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by endymi0n 8y ago
The scary thing about DNA and all of its future use is that all of your "privacy" measures are completely irrelevant, as the DNA of whoever is genetically related to you and known will easily lead back to you. And the probability
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> “Where it is impossible to create the conditions necessary to make competition effective, we should resort to other methods of guiding economic activity.” - Friedrich Hayek, The Road to Serfdom, p.37 Free markets work as expected where
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Then again, IPv6 hasn't really been built with NAT in mind, precisely because "there are so many addresses out there you won't need it". So if you decide for an IPv6 deployment for your servers, you're essentially b
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Picking the nits here: They did not have any evidence of abuse, because they threw the logs away after 14 days... I'd consider that at least a disingenious reading of "we have no evidence that bad things happened".
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That reminds me of the old joke that Facebook helps you deal with the problems you wouldn‘t have without it...
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Looking at the graph, an at least equally accurate headline would be „inflation-adjusted median US income stays flat since the last 20 years while share of expenses for medical, housing, childcare and education costs skyrockets in the same
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And yet that‘s exactly how to create the most value. I believe deeply in the concept of „transferring pain“, as it‘s usually an order of magnitude easier to teach a good developer some domain knowledge than teaching a domain worker thinking
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Granted. s/seriously/almost/g would have been more appropriate
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It's funny how I seriously can't tell whether you mean the comment or the article on top of this thread.
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In a world where facts don't change anyone's opinion anyway, thanks for yours — I get your point and I feel yours might be better.
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Unfortunately, the current alternative to e-voting is long, tedious and non-realtime. Recently I had an idea about how to go at this: The elephant in the room is that you're trusting a single for-profit party with the accuracy of the r
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Hacking a 1980's knitting machine with a Raspberry Pi(raspberrypi.org)
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Motivate? Most definitely yes. Equip? Not at all. The American Dream (especially that pesky part about "opportunity") died long ago. If you're born with a chronic condition such as diabetes or your parents can't afford a
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by endymi0n 8y ago
While you're completely on the mark with this, I noticed that Google pulls the new Microsoft now that it has almost a quasi monopoly on the desktop: Most of the new, complex UIs by Google services (read: GCP Cloud Console, all of Googl
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In a true Randall Munroe "What if?" fashion, I'd be interested if this stuff would be stable enough to hold together on its own or if it needs the absolutely extreme gravity and pressure around it to stick together and would
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by endymi0n 8y ago
This is really interesting, I've seen this pattern somewhere. IMHO, CoffeeScript had a really similar effect on the development of JavaScript / EcmaScript, but then, it quickly started going extinct. Same with IO.js vs. Node.JS, w
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“If cyclical pressures continue to build and financial vulnerabilities broaden, it may become appropriate to ask the largest banking organizations to build a countercyclical buffer of capital to maintain an adequate degree of resilience aga
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I won‘t speculate about the feasability in humans, but at least in a mouse model, it looks like it‘s possible to at least partially reverse some symptoms: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/18021409
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That's really self-serving bias at work. It's also why the part about leaving zero ambiguity is so important. It's exactly the kind of people who didn't see it coming (while you thought you transparently had them on thei
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by endymi0n 8y ago
This hits it right home. The other piece of advice I've learned about breaking bad news, especially in the light of the excellent management tips here I always refer junior leaders to: http://www.defmacro.org/2014&#x2
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Without using a real headless browser running JavaScript AND accessing a browser cookie store to distribute the fake traffic on the event tracking of all gazillion tracking cookies you‘re already identified with, this approach is utterly us
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Having seen this topic from both sides of the tables, I'm not sure if I agree. Don't get me wrong, I'm generally all for transparency, and I've also seen my share of cases (including my own) where someone was treated unf
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This. Feel free to check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
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500 times this. They have no clue how to evaluate talent and build culture. If they organize this similar to the BSI, they‘ll take PhDs fresh from Uni, take them on a career path that starts nicely above entry level market salary — but ends
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
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/s
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At least around the mainstream languages, I find the try/catch construct (where errors are treated very differently than return codes) much more prevalent. C‘s hacky -1 style perverted error codes don‘t really count for me. And where
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by endymi0n 8y ago
Very good writeup, I like the documentation of the thought process and the open source tools shown in action. What really amazed me though was both the persistence of this hacker (looks like the project took more than 3 years from first pla
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People still don‘t get just how radically synergistic electric driving, self-charging and self-driving technology will be. All the drawbacks of electric driving such as low range and slow and cumbersome charging will just instantly disappea
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It‘s interesting to see how negative the comments are here, compared to the civil disobedience of SciHub — in fact it‘s much of the same thing. And while there is an argument to be made about how developing new medicine costs real money, th

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