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by deadmetheny 7y ago
My personal favourite is the 'barn', an area approximately the size of the face of a uranium nucleus, invented to covertly describe a large-ish target size to hit (the 'broad side of a barn') with a particle beam.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Trump is in a no-win situation here - if a fearful knee-jerk reaction would have successfully mitigated the disease making it into the USA, it would have been painted as xenophobic and overreaching. The WHO has just proven itself to be larg
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Italy.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
He's still dead, last I heard.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Dropbox going down for a day is unlikely to cause the loss of literal millions of dollars for most use cases. You can probably come up for some use care where WELL AKSHUALLY it will, but for the average person not being able to trade on a h
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Indeed. However, it's refreshing to see a HN thread that's defending vendor snakeoil instead of assuming all infosec is vendor snakeoil.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Pretty much. All it really proves is that an org meets a bare minimum of security standards. As noted elsewhere in the thread, it's used more for marketing and to serve as a "hey look at us we're self-regulating within indust
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
You achieve that compliance by paying HackerOne, as a company, to perform a compliance scan. This does not mean any swinging dick that reports a vulnerability through HackerOne is causing PayPal to fall out of compliance. These scans are pl
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Sounds about right. Amazon's return policies have always heavily favored customers, even after creating the marketplace.
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Was Jeanne Calment the Oldest Person Who Ever Lived–Or a Fraud?(newyorker.com)
3 points by deadmetheny 7y ago|0 comments
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Imagine getting this mad over a blogger's stylistic writing choices.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Exactly this. I'm not convinced in the least that nothing happened, merely that nobody was breaking any laws with whatever they were doing.
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Christopher Tolkien has died(theguardian.com)
514 points by deadmetheny 7y ago|227 comments
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Paul Graham Paul Graham Paul Graham. Paul Graham Paul Graham Paul Graham Paul Graham? Paul Graham Paul Graham Paul Graham Paul Graham! Paul Graham.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
>Therefore, by definition, you can either find a way to cope within that surveillance state, or you can move to somewhere so remote and hidden that you can't be caught doing what they don't like. The problem with this is that b
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
I'm partial to "Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow"
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
I worked in the nuclear power in the past. The massive volumes of red tape involved is not conjecture, I experienced it firsthand. Activists will stonewall any new construction, full stop, and the NRC requirements for existing plants only g
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
>Nuclear reactors don’t scale down very well. The economics really break down under about 10MW which is ~5,000 times more power than most homes need. This is true and fully agreed. Home reactors are not really feasible or even a good ide
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Next you'll tell me that Wall Street companies aren't actually on Wall Street.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
And it will break down at the worst possible time, when you can't wait for a JD tech to come down and troubleshoot the issue. Time is money for farmers, especially these days when there's so much consolidation of land happening.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Yes. The current system can't predict one way or the other if users are skipping the ads; if this app were to become widespread, it becomes known factually and advertising revenue dries up.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
A solemn nod in the general direction of France is sufficient, and don't skimp on the olives.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Nice anecdote. There's a shitload of salesmen selling snake oil in security, but they're mostly selling it to idiots and people who think security is a box you tick and not a continual process.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
"We should just let corporations do whatever they want"
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
Do you have any idea how expensive drugs are? I assure you nobody is spiking people's food with them.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
We have this. It's called a paper ballot.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
As shown in sibling comments, it's pretty easily picked up on both statistically and just by reading their speeches that his are simpler. I'm not really a ML expert, so I can't necessarily comment to that making it easier to
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
He almost certainly is - he doesn't have nearly the same gift for public speaking that Obama did. As pointed out elsewhere in this discussion, his speech patterns are pretty simple and repetitive, and thus ideal for RNN training.
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
This is basically useless without a place where you can use it to generate new random bodies of text on the fly. It's easy to cherry pick 10 good samples out of hundreds with the intention of attempting to fool people - maybe not so mu
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by deadmetheny 7y ago
This is what stood out to me. Margins on food are not spectacular, and this place's $4.5k/mo minimum on rent is very high. Alcohol's margins are high enough to where that's where a good chunk of the actual money is made

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