noiseman

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by noiseman 3y ago
> I had a 1ghz, 256gb ram machine You had a 256gb ram machine???
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by noiseman 4y ago
Low wages is a problem that will fix itself. When there was a shortage of truck drivers, wages for truck drivers went up. That’s how a market economy works. If there aren’t enough people willing to do a job, then wages for that job will go
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by noiseman 5y ago
When the constitution was written, less than 25% of the US population had the right to vote. Basically only White male property owners could vote. That was a very different political culture to how it is today. It’s also interesting to see
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by noiseman 5y ago
rootkit.com I wonder what was in the forums.
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by noiseman 5y ago
By disproving it, probably.
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by noiseman 5y ago
The Second Demographic Transition theory holds that low fertility rates are a feature of developed economies, just as high fertility rates are a feature of agrarian economies. I don’t see how any government can do anything to halt this. It
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by noiseman 5y ago
What’s wrong with Spring RTS?
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by noiseman 5y ago
I thought furin cleavage sites naturally occurred in coronaviruses? See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187350612...
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by noiseman 5y ago
> immediate representation Should be “intermediate representation”
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by noiseman 5y ago
I would contest the claim that being an asshole is something that “happens to” a person, rather than something that the person chooses to do.
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by noiseman 5y ago
There would be no negative consequences for you if you failed to take an upskirt picture. But if a country falls behind in weapons technology, then its very existence is imperilled.
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by noiseman 5y ago
https://archive.is/QVfzZ
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by noiseman 5y ago
If employers really were desperate for workers, wages would rise. But wages haven’t risen. The only reasonable conclusion is that there isn’t really a shortage of workers.
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by noiseman 5y ago
> As Kim explained to me, if you’re laying out in the freezing cold, drinking some alcohol may be the only way to warm up and get to sleep. Does alcohol actually warm you up? I thought it did the opposite.
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by noiseman 6y ago
Pathological lying is one of the indicators of psychopathy. Not quite the same thing as what you’re talking about but one can’t be too careful about those things.
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by noiseman 7y ago
That’s not my takeaway from the article. Schneier was mostly talking about how the war on terror has been a waste of money, because human actors will always find a way to circumvent whatever security measures you come up with. It seems to m
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by noiseman 7y ago
Given the cyber offensive capabilities of modern major nation states it’s unlikely to help much in protecting against deliberate attacks (see stuxnet). So I wonder what the true purpose of this is.
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by noiseman 7y ago
> Dragonfly is the invention of a guy named Dan Harkins. Dan Harkins took it upon himself to retrofit elliptic curves onto first-generation multiplicative-group PAKEs like SRP. We’re losing you here but bear with me: there were PAKE prot
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by noiseman 11y ago
Computer scientists are hardly "outsiders" to math problems. The famous computer scientists (Turing, Knuth, Dijkstra etc) were all mathematicians by training.
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by noiseman 11y ago
Genocide has always been a thing. The Romans wiped out god knows how many tribes. I'd say a 100% death rate for a particular tribe or nation is much bloodier than, say, 50%, wouldn't you?
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by noiseman 11y ago
>The proof of correctness of the algorithm revealed that the read or write of an entire number need not be atomic. The bakery algorithm is correct as long as reading a number returns the correct value if the number is not concurrently be