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by mokus 14y ago
I think that would be a very small extra factor, especially if you also add the likelihood of that alien's interest in traveling to specifically this part of this universe. And of course, we have no reasonable basis for estimating any of th
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by mokus 14y ago
Very nice video. For those less able to follow the calculus, another way to get at least a little intuition about this result is to think about how far the farthest points in a unit cube are from the origin - in 20 dimensions, the point (1
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by mokus 14y ago
The problem is that in many dimensions that often just won't work. The cloud of points can be smeared in directions that don't line up with any axes, in such a way that no matter which 2 axes you choose the clusters will overlap (but choos
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by mokus 14y ago
It's not hard to learn the difference, but the article's point in calling it a "false cognate" is just to note that there _is_ an unexpected difference. I don't believe the author's use of the phrase is correct, though. Cognates don't hav
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by mokus 14y ago
You can actually just play the video on the linked article, pause it at the right time, and point your phone at the screen. If I could read Korean I might be able to tell if the site has a time-lock of some kind. This isn't really about be
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by mokus 14y ago
> Federal prosecutors say they should not have to sort through the files at taxpayer expense, but have objected to their erasure. Umm, what? The prosecutors don't think they should be responsible for obtaining and examining the evidenc
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by mokus 14y ago
Furthermore, adding two days' development time doesn't mean shipping two days later, especially if that time is spent reimplementing functionality for which you already have a perfectly useful (although not shippable) alternative. All it me
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by mokus 14y ago
I suspect the former - it's laggy here too, and the network here is normally pretty fast.
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by mokus 14y ago
It's not really new. Whether you agree with the sentiment or not, pg's oldish comment on the issue at least establishes the existence of the behavior several years ago, and has been taken by many to be the final word on the acceptability of
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by mokus 15y ago
The same argument applies to non-descriptive names, and the main complaint about short names is that they are often not descriptive. I like to bring up the English language in this particular debate. "It", "he", and "she" are incredibly no
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by mokus 15y ago
That's an extraordinary claim, and if untrue, libelous as well. Have you any evidence to present?
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by mokus 15y ago
While strictly true, that is not a very useful approach to take. By the same reasoning, _every_ operation is either O(1) or does not terminate, because a system with bounded memory has a bounded number of possible states. I can see why it'
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by mokus 15y ago
As I understood it from the context, the point of the quoted comment was that, even for the _same person_, whether something is noise or not varies wildly depending on their state of mind but for spam that is much less true. Different peopl
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by mokus 15y ago
That only doubles the size of the attacker's dictionary, though. Instead, I'd say "pick random words and add a few random typos". As long as there aren't too many the typos will be as memorable as the words themselves (more so if you're a
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by mokus 15y ago
In a 2-body system this is true, but adding many more bodies to the system makes things very chaotic. An object passing by or colliding with the "proto-moon" could easily deflect it from its crash course. Whether that's probable given the
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by mokus 15y ago
Regarding the Terminal - I never really got what people meant when they said the terminal was lacking. Maybe it's lacking some obscure features, but it absolutely nails the core features. The OSX terminal is, in my opinion, the single be
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by mokus 15y ago
If you could infect a target with a designer virus, why not just make it kill them directly? Unless you're the villain in a James Bond movie, of course ;)
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by mokus 15y ago
I'm no lawyer, but it sounds like the Tucker act only applies to cases where the government states or implies that it will pay something and then doesn't, so the government can't just breach contracts with impunity.
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by mokus 15y ago
"I read a while ago (no links I'm afraid) that essentially a US agency/regulator has to give permission for a US based entity to sue an agency like the FBI." Is "sovereign immunity"[1] perhaps the concept you are referring to? It was menti
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by mokus 15y ago
Fair enough. That wasn't at all clear from your earlier comment, though. In light of this information I'm inclined to agree that there is some similarity. I think there's still a pretty colossal difference, too, though - the risk guys ge
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by mokus 15y ago
You left out the part parallel to "I would guess that there is a subculture of school administrators who feel that No Child Left Behind etc. are hurting curriculum and unfair to teachers and schools." The standards schools are being measure
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by mokus 15y ago
An anecdotal counterpoint: I joined dropbox when I heard from a friend how well-designed it was. I then proceeded to sign up for it _despite_ my frustration at the video-only front page. I never did watch the video.
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by mokus 15y ago
If "your boss has no idea if you’re good at your job," then he is not good at his.
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by mokus 15y ago
How does the "large eye to see large objects" thesis make any sense at all? I can see the moon just fine with my puny little orbs. I get that the large eye will have an extremely narrow "depth of field" for small objects, but how does tha
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by mokus 15y ago
Unfortunately, it's often easier to get away with it when you're "smart" because when someone looks at your screen they don't see a Facebook game - they see "research".
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by mokus 15y ago
"Copyright is given de facto, but" ... If you're going to imply someone isn't reading what they wrote, the least you can do is read what they wrote.
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by mokus 15y ago
In addition to the attribution, I'd like to know how they are going to comply with the "share-alike" part of the license. Where can I download "Apple maps"? According to the OSM FAQ, it should contain not only the OSM data but all other d
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by mokus 15y ago
This justification seems especially odd to me since Rails did so much in the first place to popularize the idea that the default behavior should be the one most likely to be "right". Don't they (or didn't they at one time) have a mantra "c
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by mokus 15y ago
Even better - loser pays the winner the exact amount they paid their legal team. By their own admission "at arm's length" so to speak, that was the value of the litigation to them.
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by mokus 15y ago
In a sense, yes, but they're also proving that the products they are "boycotting" are so important to them that they cannot do without them, even to make a point that supposedly is very important to them. It doesn't tell the MPAA "you need

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