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by orborde 15y ago
The funny thing about this is that it's almost completely sidestepping the "win the conversation" game anyway. Frequently, asking questions in feigned ignorance is genuinely educational, not just an effective ploy for shutting down oppositi
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by orborde 15y ago
This looks like the knapsack problem writ large, using heuristics to get its complexity under control. Clever!
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by orborde 15y ago
Skip a step and scan the Kindle.
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by orborde 15y ago
Short answer: No. Destruction of evidence is a crime. See the second bolded point of the EFF's advice here: https://ssd.eff.org/your-computer/protect/retention
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by orborde 15y ago
This blog is amazing. Thanks for posting it.
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by orborde 15y ago
It's success at "getting into YC".
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by orborde 15y ago
Care to post a link?
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by orborde 16y ago
Patents are the solution our society seems to have chosen. I don't know whether they're "the" solution.
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by orborde 16y ago
The question is, did he switch his domain registrations away from them?
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by orborde 16y ago
What prevents the WHOIS database operator from doing the same query logging?
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by orborde 16y ago
I'll speculate that this is a problem with all large companies: the price of failure for the team involved is huge (unemployment?), but the benefit of success is small (continued employment and maybe a bonus). If the incentives are so struc
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by orborde 16y ago
An incandescent light might take a nontrivial amount of time (tenth of a second?) to heat up and light after power is applied.
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by orborde 16y ago
It's the ultimate cure for hubris. That doesn't sound at all like a downside.
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by orborde 16y ago
I suspect the NSA doesn't care too much about bang-for-buck. Bang-for-buck is pretty much the name of the game in brute-force cracking. You're right that NSA probably doesn't have any budget constraints, but they'd still be interested i
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by orborde 16y ago
That's a good point; it might well outweigh the battery inefficiency's increase in power use.
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by orborde 16y ago
> Not a big believer in garbage collection. This makes me seriously wonder whether you're trolling. Out of purest and most innocent curiosity, what sort of programming do you do?
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by orborde 16y ago
Thank you for posting this.
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by orborde 16y ago
I think this comment is heavily downvoted because it's all self-righteousness and ad hominem ("ignorant college students") without real discussion. You're probably getting downvoted elsewhere for claiming global warming is a myth, but you'r
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by orborde 16y ago
You might have failed to consider conservation of energy here. The laptops use a steady amount of energy whether plugged in or not (more or less), and if they're unplugged for a while, then they'll draw more power during the time they are p
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by orborde 16y ago
That's a pretty interesting narrative of suicide. Can you provide links to support it?
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by orborde 16y ago
I want to know how I can get involved as a seed. I have bandwidth, and I'd love to donate it.
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by orborde 16y ago
That was worth watching. Thank you.
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by orborde 16y ago
I know it's probably just you copy-pasting a link off Google without being too attentive, but please, please, please do not cite Conservapedia. Take a look at the site homepage to get a taste of why.
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by orborde 16y ago
I don't think you can revoke a signature in a way that allows repudiation. You can only say, "I no longer stand by what I said," not "I never signed this." I could be wrong, though. If you have links demonstrating this, please post them.
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by orborde 16y ago
Link?
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by orborde 16y ago
I'm glad to see an actual news organization checking into this story by talking to Swedish police. It's a nice change from the thousand blogs reposting that single Swedish tabloid article and Twitter post.
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by orborde 16y ago
Are you sure that isn't just cruddy OCR?
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by orborde 16y ago
It's a joke article attributing the misbehavior of buggy suspend/resume on Linux to the kernel achieving sentience and expressing its desires through crashing (or not).
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by orborde 16y ago
If you think about it, that's evolutionary theory in a nutshell. Organisms don't evolve due to any desire or goal to change; rather, random processes cause mutations, and traits that happen to result in more copies of themselves being made
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by orborde 16y ago
Google seems to provide plenty of examples. Even if it didn't, I don't understand why you see this extortion as a stretch.

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