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by olefoo 13y ago
They're fine, I'm sitting in one right now that's been doing well for 5 years; but why are you posting this to HN?
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by olefoo 13y ago
This should be a reminder to everyone that your public actions on public code repositories can carry consequences. That said, I personally approve of the work that people like Ashe Dryden, Coda Hale and others have been doing to help the te
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Why Procrastinators Procrastinate.(waitbutwhy.com)
8 points by olefoo 13y ago|3 comments
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by olefoo 13y ago
Yes; and it is unfortunately the entrance to the "dark playground" for me. See http://www.waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procra... for the full expansion of the dark playground.
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by olefoo 13y ago
That's awesome. People never cease to amaze. To be clear, I was suggesting that someone setup a full-blown futures market; not a prediction market ( which is the most neutered form of a derivative market, as near as I can tell ). If yo
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by olefoo 13y ago
I wonder if a poll is the best forecasting device; it seems almost axiomatic that a prediction market [1] would be a superior solution. On the other hand; I'm guessing that you might stir a bit of controversy if you were to set up a fu
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by olefoo 13y ago
> -- which was portals. One stop shops to capture and hold audiences. Horribly ugly things filled with desperate salesmanships and terribly packaged content. Which seems to be the attractor that Google is tending towards now. Not to d
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by olefoo 13y ago
And where does your "friendly-AI" draw it's moral template from? I mean, I'm OK with an AI that works tirelessly in the background keeping the air clean and the habitat habitable. However I don't want a computer, no
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by olefoo 13y ago
This is pretty unprecedented is it not? I don't think there's ever been a case where the DOJ was caught with it's hands this dirty before.
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Weak passwords brute forced(github.com)
203 points by olefoo 13y ago|143 comments
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by olefoo 13y ago
Well, if all we have to go by is this email; it's rather hard to make judgments about what Github did or didn't do. I'd hope that github will do a post-mortem, and tell us what they know of the breaches.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Sounds like Github is doing the right thing. Detecting your account is compromised and forcing a reset of credentials. It does sound like they might need to up their game on traffic monitoring, since how did the attacker get enough tries to
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by olefoo 13y ago
Yes. It's a new class of entity, politically and financially. And that means that prognostication and prediction is going to be really hard. Especially since so many of the possibilities are completely non-linear. Here's a link to
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by olefoo 13y ago
BTC to BTC transactions don't affect the exchange rate. The exchange rate between BTC and USD is only affected by trades between the two currencies. Now the relative illiquidity of some of the major exchanges ( mtgox especially ) and t
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by olefoo 13y ago
If they are actually engaged in selling weapons; well, arms trafficking is generally a crime unless you are very close to your government and very up to date on the paperwork. And even then most people would consider it a "moral crime&
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by olefoo 13y ago
Well, if you want the strongest, rawest and purest version of the RealPolitik WeltSchmerz; you should start with the basic texts. Hobbes, Machiavelli, Clausewitz and Rousseau. If you are really a glutton for punishment go on to Hegel, Marx
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by olefoo 13y ago
Thus has it ever been. The history of government is the history of privilege and it's protection. That the Enlightenment of the 18th Century brought forth modern notions of representative democracy was in large part a reaction to the f
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by olefoo 13y ago
Suicide is a symptom of acute mental illness. Framing it in terms of personal responsibility is often cruelly ignorant because it ignores much about the actual experiences of the person involved. Would you blame a diabetic who loses his foo
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by olefoo 13y ago
He probably did; but at this point you have to assume that any media you receive on the topic of Edward Snowden is a calculated ploy for someone's agenda. Whether it's Wikileaks trying to embarrass the US .gov or the Intelligence
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by olefoo 13y ago
> "A thing that is not monitored is not actually a thing." That should be on a cross-stitch sampler on the wall of every NOC.
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HOW I WRITE QUERIES USING PSQL: COMMON TABLE EXPRESSIONS(chesnok.com)
2 points by olefoo 13y ago|1 comments
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by olefoo 13y ago
You have a valid point; although in the US you will have advocacy groups that can field convincing legal arguments if you are being tortured, prosecuted for espionage for whistle blowing, etc. But yes, in the US the mask is slipping more an
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by olefoo 13y ago
The cynical side of me would like to point out that he future of just about everything in the UK looks pretty bleak. Unless you're a banker or an authoritarian nutcase. And with no guarantee of press freedom, a massive surveillance sta
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by olefoo 13y ago
Corvallis, OR Mild weather, easy access to coast and mountains, there's a regional airport 40 minutes away and Portland is less than 2 hours away. It is a college town. And has a pretty strong tech culture because it's OSU; Oregon
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by olefoo 13y ago
That isn't the direction I was going with it. I think there's a big opportunity for twitter to be middleman allowing authors to charge for their services. Twitter influencers might get articles for free publicity. But most people
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by olefoo 13y ago
Yes. Think about all of the paywalled news outlets out there. Think about how many journalists tweet their stories to drive their personal brand. Think about immensely popular twitter accounts and sought after domain experts. Think about th
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by olefoo 13y ago
Which sounds like it could be a rather appealing genre of music. Wub-wub-Wub-wub in the sky with diamonds.
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by olefoo 13y ago
You don't understand how patents work. Patents allow you to prevent someone else from selling a product that is covered by your patent. But to do so; you have to get a court order and show that the product in question is covered by the
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by olefoo 13y ago
Engineers trade in failure modes. That's 99% of engineering; so to tell a site full of engineers that they shouldn't look at how an idea could fail ( especially catastrophic failure modes that could cost people's lives ) is g
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by olefoo 13y ago
It is like the new literacy; in that it allows people to participate in society at a level they would not otherwise be able to. More precisely, it's the new numeracy; in that it gives a serious advantage in many fields to be able to de

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