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by hurin 12y ago
That's not how the law works for multinational corporations - they are accountable to the laws in the nation in which they conduct business (which isn't to say they will be persecuted).
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by hurin 12y ago
I'm not saying you are wrong as to the law, but if such a reasonable expectation does not exist then it's permissible for arbitrary third parties to analyze DNA from i.e. a discarded strand of hair - not only law enforcement.
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by hurin 12y ago
> otherwise they would be completely ineffective against ads or malware served via SSL. That's certainly false. HTTPS does not encode the routing headers, so it's still possible to block all traffic foreign to the host (or com
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by hurin 12y ago
So while individuals have been charged with numerous hacking charges and potentially decades in jail time for mundane things, such as obtaining plain text info and port scans. Lenovo which actually facilitated breaking ssl security on all o
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by hurin 12y ago
Maybe it's too much of a risk if exposed for the manufacturing industry had they added a backdoor to a foreign customer's component without their knowledge? As opposed to Lenovo agreeing to implement a backdoor? I'm not sure
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by hurin 12y ago
Sortof. For one if it could be done it would only work for that particular fight. Even that is highly unlikely though. For one consider that music at least in terms how we (culturally, or biologically) are predisposed to listening to it:
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by hurin 12y ago
It's neat that they can play a duet that results in actual gameplay; but generally I think you are correct, a player trying only to win would inevitably play something pretty awful sounding. (It would be hard to establish a musical par
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by hurin 12y ago
I don't know specifically why the article focuses on Poincare and anticipating Godel (it seems like a bit of a stretch). But Poincare's writings on the philosophy of mathematics and science are really excellent. link: http:/
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by hurin 12y ago
> Marx was very much a political activist (if not a revolutionary in the violent sense), and pretending he wasn't isn't particularly helpful. I never said he wasn't a political activist - only that the emphasis is definit
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by hurin 12y ago
Marx was foremost an economist and philosopher not a revolutionary, his ideas laid the basis for the later historical movements - but they shouldn't be conflated with them, of course the actual historical events are much stronger in cu
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by hurin 12y ago
In other words: a maintenance nightmare, filled with security gotchas, difficult to scale, and hard to write. I'm not sure I follow this. To change a password you need to write to the db anyways, it's one extra check to set toke
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by hurin 12y ago
I'm sure this this is probably because I don't have do this for work - but from that description it's hard for me to tell what the advantages are. A script to feed vmstat (or other command data) with a python socket would be
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by hurin 12y ago
Could anyone give an example of what this is used for?
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by hurin 12y ago
I think you might want a new classification approach.
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by hurin 12y ago
I think the degradation with age as in part bio/physiological might also be in part a matter of adjustment to circumstance. That is to say the really hard problems in mathematics (or physics) one generally doesn't get to work on f
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by hurin 12y ago
>It's only illegal if Goldman distributed it, which they didn't. It's perfectly okay to modify GPL'ed code for internal purposes without open-sourcing the changes. I'm not a lawyer but as far as I understand they
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by hurin 12y ago
Realistically (loopholes aside) - all of the code not under GPL would be theft no? (Goldman replacing the copyrights on other open-source stuff with their own is probably illegal (as long as the license stipulates that the original copyrigh
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by hurin 12y ago
Most police officers already are jerks with low job-mobility - but I do think a framework where the department suffers for an individuals actions (and not the taxpayer footing the bill) would have a positive feedback effect. If another offi
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by hurin 12y ago
This. We tend to cheer for social justice against government abuse of power, but we're always the ones footing the bill. Settlement and damage costs should come out of the agent's salaries across the entire organization. Maybe pol
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by hurin 12y ago
I don't think I ever mentioned 'replicating soylent' - By nutritional equivalent in natural products I presumed a diet.
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by hurin 12y ago
> (as someone coming from the industry) What do these particular failings referred to in the article have to do with the FDA's lack of resources? From what I can see all you are doing is trying to change the subject of discussion
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by hurin 12y ago
Of course - but the food and beverage industry can't serve you amphetamine-salts in your coke (well not anymore) just because it's profitable. I don't know what soylent is (beyond just searching it in google). Wikipedia says:
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by hurin 12y ago
Pharmaceuticals is a ridiculous industry, public health and scientific merit are on the lowest rungs of their list of priorities.
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by hurin 12y ago
(2012) label please.
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by hurin 12y ago
Right but you can't compare table 2 data to the network stack , table 2 data is only timing the redis operations. Which as stated take up significantly less time than the time spent in the network stack .
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by hurin 12y ago
>To be clear, 80% of kernel-time in that 1KB write is spent in fsync(), _not_ in the network stack Are you sure? Of the total 3.36 μs (see Table 1) spent processing each packet in Linux, nearly 70% is spent in the network stack
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by hurin 12y ago
Oh I'm sure it might make sense even for a big operation, if there are special conditions or clever tricks that allow for cheap electricity and/or tax breaks. All I was saying is that in and of-itself mining was not a profitable s
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by hurin 12y ago
Do you really think while China has been booming economically for decades - that those with money still didn't know how to off-shore it and were waiting like a bunch of patient school boys for the solution that is bitcoin? Buying bitco
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by hurin 12y ago
I don't think mining was ever that profitable once it reached industrial scale (it was always a bet on the future, in which case having actual bitcoins is significantly more fungible). There is a reason cex.io / ghash.io (the bigg
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by hurin 12y ago
Thanks for this - I'm reading the Multics retrospective - do you know of a follow up work? I'd be very interested to see a detailed account as to why some of these features never got implemented. The paper kind of just leaves it a

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