mherdeg

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   by mherdeg 10y ago

   > To the voter id laws, I can provide studies showing that in person vote fraud is non existent in America I think it might be better to say "irrelevant to the outcome of an election" than "non existent". One kind of
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   by mherdeg 10y ago

   Ha ha: ""” I asked whether she intended to proceed under criminal procedural rules or in civil procedure. We would proceed under the “rules of criminal procedure,” she answered because this is a criminal case. I asked when I could
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   by mherdeg 10y ago

   I wonder whether fewer people in the US will be naming their children "Alexa" or "Siri" in the coming years.
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   by mherdeg 10y ago

   Do you mean the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Special_Plans ?
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   by mherdeg 10y ago

   Or, famously (in a case where people thought carefully about both copyright and patents): private static void rangeCheck(int arrayLen, int fromIndex, int toIndex) { if (fromIndex > toIndex) throw new IllegalArgumentException
6. 516.▲
   by mherdeg 10y ago

   I think that the problem outlined in the Facebook post (laptop display does not work, Dell and customer disagree about whether customer damaged the unit) is unrelated to the problem mentioned at the very end of the Facebook post (change.org
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   by mherdeg 10y ago

   My go-to reference on the situation is https://blogs.oracle.com/ksplice/entry/essay_3g_and_me . Like Keith says, more important than whether you have 3G, 4G, or LTE is: ""How much spectrum has the carrier
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   by mherdeg 10y ago

   Yeah, I found that blog post really thought provoking. I think the core idea was that "it is a virtue to tolerate the outgroup" often means, in American middle-class culture, "if you are on Team Republican, do not stop associ
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   by mherdeg 10y ago

   Ha ha re: > 10. what is the type of the packets exchanged to establish a TCP connection? > Me: in hexadecimal: 0x02, 0x12, 0x10 – literally "synchronize" and "acknowledge". > Recruiter: wrong, it's SYN, SYN
10. 520.▲
    by mherdeg 10y ago

    This sounds like pretty high-quality penetration testing; maybe he should pivot his career and work in security.
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    by mherdeg 10y ago

    I use this tool because I like to run the binary distribution of nethack from the command line inside an OS X Terminal window, and I am VERY accustomed to using the up/down/left/right arrow keys to move around (from how thing
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    by mherdeg 10y ago

    This kind of dichotomous analysis of the world -- you explain things in X way, or in opposite-of-X way -- seems to pop up a lot in social psychology. I also see it in discussion of the idea of "fundamental attribution error" (when
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    by mherdeg 10y ago

    Thanks! I missed this — I read the whole article, somehow missed that [subscription] was a hyperlink, then re-read the article and searched for the verb "subscribe".
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    by mherdeg 10y ago

    There is no "Subscribe" link anywhere in the text of this article or on the web page that hosts it ( http://lwn.net/Articles/696017/ ). I was able to find the link from the front page, but it's kind o
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    by mherdeg 10y ago

    That's a good point! Thanks for calling that out.
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    by mherdeg 10y ago

    Just taking this quick opportunity to post a link to my favorite journal, the Journal of Articles in Support of the Null Hypothesis: http://www.jasnh.com/ . JASNH is designed to accept papers that say "we tested for X
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    by mherdeg 10y ago

    Wow! Big year for Leicester!
18. 528.▲
    by mherdeg 11y ago

    In Europe, Skyscanner's big advantage is that they have price data from low-cost carriers whose fares & inventory are not normally available to GDSes. They'll show you prices for people like Wizz Air, EasyJet, Ryanair, etc. wh
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    To my knowledge Southwest doesn't sell such a 'voucher' product, though. It seems possible that this company was just selling 'vouchers' and, when it came time to fulfill the 'voucher', they were just buyi
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    I was confused about what "bogus discounted travel vouchers" were so I found some more detail about the fraudulent business in this local TV story: http://www.ketv.com/news/company-sold-flight-vouchers-but-no.
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    Well, there was a price-fixing cartel that was investigated in 2002 and punished in 2003-5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing .
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    It's really interesting to think about this in the context of the "1099 economy", especially people whose sole income comes from contractor work for some combination of Lyft, Uber, Postmates, Handy, Instacart, GrubHub, etc. T
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    This sounds crazy, but I'd have a small worry that giving out your CEO's personal phone number exposes potential attacks against other services that use the phone number as a token. Like: (1) Do you have a store-loyalty program at
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    Received 9 February, published in the June/July issue; I wonder why such a long turnaround time for a short letter? (The publication is more or less monthly, see at http://www.ams.org/notices/201506/ ).
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    I tried using a paper Kanban board (sticky notes on a whiteboard), but it didn't last. Some technical issues (the sticky notes kept falling off and we literally "lost" work) and some social ones (we didn't secure buy-in
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    If you're infuriated by "people talking about things like this is a new finding, but it's been well known for years", you'll LOVE the Hillary Clinton private-email-for-work-business story, which was well-documented
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    Huh, how does this service's behavior differ from what the Twitter App Graph does?
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    I'm excited to see Uploadr, which shares a name with Aaron Swartz's uploadr.py and does much the same function (syncs a bunch of files from my local computer to Flickr). It's great that Uploadr does local duplicate detection
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    There's an arrow next to your dot.
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    by mherdeg 11y ago

    I wonder how long it's going to be before we see state-level actors exploit these kinds of security holes. To be sure, there are already a lot of ways to incapacitate or hurt someone. But abusing software bugs in a person's medica