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by dfranke 15y ago
They have to put it back online with a counter-notice. No they don't. Doing so merely gives them safe harbor from any liability for having taken it down. Facebook has no legal obligation to its members to maintain the content in the fir
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by dfranke 15y ago
I have every right to complain about getting the crappy end of the stick when stuff like this happens in the same way you have the right to complain about a crummy contract with AT&T or your roofer. You get to complain about AT&T
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by dfranke 15y ago
I'm actually surprised if incurring 50% extra hardware costs really is cheaper than the cost of being down. If Netflix is down for a few hours, then it costs them some goodwill, and maybe a few new signups, but is the immediate revenue imp
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by dfranke 15y ago
If they're all perfectly equivalent then even very young kids will catch on to that quickly. Here's an improvement: make the choices equal in EV but different in variance. That adds a little bit of strategy: take the predictable choices w
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by dfranke 16y ago
For any notation consisting of ASCII characters, I find that an emacs scratch buffer makes a better brain-extension than a board does. But when I'm thinking in terms of diagrams and math notation, having a chalkboard next to me (a real c
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by dfranke 16y ago
Thanks, that makes more sense.
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by dfranke 16y ago
My usage is that which is universally accepted in any university math department. As a freshman in a math/science/engineering major, you take (or finish after beginning in high school) three semesters of Calculus, always referred to with a
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by dfranke 16y ago
Something about this story doesn't seem to add up. An SSD's firmware presents the raw flash to the OS as a block device. The filesystem is at a higher level of abstraction, above that block device. If the device is handling data that doe
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by dfranke 16y ago
Newton's calculus is just one example of a calculus. A calculus is any set of mechanical rules for manipulating mathematical symbols. Calculation is the process of applying those rules. Cf. the lambda calculus. The branch of mathematics
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by dfranke 16y ago
I thought "category theory" was a very strange thing to include in the list, so I searched down and found this equally strange comment: "I wish I had time to spend a year learning category theory to better understand how to structure things
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by dfranke 16y ago
I linked to Schneier's summary because I can't find a non-paywalled version of the new paper, but here's a paper by some of the same authors on the same topic, from an earlier phase of their research: http://www.krypt.cs.uni-sb.de/teaching
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Exploiting variable-bitrate codecs to recover phrases from encrypted VoIP(schneier.com)
2 points by dfranke 16y ago|1 comments
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by dfranke 16y ago
I agree with this comment: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/834#comment-7653 I suspect that the objectionable paragraph was written by Drayton, that the note atop the introduction is not at all overstated, and that that paragraph would
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by dfranke 16y ago
The impulse for making static typing less partial and more complete causes type systems to become overly complicated and exotic as witnessed by such concepts as "phantom types" and "wobbly types". "Modern type theory is hard. Let's go sh
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by dfranke 16y ago
On Twitter, tptacek specifically suggested a hard ban on politics as an example of more restrictive guideslines. What makes me uneasy about this is that there's a huge gray area surrounding what qualifies as politics. For example, I don't
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by dfranke 16y ago
And even if they were that silly, I'd be pretty confident that a fair use defense (parody) would hold up here, if something so ridiculous were actually to go to court.
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by dfranke 16y ago
If you make an exact copy of me at time t, then until the original and the copy part ways and have distinct thoughts and experiences, they're both just me_t, one no more so than the other. At t+1, me_t doesn't exist any more; this is true
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by dfranke 16y ago
This isn't responsive. You've only answered my question to the extent of defining "same" as the opposite of "other", which is not a lot of progress. So again, what makes this "other" chap "other", and why should anyone care about satisfyi
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by dfranke 16y ago
If even the new consciousness isn't able to know, then what does "same" mean and what part of that definition aren't you satisfying? More acutely, why should you care about satisfying it?
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by dfranke 16y ago
More interesting than anything Microsoft is doing here is Google's answer to it. If Microsoft caught Yahoo doing this, they'd bury them in lawyers. Google is confident enough to just go public and take the PR win.
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by dfranke 16y ago
Don't accept packages from AQ! This reminds me of my grandfather's motto -- he was a WWII veteran -- "Never accept a drop shipment from Japan".
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by dfranke 16y ago
I think that in 2011, checking referer headers can be considered an acceptable form of CSRF prevention. Some very old browsers and plugins allow referer headers to be spoofed, but by now so many other vulnerabilities have been found in all
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by dfranke 16y ago
What stabs from hell's heart and subsumes most of category theory? Khan extensions.
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by dfranke 16y ago
This would be a neat way to catch a laptop thief.
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by dfranke 16y ago
Something's seriously messed up if, once the XML has been parsed, their code can even tell the difference between those two constructs, much less care.
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by dfranke 16y ago
I know there's a sordid history here ( http://paulgraham.com/good.html ). I'd love to hear about what brought them around.
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Digikey products now listed on Octopart(octopart.com)
80 points by dfranke 16y ago|26 comments
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by dfranke 16y ago
Uh, somewhere in between, I think. I'm contending that one way is logical, conventional, and clear, and the other way is illogical, odd, and confusing. I think that's a stronger statement than just an aesthetic preference, but I'm not cit
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by dfranke 16y ago
No. I merely think he's missing the forest for the trees by preserving one obsolete typographic detail in a historical text yet translating the whole thing into HTML with minimal styling. This is somewhat akin to completely remodeling a 1
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by dfranke 16y ago
As far as I see, there is no claim that we should reproduce the long s as such in quotations where it’s not at issue. He not merely claimed, but did, exactly that in the article linked from the first sentence.

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