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by avn2109 12y ago
Well that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.
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by avn2109 12y ago
No, but I do have tar -czf whatever.tar.gz, right?
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "I hope for the US's sake that this is not the model of urban development they herald as the future..." It is indeed the model of the future. This fact makes me as an American very sad sometimes.
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by avn2109 12y ago
This. The article says Google and Facebook each gave him 50 big ones. Which != 0, but I can't help but thinking that's like .00001 seconds of Google profits, given to a project that is probably on the critical path of >50% of t
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by avn2109 12y ago
Forgive me if I'm being ignorant, but what's stopping me from making a large torrent?
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by avn2109 12y ago
Agreed. It feels like we're merely changing the means, not the ends, ie. the system is doing what it's always done, just now it is more efficient.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Really? I have been under the assumption for many years the the commodities markets are thoroughly rigged. See for example (among many others) the Goldman aluminum warehousing case [0-1]. [0] http://www.nytimes.com/2013&#x2F
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by avn2109 12y ago
Excavation projects are famously successful in Boston, so the Google Fiber people are probably chomping at the bit to get their shovels in Beantown dirt. <\s> But seriously, your hypothesis about GF's non-evil fundamental DNA is
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by avn2109 12y ago
Watch out---patient responses will be bimodally distributed. It induces a catatonic state in the vast majority of people, but it's an amphetamine-like stimulant to a tiny minority of partisans.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Is return proportional to area? Diameter? Some other quantity? These are the same flaws Tufte identified years ago.
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by avn2109 12y ago
This is unfunny because it is in practice true that any motorist can be searched at any time for any (or no) reason in the United States.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Why not just come up with a gas flow counter? That's what they do in real life rad labs.
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "Despite beautiful parks adjacent..." A big chunk of Jacobs' work is concerned with why parks are a necessary but insufficient condition for vibrant cities, especially in the book mentioned in the GP (Death and Life
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by avn2109 12y ago
The haiku effect.
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "...dangerous wild animals to deal with..." I come from one of the wildest remaining areas in the lower 48, with a correspondingly high density of charismatic megafauna and apex predators. On exactly zero occasions have I
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by avn2109 12y ago
Idea: In the same way that the Alaska Permanent Fund has created a vocal pro-industry constituency out of nothing (aka the residents of Alaska, who are paid from extractive revenues), maybe we could drum up political support by distributing
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "how on Earth to artists, musicians, journalists, authors, etc. ever get paid for anything?" There is exactly 0 danger of running out of creative people, regardless of whether or not they get paid. The creativity is built
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by avn2109 12y ago
What about if we build more Manhattans and put our 600 million people there? Maybe it's time to dig some subway tunnels on the Kansas prairie.
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by avn2109 12y ago
If you're at all important/a threat, they're paying particular attention to your porn habits so as to bolster their dossier on you. This is for later public release/blackmail purposes.
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by avn2109 12y ago
This is really interesting. Can you suggest more reading on the two-simultaneous-front goals?
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by avn2109 12y ago
The site you linked to does say this: "WARNING: Contains crude/offensive/lulzy jokes about Jews, please use discretion/common sense, story not meant to be taken seriously in any way shape or form."
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "...descended into property..." Do you mean "into poverty..."? Genuine question, not being snarky.
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by avn2109 12y ago
And the site is borderline-unusable with a mouse... :|
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by avn2109 12y ago
Is there anything stopping the publishers from requiring cryptographically signed reviews by peers? E.g. we establish a bijection between public keys and institutional email addresses and then only accept signed reviews.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Speaking of reminders, didn't Asimov write (as happens so often now, owing to the fact that we live in the future) a relevant short story about computer generated prose being widely adopted?
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "If there's some cop standing around with nothing to do..." Honestly, I have (almost) only ever seen NYPD officers standing around with nothing to do. I don't know if that's because they are drastically ove
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by avn2109 12y ago
These Tesla PR pieces are pretty funny, and Musk (if he really writes them) seems to have a dry wit about him. "... but, if you have been to Nevada, you will notice that there is quite a lot of extra land with nobody on it. This is not
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by avn2109 12y ago
These are all the things I want to tell people about BI, written concisely in one place. I wish I could upvote you more.
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "...same level of secrecy..." Well, no. As pointed out elsewhere in this thread, if Whisper Systems doesn't own the whole app, then the Whatsapp code might include code (that they "forget" to show Moxie) th
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by avn2109 12y ago
Maybe just include the checksum of the .pdf, without loudly mentioning what it is? The right people will know what to do with that, and the wrong ones won't.

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