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by avn2109 12y ago
I mean, shouldn't your CV come off of the LaTeX presses in .pdf format anyway? Though continuing your line of reasoning, you could output it as .dvi or something more exotic, such that the hiring manager will have no trouble running th
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by avn2109 12y ago
Also, it'll be a wide and fallow field for the NSA's insertion of backdoors.
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Seriously this. Don't worry, Windows 11 will certainly require 1TB to run MaterialAeroMetro 2022. The only thing worth debating is whether the GUI design pendulum will have swung between Flat/glossy an even or odd number of times
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by avn2109 12y ago
Just for the sake of having balanced anecdotes here for people who might be considering the switch to TS: I recently started using TextSecure on my janky, crappy old Android phone and it is a _dream_. So far it has been strictly better that
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by avn2109 12y ago
Strictly speaking it's a joint venture with the CIA :p
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>> "Providing electrical power, sewage lines, etc.. is not very difficult compared to handling Internet traffic." There is no question that each of these things is difficult at scale. Furthermore I have never done either of
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by avn2109 12y ago
Good point. Noises have been made for a long time that Tor is compromised given a sufficiently motivated adversary. For instance, [0], among many others. In light of those noises, my non-rhetorical question is this: Why would any Ulbright w
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by avn2109 12y ago
Subsystems integration is an engineering discipline in its own right, and is perhaps the one with the greatest impact on user experience. The SI work that Tesla does is not often mentioned but IMHO it's a big part of the secret sauce.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Well, Frank Wilczek said something like "Philosophy is too important to be left to the philosophers." [0] The unspoken assumption is that those silly philosophers are off writing a priori worthless post-Marxist historiographic tre
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>> "Plus, passwords aren't routinely collected and shared by governmental agencies" Y U no read Greenwald? Not sure if trolling.
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by avn2109 12y ago
Well, Netezza is super fast and sometimes makes my life really easy. Though it it's neither particularly new nor pure in-house IBM. But their logo is on the manual, etc.
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>> "... or keep 'em distracted with shiny baubles and insipid passive entertainment." Panem et circenses. Hardly a new trick, and truer now than ever.
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If ever you were going to make another nuclear powered civilian vessel, this would probably be the one.
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Does anyone know if this actually works? I don't have a car but this is obviously a real pain point.
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>> "The biggest, fastest-growing companies in the world are run and staffed by us, and mainstream culture has shifted from mocking us to respect. ...We’ve won. We’re still behaving like the rebel alliance, but now we’re the Empir
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by avn2109 12y ago
>> "Is Capturing Carbon from the Air Practical?" There are already widely-available solar-powered redundant distributed systems that do this while producing valuable outputs. Around here we call it the forest (tm).
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>> "then relaying the lining." Former tunnel boring engineer here. Modern TBM's usually line the tunnel with prefab concrete sectional rings, which are built by a human-controlled hydraulic arm at the front of the TBM&#
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>> "...'We're in an unreal world now where the concept can get you $25 million -- where revenues and business plans, you don't need to have those," said Hagen. "But that blip's got to end at some poi
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Ben Franklin (allegedly) said, "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." The old guy is seeming more and more prescient nowadays. Pretty clear that BF w
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>> "...(maybe under direct protection by Beijing or Moscow)." This argument is bolstered by the fact that Snowden (hardly an ignorant party) sought precisely the protection you mention.
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>> "... sending an always-on video stream to home base." The trouble is, so long as the cops have the ability to switch off the camera/pull the battery/cover the lens, we lose all the benefits of wearable video for
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See exhibit A, 9/11 -> Bin Laden -> Afghanistan -> Iraq
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Technically, this sounds about right (am mostly a n00b though) but the comments on this thread seem to me terrifyingly naive for a post-Snowden world. Apple has semi-convincingly denied the presence of a few, very specific attack vectors, a
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by avn2109 12y ago
I fear the American government's totalitarian/police state leanings far more than I fear the PRoC. Though the Chinese government is undoubtedly an enthusiastic squasher of political dissent, and their secret police are surely quit
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>> "treat them like the Statsi agent they are, spit in their face and tell them they're not welcome in your life." The HN hivemind is mentioned in a negative context quite often. If the parent's view were instituti
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>> "Do we have any examples of large Internet communities with unilateral good discussion?" I don't mean to belabor the obvious here, but do you consider HN a "large Internet community?"
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You're making a thoughtful point here (though one that I happen to strongly disagree with), so I'm not sure why the downvotes. But anyway, it's worth noting that the publicly switched telephone network, email, SMS, etc. are a
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Also, NYU Applied Math is really solid. Until reading this I thought it was their flagship department.
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Well, very often I will click through to SO from Google to a closed thread that got downmodded like crazy, but that nevertheless exactly solves my problem in less than a minute from the first answer. Perhaps on some level SO knows this, and
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>> "HFT is basically just computerised market making." Except that they are not real-deal market makers, haven't signed those contracts with the exchange, etc. Which means when times are tough, HFT's and their liqu

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