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by khafra 15y ago
Since I can't bring my cellphone into work, I'd been considering buying a watch, but couldn't decide what kind. Now I realize it needs to be a Rolex Submariner. Or perhaps a novelty plastic watch shaped like a submarine.
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by khafra 15y ago
> Next up: funny ways of counting GDP ;-) "Once a social or economic measure is turned into a target for policy, it will lose any information content that had qualified it to play such a role in the first place." http://lesswrong.com/l
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by khafra 15y ago
Yup; sucks to have to watch it on TV from Tampa. There's an Atlas V launch on August 5, though; those are even cooler in some ways.
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by khafra 15y ago
> If you accessed your bank account on a public computer, and then left without logging out, would it be okay for someone to then transfer money to their account and keep it? No hacking was involved. No security was breached. That's not
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by khafra 15y ago
I like the psuedo-random subreddit idea--maybe a stochastic process that gives you a new set of subscribed subreddits, taking into account submissions you've upvoted. Have a button somewhere that'll do it, and another one to revert to your
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by khafra 15y ago
He's using Reference Class Forecasting[1]. Without digging deep into Google+'s unique features, he's betting that it will do roughly what other web services in the class "Facebook competitor" and "Google-owned foray into social networking"
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by khafra 15y ago
Power and wifi are free at many coffee shops and fast food joints. When I'm in one, spending the time between my work and martial arts training group, I mine on my laptop. If I were especially ambitious, I'd bring a tower with a bunch of A
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by khafra 15y ago
Your friends can tell you how well their LASIK worked, and how much it cost, as soon as their eyes heal. This allows market forces to do what they do pretty well. Anti-terrorist security measures have neither of these advantages. It's very
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by khafra 15y ago
I think Thomas Ptacek takes it a necessary step further: "Don't implement crypto." Even if you're using a good algorithm, your implementation of it will have holes. The trouble is that the normal exploratory programming technique that gets
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by khafra 15y ago
It appears I said both "simply" and "easily." Your witticism was correct; I'll take my next freeway trip at 75mph by way of apology.
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by khafra 15y ago
There's a good reason I said "simply" instead of "easily." I'm personally planning some mild aerodynamic modifications to decrease the 75mph cruising penalty. But I was referring to the current EPA numbers; the pre-2007 EPA ratings are har
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by khafra 15y ago
> attempts to reduce discretion have historically resulted in malicious arbitrariness You're 90% of the way to the answer. Take into account Hanlon's Razor and it should become clear. Unless the people designing the law are smart enough
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by khafra 15y ago
Daimyoyo was talking about actual mileage, not EPA mileage. Simply by holding 60mph or below, you can easily get 10-20% above the EPA highway rating; 15-30% if there's a lot of traffic around you going the same speed.
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by khafra 15y ago
They don't spend six hours a day in zazen for more than a few intensive weeks at a time on rare occasions, do they?
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by khafra 15y ago
CRT screens have been around since 1907, Liquid Crystal Displays have been here since 1964. If there were clearly harmful effects from spending time near them, epidemiologists would've noticed by now.
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by khafra 15y ago
Yes, in my experience that's been a much bigger problem than bandwidth. I tried Clearwire, which advertises itself as 4G. The bandwidth was between fine and superb, but the latency was unbearably bad--many webpages would have various reso
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by khafra 15y ago
I share your opinion of Midas Touch. The DFH ancient brew reconstruction I prefer is Jaihu, based on residue on 9,000 year old Chinese pottery shards. Tastier, and with more primeval appeal.
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by khafra 15y ago
Cognomancers, at this point, will attempt to restate what they mean by "irrational" without using it or any close synonyms. They might also try to figure out if religiosity is correlated with greater levels of whatever they mean by "irratio
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by khafra 15y ago
Basically the same as a seebeck generator; but it can be used in places where current seebeck generators would not do well. I wish they would phrase these things as "turns heat differences into electricity;" because every time they say "was
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by khafra 15y ago
Unless the Tesla doesn't depreciate or need repairs, most of that extra cost is going to be similar.
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by khafra 15y ago
Actually, it's not easy. It's incredibly difficult to have a webapp with a wide range of functionality that doesn't leak data to SQL injections. There's plenty of stuff that can get past the precautions you listed[1][2], although pornel is
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by khafra 15y ago
I'm leaning toward "hoax." Lulzsec has been reasonably competent writers so far, and the bizarre placement of "blissfully" makes that either incompetent or some kind of steganography. That, added to the lack of tweet, makes me doubt. Of co
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by khafra 15y ago
That's not what he asked. He asked (facetiously) about the higher-order search bubble: ie, if I only ever search for articles about Erlang innards, I'm never going to read about The Kardashians, which is relevant to a sizeable portion of c
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by khafra 15y ago
The purpose of search engines is filtering content to give you what you want. I think this is fairly noncontroversial. What is controversial is whether "what I asked for" is a better approximation of that, or whether "what Google's model o
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by khafra 15y ago
> ...the real concern. Ironically, "the real concern" is personalized. The married guy searching for "hot local hookups" doesn't care what google knows, he just doesn't want it to show up in his browser's history. The junior high stude
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by khafra 15y ago
I have a feeling that's very common. I recall a big to-do about Cortexica and their brain-inspired computer vision algorithm. They built it into an iPhone wine label recognition app, which currently has two ratings; both one-star.
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by khafra 15y ago
I'm ok with your colorful counterfactual about his current disposition, the same way I'm fine reading a Sutra talking about reincarnation, or a Nasrudin story invoking Allah. I don't think belief should have anything to do with cultural acc
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by khafra 15y ago
ActiveX is generally agreed upon as one of the worst client-side security holes out there. I understand there are compatibility and legacy reasons it hasn't gotten rid of ActiveX yet, but Microsoft would damage its slowly-rising security r
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by khafra 15y ago
Read the comment you replied to again; you misinterpreted it as attacking "biz guys," but it's actually commending those willing to get their hands dirty.
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by khafra 15y ago
It feels like it's similar to the "guess a number between 0 and 100 that's 2/3 of the average person's guess" game. In the real world, you don't win by doing the most rational thing; you win by succesfully modeling the other players.

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