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by chalst 13y ago
I think that ranking cannot be by %age R&D spend. Taking the R&D expenditure from your link, and turnover from the accounts for 2012, we have (money values in $bn): R&D Turnover R&D/turnover Ap
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How to Get Ahead at the NSA: What they can and cannot do(lrb.co.uk)
1 points by chalst 13y ago|0 comments
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by chalst 13y ago
Please look again at the figures in the link you provide: Apple is larger than each of the companies I mentioned (very slightly larger than Samsung by 2012 sales; I'm not sure why 3M is in your list - they are 1/4 the size of Appl
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by chalst 13y ago
Did you evaluate PCE against MESS [2]? Apparently some people involved with the MESS project have the Nextstep ROM images. [2]: http://mess.org/faq
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by chalst 13y ago
> The technology from your iPhone wouldn't have been possible without Apple's big R&D department. It's interesting that you point to Apple. Compared to companies with a more old-fashioned approach to R&D (Xerox,
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by chalst 13y ago
I have great respect for Bill Keller, but Greenwald makes the much stronger case here. Keller suggests that news that is trivial, shallow, sensational, redundant tends to be the same as news that is ideological and polemical - I'm
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by chalst 13y ago
Most of the page is loaded dynamically from cloudfront.net - if this is blocked (e.g., you have disabled js for them), you won't see much.
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by chalst 13y ago
Salaries for the board is a special case, since it usually needs to be agreed by the shareholders at the AGM. This case isn't really covered by fiduciary duty, since it is not a case of the board acting as agents of the shareholders (
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by chalst 13y ago
> corporate profit and personal profit The Amazon's board have a fiduciary duty not to enrich themselves at the expense of their shareholders. Amazon certainly is not a non-profit.
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by chalst 13y ago
Trading companies are supposed to have effective risk policy (i.e., they are supposed to think about what happens if things do wrong and formulate rules to ameliorate risks) and compliance controls (i.e., bureaucratic controls that ensure t
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by chalst 13y ago
The current man page for FreeBSD random (4) is at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=random&apropos=0&se... whose HISTORY section reads: A random device appeared in FreeBSD 2.2. The early version
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by chalst 13y ago
FreeBSD's current implementation behind /dev/random is more sophisticated that Darwin's - just look at the manpages. I don't see how you can tell if Darwin doesn't have enough entropy, which you can with both
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by chalst 13y ago
Userspace: Being in userspace obviously doesn't increase speed, but I don't think the overhead is material to dlitz's speed concern. The point is that we can cook up things in userspace that might meet dlitz's requireme
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by chalst 13y ago
> The distinction between /dev/random and /dev/urandom is silly That the problems with the two sources are completely different tells you that the distinction is not silly. Your speed requirement sounds to me like y
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by chalst 13y ago
The reason many publishers prefer MS Word is that it is the best choice at the editing stage. It is much easier to find copy-editors who will be able work efficiently with Word than any other system, with Adobe Indesign/Incopy being a
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by chalst 13y ago
The major use of the site is that you can follow researchers who interest you and be notified when they upload new papers (and likewise allow people to follow you) - the notifications for Google Scholar are not terribly useful for that.
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by chalst 13y ago
> When alcohol is ingested, the body's fat metabolism practically stops until it's out of your system. Can you provide a source for this?
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by chalst 13y ago
Typical Org-mode code diffs better than typical Latex code. This is a serious argument in favour of authoring in Org-mode and using its Latex export facility.
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by chalst 13y ago
I'm familiar with similar workflows. Last week, I edited via a (private) Github repo with a scientist client who use Emacs/ org-mode/ ediff, authoring .org files, editing using Git staging to create change sets and inline \
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by chalst 13y ago
Are you aware that users running the TOR Browser Bundle will normally be a node (i.e., they will provide proxying services to other users/nodes), just as with Bit Torrent clients?
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by chalst 13y ago
My understanding (I'm no expert on this) is that the more users, the more efficient routing is within the Tor network, in principle making .onion space less sluggish, but if you have a big increase in the number of users with no corre
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by chalst 13y ago
I'm convinced that this is a hard task, hard enough that probably no one will do it properly. But for emulating Python class semantics, is there any reason why we can't: 1. Come up with an inefficient but exact modelling of the s
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by chalst 13y ago
I found your essay a bit hard to follow, I think in part because it was a fusion of two (very interesting) essays, a historical primer on how Hollywood works and an argument about why Y Combinator can't incrementally fund entities that
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by chalst 13y ago
Numbers: there's no issue with handling numbers using userdata. See how lgmp handles this [1]. There's a wider issue of just how Lua is the target language if most of the runtime and much of the semantics is being done in C libr
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by chalst 13y ago
I recall that the NSA admitted that they hadn't any audit trail from which they could figure out what downloads Snowden had made. But apparently GCHQ has better information...
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Linux may have been causing USB disconnects(plus.google.com)
331 points by chalst 13y ago|116 comments
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by chalst 13y ago
> But I think in economics a circular graph doesn't really make sense, does it? Leontief functions are a list of what inputs and outputs each technology a country uses as inputs and yields as outputs. So farming a region might re
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by chalst 13y ago
> the man's journalist husband more or less openly threatens the UK government with the release of more classified information in retaliation Greenwald goes to lengths to refute this interpretation in the article and elsewhere.
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by chalst 13y ago
One of the Wikileaks releases contained allegations that Qatar was leaning on Al-Jazeera: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/05/wikileaks-cable...
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by chalst 13y ago
There were 61 Linux users listed http://usesthis.com/interviews/linux/ which gives about 1/6 of those interviewed. Some of the interviewees don't give an OS, e.g., Dave Jones http://dave.jone

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