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by nmrm2 11y ago
> And the games were both what taught me English... I've heard this from a lot of people. It's probably the most understated advantage of online gaming among students from non-English-speaking countries.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> I think you're just trying to intellectualize your preference. I don't quite understand what you mean. Do you mean rationalize? I don't think I'm rationalizing. I think I'm just trying to explain a nice spot
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by nmrm2 11y ago
There are a lot of examples in the US of the government harrasing citizens who report vulnerabilities. The DMCA is typically used to justify this behavior. I'm not sure what the appropriate conclusion is here.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
They aren't. That's exactly the point I was conceding when I mentioned that they are my personal beliefs. (But it's worth mentioning that when a lot of people share the same beliefs, it does matter from a business perspecti
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Just because it's legally permitted doesn't mean it's not OK to criticize. I think there's a difference between using a piece of software (perahps with some inessential small changes) as a component in a larger system, a
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Preface: I agree with you, especially wrt video games. I never understood or enjoyed video games, anyways. However, when defining addiction, I think "causing the child to do poorly in school" is a really, really dangerous standard
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> Please be civil, I'm not going to "fuck off" Sorry, I didn't mean you specifically (unless you're an economist, I guess). You're right though, I've changed the wording. > Your logic would only a
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I think the low probability explanation is more plausible than the commons explanation. Scientific funding for non-classified projects -- which constitutes most funding -- is partially a contribution to the commons. The development of human
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I have thought a lot about this. The primary benefit of TAOCS is that it's self-contained and all written in the same voice/style. It's much higher quality than a lot of other texts on the subjects it covers, but a given chap
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by nmrm2 11y ago
And, moreover, that the author seemingly put so much effort into producing click bait rhetoric that he failed to even produce an accurate description of the problem.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> It is when the government introduces new "taxes" in year Y, which would have been equivalent to salary in year X. This is a different argument and I've already addressed it in my post above: It's slightly more r
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Parent's argument was that it's disingenuous to count e.g. health insurance as part of compensation when it's required by the State. That's not private compensation, it's a tax on corporations. Post-ACA, a company c
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by nmrm2 11y ago
If you're looking to shed weight ASAP without undercutting the future of the organization, HR is an easy target. Maybe not wise, but you can understand how executives could come to the decision to cut HR before Engineering, for example
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by nmrm2 11y ago
"and now, it's activated the end-times protocol that will see the few remaining addresses out into the night." Jeesh. The sensationalist rhetoric might have been bearable if the article didn't contain statements whose in
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I would argue that anyone who can read and understand TAOCS in its entirety is extremely privileged. Even if the entire CS curriculum was just "Read TAOCS", only the most motivated and hard-working students would make it through
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I believe that people who can work as part of team to solve difficult problems using computational tools will continue to be highly paid. I doubt whether people will continue paying high salaries for hacking up crud apps. Concretely, I expe
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The Android app is acceptable: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeapo.pwds... There's a iPhone one I cannot comment on.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
I use Android. Here's an app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zeapo.pwds... edit: looks like there's an iPhone app as well. See http://www.passwordstore.org/
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by nmrm2 11y ago
It's a definite tradeoff, I agree. But I think pass is on the correct side of this tradeoff: 1. ./blah.sh | grep LookupKey exposes just as much information as pass -c LookupKey. If someone has access to your machine and you don&#x
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by nmrm2 11y ago
http://www.passwordstore.org/ is a similar solution, and I prefer it to this solution for a few reasons: * git integration. * Separate file for each secret, so that I can store the password on the first line and then other
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> and up to a decade for full recovery. Do you have any idea what that would look like? Are we talking "back to our standard of living" or are we talking about "recouping from lost economic activity / damage expense
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by nmrm2 11y ago
But a poster above pointed out we (US, via Congress) aren't even willing to spend ~$3B hardening the power grid. That seems like a pretty low ball number; I'd imagine shielding just the things you mentioned would cost at least tha
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Doesn't that entirely depend upon whether you think you'll be more effective than some other person making 60k/yr? In other words, if you're a "10x" malaria killer and if 10xers are rare in the malaria killing
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by nmrm2 11y ago
If you can even come close to explaining how to replicate your results in 12 or 20 pages, you're not really doing an experiment that is non-trivial to replicate. Constraining science to protocols that can be explained in 12-20 pages wo
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by nmrm2 11y ago
You are correct; I was being hyperbolic. But still, not sure Nature/Science/Cell is a high enough standard for "anyone should be able to replicate with little effort" -- lots of "non-late-game" results that are
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by nmrm2 11y ago
> If an engineer builds the worlds greatest new engine There is more to science than advanced product development. Conflating the two is wrong-headed. > but says "unfortunately it'll only run in my lab, no one else is com
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Sorry, but how is this not just anti-intellectualism? > 30 emails, wow! It can take up to half a day to reply to an email containing even one fairly technical question. Obviously the time invested depends on the content of those 30 ema
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by nmrm2 11y ago
The question is not whether reproducibility is good, it's how much labs should invest upfront in producing descriptions of protocols. My argument is that they should probably invest more than they do now, but not enough that pharmacuti
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Lots of the replies have covered the whys: * Because this is in the context of a for profit company arguing that they should get a slice of the Science funding pie so that pharmaceutical companies have an easier time at reproducing results.
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by nmrm2 11y ago
Agreed. I think results should be reproducible. I guess my point is that the amount of time spent writing up and communicating protocol should be governed by an analysis of the scientific benefits of doing so, rather than commercial benefit

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