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by pvnick 13y ago
I actually don't think it had much impact at all actually. Although it wasn't a huge amount of money. I remember thinking "meh".
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by pvnick 13y ago
A few years ago I worked at a place where the CEO instituted this policy in the wake of reading about Zappos doing it. I remember him standing up at the weekly company meeting and offering a few thousand dollars to anyone who quit. The thin
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by pvnick 13y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I absolutely agree with most of the opposition to Condi Rice wrt the illegal war, warrantless wiretaps, torture, etc. On the other hand, I threw a hissy fit over the opposition to Ei
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by pvnick 13y ago
Great job, I like it a lot. Congratulations on graduating soon. I wish you luck in all your future endeavors :)
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by pvnick 13y ago
We know from the NSA's own files that they pour lots of money into programs that specifically introduce bugs like this [1]. Do the current batch of leaked documents outline this exact vulnerability? No. Does it perfectly fit the model
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by pvnick 13y ago
At this point it's safer to say that an intelligence agency is responsible than that they aren't responsible. This is precisely what Schneier, Greenwald, et al. mean when they say that the NSA tactics degrade the security of the o
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by pvnick 13y ago
I'm watching this right now, it's brilliant! This is exactly the kind of stuff I love to think about, but PHK has done a wonderful job thinking it out to a lot of detail. I suggest everyone drop what you're doing and watch it
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by pvnick 13y ago
Probably less of a stretch than you'd think, considering the lack of accountability. But that's a feature, not a bug.
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by pvnick 13y ago
>Any kind of Internet traffic that passes before these mass surveillance sensors can be analyzed in a protocol-agnostic manner, meta-data and content both, and it can be today, right now, searched not only with very little effort, via a
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by pvnick 13y ago
You have no idea how they feel about their acquisition and to project your negativity on their situation is a mean thing to do. For all you know they could be popping champagne bottles and eating chicken wings and you're being a debbie
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by pvnick 13y ago
I see a lot of undeserved negativity here for what I'm sure is an exciting time for the Cover guys. Let's not piss on their parade. I say congratulations, I hope you guys made a bit of cash, had a lot of fun, and I hope you enjoy
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by pvnick 13y ago
I imagine people think "crimean peninsula," look at Florida and go "well there's a peninsula"
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by pvnick 13y ago
Love it! Although the two shades of blue threw me off a couple times, since they're so similar.
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by pvnick 13y ago
I went ahead and included my mid-90's html years because I enjoy being on the right-hand side of bell curves.
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by pvnick 13y ago
>We are as stupid as the general population who believe we all can aspire to be members of the one-percenters. Why would you want to be? You think having that much wealth would make you happy? Why not be satisfied with living a comfortab
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by pvnick 13y ago
>I have not once heard a compelling argument for why inheritance is a good thing for society. You must not have kids, do you? It may not be good for society, but do you seriously want to prohibit parents from being able to pass things do
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by pvnick 13y ago
So happy to hear you say that. So much of the whole 99%/1% (or whatever arbitrary divide the pseudointellectual youth choose to focus on) fascination is fueled by envy. "Ugh, why should those corporate fat-cats have so much extra
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The Hounding Of A Heretic(andrewsullivan.com)
2 points by pvnick 13y ago|0 comments
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by pvnick 13y ago
One of these articles has to survive the flagging brigade (likely made up of the same McCarthyites that brought us to this position) and stick to the front page. Maybe this will be it? It's certainly fair and well-composed. Edit: Nope.
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Corrosive Conformity(nationalreview.com)
36 points by pvnick 13y ago|44 comments
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by pvnick 13y ago
I would imagine caloric excess and celibacy tend to go hand in hand... so take your pick
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IRS sued for leaking Prop 8 donor list to HRC, Huffington Post(accountingweb.com)
2 points by pvnick 13y ago|0 comments
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by pvnick 13y ago
That's a good point, I'm not quite sure how to answer that. I know almost nothing of quantum mechanics. My logic is simply that if you had a large enough calculator and nothing was truly random that you could predict us having thi
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by pvnick 13y ago
I love the idea of true randomness because it seems, to my uninformed mind, to allow us the possibility of free will. Without true randomness, while we may enjoy the illusion of free will, our decisions are ultimately left to deterministic
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by pvnick 13y ago
This is so upsetting, it's infuriating. Here we had a wonderful chance for someone brilliant like Eich to lead one of the most important organizations in defending us against looming omnipresent state surveillance, and a bunch of socia
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by pvnick 13y ago
Really unfortunate that this happened to someone as nice and competent as Eich. His leadership would have held amazing things for Mozilla, the open web, javascript, rust, all of it. Instead he got targetted by an intollerant lynch mob that
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by pvnick 13y ago
Does anybody with experience doing analysis in both R and python have any insight as to whether one can replace the other, or do they significantly supplement each other? I get the impression that python with pandas/scikit-learn/s
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by pvnick 13y ago
I just woke up and, after seeing this announcement, I know it's going to be a great day. I do statistical research for my university, and I just found ipython notebook a couple weeks ago. I don't remember being so excited about a
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by pvnick 13y ago
Be on the lookout for Mike Huckabee to announce national Firefox day
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by pvnick 13y ago
This is not about what's right. It's about attention, meaning user growth and ad revenue. OkCupid's leadership does not actually care about Eich's appointment.

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