eftychis

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by eftychis 8y ago
Actually providing an "unlimited" stream of capital, does cause inflation. That's global fact: e.g. New Zealand real estate has started becoming unaffordable [google -- it was in the news these days] due to U.S. and other mil
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by eftychis 8y ago
Irrational feeling people have with tax refunds. If you receive a high refund you should be crying. That is money you lost. Nobody is giving you free money. With a really pessimistic 5% return, you ended up paying $5 more per $100 of refund
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by eftychis 8y ago
You should definitely start using redshift, if the thought crosses your mind. P.S. I am not sure what one's mileage might be in Linux without being able to access a terminal. That said I found redshift working out of the box, and there
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by eftychis 8y ago
Check the end of the Basis section (paragraph 5 onward) in the Impressment wikipedia article I cite, it mentions replacing conscripted/pressed seamen with landsmen. Check also the Quota system mentioned. I have to claim living near a r
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by eftychis 8y ago
This really depends on the area of origin. Greek sailors , for instance, were really good swimmers on average (recall Greece comprises several islands with "short" distances; fishing and sponge diving were/are also a side jo
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by eftychis 8y ago
Yes. Please do not ask or share photocopies of your documents over insecure channels. And even then you trust the person on the other line not to screw up with your data... Especially in the U.S. where a person just needs to know your SSN a
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by eftychis 8y ago
Not really. Something can be a right and an obligation at the same time. For instance there is the right to vote. Historically, in certain periods and countries vote was/is mandatory. (e.g. Greece) Sometimes, a right or measure has to
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by eftychis 8y ago
True. However, I claim Google translate is a lot of times used by non-conversant level German speakers, who don't have the right layout. I would expect Google translate to be trained somewhat adversarially. Example: "Ich werde Büc
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by eftychis 8y ago
Unfortunately, I agree that lobbying has become another "tax" to be paid, consequently a "tax" to the consumers. Tangent: I still don't understand how people find lobbying natural and a good idea.
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by eftychis 8y ago
I meant examples of expressiveness over German. Edit: You were comparing English with other languages and implied it is more or as expressive as the majority of languages (or at least the ones you are familiar with). Thus my question.
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by eftychis 8y ago
I find your analysis and argument to the point!
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by eftychis 8y ago
Google translate is really bad. Greek to English is terrible plainly. German to English the same -- was trying to prove a point about the meaning of a phrase and speed typed skipping umlaut. To this day I am not sure what the inference is t
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by eftychis 8y ago
Curious. How do you quantify expressiveness? English does not seem that expressive to me. English, German and Esperanto are way too related also to be making a comparison (which was kind of the criticism against Esperanto). Could you give a
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by eftychis 8y ago
No. My argument is kind of the opposite. I am here countering the point that gaining knowledge is a monotonous function with respect to "goodness"/value. We need to be cautious and acknowledge our lack of knowledge, when we m
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by eftychis 8y ago
I think the deviating factor there is actually mindset. E.g. Germany and Japan have dominance over U.S. car manufacturers. Most companies in the E.U. don't set out to break the world and change it; they aim for a quality product built
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by eftychis 8y ago
Well, I disagree. Partial knowledge and technology can be bad and extremely dangerous. In the 19th- early 20th century they were treating radioactive substances like they were chew toys (making toys etc). The worst nuclear accident happened
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by eftychis 8y ago
Innovative companies on their own are not really innovative really. A monopoly enforces their opinion and product in the world. If you don't like their price or approach too bad for you. You are kept out of the game (it is a monopoly r
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by eftychis 8y ago
This is a good analogy unfortunately. SMS is the worst culprit there from my standpoint, given companies use it to send short term credentials (yes they do...) or for 2fa.
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by eftychis 8y ago
There are people running and working with emacs' shell, read the news, rss, stock market, emails, calendar etc. See the OS punchline below. Thus beyond basic operations of emacs like package management that require a secure connection
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by eftychis 8y ago
You beat me to the punchline. Yes, you can do pretty much anything. (Edit: I guess in the spirit of the joke anything besides writing lol. Shameless plug: I use emacs.)
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by eftychis 8y ago
As others have commented (adding a couple of notes): HTTP and HTTP/2 use TLS for security which is over TCP (reliable transfer requirement). Nothing more, nothing less. Sure layer 3 and below have different considerations (reliability)
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by eftychis 8y ago
I think the approach we should take is to pour more effort into minimizing the risk of debugging being necessary. Good practices, better type checkers and logic models (e.g. there was an article posted in the front page here about using lin
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by eftychis 8y ago
The bailout should not have happened perhaps. Banks have trapped us into the too big to fail, we are above the law. Think it like this: You have a sibling that is a bad gambler. They play roulette and lose big as expected and drive the whol
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by eftychis 8y ago
Politics is never about optimal or about doing what is financially sane. It is about staying in power... We do not elect or raise to power people with the best minds and intentions. Yes it is malice. There is a joke I find descriptive: &quo
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by eftychis 8y ago
I agree. That is why you pay them interest and the interest is also directly related to how risky the loan is considered. If you put a 10x asset on the line and have a history of paying your debts you pay much less interest on an x value lo
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by eftychis 8y ago
Speechless (occurrence year 2011). Was it really just lack of appropriate personnel or design flaw. I just can't get that information out of the article. Someone cut corners. Now, the article lacks focus. It expands unecessarily on eve
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by eftychis 8y ago
Just wanted to clarify that the issue was not with the Diffie-Hellman key exchange itself, but the way we currently do DNS plus IP routing are the issues. Technically, the client could encrypt their IP with the y=H(g^{scr}) key (result of t
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by eftychis 8y ago
Yeah -- my advice is to use a good adblocker/tracker blocker (ublock origin, ghostery etc). Power consumption/CPU load and memory usage for browsers change considerably. P.S. Yes, people are paying power and time (cpu/persona
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by eftychis 8y ago
Nit-picking a bit/kind of augmenting your train of thought. You can have non-interactive Diffie-Helman key exchange (via a PKI). As you say, the client would need to know prior to that the public key/have access to the certificate
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by eftychis 8y ago
Still it seems like a good write up. Yes, it is not innovative, it provides a good presentation and "here's how I solved this every day, company problem." I think this has a benefit in the Data science. Yes, it glosses over t

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