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by nanis 6y ago
> science can find it. There is no thing called "science" that finds answers. There are scientists who can form hypotheses about the universe they can see and perceive and check whether they are consistent with what they can se
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by nanis 6y ago
Related comment of mine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26196318
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by nanis 6y ago
> I’m not exposed to that complexity Some of us think editing YAML files is complex enough.
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by nanis 6y ago
> a property called "White_Space" which implies it is two words <tongue-in-cheek> Except that `_` is a "word" character by default. </tongue-in-cheek>
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by nanis 6y ago
With S3, you can use AWS Transfer[1]. [1]: https://aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/features/
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Attacking (EC)DSA with Partially Known Multiples of Nonces(eprint.iacr.org)
2 points by nanis 6y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 6y ago
> An interesting aspect is the guilty until proven innocent aspect A few years back people considered "H.R.4681 - Intelligence Authorization Act" to be a victory in terms of limiting how long government can keep information of
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by nanis 6y ago
> I opt out. Then there was the issue of "studies"[1]. [1]: https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bl035o/what_are_th...
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by nanis 6y ago
> I use this feature. On a large monitor, Firefox wastes quite a lot of space with the default layout. To be honest, I wish there was an option to make it more compact than the "compact" layout. Ditto ... I am not clear why we
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by nanis 6y ago
> As a more practical thing, if I assign probability 0 to an event which you could describe in a few sentences in under 5 lines (regardless of whether you actually have described it), and it happens, then I’ve really messed up quite terr
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by nanis 6y ago
> Probability is about degree of belief (or, belief and/or caring). Not at all. Probability is a countably additive, normalized measure over a sigma algebra of sets. > This doesn't produce any difficulty, because probability
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by nanis 6y ago
> The fact that we can see back in time ..... to the early universe no less It seems to me that this one is a freebie.
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What is the funniest number in cryptography? 0(eprint.iacr.org)
3 points by nanis 6y ago|0 comments
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by nanis 6y ago
> But, given some fixed priors and some fixed evidence, there should in principle be a well defined probability of such a crash. :-) How do you test this model? It is easy to find things that fit one of the previous crashes. Given that t
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by nanis 6y ago
> YAML is clearly made for humans. A format that allows references to other sections is not a configuration language that is usable by humans. I understand the people who created it thought it would be usable by humans, but clearly it is
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by nanis 6y ago
> To be clear: you think economics is _not actually empirical_ That is a misrepresentation of what I said. To be clear, I think what I said: >>A large part of economics is not empirical at all E.g., as an example, Kahneman's N
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by nanis 6y ago
> Statistics can tell me the likelihood of a crash Statistics cannot tell you any such thing.
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by nanis 6y ago
> Economics is also statistics. Economics is not Statistics (and definitely not statistics). Most of the discipline focuses on testing models and making inferences on observational data. The techniques for dealing with that sort of data,
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by nanis 6y ago
> TOML seems to be catching steam. I am convinced that TOML is the _only_ reasonable configuration format, but very few seem to be swayed. JSON and YAML are really not made for humans. Configuration must always be a hash. Configuration m
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by nanis 6y ago
> how many names do you run into with equal signs in them? That's not the issue ... I have not personally tried this or examined it, it looks like you can change the state of the header parser by including interesting characters in
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by nanis 6y ago
Clearly, I do not know. Having used both, I do realize their target markets are somewhat separated as is pointed out in the linked article as well. I am dubious on the expansion of Okta's pricing power as a result of this acquisition,
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by nanis 6y ago
FTC's Anti-Trust guide is a useful source[1]. Specifically, the "Mergers"[2] section outlines the cases in which government interference might be efficiency promoting. [1]: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice&#x2F
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Breaking the “Lattice Barrier” for the Hidden Number Problem(eprint.iacr.org)
35 points by nanis 6y ago|3 comments
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by nanis 6y ago
Hmmm ... Turkey is constrained to Anatolia without Thrace.
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by nanis 6y ago
> cstheory stackexchange discussion That discussion is from 2010. The download link for the paper does not seem to work.
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by nanis 6y ago
It looks like someone read the paper and came to the conclusion that this shortens the expected lifespan of RSA and submitted the paper to IACR. I doubt it was Schnorr himself who decided to make the sensationalist claim. The final theorem
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by nanis 6y ago
> Why would someone want to store non-secret information as a secret? Top reason given to me by developers: "I don't want to spend time thinking about the distinction."
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by nanis 6y ago
As I understand it, the main benefit of Kubernetes is the ability to pack multiple applications in a single VM. This way, one uses fewer paid resources to deploy a service mesh. In return for actually being able to show that you are not was
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by nanis 6y ago
42 If you need clarification, isn't this similar to Deep Thought?
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by nanis 6y ago
> Listen closely, and you'll notice that the element leader lets that discipline fray a bit Actually, the moment I heard him, I thought there was terror/panic in his voice which is warranted because > because he suspects his

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