murbard2

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by murbard2 12y ago
Of course they are normal people, that's what makes it terrifying. Communism killed hundred of millions of people. And yes, the French communist party supported Stalinism for a long time.
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by murbard2 12y ago
De Gaulle had to strike a deal with the communists. They may not have been at the very top of the power, but they certainly were in governments.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Sure. Say there's a bad law, for instance a law requiring that every toddler must be taken to a police station before the age of 3 to have one eye gouged out with a red hot steel bar. Suddenly, the government decide to apply this law c
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by murbard2 12y ago
Nowhere have I mentioned a conspiracy.
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by murbard2 12y ago
After World War II, communists, who had been on the right side of the conflict, got enormous power. This eventually percolated in the education system, and now France is left with a few generations that have been force fed progressive propa
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by murbard2 12y ago
You just timestamp the messages and give them a TTL. The worms can use ntp to sync.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Can't worms simply relay to each other the message signed by the botnet master? No Sybil attack there. The trend of throwing blockchains at problems for which they are totally uncalled for is profoundly annoying.
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by murbard2 12y ago
That's what psychometricians want you too believe. There is no scientific reason it needs to be administered by a human or be so long.
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by murbard2 12y ago
There main test has 60 datapoints... how many tries do you think they made exactly before deciding they didn't correlate as well? Yes, IQ tests are expensive, but if you buy one test, the marginal cost of giving to an extra student is
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by murbard2 12y ago
How do you know they didn't correlate with performance as well as algebra if they were too difficult to implement?
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by murbard2 12y ago
I don't know why this was downmodded into oblivion, is the joke too subtle or just not funny?
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by murbard2 12y ago
Who are you talking to?
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by murbard2 12y ago
* varies for different values of "thing" and different values of "you".
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by murbard2 12y ago
There needs not be a good reason for a bad law not to be enforced.
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by murbard2 12y ago
OK, schedule III isn't so bad, but afaiac, if I can't buy it at Walmart, it's banned.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Your argument is basically that it's generally a good idea to make sure a medical treatment is safe and effective before undertaking it. That's hardly controversial. What does not follow at all is that Ketamine should be banned,
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by murbard2 12y ago
I think your point is that some amount of unconditional respect for the law is desirable, because it works as an enforcement mechanism. Is that right? Even if it is desirable, it does not mean that there is a duty to obey unjust laws. After
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by murbard2 12y ago
"How can this be OK?" There is no moral duty to obey unjust laws.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Fine, best strategy given a perfectly rational opponent. There, ambiguity removed.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Decentralization is a tool, not a goal. TBP, and some verified uploaders managed to gain a good reputation and they didn't abuse it, did they?
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by murbard2 12y ago
Sure, then just have trusted third parties (such as TPB) sign the torrents. It would be pretty hard to shutdown someone signing hashes from an unknown location.
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by murbard2 12y ago
In this case, the candidate's thesis work explicitly dealt with game theory. In addition, this doesn't require much knowledge of game theory... if you think about the problem for a bit, you can re-derive the concept fairly easily.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Don't focus on expectation, focus on probability of winning.
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by murbard2 12y ago
And no, you don't assume that every strategy is equally likely. You assume that the opponent plays optimally with full knowledge of your own strategy, which means you're looking for a Nash equilibrium http://en.wikipedi
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by murbard2 12y ago
They're both losing, the advertiser's loss is opportunity cost.
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by murbard2 12y ago
No. The price is determined by supply and demand. So you're saying demand would fall - much as demand for a good falls when you impose a sales tax. There would be deadweight loss from the lack of traffic and advertisers would still e
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by murbard2 12y ago
Not knowing the rate of ad fraud does make things worse, but is not necessary to explain why it's a problem. Even if the ad fraud rate was absolutely uniform across all websites, there would be a deadweight loss. The ad fraudsters are
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by murbard2 12y ago
The reason maximizing EV isn't the answer is that you care about having a larger number than your opponent, not about having the largest number possible. Imagine we play a die game where whoever rolls the largest number wins. Which die
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by murbard2 12y ago
I suppose it depends on the industry then... These are what we tend to call brainteasers in quant finance, and they're the type of problems you'll find in the book "Heard on the street" recommended above.
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by murbard2 12y ago
Indeed it is, isn't it a nice result? :) (to be thorough, you also need to show that re-rolling based on a single threshold dominates other strategies, but it's fairly intuitive and not too hard to prove)

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