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116 points by nardi 13y ago|8 comments
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by nardi 13y ago
I think it's absolutely worth considering what power the NSA has that could be abused. Considering what we now know to be true that none of us suspected a few months ago, I think it's more irresponsible to unilaterally shut down s
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by nardi 13y ago
I understand the down votes, and kind of expected it. But this is the actual practical reality, guys. Large software companies avoid GPLv3 like the plague. If you want your software to be used widely, then you need to use BSD/MIT/
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by nardi 13y ago
Integrate it and distribute it with non-open-source software. So, any commercial use whatsoever.
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by nardi 13y ago
EVERY revelation where people in this forum have given the NSA benefit of a doubt in the form of "they could, but they wouldn't" has max'ed out at "would do, did do, and trying hard to do it more" on
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by nardi 13y ago
The lightbulb moment for Voevodsky was apparently realizing that CoC (used in Coq) is almost entirely equivalent to HoTT. So in a sense, Coq actually is kind of based on HoTT, just using different words. (One could maybe say there is a homo
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by nardi 13y ago
From the perspective of computing things, humans are Turing Machines, because a Turing Machine can compute anything that is computable.
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by nardi 13y ago
Where you are missing the point is that in those endeavors you mention—music, acting, sports—the activity IS play. Playing is what you are expected to be doing, and you actually practice at it. (Source: I majored in acting and music.) Certa
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by nardi 13y ago
This tactic seems to betray a certain amount of naivety with regard to how closely most real-world HTTP implementations follow the specifications. (Hint: they don't follow the specifications.) Remember Postel's law: "Be conse
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by nardi 13y ago
Has any thought been paid to network attacks like black holes, white holes, gray holes? Attempted network partitioning with sleeper agents? Etc.
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by nardi 13y ago
Inflation isn't the only thing that affects the value of USD. UDS's perceived value fluctuates with regard to investors' value perceptions of other currencies, commodities, etc. Edit: If you think that USD has a fixed value,
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by nardi 13y ago
How are you measuring gold's value?
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by nardi 13y ago
How you "think of or use" things has no meaning. Everything that is traded, whether "currency" or "asset" has a value that changes over time. Or do you not know that people invest in currencies?
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by nardi 13y ago
Volatile by what measurement? Hopefully you don't mean volatile with regard to the exchange rate with fiat currencies. Because that says more about the currencies than it does about gold and silver.
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by nardi 13y ago
...fluctuate wildly for the foreseeable future like the value of gold has done and is doing. The value of gold as measured how? Do you mean the price of gold in USD? Isn't that more indicative of the price of USD, and/or
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by nardi 13y ago
After some careful calculation, you determine that it will cost you 1 BTC to produce, market, and sell a single widget, and that it is only worth your effort if you can sell each widget for 2 BTC, a handsome 100% margin. I sto
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by nardi 13y ago
I can't answer for spenvo, but for myself, I would be happy to call myself "libertarian," except that extremely limited government is bad at protecting the poor from the rich, and libertarianism places a little too much empha
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by nardi 13y ago
Neon -> 2,090mph Krypton -> 2505mph Xenon -> 2,438mph http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=speed+of+sound+in+neon http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=speed+of+sound+in+krypt... http:&#x
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by nardi 14y ago
This kind of technology has been around forever, but my guess is that the quality increase here is due to one or both of these two factors: 1) Computing a two-dimensional vector for each word typed, and calculating MSE against the ideal vec
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by nardi 14y ago
Q: "What's better than this stack for application development?" A: So many things. Cocoa comes to mind. HTML/CSS/JavaScript were never created to build applications, and it's very apparent when you do so. I've built a lot of web apps, but o
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by nardi 14y ago
That doesn't really fix either problem, IMO.
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by nardi 14y ago
That's true—blog posts should definitely be held to a higher standard. But so should comments that correct others' writing. :)
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by nardi 14y ago
The irony of the first few sentences here... "your advise" -> "advice" "proof read" -> "proofread" "invest" -> "invested" Misplaced comma, missing "a" and "the" in a few places, awkward wording, unusual omitted/implied words...
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by nardi 14y ago
You seem to be missing the point. That we have come so far in the browser wars that IE can be unsupported as a valid business strategy is a pretty big deal.
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by nardi 14y ago
Completely disagree. There are two very major problems with this idea: 1. Your reputation suffers when users encounter issues while using the browser that you don't support. 2. The support cost of "letting users try anyway" is non-zero, and
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by nardi 14y ago
Which Apple _can't_ use any code from without releasing the source code to Mac OS X. GPL3 is toxic.
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by nardi 14y ago
It's funny to me that there are so many people on Hacker News that can't imagine why anyone could actually want/like/love the iPad. Even if it doesn't do what you want/need, it is a serious impairment to think that its success is a fluke, o
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by nardi 14y ago
Have you read much on an iPad? - Reading on a phone involves way too much page-turning - When I turn the screen brightness down (and invert the colors in iBooks), I can read forever on this thing - You don't hold the iPad in the air when yo
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by nardi 15y ago
Well, hello Nicholas.