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by jbapple 11y ago
> Whistleblowing protections that extend to what Snowden did would effectively convert the entire classification system to a set of recommendations as opposed to laws (a wholly different demand which I think is patently childish as a dem
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> We could do something that would be considered an act of war in order to kidnap somebody explicitly protected by the target country. But these things have been known to go poorly. I don't disagree with that. However, the US someti
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by jbapple 11y ago
> Hopefully fighter jets. How would the owners and operators of those fighter jets know which flights were CIA flights?
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> we need to get rid of US military bases across Europe. What would stop the CIA from sending over the Gulfstream jet and paramilitary team using civilian airports?
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> Most of Europe would not be okay with that Do you have any opinion polls to back that up?
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by jbapple 11y ago
He must tell the police the address and date of birth of any woman he plans to sleep with. Additionally, this type of requirement can be foisted on people who have not been convicted of anything. I think is under section 123 of the Sexual O
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by jbapple 11y ago
> I'm wondering why there isn't anything done for scent detection ... it would limit the need for drug sniffing dogs If police departments believe that they get the resources they want based on the Clever Hans Effect, what woul
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by jbapple 11y ago
> I've literally never heard of Vhash, and I see no references to it outside of the 2007 paper. It is intimately tied up with VMAC. The title of the 2006 paper that introduced them is "Message authentication on 64-bit architect
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by jbapple 11y ago
Fortunately, there are very fast universal hash functions like Vhash that are resistant to hash-flooding.
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Faster 64-bit universal hashing using carry-less multiplications(arxiv.org)
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by jbapple 11y ago
Assume a very simple LSM with one run per level and an expansion factor of 2. Call the block size B and the key size k. The first two levels have one run of size B, and each level thereafter has one run twice the size of the one from the pr
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by jbapple 11y ago
I don't understand his claim that B-tree write amplification is O(1). If I want to write one key to a B-tree, I only have to write O(1) nodes (amortized), but each node is presumably of size B >> 1, right?
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by jbapple 11y ago
Many employees have contracts that do not allow them to do outside paid work.
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If you worked for Amazon and you saw that Jay Carney was willing to reveal your personnel records if you talk to the media about unethical or illegal labor management practices, would it change your decision about speaking to reporters? I t
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See also "Optimal Hierarchical Layouts for Cache-Oblivious Search Trees", by Peter Lindstrom and Deepak Rajan: http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.5899 .
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by jbapple 11y ago
> I'm suggesting the top 50% in America are better of than the top 50% in Sweden. I'm asking you what that sentence means. Comparing groups is a tricky business. The richest half of Americans are better off in total? In the mea
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by jbapple 11y ago
> The top 50% of Americans are better off than the top 50% of people in Sweden. That's 160 million people doing better than Sweden, I call that an extraordinary success. Are you suggesting the median American is wealthier than the w
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by jbapple 11y ago
1. This comment does not at all address the actual article, which includes a decision in which individual investors and the mutual fund companies that sell them products both have "an actual stake", and yet only one of these has t
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> If you tell your boss "I am going to take tomorrow off", and they say, "Actually, you're scheduled for an interview, can you please come in? But take Thursday or Friday off by all means", you're going to s
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by jbapple 11y ago
> Permission from one of several founders at a 10 person company is proportionally equivalent to letting your team lead know you'll be absent. That's not exactly an excessive standard, is it? Requesting is different from infor
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> It's complicated for government or law enforcement, not for the person being questioned. I think it's more complex for government, but still complex for the person being questioned. For instance, the chart notes that if you a
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> For many of these generic drugs, this is a case where markets have literally already solved the problem. They're available from European and Indian manufacturers at extremely low cost. This fixes part of the problem, perhaps. But
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FTA: "It says patients are largely shielded from price increases by insurance and financial assistance programs the company offers, so that virtually no one is denied a drug they need. But Mr. Pearson, a former McKinsey & Company c
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by jbapple 11y ago
Given that Amazon warehouse jobs include working unpaid time[0] and the standard practice of employers inflating per-hour rate expectations for piecework jobs, I am dubious of the "$18–25/hr" claim. 0: See INTEGRITY STAFFING
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> dirty diesel kills many people each year (about 9,000 in London alone) Here is a paper I found related to that claim: "Understanding the Health Impacts of Air Pollution in London" https://www.london.gov.uk/sit
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Where can I read the actual report?
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> There's a 1/3 chance of not making it to 81. But then there's also a 20% chance of making it past 91. What do you do about that? You can't spend all your money now. But you can't not spend it, either. Pensions
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I think the notion that "more police on the street [makes] punishment more quick, clear, and consistent" needs supporting evidence.
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by jbapple 11y ago
> Increased land prices mean higher taxes for homeowners too. Not in California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_13_%281...
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How to Elect a Leader Faster Than a Tournament (2014)(arxiv.org)
24 points by jbapple 11y ago|4 comments

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