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by ipsin 12y ago
What's the case for small investors to buy bonds? So I feel barely competent to purchase stocks, because there's honestly a lot of crystal ball holding involved. Is the company going to grow? Is that already priced in? Etc. It
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by ipsin 12y ago
Wait, administrative subpoenas are actually non-binding? I would like to know more. Given how widely they're used in the U.S., spreading the word that you can just ignore them seems like a good idea. If that's true.
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by ipsin 12y ago
That's really my problem -- that they're leaving their victims to speculate. It's great that they "made every effort to close the security vulnerability". How's that going? They hired Mandiant to "evaluat
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by ipsin 12y ago
"A very sophisticated external cyber attack" which is a "security vulnerability"... The more "sophisticated" they claim this "cyber attack" is, the more I think it's a garden-variety SQL injecti
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by ipsin 12y ago
Another good explanation, this one with a javascript simulation of HLL: http://research.neustar.biz/2012/10/25/sketch-of-the-day-hyp...
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by ipsin 12y ago
That's what I was afraid of. The thing is, the government seems to have been happy enough in the past to throw hundreds of millions of dollars to contractors, who could then parcel it out to employees and bank the rest. I'm all f
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by ipsin 12y ago
Two things I wonder about: 1) Is an outfit like the U.S. Digital Service considering people who don't have undergraduate degrees, but have a consistent track record or are a part of established teams? 2) Is the salary roughly comparabl
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by ipsin 12y ago
One of the things that's freaky to me is that the harmonic series up to n terms is proportional to log(n)... but the sum of the reciprocals of the primes is roughly proportional to log(log(n)). That's a crazy slow divergence.
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by ipsin 12y ago
One of my favorite parts of Project Euler was getting something where the math seemed beyond me, but I could use a tool like Google to get further. Not to cheat using Google, but to discover the name of the branch of mathematics I had no
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by ipsin 12y ago
Happy 500th! If you've never tried Project Euler, it's a great way to learn new mathematical concepts, sequences, dynamic programming and other algorithms. https://projecteuler.net/problem=368 was one of my favori
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by ipsin 12y ago
Sure, Inkscape does that. It's a vector library, but if you create a rectangle, the coordinates and dimensions are available for editing. Type in "N" and "M" and hit enter, and it updates, which makes sense, given
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by ipsin 12y ago
The article makes it pretty clear that overfishing is likely to wipe out local fish populations.
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by ipsin 12y ago
I really like his sort of thing, but realize that, like anti-forensics tools, there is a risk to having and using destructive anti-tamper triggers. If the police actually think you're up to something, raid you, and your "cyberneti
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by ipsin 12y ago
Independent of, and in addition to, other locking schemes, how about an active process that monitors for either high acceleration (the laptop being moved) or noise above a certain threshhold?
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by ipsin 12y ago
I agree that this is non-intuitive, and we've arrived at another time in DC when time has looped back on itself, and wars have to be re-fought. Your site, http://politechbot.com/ , was one go-to source for information d
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by ipsin 12y ago
We are confident in the performance of our Snapshot device – used in more than two million vehicles since 2008 – and routinely monitor the security of our device to help ensure customer safety. There's something about the phrasing of
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by ipsin 12y ago
I'm not impressed by the "self-reported" cases. http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-someti... "Such admissions can arise, for example, when an employee takes a polyg
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by ipsin 12y ago
What really twists the knife for me is the idea that a belief in privacy is unpatriotic. "Of course, they'll want to subvert private communications. They're patriots ." The world needs a hell of a lot less patriotism
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by ipsin 12y ago
One thing I haven't see in the legal analysis: If Ulbricht is guilty of the things that the defense has stipulated (building and running SilkRoad for some period of time), doesn't that mean he's admitted to most of the releva
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by ipsin 12y ago
I think the title was meant to make the reader feel uncomfortable, and to echo the concept of "Driving While Black".
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by ipsin 12y ago
The attacks against the Playstation Network have slowed, but PSN is still offline in the US. I'm curious about the nature of these attacks. Are they using sheer network traffic or are they tying up the authentication servers with bogu
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by ipsin 12y ago
I first heard the story as an urban-legend-style tale about the crazy foibles of famous people, but I love that it was driven by practical considerations.
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by ipsin 12y ago
There are some real stinkers in that list, the ones so long that it's difficult to imagine you getting where you're trying to go: WINNEMUCCAINDIANCOLONYOFNEVADA-NSN.GOV FLORIDASORTHOTISTSPROSTHETISTS.GOV PALMBEACHCOUNTYTAXCOLLECTO
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OneRNG – an open source entropy generator(kickstarter.com)
4 points by ipsin 12y ago|1 comments
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by ipsin 12y ago
I've also toyed with L-systems. I made a little gallery with some of the more interesting ones I came across: https://ehq.com/lcurves/
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by ipsin 12y ago
I understand that it probably doesn't work with the intended aesthetic, but I kept looking for a "make it go" button, because using a nub-mouse to wind the gear around repeatedly is hard.
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by ipsin 12y ago
Yeah, it really is kind of shocking how bad American string cheese is. It's kind of an extruded cheese stick, with very little stringiness. Armenian-style string cheese, on the other hand, is rather salty with a wonderfully dense brai
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by ipsin 12y ago
In all seriousness, when police circumvent the existing legal methods for gaining access to information, and when they spy on people without warrants, why should the "normal channels" be left open? Isn't it about time to repe
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by ipsin 12y ago
This is not "some point in an investigation / trial", this is a specific point. They have a warrant. I'm not a big fan of "compelled evidence" (gathering DNA, blood or fingerprints from a suspect), but the cou
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by ipsin 12y ago
Thanks for noting this. I'm hoping that a highly parameterized patent is also struck down for the same reasons, especially if it's a subset of their previous patent. It's funny how, knowing little about yoga, you can devel

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