jbert

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by jbert 18y ago
"Right, which is completely preposterous and will never happen." A lot of the curtailment of civil liberties in recent years would have been preposterous a decade or so before they occurred. "You can't clobber free will with gadgets." Tried
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by jbert 18y ago
If a problem is parallelisable to that extent, are the cores actually hitting the same memory? (Presumably not, since you don't want multiple threads mutating the same memory). So the problem is really that we have: [lots of cores] <=ch
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by jbert 18y ago
"Laws can never be universally and compulsorily enforced because laws are merely guidelines." But this kind of thing is encoding those "choose to follow or suffer the consequences" laws into "we will take control and force your devices to c
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by jbert 18y ago
re: performance, any smtp mail server worth its salt will be limited by I/O write performance (email should be sync'd to stable storage before signalling acceptance). CPU spent pushing data over pipes/unix sockets won't register. I don't se
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by jbert 18y ago
I was thinking more the other direction. Corruption acts as a additional barrier to entry (will I get that contract? I can try and pay more money/bribe the right people, but even if I do that maybe there's a family connection I don't know a
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by jbert 18y ago
I didn't dispute that State sponsorship may contribute to a private monopoly. I pointed out that corruption may add to the barriers to entry which would help a private monopoly persist, i.e. state sponsorship is not a necessary requirement
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by jbert 18y ago
> Bribery is not a huge obstacle to a determined entrepreneur. You just pay it like any other tax. But it's not just bribery. It's about being in or out of favour. It's about irrationality and lack of transparency. If you know that the
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by jbert 18y ago
> In most industries, a private monopoly can't exist without State sponsorship. Or...barriers to entry are high. Which is likely to be the case in an economic environment where corruption is endemic. So corruption acts as a 'stable stat
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by jbert 18y ago
> wasn't compelling until his example of two gmails at once (currently a pain) Run firefox with an alternate profile (firefox -P other_profile --no-remote). That'll start a separate firefox instance which has it's own cookies, etc. That
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by jbert 18y ago
Assuming the point of measurement is at the boat, the dominant effect is that it goes up and down in a decaying sinusoidal pattern due to the ripples caused by the anchor hitting the water (it was thrown, right?) The centre point of the sin
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by jbert 18y ago
"When do you institute the rule?" When you realise you have a (potential) problem. It stops it getting worse. "What is the quantum of a 'check'?" More tricky, certainly. That's a potential big problem. "Does the limit apply department-by-de
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by jbert 18y ago
Is "one in, one out" a silly rule? e.g. you can only add a new step to a process if a step is removed from another.
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by jbert 18y ago
Ah, yes. An attacker could fetch the resource themselves, discover the ETag and serve their malicious resource with the real ETag. Sorry.
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by jbert 18y ago
You could specify that you expect the referenced resource to be served with a given ETag. Would that be good enough?
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by jbert 18y ago
No, you're totally a water sign. I can tell from your username. You're probably in flux due to the dawning of Aquarius.
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by jbert 18y ago
The major win is that a DVCS decouples the "commit as save work-in-progress" from the "commit a carefully polished jewel of a changeset which will live for eternity in the revision history". i.e. you can commit locally frequently, and push
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by jbert 18y ago
Interesting. Perhaps that's perl's main problem. Ruby (or python) snatched up that generation of hackers since they could make more of a splash. Someone commented on reddit a few weeks back "perl used to have a really cool culture" OK - I c
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by jbert 18y ago
> Why should people work so hard to gain something that is crumbling into dust all around us? Like money which will decay with inflation, or perhaps the regard of people who will be dust in a few decades? > If karma is constantly go
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by jbert 18y ago
Does a similar effect apply to code? Perhaps technical debt comes with punitive interest rates, making maintainers add more cruft than they otherwise would. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technical_debt
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by jbert 18y ago
The problems of DRM are the ones facing us right now. Sure, individual implementations are buggy. If there's pressure, that'll improve over time. The basic technical approach of the current DRM systems is sound, which is why they're a probl
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by jbert 18y ago
I don't know how varied the possible DRM policies are, but it would seem possible to implement a 'generation counter' for DRM'd media which would restrict the number of copies. e.g. the output of a video camera could be tagged with "allow 3
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by jbert 18y ago
As I've said (once) before on HN, the combination of: 1 - increased leverage (risk) => increased rewards (if risk pays off) 2 - intense competition between companies (with the possibility of buyouts, loss-leaders, etc) Means that compan
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by jbert 18y ago
> Too bad for them that the last part of the delivery chain will always be unprotected, unless they find a way to put HDCP in Eye 1.0 wetware That won't help you record it if there is sufficient pressure on the small number of manafactu
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by jbert 18y ago
Read some good sources: http://www.badscience.net/2008/11/you-are-80-less-likely-to-... http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=the+tiger+that+is... Perhaps take some public health scares and look up the papers behind them (if they e
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by jbert 18y ago
What's the fallacy? Why is it an incorrect strategy? If your competitors are following it and you don't, aren't you at risk of being bought/losing a price war/losing market dominance?
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by jbert 18y ago
But if the risk pays off, the returns are there right? And give the risk-taking company an advantage over it's competitors? It seems companies can't affored to account for low-probability, high-impact risks. If they do, they'll be out-compe
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by jbert 18y ago
> Those who kept a well managed admin and saved for the worst should be rewarded, not those who failed. There's an interesting issue there, though. Given: 1 - in general, higher risk => higher reward (if the risk comes off ok) 2 - f
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by jbert 18y ago
It's also only valid at a certain radius (probably the surface). So the sensor wouldn't be calibrated correctly after you went inside (it would be off by differing amounts depending how far from the center you were). The same is true of the
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by jbert 18y ago
I have that set up, but how much of your email comes in to your @gmail.com address? If you use gmail as your outgoing email, then the sent emails will have a Sender: header (and return-path) of your @gmail.com address, even if you set a rol
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by jbert 18y ago
"It's clear (at least to me) that comment voting just promotes group-think." Hmm...what's the benefit of comment voting? What's the signal carried by a high vote on a comment? I guess the intention is "this is worth reading/this is interest

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