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by navait 11y ago
Your personal cause was shown the door on reddit. Please don't think that means it's welcome here, or on other websites.
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by navait 11y ago
Well, if you wanted to be absurdly pedantic, you could call instructions in an architecture predefined tools, or protons and electrons. I don't think it matters if the tools are predefined - what matters is that they can be used togeth
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by navait 11y ago
You can't eat freedom.
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by navait 11y ago
This has been shown by security researchers to be quite possible, and a serious vulnerability in many popular web applications. Not only could pages be guessed, they can build an entire state machine of the web application and use side chan
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by navait 11y ago
Even these days, getting people to pay for video games is hard.
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by navait 11y ago
I cringe every time I see phrases connecting hackers to intellectuals. Most people in software I know are intelligent, but being smart does not make you intellectually curious. There are quite a few people I would consider hackers who have
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by navait 11y ago
This document says "proposed state standard". Is this california law now or proposed?
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by navait 11y ago
>One Saudi man spent over $400,000 on fake degrees and associated certificates, said Mr. Jamshaid, the former employee. What on earth is the point of buying that many credentials? At that rate you might as well spend the time getting a r
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by navait 11y ago
Life is about compromise; You only have so much you can do. Mr. Stallman has decided never to compromise on his principle of freedom. We've gained some benefit from his life, though most of it has already been extracted. Does your soft
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by navait 11y ago
What are you trying to argue? Using the phrase "conspiracy theorist" literally is not super helpful - it has a specific meaning in the popular lexicon and media. Just because it's pedantically correct doesn't mean it was
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by navait 11y ago
>These professors will knock on a dorm room door if one of their students has missed several classes and is in jeopardy of being on academic probation (this may or may not have been someone who looked remarkably like me). These professor
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by navait 11y ago
The rape kit was made in 1991, and the illinois law (725 ILCS 202/5) was passed in 2010. Incidents like these were the reason they passed the law. Addendum: If anything, the law actually helped solve a lot of the backlog problems: htt
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by navait 11y ago
While the simplistic version of NDN works as snarkily described, the researchers have built security features into NDN to work with untrusted routers and anonymity. They can actually provide better security through encrypting content and An
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by navait 11y ago
Is this a parody of just the "dream big" aspect of internet start up marketing? Or have actual companies made divisions that dream big but don't really have a point?
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by navait 11y ago
They should probably note that UTD does not have a football team, so the cheerleaders wouldn't cheer at all for them. Though we do have a nice chess team and cheerleaders for them.
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by navait 11y ago
> How to succeed: pick the right thing to do (this is critical and usually ignored) How does one even find the right thing to do?
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by navait 11y ago
My school picked a student's name out of a hat and chose him as commencement speaker. Not a particularly inspiring speech, but at least not someone bad. I also got a 128 MB flash drive as a gift. This was in 2013.
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by navait 11y ago
The facts are gathered from the court documents. Admittedly, I'm sure the author exaggerated(this is wired, after all)
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by navait 11y ago
Secrecy of a program undermined it's effectiveness. It seems clear from this document that they completely failed to learn what the 9/11 commission blamed the attacks on: not that we didn't have the intelligence, that the int
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by navait 11y ago
One concept that's interested me is metroid as purgatory. -Samus often repeats the same mission over and over with minor changes. Her enemies are generally Kraid, Ridley, Mother Brain, evil Samus(SA-X, Dark Samus) -Samus is constantly
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by navait 11y ago
They don't even provide evidence as to why they think a state-actor is targeting them. The message seems like it was also built to promote their service.
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by navait 11y ago
We don't have the technology to say "X will commit Y at place Z at time T". We have the technology to say "Person X is somewhat likely to be a terrorist based on known data". That's an important distinction - t
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by navait 11y ago
I don't get all the hate for Minority Report. If we ever had the capabilities their society had, we could structure our justice system in a vastly different way. If we know a violent crime was going to happen weeks before it actually d
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by navait 11y ago
There have been some efforts out there to provide completely anonymous bitcoin transactions, namely ZeroCoin and bitcoin mixers like Silk Road used. After these services are used, t becomes impossible to track the coins origins. http:&#x2
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by navait 11y ago
Would you mind going into why it's more interesting? My cursory glance of predicit made it seem to be an intrade clone.
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Nobody would care today . But then, it was a huge scandal.
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by navait 12y ago
I dislike when people try to say they don't have a political agenda and are "neutral" observers. All media has a political dimension, and even if you aren't trying to beat people over the head with it, it would serve you
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by navait 12y ago
He told me to not buy land near oceans.
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My game theory teacher wrote a book, Global Collective Action, where he modeled global warming as a game between n countries and came out with a n-person prisoner's dilemma. the game is essentially the same. And I think this belies the
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The signs have bluetooth beacons for this purpose, though i havn't heard of an app for them yet.

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