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by gwillen 15y ago
I WANT THAT FUCKING CHOICE. Don't you DARE take away my fucking choice. I WILL CUT YOU! rages [I exaggerate here, but I think my point is clear. Not every user thinks choices are a bug. I will switch away from any platform with less choic
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by gwillen 15y ago
This works much less well in the days of digital call signalling. The "ringback tone" you hear -- the ringing in your earpiece when you call someone -- no longer corresponds in any way to the ring being generated on the other end. Ringback
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by gwillen 15y ago
I just skimmed this article, but it doesn't appear to make the interesting point that came to my mind when reading it, which is: in a multicellular organism, what the article calls a "cheater", we call a "cancer". A "cheater" is just a cell
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by gwillen 15y ago
Can you explain briefly what the good reason is for no browser to integrate OpenID?
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by gwillen 15y ago
This article is wrong. There are serious attacks against CBC with a zero IV. A zero or re-used IV should not be used with CBC under any circumstances. The author is correct that ECB is weaker than CBC with a zero IV. This is because there a
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by gwillen 15y ago
I'm not actually sure that's true. It's not a full-fledged ssh client; it may well be a shell builtin. (It can't be the standard openssh client, because that lets you escape to a real shell.)
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by gwillen 15y ago
The author of this particular straw poll is likely to know a bit more about the workings of the English Wikipedia than you do...
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by gwillen 15y ago
I suspect that, among the informed, the main determiner of people's stance on this issue is their belief whether Wikipedia would be able to continue to exist in a world with SOPA. I strongly suspect it would not. It is a specific goal of th
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by gwillen 15y ago
I don't think I like this. It is missing a lot of the subtlety of the real thing, in ways that I think are important: 1) In real life, anyone can use the people's mic. If you implement it with a centralized conference call, only the "leader
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by gwillen 15y ago
I have a slightly more complex scheme that eliminates some of the drawbacks of humanhash, while adding some of its own. Given a word-hash, and the number of bits per word that were used to generate it, it gives back the original numeric has
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by gwillen 15y ago
I am not directly experienced with the threat involved. I know it is crossdomain-related; if you tell me it's cookies rather than JS, I'll believe you. I have no idea whether Google normally sets document.domain, but I could certainly imagi
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by gwillen 15y ago
No problem. To be clear, I don't work for Google; I quit earlier this year. As for how that relates to my degree of helpfulness, take that any way you like. ;-)
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by gwillen 15y ago
Because being under google.com would mean the javascript security model allows it to be the "same domain" as google.com, which has cross-site scripting implications: there are applications for which google serves user-supplied javascript, a
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by gwillen 15y ago
Ok, that's exciting then. Thanks for the info. :-)
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by gwillen 15y ago
Can I get my data in a portable format I can take with me to another provider, as easily as paper records? Or can I _only_ get my own data through your proprietary portal / application?
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by gwillen 15y ago
I honestly fear EHRs. Chances are they they will offer me greatly-reduced access to my own medical records, while offering my insurance company (or prospective insurers) greatly increased access. I am open to hearing that some regulation en
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by gwillen 15y ago
I found at my old grocery store that self-checkouts had much better throughput than real lines due to self-selection. People who have many items, or who have coupons / are paying by check / need special help, will avoid the self-checkouts.
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by gwillen 15y ago
Do tech companies _ever_ negotiate those other parts of the deal? My (limited, admittedly) experience so far is that the answer is "we will under no circumstances negotiate anything but pay in a job offer." (I think I may have even been bla
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by gwillen 15y ago
An important and related issue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0la5DBtOVNI
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by gwillen 15y ago
That's because 1) There is a policy against Americanizing British spellings for no reason (this is probably a good thing); 2) frequently experienced editors are much too harsh with new contributors and don't explain why (this is definitely
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by gwillen 15y ago
Carcinogens mostly cause small increases in the probability of cancer. GP is right; the main cause of cancer is "being old". It's true that, if you eliminated every source of DNA damage and miscopying, cancer wouldn't happen; but even if yo
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by gwillen 15y ago
Unlike SpiderOak, CrashPlan lets me backup data between my own machines without charging me for the storage. I wish it would do sync too...
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by gwillen 15y ago
Indeed, I grabbed this app to record things I'm already recording. But I think a mobile app will be a big win. I have found that, if I record data points (mostly my weight) in a spreadsheet, I have trouble remembering to record every day. B
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by gwillen 15y ago
@sinope: Note that you appear to have been hell-banned. I can't find anything in your comment history that suggests why this would be, but the upshot is that nobody can see your comments. I'm not sure whether there's an appeal method; you m
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by gwillen 15y ago
I'd love to see an android app, not with question-editing support but just to let me answer my questions when I'm on the road / in bed / otherwise not at my computer. The lower the barrier, the more often I will succeed at answering the que
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by gwillen 15y ago
I met him at Burning Man this year, had a couple of good conversations with him, and have "email Ilya" as a current item on my to-do list. This is the first I've heard of his death. :-( His close friends may not be getting this news through
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by gwillen 15y ago
If you read the work of Eliezer, to whom I was replying, you will find that a large portion of it is dedicated to dispelling the myth that people are good at reasoning.
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by gwillen 15y ago
While I strongly support the crowdfunding bill, I do get nervous about the argument that says "regulations should not protect people from the risks of their own decisions." Because as we well know, people are not perfect (or even good) reas
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by gwillen 15y ago
"to know that there is a logical process (is there?)" There isn't. You're fucked. -- ex Google employee
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by gwillen 15y ago
Technically Freenode doesn't allow the creation of random channels for any purpose; they are required to be for some open project or open source software. (I say this as a member of quite a number of random channels on Freenode; but they co

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