jeremysmyth

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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
The title as I write this is "The clock is ticking for Dropbox, valued at $10B more than a year ago". This title is not that used in the article, nor is it a meaning I can grasp from the article. Nowhere is it suggested that Dropb
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I think the premise is mistaken, and the so is the meaning taken from David Bowie's comment (that if he'd started in 2000 he'd not have entered the music business because it was no longer subversive). David Bowie started maki
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Clickbaity title, but it compares Chandigarh with other well-designed cities such as Brasilia, Milton Keynes and Palmanova.
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By its own admission, it's more about creating competent technicians by presenting them with the foundations created by engineers (who in turn are informed and prepared by the science, although that is neither mentioned nor explained,
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Net neutrality has absolutely nothing to do with trademark infringement. The lesson you should have learned is not that the Internet should be free, but that you cannot earn money by using someone else's name in a similar context (whic
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Unless you're defining "pointless" incorrectly, you're wrong. The start of the "inbox processing" step is to decide if something is worth doing . That filters the pointless things right at the start. Only then
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Inaccessible rather than irrelevant. I have yet to meet an intermediate to advanced programmer who would not be improved by at least trying to get through parts of TAoCP. Sadly, I have also yet to meet more than a handful who have.
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You're missing the point. - I didn't steal your money - I didn't steal your money - I didn't steal your money - I didn't steal your money - I didn't steal your money In each case, there is an implicat
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
TL;DR: They've not yet found any dark matter, but they've tested (calibrated) the detector with other radiated particle interactions with known energies (neutron and electron) so they can rule out certain reported potential detect
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
This is excellent editorializing. It's sad to see even the Guardian descending to clickbait titles, so if this policy exists (even if it's new), it will improve the curation value of HN beyond what it is now.
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
It's generally rational for people who campaign against bad policy to make use of those policies while they exist and are advantageous. Mayday.us is a superpac designed to end superpacs. This is not hypocrisy. See also signatories to t
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Spoiler: Probably not, Berghdal is still active duty in Texas. One of the functions and outcomes of great investigative reporting is to find facts that aren't already visible. The first series of Serial apparently resulted in Syed be
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That was by design. Some episodes focused on the prosecution story, and some on the defence. If you cast your mind back, you'll recall a long sequence (almost a whole episode) where they tried to recreate the drive from the library to
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
GP post's complaints don't apply in Ireland: A British citizen from Liverpool can arrive on the boat in Dublin and start working that afternoon with no permits. Looks like you're throwing in a red herring.
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There should be much more emphasis on standing on the shoulders of giants. Just like modern scientists use the work of their predecessors (either reproducing it during their education, or using it as a foundation when creating new knowled
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
What is "British" isn't always immediately graspable (hence the article's explicit use of "Great Britain", which is well defined). Here's a useful diagram: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki
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In writing fantasy, you don't even try to base mechanics on current theory. Fantasy is predominantly about relationships, where the mechanisms of action are useful for furthering character colour and the plot but not in themselves key
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And at worst, it not only promotes but requires othering, categorizing those who are slightly different as somehow less . It's the basis of all sorts of institutional racism and xenophobia and lends these a veneer of social acceptab
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Hippos look after hippos at the expense of all other species. Interesting claim. How do hippos know about the affairs of all other species, let alone the hippos in the next valley? I think you're overanthropomorphising.
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elements of the refugee population belong to groups... This is categorically different to your grandparent statement implying by negation that "refugees[...]have elements that were beheading, torturing, killing and enslaving". G
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Are you seriously suggesting that refugees engage in these activities? Or are you redefining "refugees" to include other people that are somehow in the same ethnic or demographic class? For example, after WWII, German people were
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Good thing the secret services have no access to those exploits. Who do you think buys them?
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In my opinion, the correct answer to that is, "Yes, for a fee.", and has nothing to do with the overloading of terms, but everything to do with the undervaluation of tech-related labor. It's also to do with the large gap be
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Were I doing it I'd stick APs at the static bottlenecks, so pretty much at the xray scanners. That maximizes the ability to single out individuals. If I was really serious about it, I'd tie detection timing to the visual signals o
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Having passed through Dublin Airport many hundreds of times, I think it would be an interesting technical challenge mapping one MAC address to one individual given the hundreds of people milling around the security area at times. That is to
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But I am broadcasting identifiers everywhere I go. The oldest means of recognition in the world is my face , and I don't cover that up wherever I go. I've also got a recognizable smell[1], a recognizable gait[2], a recognizable v
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[my device's MAC address] is unique and belongs to me, how much more personal can you get? Regardless of its uniqueness, it can't be used by that data controller to identify you because the collector does not have additional i
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This article is based on a premise that is either incorrect or has not been defined or settled in law. The data protection law exists for the protection of personal data, defined as "data relating to a living individual who is or can b
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by jeremysmyth 11y ago
Google and Facebook, amongst others, have shown that the quick iteration strategy works, even for complex, critical systems. Complex systems, yes. Critical... well that depends on how you define critical . The whole "quick iteration
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pks are sequential. If you sign up as 1992 they have 1992 customers. Does not follow. Only follows if: - PKs are sequential - and PKs are non-zero non-negative - and they have not been reset at any point (or the sequence generation ot

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