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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
You can tell it's him by the succinct and direct responses. It's a trait that's consistent across the most successful people I know.
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
As someone in the habit of sticking my tongue out at surveillance cameras, I might have to learn to restrain myself when staring at a human/camera mixture. More seriously, I think this suggests a general principle: if something has int
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
When out with friends recently, one of them mentioned how awesome Julia is. I was surprised to hear someone talk about it, even from another person in science. She turned and gushed about how awesome it was, how supportive the community was
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Mediocre founders try to hire people for the parts that they don't like. Great founders just do whatever they think is in the best interest of the company, even if they're not "passionate" about that part of the busine
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
For what it's worth, that's a problem faced by many drugs with side effects, especially psychoactive ones. Sometimes active placebos are used, as in the magic mushroom studies at Johns Hopkins (I believe they used a stimulant). Bu
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Anyone who comes up with a reasonable way of bypassing the natural local monopolies of cable companies is going to make a fortune. I would think dense wireless networks in urban areas could work. I'm not an expert, and would be interes
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
It's interesting that he brings up Feynman, because (if you believe his version of events, anyway;) at one point after the Manhattan Project, he was feeling particularly uninspired, because he wasn't playing. So he's sitting
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Regardless of your opinion on the leaks, this marks something really interesting in the course of history. Communications is one of the few services that governments co-opt indirectly. Lockheed Martin knows it's building war jets. But
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
I wonder why. There are plenty of ways to get growth, why is this one so important? I can think of one reason off the top of my head: Perhaps it's because many organizations that grow very large do so by creating a market, or largely s
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Boldface names(bit-player.org)
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Can the US government compel a private citizen to lie? That seems like the crux of canaries to me. It's also one supreme court case that might be itself a kind of canary in the cole mine.
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Is anyone aware of a) whether other security auditors or services could have identified these vulnerabilities and b) what it takes to sell to these exploited firms? My understanding of security is fairly small, but it seems to me that there
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Most remarkable to me is that their success required so few conceptual shifts (but important ones). Time-shares and couchsurfing and vacation rentals already existed. I'll try to remember this the next time I think something's &#x
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A Boy and His Internet(bygonebureau.com)
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
I'd be curious to know good ways to balance these various things that don't scale. I speak from a position of inexperience, but I can't imagine a fragile startup could possibly max out any of them. Given that, what are some h
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Good reading in addition to Pearl himself is via Cosma Shalizi. Ref list: http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/notebooks/caus... Chapters: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/uADA&#x2
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
I'm willing to forgive Ezra his hyperbole here; the rest of the article was fairly illuminating. Your central claim seems to be that our man JR only has authority to appoint federal judges to FISC for 7 year tenures, but cannot alter h
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
I'm slightly less worried that the NSA wants to optimize their interpretation of the constitution to catch bad guys than I am about how little effort it takes to push that interpretation through. To turn your comment around a little bi
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
This reminds me about how important it is to have a solid lawyer, and an understanding of the legal ecosystem. Even in cases like this with typos, "respond in ten (10) days" can be quite intimidating, especially when there's
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Ask HN: What does "direct access" mean?
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Stanley Milgram: The Perils of Obedience(physics.utah.edu)
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
I've lived under surveillance before, so I feel my perspective might be somewhat appropriate. I won't comment on the specifics (uninteresting and irrelevant, had to do with where I was living). I won't even make a statement about whether it
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
An ideal Facebook would have been a directory of people and their connections. People can message each other, post text updates and pictures. This is pretty close to how I use facebook. The problem is Sharing. It is the most fundamental
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Who Needs Reporters? (mobile.nytimes.com)
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
and we should be grateful. What? I don't believe Google is evil, but at the same time, I'm not "grateful" that they're not evil any more than I'm grateful that a driver isn't evil and doesn't run me over. Yes, I'm glad, but I don't feel l
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Kids These Days(nytimes.com)
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Can anyone explain why Hulu wants to sell to a third party? I understand there's infighting according to the article, but it's unclear to me why one of the owners doesn't buy out the rest. Is there some general principle behind not selling
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Teens, Social Media, and Privacy(pewinternet.org)
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Poll: When was the last time you worked for a startup?
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by kevinalexbrown 13y ago
Never

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