halpmeh

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by halpmeh 4y ago
The story about BCCI, while interesting, doesn’t seem related in the slightest to FTX.
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by halpmeh 4y ago
VC's had money, i.e. capital. Now the money is gone. What would you describe that as if not destruction of capital.
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Many people make close friends at university, even without intentionally doing so. There's a common, yet erroneous, pattern of thinking in many "successful" people where they attribute their actions to their success without c
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by halpmeh 4y ago
That's like saying all bugs are undefined behavior. C lets you write to your own stack, so if you corrupt the stack due to an application error (e.g. bounds check), then that's just a bug because you were executing fully-defined b
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by halpmeh 4y ago
The context before that quote is very interesting. > “We don’t really think of them as cars,” TGS co-chief executive Jonathan Gourlay tells me. “We’re just giving our customers a tool that does a job, whether that’s feeding children or d
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Was rewriting the stack due to undefined behavior or was it due to a logic error, e.g. improper bounds calculation?
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Doesn’t the compiler need to know all of the types to do the compilation anyway?
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Serialize SecureUserCreatedStructuredData into an array of SecureString (or SecureInt, etc).
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by halpmeh 4y ago
I don't think I'm having trouble understanding you at all. Rather, your definition of science is inconsistent and thus not comprehensible. To understand why, let's assume that the C-T hypothesis was never hypothesized, but Tu
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Yes you can? // lib.h struct SecureString { uint8_t *content; size_t len; } bool secure_str_eq(l *SecureString, r *SecureString) { // some constant-time algorithm } SecureStr
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by halpmeh 4y ago
I believe the argument is not that X should be funded over Y. Rather, the argument is that a theory should have a clear path to producing empirical evidence in order to receive serious funding. Otherwise, the money is guaranteed to be waste
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by halpmeh 4y ago
As far as I know, and feel free to correct me, string theory has received many million in funding and yielded exactly zero empirical results. I agree that you won’t become an expert in theoretical physics from a YouTube video, but one can d
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by halpmeh 4y ago
The point totally misses the time value of money.
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by halpmeh 4y ago
No, computer science is still deductive even with the C-T thesis. CS is definitely not empirical. If I think of an algorithm, I can explain its properties mathematically without experimentation.
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Whose fault is that?
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Why is that odd? You could provide a typed API in other languages that leverages a suite of different side-channel proof algorithms. In order to provide such an API, you need a portable language compatible with the C calling convention for
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Wouldn’t it make way more sense to write this in C and expose a typed API via language-specific packages. The functionality is cool, but nothing stops you from forgetting to use secret(string) instead of string.
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Ultimately, people want results. A lot of public money gets spent on physics research, and it’s a totally valid question to ask what have we gotten in return for that investment. I’m not involved in the industry, but it doesn’t seem like ou
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by halpmeh 4y ago
I agree the Church-Turing thesis is why we care about Turing machines, but to say that the study of Turing machines is a science because of the Church-Turing thesis is like saying “it’s a science because it has applications.” Anyway, brin
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by halpmeh 4y ago
The article uses Turing machines as an example of computer science so the author clearly has a definition of science that includes deductive mathematics.
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by halpmeh 4y ago
The author could have thought about this claim for like two seconds and realized how ridiculous it is. Rockefeller and multiple generations of descendants can live off his wealth. Clearly he was able to buy more with his money than an ordin
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by halpmeh 4y ago
QC works by the exploiting statistical properties of an algorithm to infer something about the subject through quantum computation. Writing quantum algorithms is hard because you can rarely write your algorithm in a way that directly deals
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by halpmeh 4y ago
Quantum computers are a science in the same way all of mathematics is a science. In math, you create a set of axioms and build logical structures on top of them. In quantum computing, the existence of a qubit and its operations are the axio
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by halpmeh 4y ago
The Jones Act was passed in 1920?
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by halpmeh 4y ago
How would repealing the Jones Act help? By allowing more ships on the Allegheny River? If anything, I think Pittsburgh would have benefitted from a little protection before cheap foreign steel hollowed out the industrial base.
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by halpmeh 4y ago
It’s also in the EU’s interest to make the UK a pariah. A lesson to others on the dangers of leaving the bloc. I don’t see the EU caring so much about restoring free trade with the UK. It would present an image of groveling and send the wro
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by halpmeh 4y ago
I was laid off. There are still job openings for tech positions. I’ve received numerous, unsolicited job offers through my network. But I’ve decided to take some time off. One reason is that tech compensation is so dependent on valuations a
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by halpmeh 4y ago
A lot of spending in fintech was fueled by low interest rates. So there is kind of a trifecta forming to lower crypto equity prices caused by higher interest rates: 1. The risk-free return is higher, which lowers the value of risky assets b
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by halpmeh 4y ago
You're cherry picking here. Worshiping the deity was one of the characteristics, the rest being: ritualistic meetings, social fulfillment, familial pressure to be a member of the group, indoctrination from an early age, and emotional s
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by halpmeh 4y ago
I don’t think you can avoid it that easily. First there’s the question of identifying grift. But more broadly the price of crypto is influenced by the grifters and their operations.

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