arglebarnacle

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by arglebarnacle 9y ago
Honestly the idea that capitalism itself systematically causes inequality is not a crazy thing to believe. You obviously don't agree and that's fine, but it's not the case that every smart person believes the "negative o
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Ask HN: How do Twitter ads to listicle-type pages make money?
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by arglebarnacle 9y ago
You might be surprised at how dangerous it is to be trans. Wikipedia maintains a list of unlawfully killed trans people at this page[1] I guess there are more trans people than informants so maybe there's some statistical point to be m
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by arglebarnacle 9y ago
Sure, in the way that peeing all over the walls is a bodily function. It's a bodily function that's allowed at home (if you must), but not allowed in the office.
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by arglebarnacle 9y ago
It's an interesting comparison to be sure, but I'm not sure Street-Fighting Math has a lot to offer graduate-level pure math texts (the subject of that post). I own and love the book, and did a lot of pure math in my math undergra
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by arglebarnacle 9y ago
The idea that fickle consumers are to blame for unethical and often unlawful exploitation of employees is propaganda with only the thinnest veneer of economics painted on it. I suppose I understand why the very rich and business interests m
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by arglebarnacle 9y ago
I'm sure this horde exists because kickstarter creators market themselves as if they're selling pre-orders of finished products. In some cases they have no choice, because some kickstarters are really expensive. It might make sens
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by arglebarnacle 9y ago
>...if extreme techniques were viewed as likely to result in useful information Right, he wouldn't use it because he doesn't believe it's effective. The GP is suggesting that if it were effective and legal, do you really b
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by arglebarnacle 9y ago
It looks like it's down for me. Is anyone else still able to see it?
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but your last paragraph seems to imply that the "Tesla approach" is unable to "plan an emergency maneuver for collision avoidance" If true, that would seem to mean that Tesla's self-
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
I wouldn't rule it out, but no computing hardware platform has ever been dominant for 50 years before so there are reasons to believe we're not about to get started with that kind of cycle now. Mainframes, minicomputers, desktop p
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
I was a bit disappointed when I found this out about it: "The formula is a general-purpose method of decoding a bitmap stored in the constant k, and it could actually be used to draw any other image." That makes it less of a self-
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
I mean sure, maybe they will. But people have been saying this for at least 6 years. When will this happen exactly, and why? Bitcoin may never achieve the status its proponents hope for, but interest from investors and the financial sector
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
So in a blockchain, it's straightforward to verify whether a block contains only valid transactions or not (in the sense of an address only being allowed to spend coins it really has for example). Any node running the reference impleme
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
Failing to boycott is not the same thing as breaking a strike. If this whole incident has revealed one thing, it's the extent to which the labor movement has lost cultural and moral mindshare. Forty years ago, everyone knew what scabbi
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
Off topic, but can you tell me whether you're using a browser extension to render $e^2$ (and if so which one!), or if you're simply using the $ character as a delimiter for humans who read and write a lot of LaTeX code?
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
You're not wrong that politics is enormously complex, but I think you are wrong that the average person is able to pick a side perhaps only because they lack analytical depth or consideration. Rather, it may be that most people are mor
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
It's definitely true that startups are often founded for the sole purpose of being acquired by one of the Big Boys--but not so that the founders get to work there. It's because they're hoping to get rich--make the perhaps $10
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
There are a lot of people on this thread crapping on Signal for its various flaws and downsides. It's nice to be smarter and more informed than everyone, but for the rest of us we really need advice about what we SHOULD do if we want a
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
Most people only have the NSA as an adversary in the minimal sense that they're caught up in a very broad mass surveillance net. It's true that if you're a whistleblower with sensitive government information Signal is not a c
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
I think it is a mistake to buy into the logic that using encryption means you have something to hide. Regardless of the framing of the article, many people likely read this and thought, "yes, it would be nice to be confident my messagi
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
I think I misspoke. Rather than a true burner phone you'd want to use a prepaid phone with minutes that don't expire, or that you can keep active by using a minute every 90 days etc. Definitely a hassle, but for anyone for whom a
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
I'm sensitive to this concern, but remember that the phone number you register with Signal doesn't have to be your real phone number or identical to the phone number of your primary Signal device. You can just get a VOIP number or
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
It's a welcome surprise to see an unreasonable and inflammatory post end with such a good piece of advice. Needless to say the notion that python and ruby programmers are greybeards who need to "die off" to make way for the f
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
Some more: W2202XA Walked into lamppost, initial encounter W34111A Accidental malfunction of paintball gun, initial encounter W5629XA Other contact with orca, initial encounter Y36511D War operations involving direct blast effect of nuclear
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by arglebarnacle 10y ago
That analogy would make more sense if software engineering required as many time-sensitive split second decisions as doctoring does. Doctors go through years of schooling involving a substantial amount of memorization as well as board exams
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by arglebarnacle 11y ago
To me this sounds similar to the problem of how to execute a timing-based attack over a network with variable latency. The key is to make lots of requests very quickly. You can then statistically narrow down very small variations even thoug
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by arglebarnacle 11y ago
I think it's going to be safe. It demonstrably saves much much more than it costs, so conservatives will likely support it from a cost cutting/reducing government "waste" perspective. Liberals will support it because it&
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by arglebarnacle 11y ago
I heard an interview with the inventor on NPR last night where he claimed that all the materials and indeed, the technology needed to do this already exist. The reason this contradicts your reading is likely because, as others have commente
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by arglebarnacle 11y ago
I'm hoping that even though we don't seem to be so lucky, there are other solar systems out there with multiple worlds where intelligent life developed roughly in parallel. At least someone in the universe would be living out my s

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