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by oconnore 11y ago
> Content is not free! Then charge me. I didn't agree to watch ads, and have no obligation to do so.
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by oconnore 11y ago
Is there any evidence that terrorists prefer Facebook over GPG?
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by oconnore 11y ago
> Unless you have a foolproof method of determining criminal behavior a-priori I don't need one, and never claimed to have one. A method does not need to be foolproof in order to be effective. The existing procedure for screening po
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by oconnore 11y ago
Yeah, I wish we would stop pushing for assault weapons bans and instead push for a similar sort of safety and usage training, psychological and temperament screening, waiting period, and background checks that a police officer might go thro
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by oconnore 11y ago
Nice job! But I thought you said this problem would be eliminated by the architecture of Node.js? This appears to be longer and more complex than the fully parallel and concurrent Haskell solution.
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by oconnore 11y ago
var a = [0, 0, 0]; // Accept input from user function modify(i, v) { a[i] = v; // ... } // Trigger an event when two values are equal function waitUntil(i, j) { re
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by oconnore 11y ago
> Is the retrying logic smart enough to set up some kind of watch on the values Yes. It only retries when one of the referenced values is updated. This does violate the rule "only use mutexes and condition variables", and perha
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by oconnore 11y ago
import Control.Concurrent.STM import Control.Monad import Data.Vector type VecInts = Vector (TVar Int) newVecInts :: Int -> STM (VecInts) newVecInts s = generateM s (\_ -> newTVar 0) modifyVI :: VecIn
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by oconnore 11y ago
It's easy, it's just old school. Subscribe to high quality periodicals. Pay people who work full time to curate for you and you won't have to work part time to curate for yourself. Avoid rags that are willing to waste your ti
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by oconnore 11y ago
What is the value in being so current? Unless you are doing HFT or disaster response, you probably want to get your news distilled, curated, in batch form, and aggregated over some time. Where is the Sunday paper of the internet?
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by oconnore 11y ago
I mostly block for the tracking. In theory, a google text ad doesn't bother me so much. But since my profile, built up from analytics-- fonts-- jquery-- recaptcha, and so on, is being sold to the highest bidder, I block everything I ca
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by oconnore 11y ago
http://bash.org/?98
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by oconnore 11y ago
The whole point of ads is to convince people to buy things that they may otherwise not. That seems like the opposite of helping poor people. Also, if you are struggling financially, ad supported "content" is probably not a major c
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by oconnore 11y ago
We're talking about changing how self signed certificates are handled. You can't imagine the obvious solution of having self signed certificates not count as HSTS connections?
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by oconnore 11y ago
You are describing a downgrade attack, which is addressed by HSTS, not TLS.
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by oconnore 11y ago
Come hang out in #haskell-beginners on freenode :)
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by oconnore 11y ago
What? You just said you agree and then said that complex solutions are worth it because they're more powerful, which is the opposite.
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by oconnore 12y ago
There are new features in both, sure, but "drastically different" seems to imply that someone proficient in the C++ or Javascript of 10-15 years ago would take more than 2 weeks to get up to speed. I think that's unlikely. &q
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by oconnore 12y ago
6-12 months? What? You must work in web frameworks... Your example, I assume, refers to SQL, which was first released in 1986. The absolute latest standard was released in 2011. The lingua franca to be proficient in say, Postgres, changes f
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by oconnore 12y ago
You can install adblock and uBlock on mobile (and it's probably even more valuable, since you have less data to spare)
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by oconnore 12y ago
Browsing on a hotspot where 2s becomes 10+s?
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by oconnore 12y ago
Vacancy decontrol = new construction can have whatever rent they want. So preventing a landlord from screwing over the current tenant does not prevent housing from meeting demand. New construction does face many other issues, though. NIMBY&
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by oconnore 12y ago
I love these threads, because you get to see a bunch of "* coaches" with a financial stake in these ideas scramble to justify their existence in the comments. Popcorn time.
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by oconnore 12y ago
No, you value an environment safe enough that people can use their common name -- the one that you would likely know them by. You do not care about government recognized names. And declaring a network safe for personally identifying informa
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by oconnore 12y ago
Why does Amazon charge like this? It seems like on the rare occasion that you need to send some person to go grab the tape/disk from storage and bring it online, Amazon would want you to get all the data you need and put it back in sto
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by oconnore 12y ago
What on earth are you doing with a 71 TB personal filesystem?
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by oconnore 12y ago
Your chef doesn't have a large monetary incentive to poison your soup. Would you eat the food if he did?
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by oconnore 12y ago
It's not a false dichotomy: most of the time data collection and analysis does not preserve privacy. In all cases, you can't guarantee that. You also didn't respond to this: > Furthermore, even if a company was using diffe
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by oconnore 12y ago
That's all fine, but there is zero evidence that any company is doing that. Furthermore, even if a company was using differential privacy to anonymize data between the collection and the processing step, there is no way to prove that t
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by oconnore 12y ago
Most people are paid to drive trucks, not solve novel problems or understand subtle linguistic constructs. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2015/02/05/382664837/map-the-...

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