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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
An aside on UI: am I the only one who still romanticizes about monochrome yellow/orange/light-blue-green on black line-art interfaces? That second PLATO terminal on the article reminded me of that (kind of like this LCARS screen:
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
interesting! i can clearly understand what each means, but i think the average person might get confused. how about just the key and the open padlock? signed/encrypted content can have the icon on the side (kind of like the shortcut in
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I think it's because there still isn't a good metaphor that covers up the complexity of public key encryption. Such a metaphor is a prerequisite for a UI that the average user can comprehend. First, I think we should rename the ke
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
What the Economist article seem to fail to mention: "In the accelerator-on-a-chip experiments, electrons are first accelerated to near light-speed in a conventional accelerator . Then they are focused into a tiny, half-micron-high cha
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Thinking of opportunity costs in general is usually a downer in any context. It's a "could have" and wherever there is a "could have", a "should have" is not too far behind. Regret is never a good thing.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
"Low" by whose standards and compared to what? Those who mistake success for happiness usually end up losing both. We recently had a wealthy corporate CFO in these parts who had pretty much everything everybody else wants jump off
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Bertrand Russell once said that all work falls into one of two basic categories: moving objects on or near the surface of the Earth, and telling other people to do so.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
There are two kinds of people in this world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I initially thought he was partially justified in claiming the number with the 'mild-to-medium patients' qualification if there was a real benefit in the drug that the study had not been designed to detect. Except that a follow up
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Perhaps this is a good thing? (Forgive me if it's not and I'm being insensitive) Before human beings developed external memories (photographs and now digital records of everything we do), trauma and negative memories were supposed
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Lethal Operations, Extraordinary Rendition, Enhanced Interrogation. My God, It's all Newspeak. There should be a constitutional amendment or something mandating that laws should use well understood terms or if that is not possible, cle
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
I thought raison d'etat was about a state deciding its dealings with other states solely on the basis of national self interest rather than moral or legal principles. It's that doctrine's failure in Europe and subsequent la
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Compressing the two spatial dimensions of a map into the x-axis and using the y-axis for time is in fact a beautiful way to present events over time and space. I needed to do this in a project a few weeks ago and I don't know why this
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
a) When a message doesn't condense well, use anecdotes. I think cold war East Germany is a good example of what happens when politicians are allowed to spy on citizens. b) Or, 'what if' scenarios. You say you have nothing to
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
If I were a 61 year old billionaire academic with modest needs, I'd spend half my money to fund fundamental scientific research -- physics, biology, medicine; all the big ones. If this guy keeps investing his money without spending it,
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
What this is, is basically an admission, isn't it? They've gone beyond denial to mitigation now.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
1. Yes, but he'll sustain his work rate for years while you'll burn out in one, therefore achieving less in the long run. 2. Yes, but do it for your own ambitions and projects, NEVER for a corporation -- they'll squeeze every
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Thanks for the links, especially ICCPR! I did know that the declaration of independence isn't legally binding, but it is a statement of principle on which America is founded, yes? Isn't it through some interpretation of it that
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
As a non-US citizen, I've been repeatedly asking this about news stories emphasizing the collection of domestic communications as the bad thing. I thought your declaration of independence say that all humans are endowed with inalie
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Rendezvous with Ramen, Clarke's lesser known SF work that explores alien civilizations and the mythos of the flying spaghetti monster.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Oh dear, sounds like frames again...
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
If you really want performance, declare a fixed size char array (so no heap use) optimized for the best write size for your disk, mem copy the strings sequentially until you fill the array and write. Go back to beginning of array and repe
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Exactly this. I evaluated both options for a while before settling on individual file encryption -- faster and cheaper sync.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
> Each circuit requires the relays to do expensive public key operations, and many of our relays are now maxed out on CPU load. Yep. That's one way to attack the network.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
- GPG on GMail (Mailvelope Chrome extension) - only for important mails and obviously, only with people who have it on the other end - Truecrypt (always had it) - Boxcryptor on Google Drive for all important docs - Paid VPN - TOR (if you th
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Prediction: Chrome (the browser) is slowly taking over your OS. P.S. while trying to add this new type of app, I was tricked into signing into my chrome account, which I had managed to avoid all this time.
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Citizen of small country adjoining a very large country here. People of small countries tend to understand that other cultures exist, because when they travel a couple of hundred miles (or less) in any direction they're in another coun
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
There's also the problem of fear of litigation. I'm from a part of the world that is not as lawsuit-happy as the U.S. Amongst other things, medical treatment is very cheap here and people laugh at labels like "warning: device
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
How I outgrew yet another label: 1. Understanding that there isn't always one noun to describe the particular mix of beliefs that work for you. 2. Understanding that a belief system isn't always the same as the dominant group that
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by dalek_cannes 13y ago
Whoa! Now that's how you teach anything command-line to non-programmers. Someone should do something like this for unix commands and the like.

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