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by dsacco 9y ago
It’s very easy. I host official mirrors for a bunch of open source projects at https://mirrors.sorengard.com . You set up Apache on a web server you control, configure virtual host settings in the Apache config files, then put yo
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by dsacco 9y ago
Ah, maybe that explains the conflicting reports. Can you at least search for books and see results?
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by dsacco 9y ago
Interesting, thanks. I wonder if the block was more localized then all of Germany, if it was simply misconfigured, or if they just decided to stop blocking the traffic.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Can someone in Germany confirm this block is actually in place? In any case, if anyone in Germany would like to access Project Gutenberg, I maintain a full, daily updated mirror here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/gutenberg
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by dsacco 9y ago
Sure, try this: http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/information/ . In a nutshell, you take probability distributions and project them onto topological manifolds, such that the distribution consists of points on the
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by dsacco 9y ago
I’m sorry to say this because I observe that we get these questions somewhat frequently, but I don’t think what you’re asking for - in the format, goals and speed you’d like it - is a thing. That’s a pretty discouraging statement, so let me
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by dsacco 9y ago
Yes, they have the opportunity. That does not mean that all will, nor does it mean gaming it is actually in their best interest all the time.
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by dsacco 9y ago
That’s an excellent way to put it. Whatever the failings of Skin in the Game , I can’t learn about them if the author just parodies it constantly. I’d say it’s a dialectic failure, but I doubt the authors of these kinds of pieces intend fo
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by dsacco 9y ago
> It's not a stretch to apply it to all C-levels at all public companies: they will absolutely manipulate the company to benefit themselves at the expense of the shareholder. No, that actually is a stretch, essentially by defini
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Although there are a few genuine collectors I don't dispute that very high end watches can be used for money laundering, but there are quite a bit more than a "few" collectors for watches, even in the $50k range. Blogs
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by dsacco 9y ago
> About 1 atom per cm³ and enough photons to read by. Do you have a citation (or better yet, a calculation) for this? I’ve been searching for about 10 minutes and and it doesn’t quite make sense. The full moon typically casts about 0.0
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by dsacco 9y ago
> It's not crazy creativity, it's thinking of things in terms of math. Thinking of things in terms of math in order to solve problems is intrinsically creative :). I'd agree there is nothing mystical about creativity or
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by dsacco 9y ago
I see no mention anywhere, on Graphite or Blockstack, about how the encryption actually works. I’ve checked the following resources: * The Blockstack whitepaper: https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf * Each of the System De
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by dsacco 9y ago
tl;dr - A new study finds that $105,000 is the income level at which people no longer feel happier earning more money. This updates the previous number, $75,000, from a 2010 study. Personally, I’m deeply skeptical of any psychology or socio
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by dsacco 9y ago
> There's your metaphor. No, it’s not. That’s the definition, much like information theoretic death is death. Here is a metaphor: from our perspective on a street, we cannot perceive anything within a manhole, just like from outsi
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I'll bite: Isn't using scientific methods in HR similar to stock trading? As it happens, stock trading is a bad example of something scientific methods do not improve :)
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by dsacco 9y ago
Thanks for the transparency. So for the sake of clarity, it sounds like ~40% of engineers who pass the initial quiz ultimately go on to be hired?
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Because we found no better analogy, we named them "holes" despite the fact that they are basically the opposite: an object with enormous mass. No, they actually are holes. We don’t need analogies or metaphors to describe bl
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by dsacco 9y ago
No, not really. Symmetries of an n -gon (a 2-dimensional figure with n sides) are just permutations of the n numbers representing the sides. A cognitive metaphor is to call certain types of symmetries “rotations” or “reflections”, beca
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by dsacco 9y ago
Use restic. It’s what I use to backup my servers to Backblaze B2. Here are its pros: * It supports a variety of common backends, including B2, AWS, GCP, Azure, a remote SFTP server, a remote REST server, a local directory, etc. You can adju
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by dsacco 9y ago
Why don't you buy it?
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by dsacco 9y ago
> and 60% companies were charging 2.5x-6x more than they used to. It would be really interesting if you could break that down even further.
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by dsacco 9y ago
A SHA-1 hash digest is a 160-bit hexadecimal string. These are 40 digits long, with 16 possible values per digit, yielding a total search space of 16^40 possible values. If we splice off the first five digits (which Troy originally used as
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by dsacco 9y ago
Yes, it is. DRW’s Cumberland Trading branch engages in cryptocurrency HFT, as far as I’m aware.
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by dsacco 9y ago
The statement is sufficiently underspecified that it’s not falsifiable for any large company, which is my point. If you dislike Goldman Sachs, you’re inclined to believe it. If you don’t dislike Goldman Sachs, you’re inclined to be more ske
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by dsacco 9y ago
This is an edgy soundbite, but I don’t think it contributes anything substantive to the discussion of a cryptocurrency exchange being acquired by a GS subsidiary. I could have replaced “Goldman Sachs” with “Google” and I’d have received the
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by dsacco 9y ago
Your “genius quants (aka insider trading)” quote is an easy target, but instead I’m going to respond to this: > That is a typically upper middle class white with a BS/BA in econ/finance/cs/communications who got &quo
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I haven't seen a single company doing that outside top 5 to compensate you properly for it. There are small financial firms which will conduct significantly harder interviews than Facebook/Google. The offers are also commen
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by dsacco 9y ago
I host over 30TB of excellent climate date here: https://mirrors.sorengard.com/azimuth . These datasets were collected from various government agencies as part of a larger collaboration with John Baez and a couple of other s
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by dsacco 9y ago
You’re jumping all over the place. Passwords != session tokens != certificates. Passwords are a form of access control. I repeat: a strong password cannot be brute forced for billions of years. Even with technological advancements, most s

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