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by dsacco 9y ago
Be more charitable in your reading of that comment. If you’d prefer, interpret it this way: “These studies can be socially controversial, and so authors must be especially careful in the way they conduct their research and present their con
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by dsacco 9y ago
Why are credit cards and auto loans displayed as static, rounded numbers? When is the last time those were updated?
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> 2) programming seems to be the "hardest" of the high paying jobs mentioned. Once you get them, banking, consulting and law jobs actually have a lot of mindless or not super challenging work Are you saying this as a programm
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Why in the world would that be insulting and who is it insulting to? It’s insulting to diminish the legitimate achievements of other people through unjustified comparison, in particular when doing so results in the elevation of the p
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> If you want to know just how hard programming is, try teaching it to someone. Continuing with the example from the article: law and medicine are also hard. Try teaching those to the same set of people. > Programmers have to remem
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by dsacco 9y ago
> One (semi-pedantic) quibble with the article: there absolutely are barriers to entry for programming. Programming is hard! These barriers may not be artificial, but they are real. Barriers don’t refer to how hard a discipline is skil
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by dsacco 9y ago
> The fact that there are now housing lenders who use projected AirBNB revenues in determining creditworthiness is worrying. Do you have a source for this?
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by dsacco 9y ago
I don’t follow what you’re arguing. It seems you’re agreeing - yes, Telegram could sell the login data. The commenter you replied to was expressing a (snarky) hypothesis that Telegram will sell login data. You initially said this was nons
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by dsacco 9y ago
> First, it's you who decide to use telegram to login to a website (as you would login with Facebook / google). Yes, this is implicit in what the parent is saying. The point is, your data can be shared if you volunteer it b
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by dsacco 9y ago
> In my limited trials with Wire and Signal, Telegram just blows them out of the water in features, reliability and speed. When you say features, which ones do you mean? Do you mean the user interface?
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Recording signed time attestations onto a blockchain, establishing BFT consensus of the current time, using the blockchain consesus as an authoritative source for the current time.
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by dsacco 9y ago
Your suggestion to the commenter of PGP, then email doesn't really make sense given their reported use case. The cryptographic components of PGP which allow for signed messages in the email setting are the same components that would
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by dsacco 9y ago
> You really think people would be talking about "blockchains" if bitcoins wasn't worth thousands of dollars? Is there currently any notable application of this technology beyond cryptocurrencies? Academic cryptographers
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Beyond cryptocurrencies? Go on, I'm all ears. I'm always amazed by how often I hear that claim (on HN and elsewhere) and yet nobody seems in a rush to be specific about it. A Byzantine fault-tolerant, distributed NTP protoc
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>Can someone give me an example of an always online trusted third party, and also let me know that how can you see into the future so that this third party keeps its guarantees throughout life? This question reduces to, “Can someone gi
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by dsacco 9y ago
To put it very simply, the purpose is to develop software with provable correctness, fault tolerance and security using a category theoretic model of computation and programming. In particular, the goal is to do this in the context of distr
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by dsacco 9y ago
How is being a hyper-responder meaningfully different from other genetic advantages that make a sport intrinsically unfair, like height?
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I have heard reports (but cannot confirm them obviously) that machine learning techniques are already creating trading strategies that exploit weaknesses in other trading system algorithms. This is true, but does not require machine
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by dsacco 9y ago
I don't disagree with you, I just dislike when the term "investment" is narrowed so as to preclude high risk speculation. Even university endowments and pension funds have speculative investments.
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> And speculating on something, by itself, does not qualify as an investment. Yes it does. For example, venture capitalists are investors, and they engage in high risk speculation.
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> For Tesla auto sales couldn't you just look at tesla vin numbers? You’ve definitely intuited some of the method, yes :). The rest of it entails: 1) how to get all VINs both authoritatively and legally, 2) how to distinguish betw
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by dsacco 9y ago
Actually, my friend simply reverse engineered FedEx and UPS tracking numbers, then backtracked sequentially by ordering an iPhone every few weeks. I say “simply” because it doesn’t require any of the infrastructure you mentioned, which is w
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by dsacco 9y ago
Natural language philosophy constitutes legitimate dialectics, not pedantry. In the former you add precision by first synthesizing an agreement of terminology and introducing relevant definitions. In the latter you argue against the meaning
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Sure, there are ethical schools of pragmatism, and we surely include them in our ethical discussions (trolley car problems etc) but how the law lands on the trolley car is NOT any sort of arbiter of ethics? So you’re not disagreeing
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Not important when discussing ethical implication of not paying taxes in the context of HN. Legal definitions are not important for discussing ethical implications? This is a wildly unsubstantiated claim that you’re positing withou
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You find the introduction of definitional precision to be an annoying, cheap trick? What exactly are you achieving if you don’t rigorously define your terms and agree upon them? You make it sound like insisting on that is just a method of s
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by dsacco 9y ago
There are people who successfully predict how many e.g. iPhones are being sold. But they’re not publishing this information, because it’s very valuable. They’re mostly selling it to hedge funds and market research firms (or they work intern
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by dsacco 9y ago
I don’t really think that case needs to be made - you either agree with it axiomatically, or you don’t. My comment you just replied to nearly lays it out already. A terminally ill patient cannot recover, but is functionally alive. A brain d
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I don’t know that “racism” is the right word to describe that, and in fairness you’re not going to capture its incidence in hospitals by gathering the mortality statistics for this particular surgery. On the other hand, I do think that much
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I think rayiner is talking about keeping braindead patients alive using life support. Assuming that’s what he meant, your example of a terminally ill but otherwise conscious patient isn’t comparable. I’d also agree that it’s mostly pointles

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