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by benchaney 6y ago
Perhaps the takeaway should be that these sorts of studies need a control group. Now it may be difficult to find a population that would be good to serve as a control group, which I think points toward the idea that these sort of studies sh
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by benchaney 6y ago
The idea is that helping people become self sufficient is more important than the concerns about who knows what. Even if both parties know who the other is, it is still the highest form of charity. Though probably it is possible to do both.
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by benchaney 6y ago
Since you are playing devil's advocate anyway, could you try to defend the concept of dog whistles? Recent events suggest that if someone wants to be racist they simply will, without any attempt to disguise it. I also think it is too c
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by benchaney 6y ago
They mostly work most of the time. When people say they want something that "just works", they are looking for more consistency than that. I don't doubt that they work for you, but not everyone is so lucky. I have encountered
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by benchaney 6y ago
AI have certainly been changing which joseki are popular and which aren't, but this isn't the same as increasing the amount of memorization in the game since joseki aren't new. The AI favored lines are likely to get heavily e
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by benchaney 6y ago
I disagree about memorization. That may be true for chess, but the go board is too large and the game to long for that to be viable. In the opening, bots will generally recommend several places per move that lose 0 or -0.1 points compared t
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by benchaney 6y ago
x86 has instructions that execute conditionally. Most conditionals in higher level languages get compiled to conditional jumps, but using conditional operations this isn't necessary. The same code path is taken in all cases, and the in
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by benchaney 6y ago
I’d say the dismissiveness is well warranted since you are impugning Scott’s motives without justifying yourself, or any of your claims. If you make poor faith assumptions about others, you can hardly complain when others are dismissive of
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by benchaney 6y ago
The 1.6M figure is based on a company with 20,000 employees. How many of them have less than 20M in revenue? Also, your units are wrong. 1.6M is the total amount being risked. There is no realistic risk of losing that much every month unles
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by benchaney 6y ago
I’m not missing anything. The time spent to properly understand your problem is generally quite small, and pays itself back many times over.
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by benchaney 6y ago
This is what I found doubtful. Generally implementing and debugging complex solutions is very time consuming and self education is very efficient.
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by benchaney 6y ago
That seems highly questionable. Given the complexity of his brute force algorithm, it was probably significantly more complex, and required more development time than the more elegant solution. The only reason the brute force got its answer
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by benchaney 6y ago
This is what GP meant by a "terminology problem", but syscalls are much simpler than a real context switch. They certainly won't flush the L1d cache as a result of this patch.
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by benchaney 6y ago
This is wrong. The net positive heat generation comes from the energy that the ACs consume. If they are entirely running on solar power this energy would have become heat anyway.
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by benchaney 6y ago
There is a user space thread on the host for each virtual CPU core being offered to the guest. The host OS runs the virtual CPU by scheduling this thread. The host kernel scheduler subdivides the time on the virtual CPU that has been given
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by benchaney 6y ago
I'm curious about this. Could you please point me towards more information?
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by benchaney 6y ago
This. While systemd has a lot of issues that are obvious from a distance, everyone who hates it has had it break something because of a really stupid design decision it made.
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by benchaney 6y ago
It’s not undetectable at all. When you go to vote, you give your name and address, and get crossed off a list. If someone did that fraudulently, it would be noticed when the person who’s identity you stole comes to vote, it is obvious. Ther
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by benchaney 6y ago
You should study cryptanalysis. This is why rolling your own crypto is dangerous. Not just because the result is going to be insecure, but also because it isn’t particularly educational, but it feels like it is. It is easy to convince yours
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by benchaney 6y ago
The standard has nothing to do with whether the exploit has been used but whether it is possible. There is no credibly attack an adversary could carry out against the election by exploiting the lack a of voter ID requirement. There are howe
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by benchaney 6y ago
How is the integrity of the scientific community harmed?
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by benchaney 7y ago
If the quality is poor people have the right to say so, regardless of the cost. If the projects existence is causing issues for some people, they have a right to complain, even if it is creating a free benefit for someone else. Why would so
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by benchaney 7y ago
You are misunderstanding the issue. If you only have two bits of entropy, than outputting two bits leaks the entire state, because two bits is brute forceable. This is true regardless of the quality of your RNG. The same is true of 32 bits,
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by benchaney 7y ago
> Depends on how quickly state bits leak. If the state only leaks 2 bits per minute, then adding 32 bits every minute is perfectly sufficient. That's why even though actual leakage rate is >0 bits for any real-world CSPRNG it can
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by benchaney 7y ago
This is completely incorrect. The SAT is not changing to incorporate the skills that would have previously measured by the subject test. As a result we are simply going to have fewer objective metrics.
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by benchaney 7y ago
This article is about death rates, not infections rates. Spreading out deaths does not have similar benefits.
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by benchaney 7y ago
Yes he was. The modification to the problem being discussed here is really besides the point.
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by benchaney 7y ago
An Eruv isn’t really a loophole. The rule is that you are allowed to carry indoors, or in a walled city. In ancient times the walls of the city basically denoted the extent of the community. Cities aren’t walled anymore for practical reason
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by benchaney 7y ago
Hardware operates under much different constraints than firmware. Carrying out an attack from hardware would be a lot more difficult.
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by benchaney 7y ago
Well, the only financial incentive to do good is money. But that is a tautology, not an observation. There could potentially also be other types of incentives, but I don’t see how they are supposed to apply here.

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