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by dthunt 12y ago
Please elaborate; I would like to know more about this incident.
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by dthunt 12y ago
I wonder if you could get subjects who travel a lot to record, before going to sleep each night, in a secret journal they do not share with each other, about whether or not they experience a hum in any given location. If those journals sub
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by dthunt 12y ago
Wow. Way to not actually respond to the request.
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by dthunt 12y ago
Comments > Votes.
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by dthunt 13y ago
Not necessarily. A decent percentage of the time someone is experiencing a "heisenbug" it's because there are some stale object files sitting around, and the build state has gotten inconsistent (makefile bugs, bad tracking of
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by dthunt 13y ago
I have upvoted this not because I agree, but because you have provided a basis for your statement about why you don't buy this line of reasoning. I look toward the prospects of women in Japan for an indication as to what's wrong.
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by dthunt 13y ago
I would note that there is a particular fascination with Japan and sex, and that google is unlikely to give you an accurate depiction at the frequency of weird in Japan. I suspect that weird exists in any population of sufficient size.
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by dthunt 13y ago
I have literally been propositioned on the street between Shibuya and Ikejiri. Places I would not have expected it. I can't speak to signage, as I generally steer clear of areas that seem shady, and I wouldn't put a lot of trust i
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by dthunt 13y ago
I find the labeling of people very frustrating. People often have very good reasons to pick the labels they do, but those reasons are often fairly nuanced. The only way to respect that nuance is to honor the label. And you don't even h
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by dthunt 13y ago
I ran into my first experience with this sort of thing while looking into Mormon initiation rites on wikipedia. I certainly understand why Mormons may be interested in keeping initiation secrets off of wikipedia, but wikipedia has no inter
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by dthunt 13y ago
I think the better lesson is not, 'how many hours of homework is fair' but, 'teachers, please assign the minimum effective dose of homework'. This is one of the reasons I think labs are effective in high school science c
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by dthunt 13y ago
My advice, stop using the word faith, and carve the word up into something that means more precisely what you are trying to say. I'm not sure that choosing to believe arbitrary things due to the consequences of believing those things c
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by dthunt 13y ago
A belief that can be demonstrated and tested, because it is inherently an objective phenomenon is better known as a hypothesis. A belief which has your confidence because of subjective experience that cannot be shared (i.e. if you tried to,
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by dthunt 13y ago
I would be shocked if Appelbaum is still using a standard cell-phone at this point. There's just too much reason to worry about remote compromise of the device.
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by dthunt 13y ago
What I meant was that for h_1%, you're going to wind up with probabilities in the area of like, 1.2e-34, very quickly, if the coin is a fair one. The update process is adjusting via multiplication, and for a really bad hypothesis, tha
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by dthunt 13y ago
For argumentative purposes (if trying to reach a consensus with someone who claims to be 95% sure that the coin is 'fair' and accepts the '45-55% heads is fair' definition), you would concentrate most of your probability
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by dthunt 13y ago
In fact, it is accounted for. You'll notice the negative exponent on the unlikely hypotheses is getting pretty extreme after a handful of flips.
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by dthunt 13y ago
There are plenty of reasons to want to perform that kind of scan on the internet. Sometimes, if all you're looking for is a a sample of how many people are running version X of a product versus version Y, you really don't need to
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by dthunt 13y ago
Why are MAC's persistent? They're totally insecure, so you can't make sensible security decisions off of them. Why aren't they randomly assigned on power-up?
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by dthunt 13y ago
I'm confused. Someone who makes an ACTUAL credible threat against someone typically just goes in a police file. Someone who makes a threat - not even to slander, but to investigate and expose - is committing a crime? If I say, "
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by dthunt 13y ago
Actually, if I recall correctly, he explicitly said that he was not making bodily threats, merely that he would do what he could to destroy the reputation of the agent that he had an issue with. The video speaks for itself. Unless it doesn
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by dthunt 13y ago
This. The same set of cognitive defects that are responsible for statements like this are responsible for belief in homeopathy and in the power of prayer to cure cancer (despite taking chemotherapy drugs). People are remarkably bad at under
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by dthunt 13y ago
My reaction as well. Piss on that.
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by dthunt 13y ago
The polygraph is a stress interview tactic, full stop. It's the bad cop in the room. That's why the very first part of the polygraph if where they are 'calibrating', and inevitably announce that the polygraph machine is
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by dthunt 13y ago
(just as an addendum to the above, compare: drug dogs, in theory, and in practice, in light of recent disclosures about the DEA's 'parallel reconstruction' program.
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by dthunt 13y ago
Supposedly the Patriot Missile was protecting Israel during the first Gulf War, but there are as far as I know zero confirmed hits (IIRC the Pentagon generously thinks that a few scuds were deflected, but Israel thinks otherwise). The point
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by dthunt 13y ago
I call foul on behavioral detection. I sincerely doubt there's a way to differentiate between someone who is ill and someone who is pale and has the jitters because they're about to do something bad. I moreover call foul on the n
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by dthunt 13y ago
As I recall it, one of their partner newspapers deliberately misunderstood how encryption worked, leaked their special passcode to one of the document archives, and then pointed at Wikileaks for being shitty after themselves handing the key
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by dthunt 13y ago
Correction. They PROVOKED the dog before shooting it.
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by dthunt 13y ago
Correct. I'm being completely serious, with the exception of the remark about exploding limbs (obviously). Broad enumeration capabilities of this sort don't make sense. You don't need me to tell you why, because the moment yo

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