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by olefoo 12y ago
I fear that we are talking past each other and have different readings of the same words; and vastly different conceptual backgrounds. Map political science onto the sandpile model [1] to get a first order approximation of the framework of
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by olefoo 12y ago
The novels of John Brunner The Sheep Look Up (1972) The Shockwave Rider ( 1975 ) both seem shockingly contemporary in the worlds they portray.
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by olefoo 12y ago
Your comment is indicative of the crisis of legitimacy that has infected our governments, and most of the institutions of stability in our global society. It seems like a small thing; but once the perception that the forces of law and order
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by olefoo 12y ago
Can't read tptacek's mind, but I'm guessing it has to do with the fact that javascript cryptography running in the browser cannot provide the guarantees necessary for a reliable cryptosystem. You can't tell whether the b
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by olefoo 12y ago
I'm kind of surprised that the popularity of tablets hasn't enabled a resurgence of calligraphy. I mean tablets are ideal for practicing calligraphy. You draw your shapes and if they aren't good, don't have rhythm and do
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by olefoo 12y ago
> Why does changing (fixing) these things take so damn long? Because: a. Established interests profit from the current arrangement or worry that their interests will be compromised if things chang. b. Our system is set up to resist rapi
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by olefoo 12y ago
So there is a secretive process by which the patent office can delay possibly to the point of irrelevance patent applications that are disruptive to the established order? Not a surprise. This is yet another example of the rot that is infec
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by olefoo 12y ago
It points to a pathology of HN that someone discussing their experience with a specific technology is getting downvoted and flagged for describing their own experiences. This is not reddit, the downvote is not meant for enforcing groupthink
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by olefoo 12y ago
You don't want to encrypt your video chats with your lover? With your business associates? I guess you Don't Have Anything To Hide™.
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by olefoo 12y ago
This. Fighter Jets are the modern equivalent of mounted knights. Glamorous, lovely and of marginal use in a full-out war. This is why they are the favorite military service of the useless scions of the nobility that we most definitely don&#
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by olefoo 12y ago
Because tents alone are not enough. You need to account for sewage and sanitation, power, and all the rest of dealing with a large number of homo sapiens crammed into a small space. The thing is as a society we have plenty of resources and
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by olefoo 12y ago
On the pro side: This would make the campaign more entertaining, and if it came down to her and Hilary; that would be a historic horse race of epic proportions. On the con side: This is someone who wrecked the two companies she was in charg
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by olefoo 12y ago
You should probably start with http://littlesis.org/ as they've been doing this charting for a while. But it's more complex than, say the french nobility in the 18th century since there is no central authority and
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by olefoo 12y ago
It could be a 'frozen accident', where either one works but once a positive feedback loop starts one version crowds out the other.
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by olefoo 12y ago
That's what's known as tacit corruption. Journalists who participate in "access journalism" get invited to off-the-record dinner parties and yachting weekends. Journalists who ask hard hitting questions in the public int
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by olefoo 12y ago
You have a point, but you are missing a larger problem that is part of why the US financial system is regulated the way it is. Regulatory capture by the banks themselves. At this time the regulatory environment serves as much as a barrier t
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by olefoo 12y ago
When you're working with the JSON data type you need to create a number of indexes to get acceptable performance. Typically one per natural key in the document set ( present in and unique to each document ) for queries that are using
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by olefoo 12y ago
Twitter has what can be described as the organizational version of ADHD. They've had several changes of leadership and have had leaders who were primarily focused on other companies while guiding twitter. Jack Dorsey is an impressive p
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by olefoo 12y ago
I like the lateral thinking on display here. From what I've seen the most successful adopters of the new wave of fabrication technologies are adept at solving problems by looking at them in a way that is "upside-down and backwards
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by olefoo 12y ago
Econ 101 quiz: 1. As a commodity becomes scarcer it's price tends to go in which direction? a. up b. down As this is an open internet test you may wish to refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand fo
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by olefoo 12y ago
Software above the level of a single device. Data is replicated, no item exists only in one place. Data is shared, shareable and in formats that can be operated on both by the owner and by the user, the visitor, the renter, the spectator of
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by olefoo 12y ago
I rather think it was a play on the word "antidisestablishmentarian" which technically would be one who is opposed to the disestablishment of the Anglican church as the official church of those lands governed by the queen of Engl
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by olefoo 12y ago
Umm. The characterization of homelessness as a mental health issue is very convenient for not facing the ongoing changes in our society. While it may be true that some segment of the homeless population is mentally ill; that's the tip
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by olefoo 12y ago
After reading this, I'm battling the urge to suggest technical solutions to social problems. Except that in this case the social problems are caused by the fact the internet is a house built on sand and the underlying protocols don&#x2
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by olefoo 12y ago
"Translating" a program from one language to another is not a straightforward mechanical process. In US copyright law and most of the countries that adhere to the Berne Convention there is a concept of a derived work. What the leg
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by olefoo 12y ago
And of course attending a black-market meetup with cash in hand is both perfectly safe and an unlikely target of surveillance by law-enforcement.
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Empirical evidence says that is not the case; and that most people who need them have to fight their insurance company for them on a semi-regular basis. If only that class of drugs were available at a competitive price so that individual co
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by olefoo 12y ago
One thing I'm mildly surprised hasn't shown up more in these types of markets is "pirated" or outright stolen clinical pharmaceuticals. Drugs like Humira or Etanercept are expensive and need to be taken for years ( usual
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There have been a number of high profile departures in the departments responsible for Cover Oregon. However there was not a single person who could be said to be responsible for the success of the project; a fact that many ( myself include
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by olefoo 12y ago
Andrew Tridgell has several posts about reverse engineering the SMB protocol to implement Samba [1] Additionally the Wireshark docs [2] would be a fruitful place to go looking and learning about setting up a protocol analyzer. 1. http:&#x2

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