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by craigyk 10y ago
Yes, at least in medical settings, I think it's just as much about accountability and CYA than actually improving overall real-world security. If that person's action results in a leak than they can be personally sued and fined.
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by craigyk 11y ago
Thanks, it does sound like things have changed. I probably would have been a better hire back then than today though. I was younger, cheaper, and had an almost OCD drive to learn everything CS since I had a complex about getting into the
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by craigyk 11y ago
pumping melted, probably saline water over ice doesn't seem like a great way to refreeze the water, more like a good way to melt more ice.
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by craigyk 11y ago
By my quick calculation, one meter of sea rise would be ~100,000 cubic miles of water. The great lakes hold ~5,500. So no, probably not.
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by craigyk 11y ago
My Google interview in 2008, one guy asked me to write a binary tree structure and implementations of depth and breadth-first search (maybe also balanced insert?) on the whiteboard in C, which I blew through in no time. He then immediately
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by craigyk 11y ago
I wonder about this too. If you are new to CA, at first it seems crazy how aggressive people are about splitting the right hand lane to turn right... who would have the right of way if the bus was already stopped at a light, but the AV spl
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by craigyk 11y ago
How are the two related exactly? Is XtreemFS part of the core of the Quobyte product, or is it a dead-end, with all new development happening in Quobyte?
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by craigyk 11y ago
I will say that I know two people that have independently tried fairly large trials (400TB+) of Lustre, GlusterFS, and BeeGFS, and BeeGFS was their eventual favorite.
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by craigyk 11y ago
It's not entirely clear cut, but IMO apple was also in the right when it came to the ebook price fixing.
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by craigyk 11y ago
based on another comment. I forgot to add that I always had an odd number of servers in the GlusterFS cluster to help with consensus, even if that server did not actually hold any data bricks.
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by craigyk 11y ago
My experience was not as bad as yours, but the problems I saw at a similarly small scale (6 servers, 3 2X replica sets) make me glad I'm not having to scale up a GlusterFS infrastructure. The biggest problem I saw was with absolutely
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by craigyk 11y ago
I can only say that you get what you pay for, private vs. public non-withstanding. I don't put it past any private company to put in an unrealistically low bid, and hope for one of three exit strategies (based on what I've seen i
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by craigyk 11y ago
That's a really good point. I guess we'll see if Europe has its own infrastructure problems in 50 years or so when some of that "new" WWII infrastructure starts to get old. I would say, though, that not all parts of Eu
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by craigyk 11y ago
I think a major factor is that the US hasn't been around for very long and we're coming to a point where a lot of infrastructure is coming under need of repair or replacement simultaneously. In particular instances, this infrastr
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by craigyk 11y ago
I don't see it. Unless you mean debt subsidized growth involving inserting "internet" or "mobile" into existing things and calling them "blue oceans". I think what Goldman Sachs is trying to say is that c
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by craigyk 11y ago
The proposed mechanism involving transposons in GM mosquitoes is very convoluted (imo highly unlikely). It is also a red herring, the real question is whether the virus is the cause, and what the mechanism is.
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by craigyk 11y ago
The Fed is nominally independent of the government. Ideally they should be working together with the government providing more stimulus and jobs to bridge an economic slump (also doing something about student loans, as you mentioned). Unfo
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by craigyk 11y ago
Are you on crack? In what respect does SpaceX's achievements equal large government pushes like the Apollo program, that got a man on the moon almost 50 years ago!! Or the Manhattan Project? With almost complete certainty I can say
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by craigyk 11y ago
I'm not an expert, but the method used really depends on the type of tree. I have faster growing tree that I shape by exploiting how it redirects growth when trimmed.
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by craigyk 11y ago
At any point since bitcoin's inception there have been plenty of major govts that could have easily afforded the resources to pull off a 51% attack.
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by craigyk 11y ago
No. It is not against the law. I think it is only unlawful in the case where the company is actively up for sale.
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by craigyk 11y ago
When it comes to youthful ambitions, time is the ultimate equalizer.
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by craigyk 11y ago
Of course it depends on location and timing, but I sold my last home of 6 years and walked away with 180k. Discounting what we paid in mortgage over that time we probably only netted like 40k or so... but compared to the hassle and cost it
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by craigyk 11y ago
Just how bad is this "permanent" performance hit? Do you have numbers? I've seen pools that have climbed above 90%, and maybe they've suffered permanent speed degradation, but they still run fast enough to mostly satura
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by craigyk 11y ago
I disagree. I think many non-genetic factors affect "intelligence", even on a day to day basis. I myself have been able to detect noticeable and substantial variations in my faculties over these time frames. Brain-training exer
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by craigyk 11y ago
Big, old, "boring" companies. Academia.
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by craigyk 11y ago
And if you did have a machine that could optimally solve NP-hard problems, why not just switch to a centrally planned economy?
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by craigyk 11y ago
conda is quite good. It makes a strong case to be a good general (not just Python) package manager. In particular I think the way it tries to make compiled binaries relocatable is very useful (and clever).
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by craigyk 11y ago
Driest surface in 500 years. I wonder how long it's been since the aquifers have been at their current levels.
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by craigyk 11y ago
If you know anything about the drama surrounding her, you know she's at least an accessory to some extremely shady business dealings. Any defense of her character falls into the same defense strategies as for W Bush. Either she is of

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