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by brians 10y ago
X-ray flares, which get through the ionosphere and mess with VHF and UHF. The collapse of the magnetosphere on the night side following impact of a coronal mass ejection—which not only make a lot of VHF and UHF noise, they have enough power
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by brians 10y ago
Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's s
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by brians 10y ago
Sunspots don't cause appreciable increase in RF background at any frequency at sea level. They cause lots more excitation of the ionosphere, so shortwave radio signals bounce better and further, but nothing up in UHF. But other phenom
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by brians 10y ago
So the evil32 people kept the private keys. That's exciting.
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by brians 10y ago
I think on 2 and 3 you're mistaken: it is often much harder today for law enforcement or intelligence parts of the government to get data from other parts of the government, who can ignore them or tie them up in bureaucracy, than from
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by brians 10y ago
Couple reasons. Best reason, the fiber has many Gbps extra capacity for Ultra-HD with augmented smellovision. Other reason, if Verizon is delivering twisted pair, the FCC rises from the demarc in a cloud of brimstone and invokes its ancient
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by brians 10y ago
field roast grain meat sausages, actually. I, an omnivore, use them all the time. They're seitan with vegetables. And there is the venerable Dillburito.
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by brians 10y ago
That's bio, this is physics.
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by brians 10y ago
Or inflation increasing, no?
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by brians 10y ago
There's great work on this called differential dataflow. You have to trace at a finer grain than cells, but can then avoid lots of recalculation.
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by brians 10y ago
And that came from Emacs and old Lisp environments---and perhaps something yet earlier? As late as 2000, this was the single biggest advantage and single biggest impediment to new programmers in MIT's 6.001 lab: a bunch of nonvisible s
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by brians 10y ago
What's missing from Edwin or Emacs with SLIME? Support for Python, obviously, but—that's solvable. Is there a more fluid execution environment in Jupyter?
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by brians 10y ago
It's common in nonprofits if they wish to change what flavor of board they have. It looks to me like Tor is changing from an executive board to a single executive and an advisory board. This is always a risky move, but very plausibly
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by brians 10y ago
We disagree on that definition. The defining attribute of an HSM is protection against software compromise of the main computer. Having provided near-perfect defense against a software-only adversary, many HSM vendors then add layers and
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by brians 10y ago
Like most research projects that want to affect humans, eventually Tor moves to human trials. Proper trials require not just cypher punks, but actual people hiding from repressive governments. The Tor folks I've met have always been c
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by brians 10y ago
Presumably dhcp should tell you a CA for .local or similar?
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by brians 10y ago
Perhaps the reason for a short Ubuntu hardening guide is that these changes are already incorporated in the code. I understand the value of a uniform base configuration for a large network—say, 1000 systems or more. But surely it's b
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by brians 10y ago
We could have learned that lesson in many other ways. I am glad we have the opportunity when it was pointed at one person at a time—that could have been a subway or aircraft controller. Now, the hard part is ensuring we really do learn the
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by brians 10y ago
Exactly. Moreover, it's underweighting some common maneuvers—like an unguarded left.
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by brians 10y ago
More likely connections between the water.org people and the MIT Corporation board. The MIT D-Lab has goals and approaches closely related to water.org's. See https://d-lab.mit.edu for more.
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by brians 10y ago
No, this is showing more: all the splashing and churn of a bunch of mid level people really looking.
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by brians 10y ago
Nope. I have a 1990s understanding of perceptrons; this helped show me a bit of what the current rage is about.
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by brians 10y ago
Consider someone at the edges of the distribution of healthiness: say, someone born with severe mental and physical disabilities. A universal basic income will never take sufficient care of this person; his or her medical care will cost mu
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by brians 10y ago
UBI isn't a plausible replacement for those, because extreme medical care, and care for the disabled, is priced so far out of range with the rest. I expect part of the steps towards UBI to involve further evolution of our systems for a
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by brians 10y ago
The argument is that some people were compelled to sell at this low price, and a fair price (the nearly-$18 number) is about what would have persuaded them to sell. All the high-sounding ideas about making arguments by offering to buy ig
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by brians 10y ago
No, because it lets you toggle each pigment between colored and (nearly) transparent. An LCD needs to be colored or opaque.
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by brians 10y ago
They have one international airport; you can use different moves when you don't have to scale. They have broad social consciousness of active attack. Most Americans do not experience terrorism as a realistic threat. Others differences
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by brians 10y ago
What department at your employer would you expect to hire a Comms major? How many do they need per year? What fraction of those are college hires, vs people who have paid their dues in some trench elsewhere?
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by brians 10y ago
You don't get most of those benefits against a poor or malign postinst script.
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by brians 10y ago
Many families buying these homes have several children. Property tax scales only loosely with family size, but tuition is typically linear.

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