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by dlubarov 7y ago
In the murder scenario, we would have something like P(individual is guilty) = 1 / 7 billion P(individual's car on same block | individual is guilty) = 1 P(individual's car on same block | individual is innocent) = 50
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by dlubarov 7y ago
> Wuhan is a massive city and economic hub Let's dig into this a bit more though. The WIV's location on Google Maps apparently changed after the incident [1]. I don't know if it was a legitimate correction or what, but for
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by dlubarov 7y ago
Yeah that's fair -- there might be some high-exposure situations (like being coughed on) where infection is very likely with or without a face shield. I suspect that a lot of airbone infections are from inhaling small doses here and th
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by dlubarov 7y ago
If businesses are free to add surcharges and/or discounts based on the payment instrument used, that should nudge consumers to lower-fee payment instruments like cash, debit cards, cryptocurrency, or at least a credit network with lowe
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by dlubarov 7y ago
[I'm no microbiology expert, so obviously take this with a grain of salt :-).] I'm not sure whether the initial dose affects the severity of the disease, but it seems clear that it at least affects the probability of infection. Th
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by dlubarov 7y ago
I think a better comparison would be to try inhaling wet steam (i.e. a suspension of liquid H2O) from behind a face shield. You'll probably inhale some, but a lot of it will adhere to the shield.
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by dlubarov 7y ago
> If those projectiles are aerosolized and are in the air that you breathe It seems like you're imagining that the mucus and saliva particles would behave like a gas, but it's a suspension of liquid particles in the air, whic
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by dlubarov 7y ago
> nor do any elementary data structures concern themselves with such higher level things Not explicitly, but they concern themselves with worst-case performance, and tolerable worst-case performance implies security against a certain cla
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by dlubarov 7y ago
For the base protocol SNARKs, we're planning to do the programming in Rust, building on top of this little library we wrote: https://crates.io/crates/r1cs We looked at a few DSLs but didn't find one that seem
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by dlubarov 7y ago
Mir Protocol | San Francisco, CA | Remote OK | https://mirprotocol.org/ We're an early stage startup building a new blockchain protocol. Each state transition in this protocol is accompanied by a cryptographic proof, s
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by dlubarov 7y ago
And even then, scammers can always switch to custom domains. It seems futile to block arbitrary code execution unless they only allow whitelisted domains.
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by dlubarov 7y ago
What would "fraud" mean in this context? Are they talking about customers who don't pay their bill to DO? (If so, seems like the account should just be temporarily suspended until the bill is paid.) Or are they talking about
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by dlubarov 7y ago
Presumably Amazon has PoPs for CloudFront; why couldn't S3 share the same infrastructure?
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by dlubarov 8y ago
I think pascal_cuoq's argument still works though. As I understood it, his construction was Given an instance x of some NP relation R: 1. Enumerate all (TM, π) pairs until we encounter a π which proves that TM is a correct polyn
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by dlubarov 8y ago
Another counterexample is "IP = PSPACE" by Shamir. I think it's nice when titles include the main result plus a few words about methodology, like "IP = PSPACE using Error Correcting Codes", or "The PCP Theorem
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by dlubarov 8y ago
Bitcoin itself doesn't provide any network anonymity; it's sort of left as the user's problem. A user can use something like Tor or Dandelion if anonymity is important to them. The high latency is just due to Bitcoin's c
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by dlubarov 8y ago
> Reader was perfect the way it was and could have been left unmaintained. Google products like Reader tend to use internal APIs for storage, authentication, request routing, deployment, logging, builds/tests, etc. It can be a lot o
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by dlubarov 8y ago
The page says "base salary only". I agree with you though. IMX it seems like there's way more variance in equity than there is in base salaries.
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by dlubarov 8y ago
We tried getting an asset backed mortgage recently. There are definitely some options which don't require 20% down, although they tend to have higher APRs. Even with 20% or more down though, we found it difficult to get a good APR. The
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by dlubarov 8y ago
Also the new 750k cap for the mortgage interest deduction.
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by dlubarov 8y ago
Are you imagining that someone other than the original recipient might want to verify the transcript? Unfortunately there's no way to do that with existing protocols; we would need something like TLS-N [1]. [1] https://eprin
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by dlubarov 8y ago
The thing is, even if MasterCard excluded Apple Card from the data they sell, very few merchants send transactions directly to MasterCard. There's usually a merchant acquirer involved, and that acquirer might proxy transactions through
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by dlubarov 8y ago
Not necessarily -- trademark infringement requires an element of deception or confusion, not just any usage of the mark. If an OEM sold a phone with a stock AOSP build, I think they'd be fine with calling it "Android" without
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by dlubarov 8y ago
CODA uses cryptographic arguments to demonstrate that a block is valid (including ancestor blocks). I haven't read much of the Vault paper, but it sounds like they're having users vote (with weights proportional to their stake) on
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by dlubarov 8y ago
Why do you call that behavior irrational? Seems like it would save some bandwidth costs, as the parent suggests.
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by dlubarov 8y ago
> an employee at google hq vs a satellite get paid different based on market rate for developers in that locale I agree but that doesn't fully explain the salary disparities. The employee at Google HQ is also worth more to Google th
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by dlubarov 8y ago
As a former Googler, the way the company ended holiday gifts was irritating just because of the pretense. Leadership spun it as "we're redirecting the funds into Chromebook donations". As if money wasn't fungible, and th
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by dlubarov 8y ago
> they keep cherry picking standard Java APIs, forcing Java library developers to write two versions of their libraries Can you give some examples of what Android is missing? I know it doesn't implement various packages like awt, sw
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by dlubarov 8y ago
TLO seems to have a longer tail than AlphaStar in that graph though, so doesn't that imply that TLO peaked at an even higher APM, presumably during battles? Fair point about humans needing minor adjustments though. Another comment also
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by dlubarov 8y ago
I didn't actually work on the systems that score reviews and filter out certain ("not recommended") reviews, so I'm not sure what signals went into them. I would guess recency, photos, account age/reputation, etc. I

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