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15961.
by api 14y ago
Summary: "I'd rather pay slave wages." Of course he would. Of course, the French union workers might be a bit too far on the other end of the spectrum.
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by api 14y ago
I agree somewhat. I would not be willing to say impossible, but I am also not convinced it's possible. I would like to see people try. But it could be impossible for a discrete classical digital computer. It's a distinct possibility, and
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by api 14y ago
Microtubules, maybe, but that's only one of a billion things going on in there. Here's a pretty decent article: http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110615/pdf/474272a.pdf My point is that a neuron is not an equation in a connection model. It'
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by api 14y ago
This is based on the idea that the sum total of what the brain does can be explained by and represented by neural network type models. The conventional neural network model neglects the interior of the neuron. Gene regulatory networks for c
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by api 14y ago
I'm somewhere in between. I think it might be possible to create a machine that does what the brain does, or even to "upload," though I don't see the latter anytime in the foreseeable future. But if so, I don't think it'll be with a standar
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by api 14y ago
http://catb.org/jargon/html/W/wheel-of-reincarnation.html There are other examples of this than the one cited. There's a wheel of reincarnation in computing between the mainframe/thin-client model and the PC/P2P-network model. Right now w
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by api 14y ago
Hate to be another to point this out but: does it matter at this point? Even if we turned off the USA, China and India would still tip us far past 400ppm by 2050. Those two, as well as most of the developing world, seem to have zero inter
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by api 14y ago
I didn't say it was the worst place on Earth. There are obviously a lot of candidates for that, and I can see how people from some surrounding regions would prefer it. But it's definitely not something to idolize unless you really love a mi
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by api 14y ago
A big, unmentioned one: virtually all middlemen who do not add significant value are obsolete. This includes salesmen, sales representatives, dealers, warehousers (replaced by on-demand everything), many types of brokers, etc. This is a hug
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by api 14y ago
I'm amazed at how many elite-school tech types idolize Singapore for some strange reason. I've heard a number of gushing recommendations for the place from the MIT/Harvard set. I personally see it as some kind of horrible sci-fi "Stepford W
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by api 14y ago
Short summary: (1) Don't start a company just to feed your ego, or because it's trendy. You're unlikely to succeed, especially if that's your only reason for doing it, and failing is likely to bruise your ego even more. (2) Don't start a co
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by api 14y ago
A few things: (1) Code reuse, or lack thereof. (2) Multiplication of surface area for things like security bugs... now you have five different stacks to keep track of security updates for instead of just one. (3) Multiplication of deploymen
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by api 14y ago
The absolute worst is SOA (the "enterprisey" buzzword for lots of small services) architectures in which every service is written in a different language ! "Oh, our payment processor is in Node, but our site's in Ruby. Our file caching lay
15974.
by api 14y ago
Absolutely. A truly cool app written in VB.NET is more interesting than FizzBuzz in Haskell.
15975.
by api 14y ago
Someone with ten million in the bank is a peasant in a nice suit to the people you're talking about.
15976.
by api 14y ago
Related advice: don't destroy balance in your life to spend every waking hour working on the theory that once you get your big break you can then have balance. It doesn't work. You burn out. (Speaking from experience.)
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by api 14y ago
Monsanto reminds me of Microsoft in the 90s, but worse.
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by api 14y ago
Also: merit is not one-dimensional. Which merit is being measured? Merit at what? I've noted for a while that a significant fraction of those successful in business, especially in certain sectors, are basically glorified street hustlers. Th
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by api 14y ago
Makes me wonder if someday a bug (or "administrative function") in the firmware of a hardware device used at a major virtualization farm (EC2, Linode, VPS.NET, etc.) will be used to r00t the hardware nodes and then go wild all over everythi
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by api 14y ago
Honestly it seems like the the advantage boils down to two points: (1) x86's baroque encoding is actually a data compression mechanism, making code size relatively small. Code size killed RISC and VLIW. (2) A lot of work has been done to
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Linus Torvalds: x86 versus other architectures (2003)(yarchive.net)
9 points by api 14y ago|4 comments
15982.
by api 14y ago
If designing new crypto stuff, use a mode like GCM (Galois Counter Mode) or EAX. Avoid the old non-authenticated modes.
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by api 14y ago
I thought ECC was vulnerable to Shor's algorithm. Of course we probably don't have QCs good enough to actually do it even for "toy" key sizes, let alone for the 256 bit or higher key sizes that are commonly used.
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by api 14y ago
None of these look ready for prime time, but the fact that it's possible is a great sign. It means the age of asymmetric crypto and all it entails won't end with practical QC. (Which is still a ways off...) Of course if QC does appear and t
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An example of quantum-hard classically-implementable asymmetric crypto(en.wikipedia.org)
41 points by api 14y ago|19 comments
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by api 14y ago
Interesting. Wasn't familiar with the deep details, though I knew Android did something like this. I don't like the user-account-per-app paradigm. It seems like an ugly abuse of multi-user access control to compensate for the missing app is
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by api 14y ago
It's feasible, but I personally think the hypervisor overhead stinks. Better to fix to OS permission model.
15988.
by api 14y ago
That's not true. Root access can be permitted to the user. It just should not be permitted to apps without specific permissions and it should not be required to install an app. Apps should not have to vomit all over the filesystem. They sho
15989.
by api 14y ago
That's quite true. The consumer currently faces three choices: (1) Dangerous insecure apps-can-trash-my-machine desktop OSes with complicated or confusing install / uninstall semantics and "OS rot" due to installs/uninstalls actually modify
15990.
by api 14y ago
It's a terrible trend, but I don't see it as some kind of conspiracy as some people seem to. It's a legitimate market trend being driven by several factors: (1) Operating systems have an outmoded security model. Most focus on multi-user sec

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