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by crpatino 13y ago
> ... and there are methods of generating memorable passphrases that you can actually measure the entropy. No there are not! The minute you publish your method, the measure of the output's entropy stops being relevant. Your security
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by crpatino 13y ago
> The problem is that while nuclear power may be potentially have the best cost-benefit of any power source... Over what time horizon? The problem with Nuclear Fission is that it leaves behind waste that is no longer be put to any constr
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by crpatino 13y ago
Theoretically, you are of course right. In practice, it is a tradeoff. If you have already decided that the password for this particular computer/application/website does not entail the use of password DB, it is a good option. You
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by crpatino 13y ago
> But we have made modern war so expensive, nobody can afford another one. It's a rich irony that this very same argument was proudly claimed.. about 100 years ago.
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by crpatino 13y ago
Does anyone else have a feeling that the idea that it is unacceptable to suffer soldier casualties during war is ultimately emasculating for the US army? This is not the first time this happens in history, either. The golden age fearsome Ro
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by crpatino 13y ago
I more or less agree with you, but would like to add into the big picture. This is where economic theory meets really... and falls short. Salaries cannot be increased ad-infinitum. Even an extraordinary candidate's potential contributi
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by crpatino 13y ago
No... unless you happen to pick Spanish as your second, Italian as your third, and then go around trying to shoehorn Japanese, Swahili or Finish into your (unknowingly) narrow definition of what a language should look like.
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by crpatino 13y ago
My grandmother used to say that there are 2 vacant thrones in heaven, waiting for the couple that never did regret to have gotten married.
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by crpatino 13y ago
In the same vein, length of name vs abundance of other candidate tokens of the same length. By example, in C language, there are only 52 possible one-character names (26 if you stick to the convention of using only lower case characters), 5
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by crpatino 13y ago
Based on the linear extrapolation they make over the third year failure data into the future (to calculate an estimated half life of roughly 6 years), I would say they probably have not. A little statistics is a dangerous thing.
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by crpatino 13y ago
As long as you agree to make hitting someone while wearing glass == 2nd degree murder.
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by crpatino 13y ago
The article explicitly mention that this is not the case. If anything, it poses the question of how much genetic engineering is too much. And about betting randomness... I recall sometime reading about this certain ethnic group, which is ta
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by crpatino 13y ago
While mathematically correct, this does not seem to be how people use with that phrase. "X is probably going to happen" implies there is some evidence in favor of X, while "X is probably not going to happen" implies evid
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by crpatino 13y ago
Of course the death of the soil does not bankrupt farmers, this is just a nasty side effect of industrial farming. What bankrupt the farmers is that industrial farming does increase the yield of a given field at the cost of relying in an ev
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by crpatino 13y ago
The revolution, discovery of fossil fuels and antibiotics, international trade, etc, were all widespread before the invention of computers. You could argue that operations research (a branch of applied math that deals with logistics mostly)
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by crpatino 13y ago
Robots don't spit in coffee... they spill it over your hand if you cannot hold the damned cup still with micro-metric precision.
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by crpatino 13y ago
The current use of automation in car manufacturing does not preclude the future capacity of building more cars by any means . Your so called "efficient farming" does increase the yield of calories per acre at the cost of killing
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by crpatino 13y ago
> What you describe about the development process, ... , is important but doesn't really belong in the source code. Except that in really big/successful projects, the proper places are outdated specs that end up buried in obscu
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by crpatino 13y ago
If making education free was the goal, why not stop messing up with student loans and provident students with scholarships . Every course you flunk or take incomplete, you pay out of your own pocket. Every course you pass you receive a par
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by crpatino 13y ago
Not if you care about maintainability. I was about to go into a rant about that moron that named its variables after Starwars characters and then left for a better paying gig, leaving his unmaintainable mess for others to care about , bu
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by crpatino 13y ago
I'm not familiar with Star Trek lore. Will have to look at it.
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by crpatino 13y ago
Politicians have bodyguards that can put a bullet through the head of anyone who acts on the information, sometimes even legally! On the other hand, do you really want the neighbor's meth-head boyfriend to have NSA style access to your
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by crpatino 13y ago
Many things right familiar to our IT experience. 1. From the Mythical Man-Month, as team size (and capacity of productive work) grows linearly, communication overhead grows quadratically. 2. Attempts to manage with traditional tools get sid
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by crpatino 13y ago
I propose the last verse of Martin Niemoller's poem: "Then they came after me..." It is as powerful a phrase as we can get!
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by crpatino 13y ago
Just assume each one of your friends is a raving moron until you observe evidence that contradicts that fact. Half jokingly, my alibi for getting out of FB was "On moral grounds, I cannot offer my support to a company that was star
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by crpatino 13y ago
Maybe new laws should be created and applied retroactively... you know, to increase the conversion rate ;)
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by crpatino 13y ago
This is precisely this type of reasoning that I fear: * Starches from corn or potatoes is pretty cheap (money, heavily affected by federal subsidies). * Synthetic meat can use it more efficiently (the engineer in me wants to say "energ
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by crpatino 13y ago
> politics is not actually affected by the phenomenon. What makes you think it does not? It has been now shown that weather patterns in Europe during the middle ages are correlated with both warfare[1] and witch hunts [2]. Theories that
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by crpatino 13y ago
I am assuming those are cheaper/more efficient. After all, our grain production relies heavily on petrochemical inputs. Historically speaking, one of the reasons[1] domestication of large herbivores for meat production makes sense is b
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by crpatino 13y ago
Beef is not very energy efficient anyways, around 10% conversion rate from pasture calories to animal tissue. Pork and chicken are much more efficient though. From the very narrow perspective of energy efficient, the problem I see is that w

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