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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
And again we're back at my original question... This is just a never ending loop. My whole point is this: How do we separate our inherited traits from the privilege brought on by our "class"?
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
It's not "what I think", it's what we know. One of the most well established facts in sociology is that IQ is the best predictor for life success: Firkowska-Mankiewicz, Anna, and Jerzyna Słomczyńska. Intelligence (IQ) as
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
I guess you're smart enough to realize that was a typo :)
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Induction gets you nowhere though: where did our privileged parents get their brains from? You're proving my point here: we inherit roughly 50% of our traits through our parent's genes. I never claimed IQ was the best measure (sur
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
In which direction is causality flowing here, and how do you justify it? We didn't choose our brains––so how do we differentiate the privilege we got from our "class" from the traits we were born with? Does privilege imply th
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Then, for a small subset of data, I manually verified that all results were correct. Where’s your test suite man? :)
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Charge by the value you produce, not hours worked.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
Successfully guessing the correct combination on a padlock does not make it any less criminal when you decide to steal someone's bike.
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by michaelmcmillan 7y ago
A former Tesla employee, who worked on their IT infrastructure and whose NDA has expired, has revealed the technical shit show going on behind the scenes at Tesla. (I'm a Tesla fanboy as well, but this is scary). https://twi
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
Congratulations on finding yourself in a bubble, where no argument can persuade you. Maybe you should watch the whole debate before declaring it one-sided.
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDnt_CYDiuE This debate totally changed the way I look at Assange. So no, I don't have to defend him.
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
A pattern is not specific to a language. Read again.
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
I'll just take the opportunity to say how grateful I am that the idea of inventing Redis struck you -– regardless of how it originated. I use it all the time, both professionally and in my free time. Awesome piece of software. An idea
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
Here's one I'm currently using in node (wrote it as another comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19499799
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
Hmm, I thought this pattern was really common? That is, appending everything to a file and reading back from the file when there's a reboot. I constantly use it when a database (or redis for that matter) is simply overkill for my use c
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
It is unlikely that our future scientific endeavours respect "What we know so far".
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
Intelligent machines are not predicated on understanding the brain, necessarily.
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
Hilarious! I just scraped all the domains and did nslookups on all of them to see which where expired. Then I registered the one with the largest area (milliondollarconnect.com occupied 1000 pixels) at x1, y1 = 710, 750 (the ad that looks l
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
Not all that related, but we found an exploit in Blackboard (the "virtual learning platform") by smuggling null bytes (0x00) via. their WebDAV protocol. This made it possible to hijack other accounts, including our professors&#x27
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
Still a valid argument, nonetheless.
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
This was a really cool format for presenting your deck!
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
This is journalism!
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
Read Enlightenment Now by Pinker!
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
Allow me to change username/email while I'm at it!
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
nc - arbitrary TCP and UDP connections and listens File transfer between machines: $ nc -l 1234 > filename.out Using a second machine, connect to the listening nc process, feeding it the file which is to be transferred: $
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
I would expect it has been easy, I’m talking about the way forward. I wish you the best of luck anyway!
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
Cool project! It strikes me that Django might not be the ideal for this project, have you thought about that? This logic [1] looks shoehorned into the framework. [1] https://github.com/vespene-io/vespene/blob/
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
I think they’ve been breached like this previously. What a mess.
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
I share your view! Unfortunately, getting devs to write proper unit tests is – for whatever reason – difficult. Types just smuggle themselves in with the rest of the program (granted they only cover a subset of the bugs tests do).
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by michaelmcmillan 8y ago
A lot of wisdom in there, but my god, why the overengineering? Keep it simple! You can serve hundreds of thousands of users only using Python's standard library (http.server and sqlite3 with an in-memory dict for caching). Fewer pieces

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