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by ggggtez 8y ago
Incorrect. The game is played by one player creating a finite state machine description. That player wins if they convince 4 people to follow it. The other players win if they realize they aren't playing a game.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
The point is that the other player may wonder: "why are they warning me about that rule right now? Do they see that based on how we are playing, someone is going to misplay soon?" That leaks the players information state. Proper H
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Considering we are discussing card games, Chairman Mao would have been the more logical game to bring up. Unlike paranoia, but like Hanabi, it's a game for insufferable people.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
This is why calling Hanabi a "game" is generous. It's largely just an exercise in mathematics disguised as a game. There is only one real player: the person declaring the rules of deduction for everyone to follow.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
They probably wanted to avoid the bad press showing their security was really flawed, and spin it as intentional testing. However, society/police can decide they don't want criminals roaming free just because it helps a company co
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Is this sarcasm? He had no intention of returning anything until he was caught. The only thing he was testing was whether he could get away with it.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I think you are missing the propose of the hypothesis step. The hypothesis let's you design the experiment correctly. If you run an experiment without a hypothesis, you don't know what variables to control for. Multi armed bandit
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by ggggtez 8y ago
>no JavaScript >no frames I think you are remembering. In the blog screenshot of myspace, when it says "Javascript is not allowed", it was acting as "a sign, not a cop" [0]. Most websites were riddled with security
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by ggggtez 8y ago
>Nobody ever talks about why this was bad for the world. Stop just a minute there. Who says that random people copy pasting CSS and HTML they don't understand is even a good thing? Let's be clear, 99% of people don't under
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Yeah, Yahoo is crazy for doing that, but a lot of email provides allowed re-use of email addresses back then. I think that happening today with literally the largest email provider is a stretch. Everyone knows if you allow email re-use, it
851.
by ggggtez 8y ago
"They". Who is they? All journalists everywhere? It's not like being a journalist is like being a fortune 500 CEO, or some kind of Zuckerberg. I think you'll find they are human for the most part.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Why wouldn't they use them? MAD only exists if there is a credible threat. Imagine that you are a leader of a small asian dictatorship with large amounts of starvation. Other countries threaten to invade to dethrone you. If you do noth
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by ggggtez 8y ago
This line of thinking is too black and white. What would incentive a company to invest millions in new technology, like a new cancer drug, if they have to give up their secrets as soon as they do? No one would bother inventing any at all. A
854.
by ggggtez 8y ago
Please troll somewhere else.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
There seems to be an impulse to deny the AI progress that people see in front of them. When IBM Watson won on Jeopardy, everyone claimed it was cheating because, after all, "everyone knows the answers, so Jeopardy is really only about
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by ggggtez 8y ago
"Among the top 100 words mentioned, those related to knowledge-based systems—like “logic,” “constraint,” and “rule”—saw the greatest decline. Those related to machine learning—like “data,” “network,” and “performance”—saw the highest g
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Quitting and striking are different. Sure you could quit, but then when the shutdown ends, you won't have a job at all. I'm sure some people may consider that option, but others may be hoping to ride it out. Remember, some people
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by ggggtez 8y ago
This is why many are calling out "sick". I saw an estimate of 10% in some cases. It's not quite as effective as a strike, but it can still make a statement at least.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
A tech union seems inevitable at this point. It seems like there has been some false starts, but there is a "market need" that is being unmet. Silicon Valley has shown it's very good at meeting unfulfilled market needs.
860.
by ggggtez 8y ago
The linguistic way to say that is to note that mathematics is an "uncountable noun", just like "water". It's plural, just you can't have just "one mathematic".
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Not following what a "principal of balance" is. There is no physical law of nature that is defined like that. Maybe you mean "conservation of mass/energy". Unfortunately, if you think of things like "good"
862.
by ggggtez 8y ago
Well sure. Doesn't anyone remember what Snowden was known for revealing? Why would anyone think Twitter and Facebook would be exempt from monitoring?
863.
by ggggtez 8y ago
Disagree. "...Just ask Amazon" is needless clickbaity extra words. Ultimately the opinion is that of the writer.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Agreed. This is not some unusual philosophy case. This is a case of a programmer who should know better (rebase is not exactly a no-op change!) ignoring one of the most obvious possibilities.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Most hosting providers don't want to host malware, as it's against their terms. Instead of banning an account, trying to identify affected customers proactively sounds reasonable. Injecting your own code in their site does not.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Bandwidth costs money. It's likely technically cheaper to serve a 404 than to serve the data. Besides that, it's not what costs less, it's what LOOKS like it costs less.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I meant, how would you prove that more was produced as a result? How do you know that now isn't produced because there are now people in the world in general? Or some other cause?
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by ggggtez 8y ago
It turns out paying someone a LOT of money for sex isn't any more legal. The courts are likely to agree, if any person wanted to press criminal charges.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
For better or worse, paying for sex is illegal in most places regardless of consent. The law does not have a carve out for consensual slavery either. The state can decide any consent to participate in an illegal arrangement was cohersed.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
That's an interesting idea. I don't see how they would establish cause and effect, so I'm inclined to not believe it. But it is interesting to consider unexpected incentives.

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