aristus

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Predicting the Future(carlos.bueno.org)
23 points by aristus 16y ago|15 comments
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by aristus 16y ago
I didn't intend to pick a fight, only point out that they take crap on either end of the spectrum. Some people expect everything and anything to be done to prevent terrorism. Others expect a firm line on individual rights. Different people
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by aristus 16y ago
As far as necessary until told different by their bosses. I often don't agree with what they do, but law enforcement gets a lot of crap in all seasons. When a terrorist slips through (eg, the underwear bomber) people howl, asking how they c
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by aristus 16y ago
Think again again? The article leads off with an old, wrong prediction caused by extrapolating then-current population trends indefinitely. The rest of the article is based on extrapolations of the current population trends indefinitely..
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by aristus 16y ago
:( Two things about this film are unhelpfully wrong, and putting those words into a cute kid's mouth doesn't change that. One, the Oregon datacenter will use some measure of hydro power as opposed to most every other data center in the enti
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by aristus 16y ago
First off, good luck! I would pick a language like Python or Javascript, and start reading code. diveintopython is very good. Once you are familiar with little bits of code, pick something big that you want to make. My first big program was
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by aristus 16y ago
Exclusivity.
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by aristus 16y ago
The terminology bothered me too, when I first came here: http://carlos.bueno.org/images/valley-geography.jpg
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by aristus 16y ago
That essay is amazing, but I think it only covers part of the spectrum. Knowing who your parents are is less important today than a couple hundred years ago. It doesn't cripple you socially as it once did. Knowing what material your water p
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by aristus 16y ago
I've been a few times. Do plan some days before and after, as the people you meet there are the big thing. Email me (in my profile) if you want to hang out! You can decide if the talks themselves are worth it by watching the previous year's
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by aristus 16y ago
Zynga runs largely on EC2, something like 10,000 nodes. I don't know how to define "shaky", but that company bets hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue on EC2.
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by aristus 16y ago
I'd like to help but you need to explain a bit more about what your system does. I've helped build and manage racks and cloud installs. Some general stuff: Downtime happens. It often happens when you move hardware around (say, you need anot
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by aristus 16y ago
I'm a bit torn about that, but I don't feel exploited. Permission was asked and granted, and authors now know the deal. Design is hard . Curation and editing are hard work. I bought 5 copies of #1 for my mother but haven't bought other i
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by aristus 16y ago
I worked for two startups which ended up acquired by Yahoo. The engineering culture is fantastic. Some of the smartest people I know work there. The rest of the company seems sclerotic and obsessed with turf wars. That's what did it for me.
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by aristus 16y ago
All that capoeira and streetfighting too. Must be hard to do with a pile of rocks on your head.
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by aristus 16y ago
Thanks! That's good input. I'm encouraged about the typing speed, especially because the 5" size leaves decent room for the text area.
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by aristus 16y ago
I am currently building a peer to peer network of time capsules: http://www.paperinternet.org
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by aristus 16y ago
I respect your expertise, but this estimate seem at odds with the mainstream reporting on the difficulty of building it. Can you elaborate why you think this could be a low 6-figure job? It seems to have used more than one 0day, for example
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by aristus 16y ago
Is the PayPal account still frozen?
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by aristus 16y ago
I've been following the 5" devices closely for a while now. The iPhone class is just too small for serious work, and only farmers have pockets big enough for 7". Can you elaborate on your time with the Streak? How is typing on that thing? D
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by aristus 16y ago
Your innate potential is not enough. Good problems and good collaborators are necessary to becoming whatever you want to become. Given a choice between being a big fish in a little pond, and being surrounded by some of the smartest people i
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by aristus 16y ago
Chip and pin was broken pretty thoroughly early this year: http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/02/11/chip-and-pin-i...
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by aristus 16y ago
The doctor is capable of choosing to sacrifice himself ( cough as are you). The baby is not. I don't know whether that argument is outside of the utilitarian sandbox. Does utilitarianism demand total knowledge? Can't you posit a baby excep
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by aristus 16y ago
Do you have an alternative idea? Or are we doomed to police-statism? Serious question.
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by aristus 16y ago
And of course, the premium service will be called "Quid Pro".
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by aristus 16y ago
Nice design. Hobson as in Hobson's choice?
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by aristus 16y ago
If I remember correctly, Joseph Campbell waited out the Depression this way. I don't know how he supported himself (probably borrowed the cabin from family), but he basically read books for 5 years.
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by aristus 16y ago
Sure, it seems to agree with those studies. But let's suppose that the religion vs word length chart is a valid measure of intelligence. Are you then prepared to defend the same conclusion about the race vs word length chart? Or will you st
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by aristus 16y ago
Si -- they should have corrected for second languages and proficiency, if they were serious. My big beef is the implication that word length obviously correlates with intelligence instead of, say, pretention.
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by aristus 16y ago
The metric about adherence was made up and without explanation of how they categorized people. The Coleman-Liau Index is based on lengths of words, which proves... what, exactly? Many of the "most" religious people scored higher than the on

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