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by hguant 10y ago
For the record, niche authors, I would love to read "Pentesting South African WifFi Networks with Monads"
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How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life(nytimes.com)
3 points by hguant 10y ago|0 comments
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by hguant 10y ago
This article reports on a study finding a link between "systems thinking" oriented parents and autism. http://arstechnica.com/science/2011/06/kids-autism-may-be-re...
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by hguant 10y ago
DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge is pushing the state of the art when it comes to RE, exploitation, and the like. Very presentable talk by Mike Walker, who's heading up the project with a bunch of ex-Raytheon guys. There are links to
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by hguant 10y ago
You can buy radio cards that can scan police (and, well, all) frequencies for much less than an android phone. https://sites.google.com/site/policescannerhowto/
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by hguant 10y ago
I guess I don't understand the need for a new IRC channel. #haskell is one of the best out there, both as a resource and a community. Why split it up?
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by hguant 10y ago
I don't think so, if only because seaweed isn't very calorie dense - 4 calories per 2 tablespoon according to Wikipedia (well, the google card that gets all its info from Wikipedia at least). I think it's much more plausible
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by hguant 10y ago
I would actually think the opposite: if you're a buffer employee right now, you know a) the company will continue to exist b) that you're a valuable asset to the company and c) that your founders walk the walk when it comes to tra
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by hguant 10y ago
"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people." I don't think this means what you think it means. A quick glance at wikipedia expands and ex
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by hguant 10y ago
Article that addresses the issue of how YouTube is the RIAA's poster child for success and still its worst enemy http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/04/riaa-still-hates-the...
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by hguant 10y ago
The problem is that enterprise doesn't want 10 different services/apps that innovate and increase extensibility. Innovation means change. Far simpler to have one vendor with a reliable time table of updates, one product suite that
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by hguant 10y ago
Well, by definition yes. Tax evasion and tax fraud are equivalent. I think you mean tax avoidance, which is quite a different matter. While there's a lot of debate on the matter, in the United States at least, the general rule of thumb
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by hguant 10y ago
> At some point this becomes a philosophical argument, so we can't have a very nuanced debate on it... This sentiment saddens me. The thought that philosophy - which begins with the examination of our beliefs and personal opinions t
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by hguant 10y ago
The other issue with intercepting an ICBM is that the ballistics are much more difficult. You have to factor in the curvature of the earth, atmospheric conditions (is there a storm front between the interceptor pad and the missile?), and th
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by hguant 10y ago
Your comment relies on a misunderstanding of what Aristotle - or his proxie here - means by the term "art". In modern usage, something that has no art to it is base, simple, and requires no effort to achieve. However, art meant so
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by hguant 10y ago
I opened this article half expecting an essay about EVE Online doing something wonky on their backend.
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The Y Combinator(mvanier.livejournal.com)
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by hguant 11y ago
In the book 'Shake Hands With the Devil', Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire (the head of the UN peace keeping mission in Rwanda) goes into this in great detail. Certain countries would dump their troops on the UN so that they woul
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by hguant 11y ago
From wikipedia: "The name derives from the belief that various ritualistic acts will lead to a bestowing of material wealth." Basically, slavishly copying someone else's actions without actually understanding the underlying p
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by hguant 11y ago
Relevant smbc http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2698
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by hguant 11y ago
I wish I could share your hope. Good luck to you - this is a really exciting idea and one that I think we need!
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by hguant 11y ago
I'm going to treat this like a real comment instead of a sarcastic quip. The reason we go back to '2000 year old [not sure if 'misty' or 'mostly', both work in interestingly different ways] fantasy document[s]&
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by hguant 11y ago
Obviously you need to spend more time playing Kerbal Space Program. Rockets are their own justification. On a more serious note, I think that's just human nature - if you're invested in something - a technology, a stack, a busines
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by hguant 11y ago
For every idealist trying to make a difference, you get some bureaucrat from <insert country here> who is only interested in having a title and bilking it for as much money as it's worth. Because said bureaucrat is from <inser
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Troubling warnings for the US from the 1930s(ft.com)
1 points by hguant 11y ago|0 comments
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by hguant 11y ago
It's also customary when quoting large sections of text. I'm not sure if this carried over from email, or from academic texts (where if your quote is more than a line or two, it needs to be formatted differently).
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by hguant 11y ago
It would be interesting to see a neural net evolve to take into account player state, not just game state. I play chess, and no where near professional levels, so I don't know if this anecdote is valuable, but if I see my opponent look
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by hguant 11y ago
RE 'no discernible difference in quality': there's a fair amount of literature, both anecdotal and factual, that says otherwise. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527487035155045761420... http:&#x2
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by hguant 11y ago
I think Microsoft is recognizing that locking people into an ecosystem is not a long term solution when there are near equivalent ecosystems available for free. It almost seems like they're positioning themselves to get mindshare (&#x2
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by hguant 11y ago
If they really wanted the data, they could turn to any one of the countless Beltway bandits that have sprung up in response to the massive influx of contracting dollars the various three letter agencies have been pumping into the DC/No

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