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by khafra 15y ago
Whether they're sane by some objective standard is irrelevant to this understanding of the underlying game theory. If someone handcuffs himself to you on the edge of a cliff and starts dancing a jig, he has the upper hand in negotiations,
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by khafra 15y ago
> ...had their laptop taken off them for about 10 minutes by the border agents, in that time they installed a rookit on it to track keystrokes. Really? How certain is he that the keylogger was a recent addition? I have a hard time beli
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by khafra 15y ago
Tea Party-leaning legislators have constituents who actually want them to shut down the Federal Government, so they have less to lose than those legislators beholden to sane voters. The problem is, once your opponent in this game of chick
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by khafra 15y ago
I'm having a hard time imagining an offense that would justify removing the guy's access to all his data, but not calling the police.
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by khafra 15y ago
Don't just throw it away; it's great for ergonomics. Most people's monitors are way too far below eye level.
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by khafra 15y ago
In less media-saturated trials which have the same stakes for the participants, expert witnesses can say whatever they're paid to say. They're rarely challenged seriously on their testimony, or even their credentials. http://www.guardian.c
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by khafra 15y ago
It would also be easier to see with an object that had near-perfect vertical bilateral symmetry but no horizontal bilateral symmetry; the opposite of a human in a normal posture.
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by khafra 15y ago
I guess that's the anthropic answer to the "in principle I support them, but there are better ways to do what they're doing" argument: There are people out there trying all the other ways, but the lulzsec way is the one that's getting att
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by khafra 15y ago
The economic reason to be a nation of laws instead of powerful men is that the more predictable the system is, the less deadweight losses go into making sure you don't run afoul of it. I worry that as the judicial system becomes more and m
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by khafra 15y ago
The way the adversarial judicial process works is that lawyers hire expert witnesses based on their ability and willingness to look the jury in the eye and claim in loud, ringing tones that they are 100% confident of their findings.
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by khafra 15y ago
None of the words were domain-specific; they were all general vocabulary. You're a polymath, but a lot of your knowledge is focused into technical areas that weren't represented on the test.
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by khafra 15y ago
I thought Eliezer's Lesswrong sequences might give different results. Applying your tests to those (from http://jb55.com/lesswrong/ ), I get 257,646 total words, 11,666 unique dictionary words, and 12,721 unique words (I'm surprised there
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by khafra 15y ago
http://blog.mozilla.com/security/2010/03/31/plugging-the-css...
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by khafra 15y ago
I'd put money on it: The potential customer base for a prediction market would have a huge overlap with bitcoin miners. They're valuable for research and possibly even policy[1], but seem to be on shaky legal ground in most places. [1] htt
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by khafra 15y ago
A few jobs ago, I needed to make some copies, but a five-digit PIN had just been put on the machine. Before going and asking anybody, I tried the building's zip code, which worked.
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by khafra 15y ago
Actually, the similar situation would be an atheist in a high school full of christians in a region that's predominantly atheist, and he's not forced to be there: he has thousands of high schools to choose from, and doesn't have to go to sc
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by khafra 15y ago
When you're truly rich, they're just numbers in a bank. They're a scorecard by which you determine whether you're winning. Poor people want a reliable car and a roof that doesn't leak; rich people want a higher score, but rich people are m
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by khafra 15y ago
My home button is failing. I hadn't heard about finger gestures to simulate it, but it'd be really nice to be able to exit an app without 30 seconds of repeated pressing.
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by khafra 15y ago
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PostCyberPunk
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by khafra 15y ago
Is there a canonical list anywhere of products, or at least product categories, for which good label arbitrage opportunities exist on Ebay and elsewhere? I'll pay $0.99 for filet mignon in a McDonald's wrapper any day.
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by khafra 15y ago
There's certainly prescient fiction still--post-cyberpunk; Peter Watts, Charlie Stross[1], Greg Egan, Richard K. Morgan... But the coming technology and culture they're describing is either difficult to show compellingly onscreen, requires
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by khafra 15y ago
Interesting. If financial institutions routinely succeed at operational security but catastrophically fail at having a secure development life-cycle, is that a startup opportunity?
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by khafra 15y ago
Doing something like entrepreneurship is, on the face of it, irrational. Not to say that there aren't plausible sets of values which would rationally take on that much work for such a low chance of large reward--but most real people who do
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by khafra 15y ago
Just promising not to spam and not to share user information will do a lot; you don't need complicated explanations. If you have a record or reputation with any particular community, it probably wouldn't hurt to reference that.
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by khafra 15y ago
It makes sense to have a dedicated kiosk machine, hardened, connected to nothing, and regularly re-imaged, to test unknown USB drives in. That's a little different from plugging one into the computer you do your work or finances on.
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by khafra 15y ago
It could be even worse things: http://pentest.snosoft.com/2011/06/24/netragards-hacker-inte...
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by khafra 15y ago
Buy your name and the common misspellings?
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by khafra 15y ago
That's the Vetinari Solution: http://lesswrong.com/lw/2ev/rationality_quotes_july_2010/29b...
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by khafra 15y ago
Could it be justified by a similar picture of opposite gender on the next slide?
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by khafra 15y ago
I completely agree with all the other arguments you make here, which makes me re-evaluate my disagreement on this one. But I think my interpretation still holds up: In 2010, Ottawa saw 27,446 property crimes, and 14 homicides[1]. In genera

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