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by jblow 13y ago
I would gladly work on "defense tech" too, as in actually defending people. But what you mean by "defense tech" is actually offense tech. Look at how these things are actually used in the world. When an entire field need
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by jblow 13y ago
Not sarcasm at all.
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by jblow 13y ago
Well, I don't know that I would recommend this particular job. But I do know that the time I learned the most, and became a truly good programmer, was just a couple of years after college, when I worked my ass off doing very hard thing
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by jblow 13y ago
If you believe this then you have never run a company. Being responsible for a company is categorically different from being an employee at a company, even if that employee is very hard-working.
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by jblow 13y ago
I do run a software company, and I would much rather hire someone with Penny Arcade on their resume than, say, Oracle or something.
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by jblow 13y ago
I would say that said applicant is very clearly wrong. Sure, there are a lot of people out there who exaggerate on their resume, but this has nothing to do with the existence of people who actually do know things.
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by jblow 13y ago
Really I guess the reason I am replying is that I am disturbed by this repeatedly-brought-up notion that highly productive people do not exist. I am not sure why it disturbs me so much, I think maybe because if potential highly-productive p
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by jblow 13y ago
What is described is something toward the top end of basic competence. The only reason someone would think this is crazy is if they have been hanging around bad engineers and / or administrators. That said, most engineers / admini
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by jblow 13y ago
Example: Everyone on the terrorist watchlist gets a face photo associated with the name. Then run face detection software in the booth and don't let the traveler out if it matches. That is a pretty straightforward next step from what i
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by jblow 13y ago
You are responding to something totally different than what I was saying. Yes, we all know that there is a one-way exit from security zones in airports. When you are passing through such an area, you are free to move unless you are detained
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by jblow 13y ago
I've flown into Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Cologne, Hanover, Paris, and London, and I do not recall seeing anything like this. I'd think I would remember as it is very alarming-looking.
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by jblow 13y ago
I have never encountered a situation like this before in an airport. If I were to, I would be very disturbed, and avoid that airport in the future. So, this is new and unusual to me. (Apparently, also, to enough people to make this video no
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by jblow 13y ago
I am surprised that so many people here are okay with the idea of being momentarily detained as a matter of course. This is not a turnstile, because turnstiles do not detain you or trap you; you can always move freely on one side or the oth
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by jblow 13y ago
Yes, and I am surprised that this didn't up as answer #1 in response to the original question. This problem is an absolute showstopper if you need to manage binary assets (which for something like video games, you absolutely do -- you
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by jblow 13y ago
It sounds like you are arguing with me, but everything you said is agreeing with what I said, so I am not sure what to say here.
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by jblow 13y ago
And actually, yeah, forget about the relative speed, since that is not central to the real issue. The real issue is just that when your light cone changes, the set of points that are simultaneous with you changes (all these points are outsi
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by jblow 13y ago
But let me also just say that you do not have to believe this at all in order to believe my original point; I just brought it up as an extreme crazy case. So if you don't believe the extreme crazy case, think of the standard example: y
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by jblow 13y ago
I first learned this in a book by a prominent physicist, so I am inclined to think it is an accurate reading of the physics. Unfortunately I do not remember which so I cannot give you a citation (it was possibly Brian Greene or Frank Wilcze
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by jblow 13y ago
There is no point to saying something is "outside" and something is "inside" in the extreme cases of the example you just gave , which may or may not be the case. What if the outer universe is not a random universe? Wha
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by jblow 13y ago
Did you read the OP? The whole question is about whether the apparent randomness in quantum mechanics means the universe is fundamentally nondeterministic. We cannot make accurate predictions of measurements of quantum state apart from sayi
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by jblow 13y ago
Just pause for a moment on "everything that exists" because that is not necessarily a useful distinction. If you think of a universe as "everything I could see/touch/etc given infinite time", someone outside th
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by jblow 13y ago
In the answers I do not see any mention of the Second Time Around Problem, which conclusively answers the question with "there is no way to know". The idea is: suppose there is a universe that has elements that are fundamentally r
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by jblow 13y ago
Even in the bay area, to most normal people, it comes off as silly. It only seems 'reasonable' among startup founders younger than 30.
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by jblow 13y ago
A sizable contingent disagrees with this statement. For example, Tim Noakes says "never prescribe a statin to a loved one".
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Ongoing mall shooting in New Jersey(rt.com)
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Swisscom builds 'Swiss Cloud' as spying storm rages(reuters.com)
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by jblow 13y ago
When you get in your car to go to work, you are endangering peoples' lives. So, uhh... yeah... this is a justification that can be stretched quite far.
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by jblow 13y ago
Airbnb is for people with more time than money. Hotels are for people with more money than time (they do not want to spend time chatting to arraange a booking, or to set up social proof for themselves on yet another social network just so t
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by jblow 13y ago
This is a bad trend, but eliminating trackpad buttons is probably worse. (The fact that most people don't realize it is worse makes it even worse!)
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by jblow 13y ago
I am not sure you can say this when nobody ever even manufactured such a screen as an experiment.

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