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by gpcz 12y ago
We'd still have the debate, but if we know in advance that we're going to show or describe the horrors of war in graphic detail, we'd warn the veterans in the audience beforehand. Trigger warnings aren't censorship, the
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by gpcz 12y ago
My understanding based on reading the Geek Feminism Wiki [1] is that the author misrepresented trigger warnings as a signal that something might be offensive when rather they are actually meant to give people a warning that content may re-o
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by gpcz 12y ago
If the comment quality has eroded, is that because the standards are too lax (in which adding a new rule will theoretically fix it), or is it because of an Eternal September-type issue? If it's an Eternal September issue, then you hav
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by gpcz 12y ago
Even worse, "Madam Secretary" is now spreading torture apologist rhetoric by framing the character that worked for the CIA and approved torture as a successful but war-worn, down-to-earth realist that acknowledges that "life
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by gpcz 12y ago
Themartorana never said that the left was good and the right was evil, and never said anything about George Soros. Even worse, you are engaging in a tu quoque fallacy to defend this perceived partisanship. The Koch brothers spent $31 milli
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by gpcz 12y ago
In your blog post, you argue that since the two terms result in (mostly) the same output/outcome, the two terms are synonymous. However, according to FSF's open-source/free-software overlap diagram [1], tivoized programs are
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by gpcz 12y ago
The IRS BOLO lists [1] are scanned bitmap PDFs, which make them extremely hard to search. Does anyone know if they also BOLOed Free Software, or was it just Open Source? The reason I ask is that the term "open source" was designe
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by gpcz 12y ago
I believe the Founding Fathers were aware of this loophole, since Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked Benjamin Franklin, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, &
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by gpcz 12y ago
As ridiculous as that pitch might sound, it makes the implied security-money tradeoff directly visible to management and causes them to make a formal decision.
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by gpcz 12y ago
I know it's taboo to bring up the Holocaust in Internet discussions, but this coaster and the verbiage that the Wikipedia article uses ("unloading of corpses" in particular) creeps me out at a level similar to the industrial
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by gpcz 12y ago
The impression I got from "don't roll your own crypto" (especially after the Debian key bug thing) was that crypto code was so nuanced and complicated that even if you thought something was a bug, you were likely to be horrib
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by gpcz 12y ago
I got the same vibe from the chorus of "never roll your own crypto" rhetoric I heard on the Internet -- that I shouldn't even bother looking into OpenSSL's code unless I went to the Shaolin Temple of Crypto and trained u
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by gpcz 12y ago
What are the "unmistakable signs of supreme genius?"
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by gpcz 12y ago
I assume you mean free cloud services. If you're a paying customer with a contract, it's harder to pull that stunt.
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by gpcz 12y ago
Microsoft apparently made a deal with DEC after some Digital employees notified their senior management of how similar NT and VMS was. Microsoft paid them 65-100 million dollars (src: http://windowsitpro.com/windows-client&
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by gpcz 12y ago
I think that falls in a "it's not illegal if you don't get caught" scenario -- that is, unless you make an incomplete Faraday cage, the FCC would have no real means to catch you doing that. Also, since you wouldn't
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by gpcz 12y ago
I agree that he's probably overestimating Atari's impact on an entire generation's psyche, but I like that a) he's indirectly reminding artists to stay conscious of the emotions their artwork provokes in people and b) th
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by gpcz 12y ago
At the end of every episode in "Once Upon Atari," Rob Fulop (author or co-author of Demon Attack, Night Driver, Space Invaders, and Missile Command for the 2600) talks about how many children in the 80s played thousands of hours o
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by gpcz 12y ago
The paper ( http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/12/1059 ) is a meta-analysis of papers addressing this correlation. In the section "Limitations of the evidence base," the author notes the deficiency
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by gpcz 12y ago
Parts 2, 3, and 4 explain the practical ramifications of his sliding-window design (which differs from indirect addressing) much more thoroughly. In Part 3, he actually mentions that HackADay accidentally credited him with PC-relative jump
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by gpcz 12y ago
Other (7 hours old) HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7626072
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by gpcz 12y ago
I've been thinking recently about Heartbleed, and I was wondering if by writing C code to implement various network and cryptographic protocols, we're acting as human compilers for something that might be better represented in a m
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by gpcz 12y ago
I'd recommend that anyone interested in startups download a capitalization table (Google "cap table download" without the quotes for a variety of choices), and just play with different scenarios. Plug in rounds from companie
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by gpcz 13y ago
He declined having a picture taken for public display when asked and gave a reason implying that he wanted to stay anonymous. Even if there's no general social expectation, I would argue that there was a specific expectation with this
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by gpcz 13y ago
I didn't know that -- that's very interesting! Thank you for showing me that. I learned about Kalman filters in a mobile robotics course that made explicit Gaussian assumptions early on for the primary topic (SqrtSAM), and they b
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by gpcz 13y ago
That may be a part of it. The problem was only described in vague terms, so there's probably a reason why a Kalman filter makes sense, but as it was described in the interview it seemed more like a regression problem to me.
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by gpcz 13y ago
A Kalman filter assumes that measurement noise follows a Gaussian distribution, and it continuously updates its estimate of the covariance based on previous observations. Therefore, if you gave it a bunch of very similar observations (like
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by gpcz 13y ago
Typically, a Kalman filter is only as accurate as your mathematical model of the underlying phenomena (for example, your flight dynamics on an airplane), and the filter is mainly useful to mitigate the noise from your real-world sensor obse
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by gpcz 13y ago
It also shows what happens in an environment without insurance. If Mt.Gox was insured, this catastrophe would have been avoided for the customer by either the insurance company paying out or by Mt.Gox never getting hacked due to the securi
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by gpcz 13y ago
Similar to "bath salts," that legal trickery may work for a while, but the law will eventually catch up if a government is motivated to stop something.

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