ebullientocelot

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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
Yes, completely agree. Good add.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I don't believe that people are generally against the collection and use of personal information, per se. To me, the problem lies in a couple key areas, which coincide pretty well with Cook's statement: 1) No opt-out. Some compani
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
Agree. Also, even watching videos for 24 hours it seems unlikely that you'd go through 34GB worth. Maybe the size of video files has gone way up since I was a movie downloader, but 12 2 hour movies is probably < 34GB..
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
Surely there's a way to get blockchain involved. And bike lanes.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
China certainly isn't technologically inept. They are playing a game of catchup that is mad impressive, makes plenty of sense that they'd seek to "appropriate" IP instead of reinventing the wheel.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
Out Of Place Tree Leads Researcher To Find Murder Victim He was blown up by dynamite.. not super clear that his stomach was all that intact.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
Responding to you on a '15 MBP-- completely agree. Mine is still running like the wind, in great physical shape, and now sports a Big Lebowski sticker. What more could I want?
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I don't think an assumption of uniform random distribution is fair.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
My favorite part is when the Ukrainian officials start their own version of the plot instead of prosecuting. Something to be said about intellectual honesty.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
Hi, data engineer here. Other comments have a lot of good suggestions. I especially agree with ideas like avoiding high powered frameworks in the beginning, and learning to write effective transform wrappers for different kinds of weird inp
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I've often seen it as FAANG, putting the good Lord Bezos back in the mix.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I just ordered a print copy of this. Going to have a ritual burning of the Furby source at upcoming 90's nostalgia party.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
A term that is unfortunately abused, at least where I live, by fortune telling shops and other such things.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
Leaving the urban area of my city for the 'burbs was awesome, I highly recommend it.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
As others have said, these are probably the wrong shops. My math degree has (I'm told) been a differentiator from pools of CS applicants.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
Yes, this. Not all textbooks are worth anything, to be sure, but decent "boring" math texts generally have all of the "easily digestible" stuff that youtube videos do, sans animation. Math really took off for me when I s
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
The math can work out in some cases. I've had my 400$ Allen Edmunds for 8 years, some wear, but generally still in fantastic shape and very comfortable. Prior to getting them I bought 1-3 pairs of ~70$ department store shoes per year.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I like my car. A lot. Stereo is great, seats are comfortable, goes where I want it to go when I want it to. Sure it's expensive, I have 220$ monthly parking bill (Pittsburgh, I know it's worse elsewhere), insurance, traffic, whate
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I'm just a math grad student, no claim to being a pro, and I can concur already that really digging into the meat of something, some new theorem, say, is MUCH easier with peers to throw off the wall ideas at.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
Agreed! Though I'm sympathetic to the writer trying to convey the point to a general audience, I don't think we (the generic HN person) are typical NYT readers.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
This is true without perfect observation. In math you have perfect observation (sometimes), so you can do something like Fermat's Last Theorem. Once you enter the physical world, not so much.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
The [Koopman] cited throughout is my boss, Phil! At any rate I'm sadly not surprised and a little appalled that xz doesn't store the version of the tool that did the compression..
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I get what you're saying and I don't disagree with your premise, I just don't think it is applicable in a situation where the purpose of the website he was visiting was to access information. Not _that_ particular information
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
It isn't a breach if the administrators of the repository failed to secure the information. Regardless of the likelihood of conviction it is reprehensible to terrify some kid with the threat of losing his freedom as a means of saving f
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
That's completely fair.
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I don't know, but I can speak from experience as a former enlisted soldier in a deployed military intelligence section of the US Army: 95%+ of the "secret" stuff I had access to wouldn't even have been of great interest
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I agree that money probably isn't the thing. I would imagine the average Apple engineer would realize that the payment for leaking would have to be massive to offset the damage to career / loss of earnings from the damned good job
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I don't think that's fair to Snowden. Doing something altruistically does NOT preclude skipping the step where you throw yourself into the belly of the most powerful beast in the world, which also happens to be incredibly pissed o
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
I was curious so I looked it up, Wikipedia has Jeff Bezos born in 1964, and the Pentagon Papers leak in 1971. I'm too tired to bother with months, so for the sake of convenience we'll go with Jeff was 7 when this happened. In resp
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by ebullientocelot 8y ago
Seems like his point is that "what we call calculus nowadays" is ridiculous--the form of his sentence propels the meaning he's trying to express as well as the words do.

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