lurker456

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by lurker456 9y ago
Selective enforcement of a shitty law is arguably worse for society then across the bar even enforcement of that law. In the latter case, there are less groups that will prevent change.
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by lurker456 9y ago
I hate it being done without informed consent. It's also a huge waste of electricity. On the plus side it could lead to micropayment funded instead of ad-funded sites.
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by lurker456 9y ago
facebook is as much just a website as the catholic church is just some buildings with a book. there is a lot behind it.
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by lurker456 9y ago
If they had a requirement to report each breach promptly, we'd have known far sooner there was a problem there, and the pressure to improve security would have been higher. They have been leaking for years.
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by lurker456 9y ago
if the nerve endings between brain and shoulder are there, it could still work. The device would need to give consistent feedback for the brain to be trained. it's similar to a stroke victim learning to walk again.
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by lurker456 9y ago
less, for several reasons - in the US system, treating symptoms instead of the underlying cause is easier for the doctor and more profitable in the long run. - "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure"; less patients that
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by lurker456 9y ago
The odds of a commercial bank going bust is higher then Germany going bust. Commercial banks only need to keep a few % of the money deposited at them on their books (its called fractional reserve banking), the other 95% or so can be investe
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by lurker456 9y ago
bitcoin is a byzantine fault tolerant distributed database, it's performance characteristics are different.
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by lurker456 9y ago
suburban sprawl is arguably a result of the obsession with cars
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by lurker456 9y ago
And past performance guarantees future performance ? Also, bear in mind that an overwhelming majority of the people who invented all this good stuff (scientists) agree that we're approaching a cliff.
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by lurker456 9y ago
To paraphrase a comment about virtual currencies: If you have a hard problem and try to solve it with a blockchain, you now have 2 hard problems.
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by lurker456 9y ago
what alternative do you have in mind ?
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by lurker456 9y ago
How many ISPs can you choose from where you live ? They have an effective monopoly or duopoly in many regions in the US. in addition to that, "but what about google" is no defence for what last mile ISPs are doing. If google ever
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by lurker456 9y ago
While a 51% attack is a real concern, an even more likely scenario is the network going down. During a network split the local node(s) will happily continue to ingest logs which once the network is healed will all be rejected.
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by lurker456 9y ago
further evidence of how postgreSQL is eating noSQL. Every good concept first implemented in a custom noSQL solution eventually becomes an extension in postgres.
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by lurker456 9y ago
A blockchain does not offer that guarantee either. The shared consensus it achieves comes at the cost of occasionally discarding stuff. The few protections it does offer against tampering can be achieved in a much simpler way for your scena
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by lurker456 9y ago
especially when the customer differs from the users
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by lurker456 9y ago
While having a plan is important, it's not the only way a human approaches chess. Experienced chess players develop an ability to evaluate positions intuitively. Without being able to explain fully why and without a specific plan in m
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by lurker456 9y ago
I imagine there are not many things with unexpected shapes at that level that aren't accounted for somehow. Anything that doesn't slot into it perfectly will get knocked away by collisions. Bad shapes do exist however (prions) and
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by lurker456 9y ago
That's a bit like comparing a water utility company versus a company selling bottled water. One has a natural monopoly (and likely only exists thanks to generous government support), the other does not.
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by lurker456 9y ago
RDBMS's have gone through the same journey. First it was hardcoded, now for many of them we can specify the codepage or UTF encoding and collation of a DB, some even offer it per table or column, and so on. Filesystems should do the sa
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by lurker456 9y ago
Couldn't google offer him immunity of sorts in return for spilling the beans on Uber ? They dont need to claw back the money, it is pocket change to them. Restricting Uber from entering that market (on potentially near equal footing)
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by lurker456 9y ago
But spending that $200 billion on primary education doesn't make it disappear in a black hole either. One could even argue that money spent on DOD budgets trickles down less to the inhabitants of the state that raised the money in taxe
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by lurker456 9y ago
Michael Hastings and Kenneth Lay come to mind. No proof obviously.
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by lurker456 9y ago
Would that be a bad thing though ? Assuming assistants are ubiquitous. We don't use punch cards in interviews today. Even today whiteboard interviews are sometimes not the best method to fill certain roles.
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by lurker456 9y ago
Yes, and it's been going on for at least a decade. It's why they rushed through an emergency bill with support from both parties in 2014 to retroactively grant immunity. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07&#x
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by lurker456 9y ago
The amount of dormant coins is not that large anymore. I read somewhere it's on the order of 30%. If they enter all at once the pool it would be a significant haircut for everyone else, but not the end. More significant risks are an 5
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by lurker456 9y ago
it's possible to do such optimizations for a (safe) subset of javascript, such as these pure functions. Arguably java has a larger subset even today.
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by lurker456 9y ago
why would 3 be unlikely ? The snowden leaks indicate that 3 letter agencies will use high value 0-days sparingly, to ensure they remain 0-days. Also, there is a 5th (more likely) possibility: SA didn't find anything, but undiscovered
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by lurker456 9y ago
Great news that this finally came to light. After learning about remote management capabilities I've always suspected it had holes. Large attack surface, any exploit would have a high value, and closed source. Perhaps one day we'l

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