switching? Now
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by anatoly 17y ago
In light of this, but also generally, it seems prudent to always strip DRM off your Kindle books and store them locally.
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by anatoly 17y ago
It was downvoted because people anticipated you'd be whining about downvotes, and no one likes whining about downvotes.
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by anatoly 17y ago
Ahahahahaha. Stay classy, Microsoft. Stay classy.
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by anatoly 17y ago
I used to be obsessed with finding out what kind of real thoughts, really important ideas postmodernism, poststructuralism etc. had to offer. I read a lot of "French theory" and secondary literature - not enough to have a really thorough gr
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by anatoly 17y ago
Postmodernism isn't science. You're right in that the mediocre stuff will fade and the interesting ideas will remain. Yet I have two counterpoints to offer. First, will postmodernism leave lasting ideas at all? Has its skepticism towards la
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by anatoly 17y ago
Precisely. You could say that those sentences filled a much-needed gap.
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by anatoly 17y ago
I've been writing a blog for 8 years. I'll probably be writing one 10 years from now. Facebook? Not so much. Twitter? It'll probably pass in a few years.
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by anatoly 17y ago
What made you abandon mefi for reddit? I've never had time for mefi, but from casual browsing had the impression that its quality was higher than what I'm seeing at reddit.
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by anatoly 17y ago
ma gavte la nata (look it up).
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by anatoly 17y ago
Because there is a difference. Sure, academically, and positing an ability to break into anything, encrypting the passwords and retaining the key is useless. But realistically, I can think of a few ways off the top of my head where the diff
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by anatoly 17y ago
Resist your inner Dunning-Kruger! This post is helpful: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/11/all-are-unaware.html
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by anatoly 18y ago
So much fluff. Why write when you have nothing to say?

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