johngalt

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by johngalt 12y ago
Don't optimize for self esteem. Optimize for total progress over a given amount of time. If you're afraid that people will judge you an amateur, then use that fear to drive you by posting everything public. Learning is basically
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by johngalt 12y ago
Most states have rules such as: "35mph unless otherwise posted".
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by johngalt 12y ago
There was a legal battle in the early 2000s about circumventing DVD copy protections. The DVD CSS (content scramble system). The court ruling declared that the program was a 'copyright circumvention device'. It was illegal to dist
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by johngalt 12y ago
E.G. People named Bill Gates have a lot of money on average.
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The point of stealth isnt that you are never spotted by radar, but to make it more difficult to target and track on meaningful timeframes. Think of a normal aircraft as an orange road cone with reflectors. Shine a bright light on it and i
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by johngalt 12y ago
Exactly people try to train for distance in zone 4. Torturing themselves for zero gain.
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by johngalt 12y ago
It would be treated the same as exploiting a system for any other reason. Friendly worms have been done before (welchia). The problems with friendly worms are numerous. It is more than just a legal issue. A malicious worm is looking to prop
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by johngalt 12y ago
Would politicians care about regulatory control if the internet wasn't generating wealth?
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by johngalt 12y ago
The general trend in education is less competition and less physical activity. Meanwhile there is more focus on educational minimums rather than maximums. If education was about the 'highest score' rather than the 'best avera
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by johngalt 12y ago
Domain specific knowledge would help. Find a vet that landed on their feet and ask what worked. Talk to a few people inside the VA and figure out what makes claims go faster vs slower. There are businesses that exist today where their sole
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by johngalt 12y ago
Tablets are getting squeezed. The app driven, web-consumption use case for tablets is getting eaten by smartphones. Meanwhile PCs are still necessary for heavy usage. Put yourself in an average user's shoes. You already carry around a
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by johngalt 12y ago
Perspective is in the wrong place. Don't think in terms of relative value: 'I'm doing 80% of the work and getting 50% of the benefit'. Instead think of the absolute value of a co-founder: 'Solo I might be able to ma
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by johngalt 12y ago
Either we get a handle on the NSA or 10 years from now we find out that the NSA was targeting X political group illegally. What happens when we find out that the NSA was combing through data more thoroughly for democrats? IMHO this is 10x
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by johngalt 12y ago
Have you ever used a key for a sardine can? IMHO easier and simpler. http://i.istockimg.com/file_thumbview_approve/14389354/2/sto...
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Squarish cans are used today for some items (sardine cans come to mind). They usually open with a tab or key along a seam. A hexagonal or octagonal shape could use a tab with seam approach. Like a large soda can.
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by johngalt 12y ago
What possible autonomous system could be worse than a battery of ICBMs?
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by johngalt 12y ago
Found your problem. Compensation and benefits are reasonable as well, considering the low cost of living. I've had offers with that qualifier. They always come in 40% below market. Even if cost of living and salary is a 1:1 trade. I&
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by johngalt 12y ago
Calmness is crucial for anyone in a triage situation. You have to be able to make correct decisions under pressure. In my experience most large outages are caused by a panicked response to a small outage. Additionally it's important fo
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by johngalt 12y ago
Why don't we use lotteries for airline tickets then? When supply isn't constrained, auctions benefit everyone. Not just the 'wealthy minority'. If we fixed airline tickets at $400 each and apportioned them lottery style
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by johngalt 12y ago
Honestly this seems really pretentious. My last name is almost impossible. Even people who know me tend to just abbreviate it. Whenever I meet someone new who stumbles over my name. I just smile and say 'Don't worry about it, I sa
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by johngalt 12y ago
Zih-tidge is my guess.
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by johngalt 12y ago
Wasn't meant as a criticism or correction. Simply to underscore your point. Sorry if it seemed otherwise.
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LTO5 can do 1.5TB on a $20 tape.
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Tape is still in use today. Widely. I bet there are more companies archiving to tape than archiving to AWS. For most of the past 27 years it would be the dominant archival method.
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by johngalt 12y ago
How many fewer people are doing meth because of this raid?
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by johngalt 12y ago
The police threw a grenade into an innocent child's crib. Nothing you've said ends in '...and that's why they clearly had to burn a hole two year old'. > Don't be a criminal and don't associate with cr
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by johngalt 12y ago
The 'boomerang kids' are just people who were socialized to see a middle class life as beneath them. Offer these young adults 40k to drive a bus for a living and they would turn it down. They will stay at home and hold out for tha
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by johngalt 12y ago
It's pretty widely known that stealth doesn't make radar useless. The focus is to reduce the accuracy of radar and the response time of opposition.
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It wasn't CRA that caused the housing bubble. It was cheap debt and public attitudes towards real estate investment.
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Surely organizations will always point to a lack of funding in response to a lack of performance. But I find it odd that they were certainly able to spare the time and budget to target opposition groups. Yet nothing was in the budget to kee

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