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by ggggtez 8y ago
>If we wanted computers to cost $x0,000 and OSes to cost $x,000 That's an interesting theory that's not supported by historical evidence as far as I can tell. When computers were expensive, there just were less people with acce
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by ggggtez 8y ago
As long as you know that Prolog is just a fancy wrapper around a brute force search, then sure.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
If you go back and read articles from that time, you'll find that Twitter, Facebook, VPNs, and other technology was used to help organize grass roots rebellions against dictators. Obviously it didn't make the middle east and north
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by ggggtez 8y ago
It's a summary of the above poster and why they said it. It answers the question of why the post was written. I don't have any stake in this.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
"They’re not outright wrong, but they are theoretical" The source is upset that his technical jargon and long-winded explanation didn't make the final article. That's the connection to the above post. If you are a non-te
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by ggggtez 8y ago
It would be pretty extraordinary for the government to sue a company for cooperating with the government. A company has to follow court orders. The government would have to sue itself.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
You have it backwards. The government can't force them to put out "no comment" press releases. They can force them not to reveal certain information. Maybe that means the only logical thing to do is to say "no comment&qu
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Who on HN is supposed to answer that? Just go ask Linus yourself.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
It sounds to me like it'll be more like what they did on Android. The dark pattern is not giving the option to deny a permission: "Accept everything, or you can't use it". This is the opposite of a dark pattern.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Not really. What do you think the role of an editor is exactly?
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by ggggtez 8y ago
You don't need quotes around education. Education isn't an imaginary thing.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Some people still don't think humans landed on the moon. This is not a battle over facts. It's a war. The real problem is that people will torture a fact, like a PoW, until it'll tell any story they want it to tell. Even if
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by ggggtez 8y ago
They'll pay and be happy to do so. Banksy's art is valuable exactly because his art pushes the boundary. It wasn't just destroyed for no reason. His graffiti art is meant to be public, and he has made no secret he thinks pr
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I'm fairly amazed by the amount of skepticism here. A story this big is certain to get a lot of people looking into it. It would be pretty boneheaded for them to run a story like this with no evidence. I suggest the skeptics keep an op
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Imagine that the boards actually do exist, and represent an espionage by a foreign government. Why would the company not immediately hand it over to the FBI/CIA, and immediately be forced to sign an NDA? It would most certainly be ille
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by ggggtez 8y ago
How do you know they don't do that too? This is just one news story, from one manufacturer.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I played The Wolf Among Us twice through. I thought the story was very interesting, and wanted to see what happened if you did everything different. Obviously you know a lot of content is going to be re-used, but by and large probably 95% o
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by ggggtez 8y ago
>blurred text in known font Pretty sloppy. Anyone know if the blurred text has any interesting information?
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I think it would be surprising if self driving cars didn't launch in the next 10 years. Consider that most people never drive more than 10 miles from their home on a given day. It's pretty trivial to imagine even "limited&q
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by ggggtez 8y ago
>claimed the cats were alive Yeah I dunno about that. Those legs look pretty bent out of shape...
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Exactly. Facebook can solve this problem, but they don't. Same as political ads. "If we don't know about it, you can't sue". Unfortunately I think governments are getting tired of that excuse.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Yes, because otherwise you have companies hiring 10 year olds to work in sweat shops. Don't act like government rules for fair employment are only good when it benefits you.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
No women ever saw the ad, so how could they apply? The courts have ruled it's the same as denying qualified people the job. The opportunity was unfairly hidden from them. Imagine the job posting was in the men's toilet. The compan
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by ggggtez 8y ago
>why would I not choose the most effective form of advertising for me? Because it's illegal? Advertising jobs only to white men hurts society. A modern democracy understands that freedom loving people need access to jobs. So yeah, y
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by ggggtez 8y ago
What is the practical benefit of betting you landed in the worst spot? When computer scientists talk about Quicksort, we regularly talk about it being a O(N*LogN) operation. But by this logic, we should be treating it as N^2. That doesn&#x2
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Even if someone were to believe AMP is a walled garden, so what? You spend so many words expressing your passion that controlling ad revenue is bad, but why is it bad? Who cares? Facebook is the biggest walled garden out there, but you neve
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I don't think comparing a software update to rape is buying you any points here.
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by ggggtez 8y ago
I was a bit surprised it attempts to optimize worst case, not average case. I feel like average case is a more practical problem, and one which likely has some pretty nice results by thinking of the map as a probability distribution. Simply
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by ggggtez 8y ago
Are those recordings of phonecalls? Isn't that illegal wiretapping in many states?
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by ggggtez 8y ago
If it was compressible, that would mean there was a repeating pattern. The whole point is that the data is extremely noisy, so finding a pattern is difficult.

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