anologwintermut

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by anologwintermut 13y ago
The primary link is almost always to the canonical version which is usually the pay walled one(even if it's not the most in depth version the author wrote). Did you check for the links on the right hand side? Those are the pdf's
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
It still blows my mind that people claim this is true. Almost all CS papers are on the author's website, eprint, arxiv, etc. Google scholar even links to them. Don't get be wrong, closed publications are a travesty. But they are a
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
Not to mention, a lot of marketing is childish. The Mac vs. PC ads were childish. They worked ( to the extent anyone can say TV ads work)
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
The NSA also got Huawei's stuff too. I highly doubt a Chinese company was cooperating with the NSA. Really,it seems like the NSA just went after market leaders and developed exploits against those systems. As far as this article sugges
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
And more vulnerable to the NSA.
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
So what happens when it's just used to pass through a cable(i.e. how it's mentioned by Feynman)and not transfer power?
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
Ironically, at the time it would appear that the NSA was probably prohibited from spying on at least US-based Boing personnel. In fact, even today, they claim they'd be prohibited from looking at it(though not collecting it or analyzi
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
Or, you know, it could be the fact that Sweden's industrial capacity survived WWII largely intact and so the country in general was better positioned than the rest of Europe to make money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
Whats the preferred way to get google voice working on android ?
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
I think your Amazon point is rather inaccurate. With amazon people are ordering different products at fixed prices from one seller. In this case, the question is how do we actually determine the price for one product(say Google's stoc
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
So you randomize instead of doing first come first serve. Everyone who got there orders in by the deadline gets an equal shot. You do verifiable randomness to prevent the exchange from messing with trade orders. If you do a simple two phase
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
If there's not difference between the start of an interval and the end, it doesn't matter much. A second is a long enough time to get an order in that at least people won't be doing insane things to reduce latency.
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
Perhaps I'm missing something, but why would it matter? Trades execute at the state in t-1 at time t. Assuming people's orders are secret in that interval, you don't actually care when your trade gets queued.
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
As would trading on a clock. If the market only updated once a second or even a far smaller interval, this whole insane business would be mostly irrelevant.
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
5 is worthless if you are worried about them looking at it.
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
The outrage here I think is that LinkedIn didn't explicitly state that risk. We know google has our email and can do things with it. To the average user, LinkedIn made no attempt what so ever to explain that by doing this, you were put
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
What would fighting in a declared war against a non-nation state change with drones? Sure, it might change the situation with gitmo and black sites, but collateral damage when striking "military targets" isn't illegal.
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
That really shouldn't outrage you just about drones. Anyone doing indirect fire, from the Taliban way outside the perimeter fence with mortar, to artillery guys in WWI, to pilots dropping bombs, is trusting the guy who picked the tar
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
A question: are the double taps which allegedly end up killing rescuers meant to cause terror? I've seen these referenced by some sources claiming this, but I have never seen an alternative explanation, which makes me slightly skeptic
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
To be clear, I don't think bitcoin that good a currency either. I wanted to point out that the deflationary aspect is an arbitrary (and I think stupid) restriction. You are right, modern fiat currencies can adapt and that is the main t
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
The fact that Bitcoin is deflationary is purely a product of the software/protocol. Given consensus to change it, one could make it inflationary easily. E.g. by having blocks always pay out 25 btc as a reward or even have successive bl
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
In that case, it appears that the Chinese went looking for a law he broke to get rid of a pesky dissident. I.e. he pissed them off for other reasons and then they found something. What Snowden did, in terms of the actual act of disclosing m
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
Because, right, wrong, or otherwise, he did actually break the law and not in some twisted way that's meant to punish people the government doesn't like. But you are right, it's not a good example. On the other hand, the fac
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
I think it's important to draw the distinction between freedom in terms of the freedom of speech on the internet and freedom from surveillance on the internet. The US is the largest monitor of the internet because most of the traffic
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
This is a play on the pimp and hooker balls that some places hold. I was going to say this was merely as misogynistic (or not) as those. I.e. that the change from pimp to hacker was merely done for topicality and alliteration and that depen
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
It's probably easier to receive with better, larger, and heavier equipment and more power for processing. Couple that with the fact that control data is not high bandwidth, and you can see why it ended up that way.
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
By that logic, we can't hold people responsible for electing idiots.
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
I'd bet the animation hides the fact that the transition is actually that slow.
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
That argument usually applied to iOS an their practices about non easily user repairable hardware.
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by anologwintermut 13y ago
I counted Germany out the moment the boundless informant information revealed the number of NSA intercepts in Germany was on the order of the number in China (despite the massive population difference and presumable difference in the numbe

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