denom

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by denom 12y ago
In the end this is not about an information security solution (which is measured by the weakest link). This is about engineering consumer expectations. Privacy and security must be measured in terms of the overall digital-economic ecosyste
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by denom 12y ago
More to the point, what is the truth? Google leadership post 9/11 knew what "certifying" their communication systems meant and took the money to do it. Whether they knew that the program was named Prism is irrelevant, in my o
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by denom 12y ago
I think that this notion of _generality_ that meteor embraces is essentially the struggle for platform relevance. I take isobuild to mean iso-platform, one platform to rule them all. Take the discussion in the video about DDP. It's lik
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by denom 12y ago
There has been some research on generating energy from the flexing motions of shoes. Maybe these could be self-powered?
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by denom 12y ago
The "Iron Dome" will not change the current situation in a way that, say, political negotiation will. It's really frustrating to watch the same process play itself out. Throw a few more bombs in, stir the ashes (so to say) an
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by denom 12y ago
This is a really useful dataset, especially when combined with tools like mapbox tile mill[0] and qgis[1]. Hours of fun! [0] https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/ [1] http://www.qgis.org/
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by denom 12y ago
The success of the patriot missiles was a huge propaganda coup for the US. It turns out that the success rate of the missiles may have been as low as 10% or even zero: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Succes
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by denom 12y ago
Just as an arbitrary data point, I've biked from Hollywood to Santa Monica. It's doable, and with a fraction of the effort spent on building and maintaining infrastructure for cars the bike-ride might even be pleasant. Re: New yor
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by denom 12y ago
I thought the whole point of the various social graph implementations was to build a datastructure that handles details on the level of an individual: who your friends are, what you shop for etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by denom 12y ago
Would a good drop in replacement here be something like hashing the two strings to the same length and using `hmac.compare_digest` ? https://docs.python.org/2/library/hmac.html#hmac.compare_dig... Honestly, I don&
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by denom 12y ago
I'm sure that windows 8 is deployed in a more than a few places. But for instance, the department of Ag _just_ upgraded to windows 7 from XP (squeaking by the end-of-life deadline). http://www.ocio.usda.gov/products-ser
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by denom 12y ago
Interesting, given that the US Government itself does not run windows 8 yet.
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by denom 12y ago
One question I would pose to the infinite turing tape consciousness argument is whether or not experience is falsifiable, and is it falsifiable at the level of the micro and macro? If we cannot derive precise atomic movements of a mass (a b
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by denom 12y ago
It's interesting that this is coming at the same time as the push for a campaign finance amendment to the US Constitution. http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2014/04/30/john-paul-... It&#x2
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by denom 12y ago
In the article the author describes the notion of a "pure state" which is something that has independently evolving probability. Individual 'units' lose their pure state and become part of an entangled ensemble--move to
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by denom 13y ago
Wow, I didn't realize that I would get downvoted here. Let's see if I can explain myself. Consider a few examples of things that science cannot distinguish: * The speed and position of an electron cloud ensemble. * The moment a ra
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by denom 13y ago
maybe, but I think you are assuming that we can, scientifically or otherwise, distinguish (categorize) everything that is real. I'm inclined to believe that this is not possible. In that case indistinguishability becomes equivalent to
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by denom 13y ago
Science cannot and will never be able to demonstrate how homeopathy does not work, only that it works about as well as a placebo. So we are left with stories like this, which basically states that these two unknown things (placebos and home
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by denom 13y ago
Imagine a solitary actor in a large corporation who is make a choice between x and y. She is presented with the precise set of inputs like emails, voice calls, water cooler discussions which lead her to choose y. She is not forced to make t
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by denom 13y ago
Is this supposed to be a scientific research paper? > "The companies selling this product are required by the Capitalist Science Act of 2012 to identify the hypotheses in the database (or their negatives) that are necessary for th
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by denom 13y ago
> There is nothing inherently evil in surveillance. In and of itself it's a neutral thing. It's what you do with it that is evil or good. This is incorrect, surveillance (observation) is inherently participatory. It is not a ne
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by denom 13y ago
It's clear that the author is not referring to the game Taboo: > The illusion of unity across religions can be dispelled by making the term "God" taboo, and asking them to say what it is they believe in; or making the word
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by denom 13y ago
How are arguments structured? Which words are meaningless? Who is in a position of authority to determine which words need tabooing? The author's unfortunate choice of the word "Taboo" to describe this procedure of clarifying
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by denom 14y ago
I believe you have stumbled upon the very definition of a Mayan-style apocalypse vis-a-vis the year 2012. Of course definitions matter. Like, what do you mean by apocalypse? It seems to me that a viral marketing scheme that latches onto the
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by denom 14y ago
It's worrying when someone is exited to kill people.
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by denom 14y ago
What are you advocating here? This is a very disturbing statement.
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by denom 14y ago
but this invalidates the idea of a general purpose algorithm
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by denom 14y ago
Yes, this manifesto is worth echoing.