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by drostie 12y ago
Right. I would say that the basic reason for insider trading laws is the idea that insider trades create an incentive in the market to keep secrets secret, because you're making money off of that secret. Aside from the possibility that
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It's easier to understand airplane flight with Newton's laws, rather than Bernoulli's principle: http://www.allstar.fiu.edu/aero/airflylvl3.htm In particular, the normal hand-wavey arguments that say tha
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by drostie 12y ago
Basically what cyphunk is saying is: how do we know that this was used by the NSA? More precisely: how does Spiegel know to say "clear proof that Regin is in fact the cyber-attack platform belonging to the Five Eyes alliance"? We
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I mean, I know where it comes from; I just don't think that there's a nice hand-wavy way to get people to understand what's going on there: you really need to start with how uncertainties multiply across a system, define entr
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How Patient Suicide Affects Psychiatrists(theatlantic.com)
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You can get a lot of the way (just not to `exp((E_old - E_new) / Temp)`) by explaining the origin of the algorithm: People who work metals have a process for making metals more supple, called "annealing". In annealing, you he
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by drostie 12y ago
I think you're being downvoted justly, but I think you still deserve an answer to your question (rather than just an onslaught of "hey, don't judge everything by this one thing" type posts). Haskell's main libraries
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The government (at least, the US government) does not want to push this agenda. One key data point dating back to G.W. Bush is, NASA/NOAA actually built a satellite to measure one of the most important unknown variables in Earth's
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Deep-Space Climate Observatory (warehoused in 2001) will launch on Jan 31(pbs.org)
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I haven't heard anything about this in 3+ years; don't assume that the page is super-current. But that's kind of the point of the whole project: to make you think of yourself on a longer timescale. The engineers don't wa
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by drostie 12y ago
YouTube got an interesting DMCA takedown request back in the day: it was issued by the Chinese government at the time of the Beijing Olympics. The details escape me but the title of the video was something like "Olympic Gymnastics Beij
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by drostie 12y ago
Yeah, I agree. To explain where I see it most firmly, though, I have to explain how I personally got to Y. For me it was more interactive. You start with (Python syntax) def factorial(n): return 1 if n <= 1 else n * factori
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Right. At least at Cornell (David Muller's quantum class) we were basically taught that wave-particle duality was the uncertainty principle from our earliest undergraduate experience. Basically, the very meaning of de Broglie's la
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As completely bonkers as it sounds, you are probably in the wrong here. So, just for background: you're basically right to sense that the fundamental thing in copyright law is the right to impose lawsuits to stop infringement. (We coul
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If people are interested in this sort of thing, it also helps to read some of the works of Imre Lakatos. In my words, not his, he advocates that real scientific progress happens by a sort of natural selection of theories. The basic idea i
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by drostie 12y ago
You're not going to convince either the Christians or the Jews to do a week that isn't 7 days long. That number is more or less fixed by the sizeable minority who need it for the rest of their habits. The solar year is convenient
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by drostie 12y ago
Well, we already do math in a crazy-radix system for time, and the not-easily-divisible unitless variable of (1 year / 1 day) means that we can't do too much better -- we can reduce the problem to about one crazy radix, but no sma
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by drostie 12y ago
I would like to learn if there is something here to teach but after giving you several opportunities to explain yourself and only getting vague short comments, I'm not sure that I believe you have anything to teach. I don't have a
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by drostie 12y ago
Well, let me encourage you to actually respond to what I said, then: > you have five Ints and you use the wrong one for an index In other words: f :: Int -> Foo doStuff :: Int -> Int -> Int -> Int -> Int -> Fo
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by drostie 12y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by a "specific thing." Take the absolute simplest case, Fibonaccis. You accidentally write somewhere: fibs n | n <= 1 = n | otherwise = fibs n + fibs (n - 1) Whoops, that&#x2
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It's also a little confusing because there are sets which do not have a well-defined natural density among the integers, like: leastpow2 x = head $ dropWhile (\k -> 2*k <= x) $ map (2^) [0..] p k = k < 3 * (leastp
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by drostie 12y ago
Speaking as someone who's done a good bit of Haskell, the type system only provides a syntax which catches certain classes of errors -- it doesn't catch them all, and I've only a couple of times been surprised to see "oh
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by drostie 12y ago
You're actually wrong. (1) "A JSON text ... conforms to the JSON value grammar." (2) The entire standard for the object grammar is, "An object structure is represented as a pair of curly bracket tokens surrounding zero o
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Does this kill the business model for normal CAs, or is there something worth going to another CA for? Also, how trivial/hard will it be for a state agent to generate its own certificate-signing traffic and use the Let's Encrypt C
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by drostie 12y ago
Transducers are a different kind of thing , not just a generalized usage of enumerable functions. Clojure transducers are isomorphic to functions of type `a -> [b]`, that is, functions which take some thing and return lists of other thi
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It has a subtle physics flaw, which is that the sink, as it fills up, will cause flow through the bottleneck to be greater. Ignoring this, the metaphor is indeed pretty good.
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by drostie 12y ago
Do you mean contributors to the core or to the package system? Because NPM (for Node.js) has a cool way to browse the recent updates at 100/page at https://www.npmjs.org/browse/updated and so far today over 500 mo
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Is it unreasonable for me to interpret someone who is against "anti-eugenic" effects to be for eugenic effects when they start their comments with "we need people like her to reproduce"...? I should clarify: when I say
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I tried to mention that, but he did explicitly say "eugenics" and it wasn't 100% clear that it was metaphorical.
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You are correct, but if you control the environment enough to be doing this at all, then you control the environment enough to get the serialization consistent: either by having ordered dictionaries in the language a la Python and PHP, or

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