jdmichal

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by jdmichal 8y ago
This reminded me of a conversation chain I had a couple years ago. The main point is that civil disobedience is the purposeful breaking of law, but it is just that. You can break the law, but you need to do so with preparation to face w
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by jdmichal 8y ago
I said it's rational to bid , not to bid until it hurts . Bidding is, in a way, discovering who it would benefit the most to perform an action. Those that will be benefited the most will have the largest margin and therefore will be
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Probably an overall better read from three months ago: "What Caused the Dinosaur Extinction?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17738051
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Prisoner's dilemma. Not bidding is a great decision and probably globally optimal for the players. But once one bid is entered, the rational choice for all other actors is to also bid.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Yea I've been down this discussion path before. I'll just refer you there, and you can feel free to chime in with any new thoughts. My general thoughts is that typical software engineering does not have drastically more degrees of
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by jdmichal 8y ago
I think this question is part of the problem. Every stream is actually negative revenue for Spotify. It costs them money to have a song in catalog that is amortized per stream, and it costs them money to stream that song each time. And s
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by jdmichal 8y ago
On top of this, not everyone's "shining city" is the same. At a minimum, the "shining city" mentioned by the author was apparently incompatible with management's "shining city".
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by jdmichal 8y ago
I don't think that's a real comic. Looks like the Dilbert site used to have a feature to modify / make your own comics, but I can't find it anymore.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
You can also use modeling, which for a bunch of STEM people seems to almost never come up. Take projects you've done, do Monte Carlo simulations, and then start giving estimates with confidence bounds. Can also use things like Little
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Well, just at a minimum... There's the fact that the majority of large gains and losses exist over single-day frames. That is, guessing "right" or "wrong" on movement means little when one slip on the wrong day wi
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by jdmichal 8y ago
I think what you're describing is GGP's second example: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.2981376,-73.935245,212m/data... In which case I agree completely. And, from what I can tell, they're about th
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by jdmichal 8y ago
> A church spire can be seen for many miles... I mean, maybe in Ulm? [0] But I can rarely see a church tower over trees and other buildings within a fraction of a mile away. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulm_Mins
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Then there's roundabouts that look like this: https://www.google.com/maps/@27.9775503,-82.8273026,101m/dat... Multiple two-lane entrances. An inner lane that goes all the way around but cannot exit. An oute
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by jdmichal 8y ago
By "all state laws", do you mean "all federal laws"? AFAIK, the FCC is a federal institution and has never upheld state laws. And, AFAIK, several states have re-introduced versions of net neutrality in various ways, sp
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Annotation-based methods are crippled by the limitations of annotation placement. For instance, you can't "annotate" an expression, which is where you will tend to see boilerplate of the type needed for partial application.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
So I'll bite. I'm agnostic, which means that I firmly believe that we don't have such "scientific" evidence because it's impossible to obtain. Given the existence of an Abrahamic God, He would have invented
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by jdmichal 8y ago
> It's also worth pointing out that C++ really achieved OO (initially) by using macros on top of C. And this is extremely relevant to the point. If the primary complaint against function programming in Java is "comfort" an
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Cuttings and grafting are both clonal reproduction. They are by definition asexual, because there is no recombinant chromosomes. Grafting to rootstock creates a genetic chimera. It does not mix chromosomes at all.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Most fruiting trees are cloned by grafting with rootstock. As the article says, sexual reproduction produces variance, and for many fruits we barely have them tamed. Sexually produced apples tend to be crab apples. Planting your Haas avocad
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by jdmichal 8y ago
I'm on my Lumia 920 right now, due to my Nexus 5x finally biting the dust. I still love the OS. Most of the apps no longer work, my signal is crap, etc. But I still like the OS.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
If you go back far enough, scaled media was traveling groups doing pop-up performances as they rolled through towns, hoping to make enough to keep themselves housed and fed. You make it sound like it was some kind of centralized mass-entert
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Any add-on added by the user is already executing in the client's space and has zero need for a vulnerability like this. It's like saying that any program running on my computer could exploit a remote code execution bug... I mea
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by jdmichal 8y ago
I think the charitable interpretation would be [0]: Conflation of economic value with non-leisure classification. That is, if it had economic value, then they should be able to make a living doing it. And doing an activity for a living c
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Biggest addition I can make, as someone who has to prep for hurricane season every year: If you don't have a filter -- and even if you do, depending on what your water sources are -- be aware of how much water your planned foodstuffs w
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by jdmichal 8y ago
Because you have to make assumptions when you only have 140 characters to get an idea through. And yes, I know the limit has been relaxed, but that doesn't change the habit.
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by jdmichal 8y ago
This is not a stretch at all. If "authorized access" is defined by the ToS, then this would be "exceeding authorized access". The EFF certainly seems to think this is a problem, though some courts have set precedent ot
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by jdmichal 8y ago
> Entering a "protected space" in the digital domain is not illegal ... unless there is a specific law that is broken ... This is almost literally what the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act was created for. https://en.wik
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by jdmichal 8y ago
But they did not just load up eBay.com and start chatting. They logged into the site -- aka, entered a protected and authorized space. And it is illegal to enter a protected space if the owner does not want you there. This is why the n
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by jdmichal 8y ago
You say more appropriate, but Amazon did "virtually enter" the eBay store to attract these customers. If they had put up billboards or web advertisements or hell even handed out fliers, there would be no basis of complaint or u
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by jdmichal 8y ago
As debacle notes [0], the CFAA is a hell of a drug. [1] I could certainly see a case that this is "exceeding authorized access", with "authorized access" being defined by the rules established by the ToS when the account

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