grkvlt

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by grkvlt 8y ago
Yes, you are basically an 'unusual athlete', at least in this regard. Going along at top speed or riding up a steep hill takes effort and the last thing on most people's minds is their facial expression - so they might assume
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by grkvlt 8y ago
People in military uniforms, that are part of a (well-?) organised group armed with small arms and heavy weapons that is currently fighting against other military and paramilitary groups, can not with 100% honesty be called civilians...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I agree; your 1 in 2500 figure gives a slightly different picture of things... About 30x as many travelers being searched. /* I guess adding mobile and computer searches is wrong though, since some sizable fraction of computer owners h
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by grkvlt 8y ago
FYI, the mechanism you describe is (essentially) how TLS works...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Your `/docs/plan-to-hijack-airnz-plane.txt` file might be seen as slightly dodgy?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Lets not get too excited. There were about 40 million passengers transiting NZ airports last year, according to Wikipedia.[0] The article says roughly 540 devices were searched in the same time period. That's 0.00135% or basically a
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Cost of servers to handle millions of TLS connection initialisations and HTTPS stream decryptions, versus simple plain-text streaming...
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Not always. I got my Apache commit rights while working for an investment bank, where I was employed specifically to work on open source code, and since then have worked on multiple open source projects on GitHub, and sometimes even for i
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Initially I assumed this was going to be about how nuclear tests were 'self-declassifying' since all the bomb components, test fixtures and equipment, the tower it was mounted on etc. would be completely vaporized in the explosion
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Yeah, every company in the world wants employees that they can trust, are team players, and so on. At least, I've never seen a job spec for 'Untrustworthy, slightly shifty, loner required. Must be antisocial and lazy. Must have a
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Apparently it was an actual policy that the current United States administration wanted to implement, but I think it got shot down by the Supreme Court or Congress for being unconstitutional. So I guess the point is that it is a genuine exa
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I was really hoping this might continue with 'six, if you work with IoT devices' or something like that, as in the Larry Miller[0] routine.[1] Never mind, I'll leave the links here anyway... 0. https://en.wikiped
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> Salisbury is the LGBT capital of UK Firstly, I think Brighton and Hove[0] would have something to say about that. Secondly, this is 2018, and it's quite alright to be gay these days! 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Really? Do you regularly lie about your whereabouts to the authorities? Or just feel that you should have the right to do so without being found out"
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by grkvlt 8y ago
That doesn't make sense - you would think the machines could track their cashbox balances perfectly, requiring dumping it in a bag, printing a status report/receipt/audit log, and attaching that to the bag. No counting requir
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by grkvlt 8y ago
No, there really is a huge difference. It's more like 1.5 times the y-axis space in your example, they could get 6 self service checkouts in the space of 2 staffed ones: >|1| |2| < >|1| |4|< | | | |
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Hm, not sure about this comparision. The magnitudinal (?) difference going from millions to billions, being three powers of ten or (approximately) ten powers of two, is exactly the same as from billions to trillions. This works for thinking
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Dangerous. What happens when your incredibly clever internal algorithm decides a customer is liable to lose money and you pocket their cash, and the trade goes a huge amount the other way? The customer demands their 1000% profits, and sues
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by grkvlt 8y ago
> repugnant attributes [...] sexagenarian You do realise that a sexagenarian[0] is just someone in their sixties, right? 0. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sexagenarian
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Nope, named for Emmy Noether.[0] 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s_theorem
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by grkvlt 8y ago
1. Because an 'event horizon' is not a physical boundary, it's more like a boundary that separates events that we can observe and events that we will never see in this universe, ever - that is, in this universe we can't
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Ah, makes more sense. Of course, 'captain knows about FTL' is not necessarily a given, much like 'driver knows about internal combustion engine' for cars - he may just be pressing buttons randomly (cf. the Heechee series
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by grkvlt 8y ago
But they are shown a painting which is pretty obviously just whatever the person creating it wanted it to be, nobody would ever accept it as a perfect record of reality. I don't understand how photography comes into things?
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by grkvlt 8y ago
There's an xkcd (sorry, but I promise it's relevant) that graphs something similar to this[0] but using 'number of years from the time the story was written' as the second axis. If you look at it you can see a line indic
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by grkvlt 8y ago
It's more that the people who do this do more than just buying a single ticket with positive expected value - as described in the article.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
True, +EV is useless if the variance is huge, as is the case with lotteries.
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Of course governments must keep secrets. These are things like order of battle details for the military; location and other details for nuclear weapons; names and addresses of intelligence officers, informants or defectors; algorithms for d
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by grkvlt 8y ago
Because diplomats. The Vienna convention[0] means that they are exempt from interference by foreign governments an d their agencies. Of course, the assumption is that diplomats are not acting 'nefariously' but if it turns out
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I guess because amortized over, say 5 years, that's just equivalent to a $15k p.a. salary (or $36k today) and that's a maximum for him. Hardly 'fuck-you money' really, and I think it might even be less than the average
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by grkvlt 8y ago
I don't know, mine contains a request from Her Brittanic Majesty's Secretary of State, in the name of Her Majesty, that I should be allowed 'to pass freely without let or hindrance' and says nothing about requiring me to

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