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by cantagi 10y ago
I am halfway through reading Raymond Smullyan: A puzzle guide to Gödel, after finding out about his recent death here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13626221 . It explains Godel's incompleteness Theorems accurat
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by cantagi 10y ago
I am also curious about how one can vocally defend freedom to carry guns but not care too much about having surveillance and censorship free communication. From what I can tell, they believe that the FCC regulating the ISPs is an overreach
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by cantagi 10y ago
always used http://vimcasts.org/ . So glad someone made neverssl
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by cantagi 10y ago
Not all the tracking is disabled unfortunately. You might be interested in Inox - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/inox
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by cantagi 10y ago
Good point. Whenever I post about the snoopers charter, I even have friends jumping in arguing that it's a good idea and that it's necessary in order to protect us from terrorists and pedophiles. As hypocritical and intellectually
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by cantagi 10y ago
The first one makes sense in an ideal world though. If the government exists to ensure your freedom, then it should fund the development of free software. WRT the second one, shouldn't we be free to write closed source software?
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by cantagi 10y ago
How do you mean? Do you know of any up-to-date books on large scale data mining?
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by cantagi 10y ago
Something very weird is going on - krebsonsecurity.com is resolving to 127.0.0.1 . Could this be an attempt by someone's DNS servers to make the machines in the original attacking botnet DoS themselves?
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by cantagi 10y ago
> "Riot is more than a messaging app" This said to me "Riot is just a messaging app" and I bounced. I'd recommend changing that tagline to indicate briefly why a user might use Riot instead of Slack or Whatsapp
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by cantagi 10y ago
Skeptical. The Chinese government can afford to hire people who have better photoshop skills than this to censor these buildings. Baidu should also be able to do a better job of censorship than this. To me this looks like some kind of algor
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by cantagi 10y ago
If you're trying to reason about your program, this is huge. It very much matters where these points are. A concurrent thread being allowed to jump in and modify memory at any time at all, even halfway through a primitive math operati
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by cantagi 10y ago
No "high-anything" would mean something very different to most parents :)
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by cantagi 10y ago
inox is good stuff! You need to install plugins from source though.
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by cantagi 10y ago
This is fantastic news - Skype is a decent product, and fairly universal, but it also happens to be NSA spyware. I'll now use it, because it's sandboxed within a web page!
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by cantagi 10y ago
Apologies if I'm being naive, but how does it take 3 architects a whole year to upgrade a family of websites to HTTPS? The BBC are way behind the times here, although the article alludes to issues with suppliers.
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by cantagi 10y ago
I agree that the hyperloop itself is a white elephant designed to attract investment. However, Elon Musk may be trying to use the hyperloop to obtain the funds for r&d on a space launch loop.
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by cantagi 10y ago
UKIP is very right wing and no mainstream party will normally want to ally with them. Farage clearly wants to join the Conservative cabinet for post-brexit negotiations. He will probably join Andrea Leadsom's campaign, who has refused
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by cantagi 10y ago
Lets hope this is a race to the bottom for freelancing websites, rather than freelancers! Its also reminiscent of the opposition to Uber by London cab drivers: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/0
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by cantagi 10y ago
"but when you reach 7,825, it is impossible for every Pythagorean triple to be multicoloured" So they didn't know in advance how long it was going to take or the size of the output?
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by cantagi 10y ago
It's OK - Github converts it to HTML. However, GCHQ could politely ask the NSA to force Github to give them the usernames and IP addresses that viewed the repo. Maybe use Tor?
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by cantagi 11y ago
This. Qualifying with "All" rejects all the cases where the statement might not be true for unforeseen reasons. Disclaimer: I generally agree with the OP despite the presumptive title.
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by cantagi 11y ago
The problem this solves is even worse than it sounds - there's no reason why the NSA couldn't force a CDN to silently concatenate their own analytics onto a site's JQuery. Is there a good way of signing your assets?
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by cantagi 11y ago
That's not really an argument for writing server code in javascript, since you could instead find a way of transpiling your favourite language to javascript and use it on the client and server. I give you typescript, clojurescript, has
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by cantagi 11y ago
I've been in this situation twice before as a developer. The first time, the devs bought nerf guns and scooters to counter the new corporate atmpsphere, and the second time everyone who wasn't part of the corporate in-crowd got sy
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by cantagi 11y ago
Alarmist article. Telegram is banning ISIS's public channels, not snooping on and censoring their private communications. That is moderation of a public facing platform which isn't an invasion of privacy and doesn't necessari
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by cantagi 11y ago
That's actually how all businesses work. If the terms of business aren't acceptable to your users, you lose the users and your business will fail. Adverts are non-consensual hijacking of users resources, so you could argue that ad
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by cantagi 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. How to display content should be an absolute final decision on the part of the user. Adverts hijack hardware, bandwidth, screen space, electricity, and time, which belong to the user, not the advertiser or the site
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by cantagi 11y ago
I apologize, for writing joke Senryus, on the internet.