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by donall 15y ago
I was probably rambling a bit too much there without making my point clear. What I meant to convey was that I don't believe there is a credible risk of many 10 year olds abusing drugs. And if any of them do it, I think the main problem in t
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by donall 15y ago
Do you agree that a ten year old shouldn't be allowed to walk into a shop and buy a packet of cigarettes and a bottle of vodka? When I was 10, I regularly bought beer and cigarettes in the shop near our house. I also bought bread, eggs, m
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by donall 15y ago
Well, in this case, I eschewed Germanic examples! But you can consider it a reductio ad Francum if you like (and if my Latin grammar isn't too terrible).
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by donall 15y ago
I assumed the concept had come from Google's own research, which I first saw a year ago in this slide deck: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ... According to Wikipedia, Diaspora was initially funded in April 201
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by donall 15y ago
when someone describes a politician they don't like as a "fascist" it's disrespectful to the memory of people who are squashed under tanks and who are taken in the night by state agents, raped and murdered. I know this is veering off-topi
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by donall 15y ago
I'm not doubting that the British police have a history of misconduct or that people die in prisons (and I'm not trying to justify it either - it's unequivocally wrong, in my opinion). But your assertion that "they are recorded as suicides
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by donall 15y ago
I enjoy being critical of the government as much as the next man, but I think a comment like the one you just made really deserves a [citation needed]. I'm not saying I don't believe you (there is plenty of evidence of wrongdoing by UK secu
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by donall 15y ago
The Mitnick incident was a good example of the government failing to understand new technology and completely overreacting to a sensationalised crime, resulting in Mitnick receiving punishment well in excess of what would be appropriate for
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by donall 15y ago
By oppressed countries, do you mean those that enact laws that enable the government to censor parts of the internet and/or deny citizens access to the internet as a whole? Like, for example, England and France? (And perhaps soon the US as
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by donall 15y ago
I'm sure nobody is surprised that the most common passwords are "123456", "password", etc. There is a perception in communities like ours that the average user is completely inept and shouldn't be trusted to create a secure password, but I
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by donall 15y ago
I actually found a3camero's post informative! I am a native English speaker and I have never had any trouble differentiating between "effect" and "affect", but had never seen it written down as a rule. One of the fascinating things about la
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by donall 15y ago
Do night clubs count as pubs? The route passes right in front of Krystle/Dicey's on the junction of Clonmel and Harcourt Streets (just after going through Iveagh Gardens - btw what do you do at night when they're closed? ;)). Now, Krystle a
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by donall 15y ago
It sounds like you are talking about a naive Bayesian classifier. PG wrote a couple of articles on his experience with these for spam filtering ( http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/better.html ). They're pro
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by donall 16y ago
I am based in Ireland. I pre-ordered my Wakemate ages ago and when they finally became available, I had mine shipped to my sister in the USA, who then forwarded it to me. It worked out quite well (despite an additional 2 weeks of my sister'
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by donall 16y ago
It seems like this post could usefully be expanded into a longer article. If you have the time, I would encourage you to write it.
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by donall 16y ago
I think you're right about the options not seeming real, but I don't know if the reason is primarily risk aversion. I think the majority of CS graduates just don't realise it is an option. In my university, the big software houses all do se
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by donall 16y ago
3 years ago, I received a very similar e-mail to this on the grad student mailing list at my university. I was naive enough to respond. I spent a year neglecting my PhD and churning out code for this "startup" while the founders moved gradu
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by donall 16y ago
What are the chances that the kids are good at calculating prices because the sample space of possible total costs of products and offered money is quite small? In this case, they could imitate good mental arithmetic simply by memorising th
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by donall 16y ago
I think Google still innovate in that, as other commenters have noted, they're creating some interesting file system and database solutions. However, these (among others) are infrastructural contributions to the backend. I think the article
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by donall 16y ago
As a disclaimer, I should first say that I haven't read any of these papers in detail and that I therefore can't comment on their validity. I also don't wish to take a pro- or anti-environmentalist stance. I'm strictly neutral. I'm just tal
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by donall 16y ago
It seems to me that providing monetary incentives (or incentives with a clear monetary value, like a cup of coffee in a specific restaurant) for submitting reviews would attract the wrong sort of crowd. An entire new class of reviewers woul