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by jl2718 5y ago
What is this ‘revolution’ revolting against? All I see is a violent astroturfed corporate-funded government-supported mob demanding more wealth and freedom to be taken from the average individual, and given to the already most powerful. It
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by jl2718 5y ago
Well obviously it’s not working so maybe we need some other right to make sure we can retain that one. Hmmm... wonder if anybody thought of that...
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by jl2718 5y ago
The pre-shared key is not required, although you don’t really know who you are talking to, so maybe that’s how it’s used. See my response on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27412636
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by jl2718 5y ago
There was a startup company I met with a long time ago that was selling QKD to Wall St. They kept saying that sales were the proof that it worked. I’m not so sure they were actually doing it right. For some background, the security of QKD r
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by jl2718 5y ago
Somebody needs to inform these guys that their bitcoins are infungible and worthless. Same with anybody that goes into a mixer with them.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Spinning disks under GMR heads are fundamentally a 2D technology. You might eke out a few more layers with a GMR array (like radar for magnetism), but there will be a noise limit. Flash technology will become stackable. Not just multi-bit p
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by jl2718 5y ago
Actually I think both surveys are meaningless. The meaningful part is that the popular interest seems to affirm a repressed feeling that is extremely common.
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by jl2718 5y ago
I love the implicit equivalence of education and intelligence in that statement. So ironic. The statement of the problem self-explains the source of the problem.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Murray Gell-Mann effect applies here.
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by jl2718 5y ago
This author seems to have an angle they either can’t prove with facts or don’t know how to discuss with data. How much better are the super-rich test scores? Is that enough to fully explain their over-representation in the Ivies? How much d
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by jl2718 5y ago
Maybe they could have easily gotten the data otherwise,but decided to do the right thing by requesting it through the direct channel and allowing this process to take place through the legal system.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Highly suspicious data collection methods. “Well gee I walked around the office asking people if their job was essential and everybody said it was.”
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by jl2718 5y ago
Personally I think RADIUS is a terrible idea. If that thing is compromised, or even the network or name service to connect to it, the attacker gets everything. Cert-based auth gives every client the ability to independently authorize every
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by jl2718 5y ago
But the article is about Bretton Woods, so I’m trying to understand whether you think it would be wise or unwise for the US to dump it as the article suggests.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Maybe the point is that central power is always indirect through manipulation of information and financial incentive, the definition of finance being a centralized accumulation of future benefit. Direct power would be to hold a gun to someo
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by jl2718 5y ago
Is there any proof that he got the vast majority of the proceeds immediately as encumbered cash? Maybe this is just my cynicism, but I would expect that he would receive partner shares in the fund that purchased his work. Probably the same
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by jl2718 5y ago
I know very little about what actually happens post-draft, but I’ll admit that many superstar players seem to add supraphysiological muscle mass over their careers.
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by jl2718 5y ago
At rest the player exerts force (weight) on the ground. When the player begins to jump or pivot, they have to pull their feet upward to either move them, or lower their center of gravity. This can be measured as a decrease in weight (force)
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by jl2718 5y ago
Off-topic, but I've known a few people that went pro, and in all cases, the causality definitely went in the opposite direction. They all hardly ever touched weights until they were told they'd have to for the combine. And then th
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by jl2718 5y ago
Daily reminder that crypto would have zero value if honest lawful productive people all around the world weren’t afraid of their own governments.
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by jl2718 5y ago
27% of social security recipients are 0-64 years old. These are potential lifetime liabilities, not just 65-72.5. SS is paid for by higher wages, which happens when there are less workers, not more. And then there will also be less to suppo
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by jl2718 5y ago
The best explanation to my understanding for huge purchases is just self-dealing to pump prices.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Sidewalk is a separate network that only allows encrypted links back to the AWS cloud. It should not be possible to interact with the host network without two malicious devices, one Trojan with access to the network already, and the other i
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by jl2718 5y ago
What is the responsible thing to do here? Should a government announce to the people that everybody within it is potentially operating under foreign influence?
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by jl2718 5y ago
Well, I’ve been shouting this from the rooftops for a while now, and finally they got my lifeline. Ransomware in cryptocurrency could be easy to stop naturally. Miners just need to know that there is a nonzero chance of their blocks being f
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by jl2718 5y ago
We talk about management as if they were appointed by corporate divine right. These too are just people, and their job is also just a job. These ‘clever’ policies of top-down social manipulation often fail because there is no such thing as
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by jl2718 5y ago
I used to like the office. It was fun. My friends were there. I got help when I needed it. We talked about things informally. My desktop PC and Internet was top-notch, and I didn’t have a laptop or mobile. They had a great gym. I worked at
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by jl2718 5y ago
> The technology consists of a microscope slide that's coated with a type of light-shrinking material called a hyperbolic metamaterial. It is made up of nanometers-thin alternating layers of silver and silica glass.
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by jl2718 5y ago
Yeah I guess I was just thinking that this kind of thing seemed totally irrelevant to the job description which was for a CUDA application engineer, but maybe it was a lot more important for their people to be facile with ubuntu cli in fron
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by jl2718 5y ago
I failed an interview once because I knew pacman but they were looking for apt. Big green GPU company.

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