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by davorak 12y ago
> they simply maintain a 1:1 relationship between the number of antennas and the number of subscribers, That is not my understanding. Bob and George could have both leased Aero antenna in the same area. Bob's could get good resci
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by davorak 12y ago
> Just because a single instance of an activity is legal does not necessarily mean that N instances of the same activity are legal. One person does something it is legal, but if N people do it it is illegal? I do not think that is what
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by davorak 12y ago
If I could restructure our naming system is there a good reason for me to label those who focus on foundational issues in mathematics as philosophers rather then mathematicians? Right now I would be inclined to label them the latter.
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by davorak 12y ago
> (Aside: of course there are bad philosophers, who do all sorts of stupid things, just as there are bad practitioners of every field. Let’s concentrate on the good ones, of whom there are plenty.) The impression that most physicists I k
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by davorak 12y ago
What divides these rigorous branches of philosophy form mathematics then? If it is because it is applied in some sense then they could fall under applied mathematics.
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by davorak 12y ago
Skype at one point was somewhat decentralized, but now the main hubs are located on Microsoft's servers to my understanding. urls included in Skype chats have been known to be visited by bots at Microsoft owned IPs so no end to end enc
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by davorak 12y ago
Looks like there is significant overlap between metamorphic testing an property based testing. Can anyone come up with examples that are clearly one but not the other? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphic_testing
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by davorak 12y ago
So $15 for $10 of quarters a month. I can see how that would be worth it to save time on going to the bank. Not clear to me how near the range is where it saves enough time to be worth it to the person before they would just own a washer a
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by davorak 12y ago
> you could have paid some professionals to review their patent holdings for you, My understanding is that it is not practical to do this. Have you done this before or known people who have? How much did it cost?
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by davorak 12y ago
Sure it is a proof of concept and is about the spreadsheet computational model not making a full fledged spreadsheet application like Microsoft excel. I thought you meant you saw some significant barriers to a full implementation or somethi
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by davorak 12y ago
> I experienced that dpkg would gradually lose track of the state of the system and become less and less useful over time. Similar experience with ubuntu and upgrading to different versions was my motivation to use nix. It was made wors
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by davorak 12y ago
I have not had a problem on nixos on my VMware fusion box, or the same set up on my desktop. Nixos has nearly atomic package management so it is easy to set and deconstruct environment or try multiple solutions out in parallel in different
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by davorak 12y ago
Do you have any examples I can look at?
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by davorak 12y ago
Is it the limited number of cells that makes it not resemble a spreadsheet or another feature?
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by davorak 12y ago
It is pretty easy to use as a end user installing packages is no harder then other distributions. It does not have as wide of a selection as Debian, but I have found it easier to use their packaging system. The packaging system is very frie
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by davorak 12y ago
twoodin: >The problem is that a network that can stream 20Mbit continuously to every customer (so they always can get the "advertised" bandwidth) would be absurdly expensive, and rates would have to go up accordingly. dec0dedab
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by davorak 12y ago
Comcast and other ISPs can charge their subscribers more. Then they can build out their infrastructure with the new revenue.
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by davorak 12y ago
No, as far as I can tell the incentives in the two scenarios are very different. The transparence on what is being payed for and why some sites are fast and some are slow is not the same for Comcast's subscribes in the two scenarios ei
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by davorak 13y ago
I thought Cogent was netflix ISP. So it does not seem like their ISP is charging them more.
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by davorak 13y ago
>What does it mean to treat all packets equally? The definition that google gives and I quoted does not not contain that phrase. > If I have "equal" connectivity to content sources X and Y, but X sends 10 times the amount of
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by davorak 13y ago
> Comcast, et al. didn't want to upgrade their Cogent links to handle the required traffic from Netflix. Everyone sending Comcast traffic through Cogent was equally penalized during prime time hours. You can argue it's poor net
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by davorak 13y ago
> It has nothing to do with "network neutrality"--a phrase that is vague and hollow enough to mean absolutely nothing. The definition that google gives when searching for "define network neutrality" matched my unders
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by davorak 13y ago
The monad tutorials the author is suggesting to avoid are those that make monad analogies. "Monad are like ..." because the analogies are always leaky and pretty much always gives some wrong impressions to beginners. The presentat
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by davorak 13y ago
Appointing cronies seems to make it easier to get reelected or prepare a nice landing for after you political career is over. What incentives can be applied to promote appointing the competent and unbiassed?
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by davorak 13y ago
Aereo's they are just a middle man for the end user. The end user is using that antenna and for convince is sending it over the internet to wherever they are. It is perfectly legal for an end user in this case to make a video recordi
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by davorak 13y ago
When the company started it was called 1:1 ratio of antennas to customers. Which the signal from that one antenna only being delivered to one customer. If they have changed since then it would be interesting to here about the decision proce
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by davorak 13y ago
How would the employee know what is a trade secret though? When something is first discovered it is not known yet that the employer would want it kept secret until someone in a position to make that decision does so. Are their laws around t
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by davorak 13y ago
No, the many worlds interpretations of quantum mechanics, those that I am familiar with, do not contain any randomness.
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by davorak 13y ago
> intentional and exceptional How obvious was it that it was a mistake by an FBI agent? Does the DOJ intentional defending a mistake count as exceptional enough?
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by davorak 13y ago
I do not think it is that straight forward. > But will it be the "same person"? Does cold-starting from the same neural network give you the same consciousness or a copy? Does consciousness require some form of continuity that&

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