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by jere 13y ago
I wasn't sure what phrasing to use (and I definitely didn't like the simple term "intelligent species"). I kind of agree with you, but I think it's a little silly to say only our technology distinguishes us. I&#x2
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by jere 13y ago
>Ten years from now... Among those who recognize that something’s wrong, one widely accepted viewpoint holds that fusion power, artificial intelligence, and interstellar migration will shortly solve all our problems, and therefore we don
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by jere 13y ago
I read Long Walk to Freedom , his autobiography, in college and thought it was really good. The film adaptation was released just last week if you're interested in that (though it sounds mediocre). http://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by jere 13y ago
Sure, you're probably more knowledgeable about it than me. I was only observing that "things used to be better" is a constant theme and when one has nostalgia for a certain time, it's worth noting that people active then
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by jere 13y ago
That's funny because "Eternal September" was coined in 1994 (i.e. people were exclaiming "things were better then" in reference to the time before September 1993). It reminds me of "I Used to Love H.E.R."
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by jere 13y ago
It could be #000000. It's only #212121. Personally, I don't like the amount of contrast between the near black and grey text. The text has a 67% L, the background a 13% L, and the difference is only 54%.... obviously only about ha
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by jere 13y ago
Cool! I think that's a great idea. Also, I really would try to smooth out the login flow even for a POC. If I accidentally enter an old code (even if it's 5 minutes) it won't let me in. That seems OK. However, what happens ne
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by jere 13y ago
Is this any better than a link that logs you in automatically? A link would be easier and more secure. I've actually been thinking of that as a super simple login method lately, but I don't know if people would use it. As a proof
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by jere 13y ago
I have to agree. I used to be a huge Pavlina fan for the personal development and productivity stuff, but over the years got really turned off by all the posts about law of attraction and solipsism (though he disputed that's what he wa
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by jere 13y ago
>In 1975-76, Diffie and Martin Hellman criticized the NBS proposed Data Encryption Standard, largely because its 56-bit key length was too short to prevent Brute-force attack... Their concern was well-founded: subsequent history has show
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Whitfield Diffie(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jere 13y ago|1 comments
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by jere 13y ago
Scandalous, no. The part that bothers me is that an event, presumably designed to introduce new developers to their platform, seems impossible to win unless you're either a) directly associated with the company or b) make a living deve
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by jere 13y ago
First place: >Upshot was created by Thom Kim, who left Salesforce after nine years in Janauary, and Joseph Turian, with whom Kim had been friends since they attended Harvard University together. Oh that sounds fishy? As a concession, we&
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by jere 13y ago
Interesting links. The first is for American factories only, which is neat, but I'd be surprised if this case was made in America. I'm familiar with the second link, but I don't believe it's related to factories/mas
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by jere 13y ago
>After a lot of back and forth with a few different factories, I managed to find one that could do what I wanted. This is glossed over, yet I have no idea how I would even start contacting factories.
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by jere 13y ago
Well, yes. I see your original point... it makes sense if you look at it from a perspective of communicating the information rather than a security perspective, which is what I was focusing on. Of course, that all assumes that the receiver
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by jere 13y ago
Brevity is the soul of wit. Omniscient? Well, I'm not very creative, but you should be able to get off at least half a dozen lottery picks in that.
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by jere 13y ago
>Thus, each individual bit protects USD $631,212... USD $631,212 per bit That seems a rather flawed way of viewing the density, since that key represents 2^256 possible combinations. So if you take a way a bit, the density by that measur
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by jere 13y ago
That was fascinating. I would have preferred some more details on the evidence found during this that a camera obscura actually was used. I suppose not having it makes this article a pretty good teaser for the documentary.
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TuringType(oxism.com)
1 points by jere 13y ago|0 comments
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by jere 13y ago
Of course, but that's another environmental variable.
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by jere 13y ago
You should make this into a twitter bot, à la Two Headlines https://twitter.com/TwoHeadlines .
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by jere 13y ago
Exactly! This reminded me of the Little Planet what if http://what-if.xkcd.com/68/ Munroe claims on a small, super massive planet, you could overcome escape velocity with a sprint. It doesn't work the same on the
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by jere 13y ago
I assume you're talking about one the comparison between the official poster released and his comp.... which he never claimed was ripped off. Did you get to the part where they clearly posted his comps on facebook?
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Steam Autumn Sale (interesting design at bottom)(store.steampowered.com)
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by jere 13y ago
Agreed. Republic really raises the bar on cheap plans. Though I'm kind of pissed that they went from a super low end phone (with a 3 year old OS) as their only offering, the Defy, to a moderately high end phone, the Moto X. Not to me
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by jere 13y ago
My new metal band
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by jere 13y ago
>they may be demotivated from reaching their potential. Surely you don't think the potential of these highly productive programmers is to spend their days doing general IT, working on call 24/7, and being compensated with bel
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by jere 13y ago
Thanks. I must have missed that link. The benefits as described there seem a lot more impressive.
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by jere 13y ago
The claimed benefits resulting from the tours: >The surveys included multiple items that assessed knowledge about art, as well as measures of tolerance, historical empathy and sustained interest in visiting art museums and other cultural

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