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by jsn 15y ago
From http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_... : The sales pitch for the Redstone systems, says Santeler, is that a half rack of Redstone machines and their external switches implementing 1,600 server nodes has 41 c
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by jsn 15y ago
https://github.com/jsn/sillyscheme My scheme implementation, written in C a year ago, just for fun. Took me a week or so, 942 C LoC. From the README: "lexical scoping, Fixnum and floating point arithmetics, unhygienic macros, tail-call el
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by jsn 15y ago
AFAICS, 412 is only meaningful when the request did specify a precondition (which failed), while 428 means that the request didn't specify some precondition (which was required by server).
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by jsn 15y ago
I'm sorry, but "I was disappointed" and "I wish you would take steps" probably gets you grief. Asking usually doesn't. "Please" also helps (and its absence doesn't). I mean, come on. I'm sorry company X site was all but useless to you. It w
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by jsn 15y ago
Yeah, a month of 100 hours work weeks can be bad. Three months are much, much worse. It's not just hours, though; what's worse is that "no time to stop for gas, we're already late" mentality of all deathmarches. So you end up working from u
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by jsn 15y ago
Your Saudi example is especially unconvincing. Of course they get their electricity from oil now; why wouldn't they, when oil is so cheap and abundant there? Duh. Oil costs them, what, $10 to extract a barrel now? They would be fools to use
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by jsn 15y ago
> This energy is currently supplied entirely by fossil fuels, and is probably not substitutable in the near future [citation needed], and [citation needed]. There are electric drilling rigs out there, pumping the oil out is often perfor
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by jsn 15y ago
We use petroleum to fuel our cars not because it's a good source of energy, but because it's a good means to store energy (it has high specific energy, by volume and by mass), which is very important for cars. It will still be important eve
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by jsn 15y ago
For as long as they are willing to stay slaves, I see nothing wrong with trading them. Outside of that situation, though, the right to body is unalienable (according to many rights theories). The money came from British (banks, sponsored by
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by jsn 15y ago
"Free market" is defined as environment of voluntary transactions. Slavery is not voluntary, so it has nothing to do with free market. The same applies to assassinations (unless the victim voluntary agrees to be assassinated). As for your a
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by jsn 15y ago
Free software isn't at odds with capitalism (you don't have to extract monetary profit from everything you do in capitalism). Neither is bitcoin. Government-controlled paper money, on the other hand, definitely is at odds with free market
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by jsn 15y ago
IIRC, you can almost instantly verify that certain bitcoin wasn't spent someplace else before, which would be good enough. Now, the attacker can use the same bitcoin for several web forms simultaneously, but 1) the scope of this attack is l
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by jsn 15y ago
It will work, but the scheme has to be simplified some. Coins can be generated ahead of time, and then the client just pays a 0.001 bitcoin (via browser plugin, automatically) to the server instead of jumping through the captcha hoops. No t
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by jsn 15y ago
Well, that's more or less the argument they used in Soviet Union, to convince us (soviet citizens) that the soviet system is the best. "It's what we came to after the centuries of suffering, and look how well off we are now! etc etc". And,
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by jsn 16y ago
Neither the (future) stock price delta nor the probability of movement is known to you in advance.
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by jsn 16y ago
Kelly criterion has nothing to do with bubbles (it says nothing about timings, and the main challenge of bubbles is timing). Also, Kelly criterion uses odds received and probability of winning, and you don't have anything like that in the s
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by jsn 16y ago
I use drugs because, umm, why not? I did worse things under internally produced adrenalin, serotonin or something than I ever did under alcohol or cannabis or something. Being madly in love beats cocaine by high margin every time, but you c
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by jsn 16y ago
To seize noticeable amount of bitcoins, you have to work through individual bitcoins holders. Bear in mind that bitcoin transactions are not channeled through any central points under gov control, nor are they automatically personalized -
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by jsn 16y ago
Gold is susceptible to global adversary (government) attacks. You can't have instant payments over internet with physical gold -- you need some kind of virtual banknotes to change hands instead, and to be redeemable in physical gold sometim
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by jsn 16y ago
That's not enough for FRB to work. However big your consortium, bank run is still a very real possibility (the history of Bank of England has some insightful examples, Nixon closing the gold window is another recent one [and it wasn't even
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by jsn 16y ago
Interesting. Must be a scheme based on infinite supply of the said derivatives and, thus, the ability to create a lender of last resort with a printing press, right? Won't work, as far as I can see (one of the reasons being the absence of l
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by jsn 16y ago
I liked the piece, it made me smile. Also, I don't think it's inappropriate for HN -- why, we need things like that now and then. But the fact that this link has 700 upvotes and so many comments makes me cringe. All those talks about HN qua
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by jsn 16y ago
That alone doesn't mean the person is smart and rational, but I'd say it's a good start.
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by jsn 16y ago
No advice; but, man, I feel for you. I was in almost exactly the same situation four years ago. I just let go, signed that 3 month NCA, cut the losses and moved on -- never looked at that code again. He wasn't very close friend of mine, for
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by jsn 16y ago
Four zero-day vulnerabilities + one (zero-day?) in controller software + (at least) two valid stolen certificates for signed drivers -- that, afaics, is pretty hard compared to other worms; definitely not in dick-swinging league.
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by jsn 16y ago
Yeah, that's an easy one, I feel perfectly okay applying force in response to aggression against what's belongs to me (like my body). And no, the fundamental question is "why would someone think that ozone layer or forests etc belongs t
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by jsn 16y ago
Well, if you are a libertarian, you probably know about all kinds of solutions for those issues, as outlined by Rothbard et ol. Do you find them all less realistic than e.g. "unite" plan?
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by jsn 16y ago
I really didn't want to reply to that (I think I've made my position perfectly clear already), but then I've got so curious that I just can't hold this question: If you had some Lex Luthor powers, and there were 4 billion people destroying,
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by jsn 16y ago
There are people who will refuse to care about global warming (or asteroid, or anything else), no matter what arguments you are going to provide. From here, you have to choices: A) suck it up, and B) force them. I refuse to choose B, and I'
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by jsn 16y ago
I refuse to be united with humanity. And it's not just me. Differences are good, disagreements are good, and diversity is good. Including differences in goals, values, priorities and everything else. If you have some serious differences and

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