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by lukev 17y ago
This is exactly what one would expect. To the brain, beliefs are beliefs, whether they concern god, angels or motor oil. Not all cognition about religious things involves a "mystical experience". In fact, theologians tend to be an incredibl
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by lukev 17y ago
I know people tend to say this as a response to everything around here, but I think it's genuinely a good response to this: You should try Clojure. It's cleaner than Scheme except for the pains that come along with the JVM, but those redeem
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by lukev 17y ago
I came here to post just this. 2-way SSL is perfect for this scenario, and a hundred times more secure than any of the alternatives.
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by lukev 17y ago
I'm not sure there's room for a lot of competition for end users in a service like Yelp. "Review accuracy" isn't a metric that users are capable of measuring with any effectiveness - it's so subjective anyway. The only thing that will put o
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by lukev 17y ago
"a basic income that declines as they have more kids" ? The people who this hurts the most are the kids themselves - the ones who aren't at fault and who, given different circumstances, are perfectly likely to make it into the "productive"
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by lukev 17y ago
Even if there were some improprieties going on...If it was empirically useful, for you, why stop using it? This behavior would probably harm Yelp's business clients far more than their users. Or do you feel is was important to make a statem
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by lukev 17y ago
Obviously they have some idea what the web is if they're posting comments on a website ;)
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by lukev 17y ago
Not at all. The network would exist - it would just be all encrypted and you couldn't navigate it unless you held the key to each successive node. To the end user, it could be more or less just like Facebook, and they could forget that it w
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by lukev 17y ago
This could be alleviated if the server kept the user's key only on a per-session basis and never actually stored it. I'm curious... how would you feel about that? Also, there might be a way to make a server transparent so people are more li
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by lukev 17y ago
It would be pointless from an ultimate trust perspective, yes. But somehow I'd still feel more comfortable with a company that (at least claims) to use my key only to decrypt data immediately before sending it to me, than a company that sto
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by lukev 17y ago
How do I gain access to my private key in Javascript (without having the user paste it in every time)? How do I store it between page loads without exposing it to the server?
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by lukev 17y ago
The whole point would be to try to ensure that privacy is NOT over. Our privacy is nearly gone, but that doesn't mean we can't fight to get it back. And laws preventing companies from releasing data are NOT going to help - the only ultimate
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Would you use a cryptographically secure social network?
4 points by lukev 17y ago|13 comments
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by lukev 17y ago
Well, of course that's what ars technica would report. The "English Majors" (quoted because it's an artificial stereotype) the article refers to have quite different priorities, and probably see things differently.
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by lukev 17y ago
I like the sound of that... I guess the challenge is to give people an incentive to post idea to the site without guarantee of remuneration. Future partnership is a strong incentive... but that implies that the "idea" guy can give added val
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by lukev 17y ago
I'm a "doer", but I'm always looking for good ideas. I'll take your ideas, and you can have 1% of the profits afterward if I implement them. Find enough guys like me, and you could actually make a comfortable living. Not sure how you'd actu
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by lukev 17y ago
I think it's perfectly reasonable to sell a cell phone OS to the carriers . If consumers like it, they'll buy it, and the carriers will absorb the cost. Sure, that cost will be passed on the the consumers somehow, but not necessarily in a
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by lukev 17y ago
I don't see how any large company can even compare with a small one. There's no substitute for eating lunch with your CEO and having your issues (and compensation!) handled on a per-case basis rather than by some implacable policy.
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by lukev 17y ago
Even a great idea is worth nothing compared with the work of implementing it. And my guess would be that the ideas you'd find on craigslist are more along the lines of "build a twitter clone only MORE SO" than any genuine insights. Even if
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by lukev 17y ago
I can see your point with flash, but... Java? No, unless by Java you mean "applets" which noone uses anyway. There is more to life than the browser, and Java (ok, the JVM: Java-the-langauge sucks) is a pretty good tool.
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by lukev 17y ago
I don't like the "technologies are just tools, sometimes you need one, sometimes you need another, blah blah blah" line of reasoning. Sure, it makes a certain amount of sense, and it sounds all nice and reasonable. But that's just not the w
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by lukev 17y ago
Yes... the interesting question is whether it fails because of a "rule" we're not aware of, or because it's simply too complex. The human mind is recursive, but is it simply that it only have a "stack depth" of 3 or 4 and can't parse more d
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by lukev 17y ago
The interesting thing to me is that the buffalo sentence is not just grammatically correct, but semantically correct as well.
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by lukev 17y ago
The buffalo sentence may be grammatically valid, but it's not "valid" by any real test of human understanding. Chomsky-esque generative grammar can't tell the whole story about human language.