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by mherdeg 14y ago
Sure, and in scenarios like that, perhaps the best thing to do is to flip a coin. Instead of going to all the expense of flipping a coin, though, you could just take the person who seemed to get the most votes (after you've counted them all
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Sure, read the last few paragraphs of this Journal article. The reporter is up front about her source: "Mr. Weinberg brought the discrepancy to the Journal's attention."" ""In September, Gabriel Weinberg, founder and chief executive of tiny
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Would be interested to hear some product insight on how you guys think the 11kclub product compares with "Lily Cole's Impossible".
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Transferwise looks like a pretty cool startup. Are you guys cheaper than Oanda? Do you plan to offer GBP->USD? (As a US citizen working in London, this is all I want.)
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Yup; fascinating to see how close / far that future is. To my mind the most acute observation Stephenson makes in that novel is that if you control the education of hundreds of millions of people in the third world, you also get tremendous
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Could you spell out what a "dark archive" is? The top few Google hits don't give me a precise sense of the thing.
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Hotmail is the market leader even among tech-savvy people in some non-U.S. markets. For example, they're very big in some Spanish-speaking countries.
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Borges's library doesn't actually contain every possible book, just every possible book of a certain length (it's finite but very large). Fun fact about Quine -- he didn't actually write the first known self-printing program! http://en.wik
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Hmm. Meanwhile, on amazon.co.uk I am offered £6.99 including VAT and told "This price was set by the publisher". This is roughly the same as the $9.48 Amazon-set price that Tim sees, plus 20% VAT.
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Yeah, time-of-check-to-time-of-use attacks are not usually described as "timing attacks" but instead just called TOCTTOU. In this scenario you might also say "exploiting a race condition".
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by mherdeg 14y ago
I don't think we've previously seen someone publicly offer this service for free. It'll be really interesting to see what the company does in response -- thanks for going out on a limb for us all to find out!
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Southwest sues people who monetize this kind of product -- see a 2012 example at http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2012/03/02/Southwest-... or a 2007 example at http://www.internetlibrary.com/cases/lib_case511.cfm .
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by mherdeg 14y ago
I think people occasionally submit present-tense articles for past events to try to make some very specific kind of point, sort of like a "have you forgotten?". It's a bit bewildering and I'm not totally sure I understand the point. The one
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by mherdeg 14y ago
I think the submitter is making the point that we seem to have forgotten about Ritchie but have managed to remember the one-year anniversary of Steve Jobs's death.
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Could this have been a joke by the patent examiner who handled the document? If you look very closely at this Microsoft patent document ( http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US8181265?printsec=abstract#... ), on page 2, you'll see that the refe
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Gotta go with bang paths. @chrismdp!{twitter,rstat.us,app.net}.
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by mherdeg 14y ago
It always astonishes me that not only did Heinlein invent the Segway ("The Road Must Roll"), he also invented the idea of people like Elon Musk (as D.D. Harriman in "Requiem").
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Does the oft-lionized "PayPal gang", famous for their successes in the tech community, bear any responsibility for the company's customer experience being sometimes so terrible? Maybe this just happens to all payment companies at scale, but
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by mherdeg 14y ago
This kind of stuff has the potential to be so much fun, but always ends up being so boring. Remember when a 4chan user hacked into Sarah Palin's not-public-record Yahoo! Mail account and managed to post screenshots to /b/? But then the user
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Graham also says in that column (and this is weird that I remember it, not having read it in five years!) "we never managed to crack the print edition of the Times."
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by mherdeg 14y ago
When the AP ran this story a couple of weeks ago ( http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Unshuffled-cards-a-cos... ), I thought it was hilarious because casinos do extra work at the baccarat and mini-baccarat tables to encourage exactly thi
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Visiting their front page at http://workfu.com/ yields a lightboxed "UPDATE 31/08/2012: We are currently in discussions regarding the possibilities of keeping WorkFu alive and will update as soon as we have more information."
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by mherdeg 14y ago
I have been conditioned to think of D-Wave, as Aaronson does, as a company that makes a "128-(qu)bit machine that can output approximate solutions to a particular NP-hard minimization problem" for which "we have no direct evidence that quan
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Unusual position at D-Wave: "Cognition & Creativity Frameworks Engineer" [pdf](dwavesys.com)
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Mosh in a lift(irl.unixcab.org)
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by mherdeg 14y ago
The first entry in iodined's changelog is from June 2006, http://code.kryo.se/iodine/ , http://code.kryo.se/iodine/CHANGELOG.html .
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Hmm, my reading of the original blog post is perhaps a bit different than yours. This post seems to provide evidence that people who do not traditionally write textbooks (not the top hundred faculty members in a field) are being afforded a
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Adjunct faculty are typically paid on a per-course-taught basis and can make as little as $400 per subject [1], although it's most common to see pay of about $1500–$2500 per subject. To pick one well-documented discipline in particular, psy
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It is a bit surprising that universities allow this practice — not so much because textbook costs are unbundled from tuition (things have been that way for a while) but because textbook company kickbacks may now constitute substantial fract
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by mherdeg 14y ago
Really, in order to complete your coursework you need a one-time-use "access code" that came with your textbook, and no one can share books with anyone else or borrow them from the library? It boggles my mind that Stallman went out and spel

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