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by mayneack 14y ago
Except for the one day restriction. If all spam was nicely confined to one day, I'd probably be ok with it.
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by mayneack 14y ago
This isn't all about the Ivy's recruitment. I am from a small (10k population) town in Mid Missouri and currently an MIT student. In my graduating class of 150 there were maybe 6 that went out of state and only a couple that didn't go to a
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by mayneack 14y ago
I used a small regional bank until recently and they had both a small (might be 8, I can't remember) character limit and stored them in plaintext. When I was emailed my current password after having to reset it, I left.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Barely a notice? I'd say this is noticed quite a bit compared to other world powers being dismantled. Every random civil libertarian with a blog will be able to point to their blog and say "I saw this coming." Sure, many people probably not
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by mayneack 14y ago
They do about as much to prevent the situation as the twitter shaming does to prevent lewd jokes.
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by mayneack 14y ago
MIT CS class (6.047) I just took had a mix between course notes and a textbook. It started as a compilation of course notes and then each year, was improved by the class. During each lecture, one or more people were assigned to update the r
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by mayneack 14y ago
Obligatory White House petition: http://wh.gov/oRoJ
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by mayneack 14y ago
Vpns are a gray market? Does not wanting my car searched imply that I have illegal things in it?
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by mayneack 14y ago
seeing how many languages you could nest before the interpreter becomes too slow to be of use.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350907
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by mayneack 14y ago
I would guess it's similar, but I know people back home in mid MO (not quite KC) that pay less in rent than long term parking I see advertised in Boston.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Not sarcastic: People laugh when they hear a "racist" joke because it's funny. Maybe race related jokes don't have a place at conferences and work places - I am not sure - but there should be room for jokes about race somewhere, right? I me
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by mayneack 14y ago
Not really an ideal frame of reference
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by mayneack 14y ago
Same argument, more context. If I go to the store, pay with my AmEx to buy a DVD, then bring it home and pirate the show because I don't want to go through the process of ripping it to watch on my computer sans TV, it's the same thing since
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by mayneack 14y ago
So let's say I pay for netflix, then pirate the show anyway because it's easier for me to use than netflix. Any problem there? They released the whole thing at once, so as long as I watch it within this month, it's the same on their end as
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by mayneack 14y ago
Figured it would be worth a shot, signed up for the free trial. Doesn't work on linux. Guess I'll wait for the pirates.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Transcript: http://www.freakonomics.com/2013/01/17/who-owns-the-words-th...
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Who Owns the Words That Come Out of Your Mouth?(freakonomics.com)
2 points by mayneack 14y ago|1 comments
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by mayneack 14y ago
"Reform or we'll release this incriminating stuff." Clearly, the better way to get them to reform is to release the incriminating material and have a scandal about it. If it's really bad enough to be worth this headline, it'll do a lot more
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by mayneack 14y ago
I'm reaching the end of my knowledge, but I would guess that there's a good tradeoff between reducing the number down to 2% vs culling down to the "best" remainder. You also give your immune system more time to catch up and take car of the
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by mayneack 14y ago
On the last bit, resistance isn't a binary switch. If you assume a spectrum, then day 1 kills all the really easy bacteria. By day 4 of 8, you've killed the 85% most killable bacteria, and your symptoms are gone, so you stop. Then you have
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by mayneack 14y ago
More unlikely is not 0, and you don't want to skip all the mid points and create the super bug in one treatment. Probably safe if you do this now and then, but not if it's the SOP for antibiotics. No idea if that's why they don't do it. Sid
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by mayneack 14y ago
The comment appears to be countering the argument that the torrents containing malware should earn this warning.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Yeah, they totally knew what they were doing. Hence the smooth scaling up to filling the demand for 100,000 on the first day. I remember my personal smooth shopping experience.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Now all we need is HelloNotarize
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by mayneack 14y ago
There's always a lot, but just on sheer number of people around there has to be less than say, late November.
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by mayneack 14y ago
I'd say it's even more counterproductive then. No one at mit hadn't heard of the scandal at this point, but a few people's minds might get changed on hacktivists in general. Putting up the messages on those department sites won't inconvenie
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by mayneack 14y ago
I'm guessing that a non trivial number of people heard about it and decided to join the attack, regardless of whether or not it was actually an attack to begin with.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Good timing too as I assume IAP is an off peak time for people's work getting disrupted.
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by mayneack 14y ago
Not a whole lot has changed yet. Won't really know that for a few months.

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