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by byerley 12y ago
It's interesting to note that people always leave off the other end of the wealth inequality figures. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Share_top_1_percent.jpg The top 1% share is roughly the same now as it was
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by byerley 12y ago
Having studied at both a cheap state university and also one of the famed "top 20," I'd wholeheartedly argue that the educational opportunities at the two were similar if not the same. The degree from the latter is potentiall
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by byerley 12y ago
I'd argue that the author's views are too concerned with intuition. If we reduce consciousness to a scale rather than a binary property; of course a thermostat is somewhere on the scale, it simply has such a small value that it&#x
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by byerley 13y ago
I mean, If I repeatedly get fucked up and crash Fords over the course of my life while having much better luck with other cars, I might start looking for a causal relationship.
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by byerley 13y ago
Probably more relevant is the greatly reduced clock speed (ignoring that the brain doesn't so much have a centralized clock - neurons only fire at <1k Hz compared to the ~2k Ghz processors used in clusters). The technology also seem
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by byerley 13y ago
Perhaps scarier and more accurate is the idea that it's done for a very good reason, but that we lack the context/intelligence to understand it as individuals. No one wants to be the organism in a superorganism.
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by byerley 13y ago
I was under the impression that even verification is Turing undecidable in general - ie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entscheidungsproblem
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by byerley 13y ago
I cringed when I saw "informal survey," but this seems to be in the important bit - "In most cases, the scam began through Facebook and ended when “Gary Jones” gained access to the victim’s email account." Unfortunately
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by byerley 13y ago
The problem is that people have gotten comfortable with the idea that it's acceptable to hate someone for their hateful beliefs - forgetting that virtually every belief can be considered hateful with the right spin. While I think this
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by byerley 13y ago
When has the media ever had a good handle on what "hacking" means and how prevalent it is? Why would someone with the ability to "hack" a large number of gmail accounts choose nude photos to make their money with? I can&
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by byerley 13y ago
I suspect it's the opposite. The current trend was to play another game (Hearthstone in particular) and in some cases the streamer would actually keep playing Hearthstone during champ select/the beginning of the game - a really ba
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by byerley 13y ago
As a theory guy I'd argue you're looking at it backwards. The proofs are fine in that the correctness logically follows given the appropriate assumptions. In this particular example, it's implicitly assumed that integer overf
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by byerley 13y ago
McCandless had a map (though given that Krakauer himself perpetrated the myth, you can't really be faulted for thinking otherwise). Wikipedia, as well as the movie and a variety of primary sources make it clear that one was found among
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by byerley 13y ago
While I doubt it's an issue in practice, I have a real hard time believing that a compromised source of randomness actually improves the function. If it does, the algorithm is presumably not well designed in the first place - which wou
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by byerley 13y ago
There's a difference between being security-minded and being a crypto-nut. If you're proud of the work you're doing and it's not secretive, why bother encrypting the hard-drive? Similarly, he wouldn't have been caught in the first place if
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by byerley 14y ago
'Security experts' are full of it. Root DNS servers have seen attacks on the same scale regularly.