morningseagulls

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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>But the OP clearly didn't ask about doing it as a challenge or to understand how it works (which is what cryptopals is about), but actual usage. But the parent of the comment I was replying to clearly had the former in mind, as a s
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>>> Most professors are unneeded given the size of the problem space. >most subjects are too deep for the professor to be knowledgable about more than just their specialty >in many cases, the size of the problem space is much
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>The modern product of the American university is generally skeptical of anything resembling a meritocracy A little-known fact about the word "meritocracy"[0] is that it's a recent invention, coined by Baron Young of Darti
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Do you write your own crypto libraries too? Some people do. It's a good challenge.[0] [0] https://cryptopals.com/
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Not all of us need to build their own ML algos. Just in the same way that not all of us need to build their sorting libraries or data structures. And yet they love to ask you to do exactly that at technical interviews... coming up next:
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>My favorite is around 1:04:00 when someone asks a second time why he disprefers coq, and Buzzard complains that it can't represent some advanced quotient type that he'd have to work around. I'm reminded of [1] >[1] ht
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>I have seen zero evidence of that in my travels through China The parent comment said: "The Chinese, for example, practiced until recently strict exogamous marriage [...]". This explains your experience. >Do you have any so
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>So shipping asylum seekers to a country with a semi-dictator or an island somewhere is considered acceptable? I had <sarcasm></sarcasm> tags there... Australia's asylum policy has been the subject of both domestic
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
I'm really sorry to hear that. I'm also very puzzled: why would people take the sea route to Australia? I can understand crossing the Mediterranean sea by boat, but sailing to Australia is far more risky.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>I don’t see why Macau would have a stronger cultural identity than Hong Kong They actually have their own language, Macanese Patois[0], which is a Portuguese-based creole, in addition to Cantonese, English and maybe Portuguese. Their cu
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Europe could too, with proper organisation Aye, I hope so too. However, if Erdogan follows through, he may just send the IS folks through first, and then tip off the tabloid press about how the EU is compromising its security by letting
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
What opwieurposiu said. Also, here are some resources about the tactic Erdogan is using: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refugees_as_weapons https://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501704369&#x
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>You can pick them up from the boats, but Turkey won't take them back. What then? <sarcasm> Well... has anyone ever heard of Australia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asylum_in_Australia >Australia is t
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
Agreed, but Epic Games, which is 40% owned by Tencent, is now claiming it won't do what Blizzard did: https://www.insider.com/epic-unlike-blizzard-wont-ban-player...
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>At 5% ownership, Tencent doesn't have the muscle to force Blizzard to do anything it wouldn't have already done of its own volition. And at 40% ownership, Tencent apparently also doesn't have the muscle to force Epic Game
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Independence is not one of the demands of the protestors. Please provide a source for that claim. Point taken. But it was one of the demands of some protesters in the past[0], so I must have got that confused with the current demands
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Now here's a thought ... could video games and entertainment be tools for generating change in countries? Been there, done that. It was called "soft power", and the US used to wield it in spades. >To offset potential c
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>We are at a place in history where we can fight not with fists and bullets, but with entertainment . Not sure if sarcastic or genuine, but er... you know that this used to be called "soft power"? As in America used to have al
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>I'm curious as to how China is "Leninist" at all. China officially describe its ideology as Marxist-Leninism. I mean, depending on how strict your definition of "Leninist" is, even the USSR may not have been &qu
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Measuring Hong Kong's importance for China by its GDP is as useful as measuring your eyes' importance to you by their weight. Interesting. How does Hong Kong function as China's "eyes" in your analogy?
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>>>the state can still manufacture startups because these companies will get the red carpet from every other institution. >Yes, but you are underestimating the ways the state itself may "help" a company fail. Yes, but
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
Thanks, this was a nice short read. I'm skeptical, however, that just because we can refactor our way to saner software, that we won't still have software exhibiting the equivalent of a recurrent laryngeal nerve.
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Germany shooting: suspected gunman livestreamed synagogue attack(theguardian.com)
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
You're welcome. I wish HN has a feature to notify users of mentions: I'm surprised you saw my mention.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>perhaps the best approach is to use the official translated word from Chinese Sadly, the "best approach" has a good track record of being the approach that is usually not taken.
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>If Hong Kong becomes a Palestine-style cause celebre it will be bad for China. Nope. Like Palestine, it'd just be another showcase of the British strategy of "divide and quit". Heck, someone wrote a book about it: https:
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>The discussions I've seen point more towards Legalism, a Chinese theory of governance that's similar to fascism. I agree, but "legalism" has its own meaning in Western philosophy, so "fascism" is the more a
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
>Hong Kong's entire value, as far as I can see [...] Keep in mind that that's the perspective you've been conditioned to see by the media you've consumed. >If it becomes a homogenized satellite of Shenzhen with sky
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
Thanks for the list of oddities, all of which I'm aware, but I was hoping OP could work on an explanation .
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by morningseagulls 7y ago
There's a recent discussion about how the Malaysian government wants to become a venture capitalist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21165161 I think the creation of a startup ecosystem requires doing many things,

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