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by munin 14y ago
I think largely we are to blame for this turn of events. Where was the demand for justice when mobsters hired million dollar legal teams to beat murder charges? I think prosecutors are just responding to the demands of some of their constit
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The smallest uninteresting number(johndcook.com)
28 points by munin 14y ago|15 comments
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by munin 14y ago
the article shares a title with a pretty good book about crime and punishment in late 19th century new york. I recommend reading it, it's a pretty good example of how some things have not changed in the last 100 years ( http://www.amazon.co
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by munin 14y ago
yes. most likely, what the supervisor means is that the research should have some kind of story and conclusion. an 'unsuccessful' piece of research is one that does not say anything, i.e. "well we tried to replicate this other paper and you
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by munin 14y ago
there's been some research into the Buddhist monk core/skin temperature regulation. apparently, you can train yourself to do this by using biofeedback, take a digital thermometer and a few hours a day and you can figure out how to raise you
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by munin 14y ago
you might be a genius! usually with me, there is an afternoon of "oh, okay, that's the idea I get it" followed by a day of happy implementation. then, a sad day of "wait, what's going on, what's wrong with my intuition" followed by perhaps
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by munin 14y ago
I'm not saying that leisure time should not be part of people's lives. Do you want leisure time? Take it! Do whatever you want. Many people don't want it though. They would rather be working. Don't be angry when they have more success than
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by munin 14y ago
> You'll never get the intuitive understanding by working your ass off Maybe this is true if you're a savant. I'm not a savant. Everything that I really understand has thousands to tens of thousands of hours of practice and study behind
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by munin 14y ago
some people would honestly rather be thinking about advancing the sum of human knowledge. for those people, an academic career is an outlet. > (The most bizzare thing is when it happens in education. Come on, children are supposed to pl
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by munin 14y ago
I've argued that this is an outcome of a democratic "everyone watches everyone" society. however, some problems. someone has to have some monopoly on force? So the government has to have some information that is secret, for example, informa
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by munin 14y ago
> If the answer is no, then it is simple. It should be illegal to spend tax money on such mass surveillance systems. Yes, but will this stop the government from creating such systems? Will it stop private companies from making such syst
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by munin 14y ago
there's something that frustrates me about arguments like this. I think that technology is inescapably taking us towards a future where anyone and everyone can record everything that any individual does, perpetually, and at arbitrary scale.
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by munin 14y ago
so the purpose of the whole scheme is so that you can publish a very small amount of information that would decrypt the entire blob. a key has these properties. the 'key' in this case would be a multi-gb random document. how do you publish
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by munin 14y ago
java and C# still allow casting, so I think there you will still want static analysis outside of existing language features.
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by munin 14y ago
Yes, but the IP trail is from dealer A to gmail.com and dealer B to gmail.com. Along with non-dealer C through everyone else in the world.
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by munin 14y ago
Oh sure. However, it also puts a lot of load / strain on servers that Google doesn't want to run (SMTP, IMAP, etc). The way the post is written makes it sound like Google has figured out how to tame some natural force to allow us to have bi
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by munin 14y ago
> Have you ever tried to attach a file to an email only to find out it's too large to send? Yeah! Some jerk who runs my MTA set the size of acceptable attachments really low! I wonder who did that... $ host -t mx mydomain.com mydomain.c
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by munin 14y ago
Implementing an OS is hard work, even if you build on the very hard work of those who have tried before you in terms of APIs, abstraction layers, etc. It doesn't sound like you have a lot of familiarity with low-level software development,
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by munin 14y ago
the last I heard (3-4 years ago), the OS/kernel team used emacs. the kernel group has its own build infrastructure that is partially / mostly exported in the DDK.
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by munin 14y ago
LLVM IR is pretty easy to work with, and also very heavily documented and standardized. you'll have few/no "surprises" and the process of writing IR transformations is pretty well understood. so if you want to transform code, you have a sol
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by munin 14y ago
> And with Facebook I'm always unclear about who can see what (private, friends, Facebook users, everyone?) it seems cruel to say this is your fault - Facebook's UI for determining this is terrible and basically only .05% of Facebooks u
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by munin 14y ago
> As the OP describes - we all remember our grandparents struggling to use computers with any degree of effectiveness at all I've seen this argument a lot, and I hate it. my grandmother can use computers more effectively than many unive
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by munin 14y ago
also, the caml bindings for llvm kinda suck
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by munin 14y ago
I was also baffled. as you can imagine, an HR/legal department dysfunctional enough to emit guidance like that is also incapable of and unwilling to justify its decisions...
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by munin 14y ago
I have been instructed by legal affairs that non-contact after rejection is the safest choice for avoiding discrimination lawsuits. whether or not this is true, too much direct disobedience of management and legal usually results in startin
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by munin 14y ago
something perplexes me about talk of "winning the drug war". okay, we're at war with the cartels. let's characterize the enemy. the enemy: - has no land, territory, or people that we can lay siege to. in fact, their civilian population is o
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by munin 14y ago
aha! true, yes. I hadn't considered that case. then it would make sense. I suppose another case would be if you were maintaining some kind of data cache that could either be discarded or flushed to disk. so maybe these mechanisms are more u
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by munin 14y ago
> We just need to be careful because malloc returning successfully does not always mean that we can use the requested memory. this is not really true and it's dangerous to think this way (IMO). one of the awesome things about virtual me
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by munin 14y ago
numbers are based off of data from glassdoor etc, conversations with recruiters, and my personal experiences / my friends and acquaintances experiences (where those personal experiences include salary negotiations with candidates) sorry :(
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by munin 14y ago
I make a point about salary because in the article, a DHS official is quoted as saying that the retention problems are not caused by money. I claim that's BS. they're totally caused by money. even if you go to a crappy school, if you are a

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