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by mandevil 8y ago
The Apple Secure Enclave cannot defend against someone who has the signing keys to the password software (or at least couldn't as of 2016)- that's why the FBI wanted Apple's "help" over the San Bernardino shooter. A
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by mandevil 9y ago
No, it's aimed at business credit card authorization amounts. Many companies have policies like 'Tier 1 managers can authorize up to $100, Tier 2 managers can authorize up to $250, Tier 3 managers up to $5000' so you are tryi
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by mandevil 9y ago
LIDAR has severe range limitations, such that it's basically unusable for highway speed driving (or at least did, <mumble> years ago when I worked on autonomous driving), which is why Tesla doesn't use LIDAR. Looking at Thru
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by mandevil 9y ago
Of course there will be backlash. There already is. That doesn't mean it doesn't lead to progress overall. The rights of black people were meaningfully better in 1930 than in 1830, even though they were better still in 1870, befor
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by mandevil 9y ago
P1 is about suppression that has worked, very well, for pretty much all of human history. It is only losing a little bit of its effectiveness now. Which is why I'm so sure that P2 is an effective strategy- because I've observed ho
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by mandevil 9y ago
"in that silence grow the seeds of resentment and anger" You mean like women have felt for thousands of years? And look where it got them. Just ignoring it and hoping that the creepy guy would pick on someone else didn't work
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by mandevil 9y ago
The way that society is set up, of course most of the pressure is on minorities to be silent and just take abuse. That's why all of the "MeToo" movement was pent-up and then just now exploded, because so many women were afrai
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by mandevil 9y ago
Altman's original essay is about how there is too much criticism of ideas in San Francisco right now. That people are saying things and then having other people mock them, or complain about them, so much that they are going silent. The
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by mandevil 9y ago
So far as I know, France has no equivalent of Global Entry. It's also not universal advice, even if you were flying into the US- it's only available to citizens of certain countries. (France is not one of them, though Germany&#x27
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by mandevil 9y ago
Two points: A) that 5PM was with transporter technology, more realistic numbers push you to starting the meeting at 7PM. B) The reason to do meetings in person versus telepresence is to build relationships in a way that phones just can&#x27
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by mandevil 9y ago
Note that this very much only worked one way: Europe to the US, not vice-versa, because of the curvature of the Earth (and even then, better for London versus Paris because of geography). Since the plane needs to be full on all of it's
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by mandevil 9y ago
R.E.G. Davies worked out why this isn't as powerful as you think because the earth is round. The justification for that expensive ticket is that you can have your meeting without getting jet-lagged. So, basically, leave your house at a
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by mandevil 9y ago
It isn't even the basics of the synthesis chain that are difficult. Most (small molecule) stuff a lab chemist could whip up a batch of given a bit of time and reasonable access to precursors. But this is exactly like saying "Reddi
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by mandevil 9y ago
This is not how paid software development works (beyond maybe stealth mode/no customers start-ups- if you have no money then you do what you have to). If you have a going business, the trade-off is totally in favor of paying someone no
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by mandevil 9y ago
Because a lot of this is transient signals that are crap? One of our robots back in '06 would panic stop every 30 seconds or so whenever there was a dust cloud (this was an army off road formation project, so dust was a fact of life fo
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by mandevil 9y ago
In our tests a decade ago, we found that shared autonomy was actually much more frustrating for users than either full or no autonomy. When you were telling the computer to go over there and the computer wanted to go over here, it left all
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by mandevil 9y ago
That... is the point of the DV cert?
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by mandevil 9y ago
We were replacing a fully SQL email engine (that was starting to fall over due to load) with this more hybrid approach; we had customers, we knew that the business case closed, but the load was starting to overpower the main database, so we
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by mandevil 9y ago
Because the Google car works with pre-registered and mapped out terrain, and the enemy rarely will let you pause for a few months and run a bunch of ladars through their area of control? Because the google car is trying to solve the problem
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by mandevil 9y ago
We used Couchbase (a NoSQL like MongoDB) for email batch sending (think invitations to a party) and it worked very well. We could store each email sent as a separate, denormalized document so the sender could see EXACTLY how their contact d
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by mandevil 9y ago
Planes are a good argument for the opposite. Do you ever wonder why there are two pilots on every commercial airliner? It's not because airlines like paying so many more pilots- notice how fast flight engineer/navigator positions
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by mandevil 9y ago
The Bf-109Z, which never flew, was the same kind of idea as the F-82 but only had one cockpit (on the left side), for that same sort of asymmetry.
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by mandevil 9y ago
Yes, things are coupled, but they are still malleable. The F-82 fuselage was longer than a normal P-51 fuselage by almost 5' (57 inches). They stretched the section behind the cockpit, to give it more room for fuel tanks.
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by mandevil 9y ago
Nope. You are wrong. Here's why: Damore is not the first time any of the women who work at Google encountered this sort of idea. He isn't even the hundreth person any of them would have encountered telling them that they are simpl
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by mandevil 9y ago
Ezra Klein argued[1] that this is really a fear of the opaque power that software has in our lives. We know that software and algorithms run the world, and that only a few people will ever even see the algorithms, let alone understand them
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by mandevil 9y ago
Not for a USN Carrier since 1945- USS Midway exceeded (then current) PANAMAX.
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by mandevil 9y ago
Based on both an article from the announcement time [1] and the wiki page [2] the Defenders are jointly produced by Marvel TV and ABC Studios, merely distributed by Netflix. If that is true[3], then Disney (which owns Marvel and ABC) owns t
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by mandevil 9y ago
Sure, and for some stuff this is done now. But there are something like 9,000 different pharmacy items (leaving aside medical supplies like sterile bandages, which are procured through a totally different system) in my wife's very smal
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by mandevil 9y ago
The article isn't, but most of the really egregious price increases we've observed (e.g. epipens, all the drugs that Martin Shkreli bought, etc.) have likewise not been on drugs under patent protection. In point of fact, most drug
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by mandevil 9y ago
Do you honestly think that baking soda is in shortage because of patent restrictions? The US drug system is messed up, but not that messed up. They are in shortage because it takes a long time (six-ish months) to certify a factory as prod

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