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by roc 14y ago
Or maybe the moral is that young people are generally healthy and thus are not a great population to study when judging the efficacy of health habits?
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by roc 14y ago
I'll readily concede that de-duplication isn't going to get you much, once you start talking about uniquely-encrypted data. 1MB just sounded much larger than what I've read and seen. At that size, yeah, about the only thing you're going to
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by roc 14y ago
Google Now isn't awesome because Google exposed various APIs into their omniscient database. And they're not letting random apps grab 'Now' information for their own purposes either. They haven't played the "Open" card on "Now", at all, th
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by roc 14y ago
Why would you choose so large a block size for de-duplication? Your disk space savings decrease as block size increases. Choosing a more effective block size will increase the chance of collisions. And collisions are rather the desired goa
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by roc 14y ago
The practice of having to create and share one-byte-different copies of files would be enough to kill this service for the users that Dotcom professes to be enabling, in thumbing his nose at the authorities. The biggest user-facing problem
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by roc 14y ago
Block-level de-duplication doesn't require or imply knowledge of, or access to, decrypted file contents. It would be trivial to use de-duplication in a secure way. (though you're not going to reap nearly as much return from de-duplication
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by roc 14y ago
Then the encryption isn't worth the processing time. And as a 'legal shield' it seems like it will not only be utterly ineffective in court, but it's going to be cited as proof of Mega's ability to know what people are hosting, due their ge
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by roc 14y ago
If each file is getting it's own key, that is, if THEHOBBIT.mp4 properly generates a unique key each time it's uploaded by each user, would there even be much overlap in Alice's and Bob's file data as hosted on Mega? If the file blocks are
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by roc 14y ago
It sounds to me like Mega is just using block-level hardware de-duplication and they're making sure it's clearly spelled out in the Terms. After all, if each file is being encrypted with different keys, then Alice and Bob's encrypted copies
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by roc 14y ago
How much of that can we ascribe to turnover though? Is it people who go into surgery care less? Or only people who care less can handle a career in surgery, where you typically have no bond to the patient, see many more people die (pot
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by roc 14y ago
> "if one assumes that real (inflation-adjusted) wages are stable" How many careers does that describe, over a period of 15-20 years?
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by roc 14y ago
Maybe I missed it, but did the Shockingly Simple Math completely neglect that wages and thus lifestyle typically increase over a career? And that plausible-savings-rates go up as wages increase, as many lifestyle costs are regressive? [1
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by roc 14y ago
The point that they gun for everyone is no defense. (That everyone gets shaken down for protection money does not mitigate the immorality of that act in individual cases.) Such a defense would not only be an admission that the original cr
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by roc 14y ago
She identified the maximum the same way a protection racket says "It'd be a shame if anything happened to this nice business you've got here". They never actually say they're going to make 'something' happen if you don't deal. But ever
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by roc 14y ago
Compared to the US in general? Probably. Though it's surprising that even a temperate US city would have dodgy road surfaces. In the north and northeast, it's at least understandable with our winters and the multiple freeze/thaw cycles we
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by roc 14y ago
It could be tweaked without losing its recognizability. A new approach to better model the rhythm and pitch of conversational English could do wonders with the same exact voice. To say nothing of helping Siri generate conversational Engl
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by roc 14y ago
It's not so much corruption as an inevitable extension of the incentive structure. If you tried to change a DA's office from the inside, you'd get about as far as if you tried to change an investment bank from the inside: you'd be fired, b
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by roc 14y ago
Charles Pierce wrote an exceptional blog post on the issue of Aaron Swartz along those lines: "Which brings me to my second conclusion — Aaron Swartz ran facefirst into a law-enforcement and prosecutorial culture that we have allowed to ru
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by roc 14y ago
The distinction is this: it's not the writers motivations that makes Apple articles different. A handful of people Hating Apple may well motivate them to write negative things about Apple. A handful of others may reblog it for similar re
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by roc 14y ago
I agree, but I think that's where we're seeing this particular system go: The petitions that generate notable interest are increasingly those who are written or championed by people who do have a better-than-baseline grasp on how the gove
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by roc 14y ago
The safe bet would be some atmospheric event that concentrated existing pollution. Any new pollution generation event would be expected to have more impact on the baseline, right?
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by roc 14y ago
> "each and every website, even if it's only remotely related to technology, appears to be populated with people who can't resist the urge to slam Apple for whatever is the popular Apple-fail-du-jour." Is that because they actually ha
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by roc 14y ago
Didn't we just see a round of stories about component order cuts indicating Surface sales were tepid? These stories quite clearly happens to everyone. That said, there is something unique in the way that Apple stories are linked, repeated
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by roc 14y ago
Apple has an incredibly long and prominent history of having its stock manipulated by traders around the timing of new product events and quarterly earnings statements. When "today" is near one of those events, you probably don't want to an
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by roc 14y ago
You are X. Someone else is Y. The key is defining "the best you" as X++, not Y. Taking inspiration from someone you perceive as Y and defining X++ in the pursuit of Y is fine. Just so long as you recognize success and failure are X++ and
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by roc 14y ago
I'm not saying Legos aren't well made. I'm just saying that you can't claim a price differential is justified by a cost differential without actually doing the math and providing X% cost differential ~+ X% price differential. Because abse
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by roc 14y ago
If it's Kaspersky, the analysts likely are Russian.
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by roc 14y ago
"More expensive to make" doesn't necessarily justify "more expensive to buy". One would need to quantify how much more expensive the tighter tolerances and better molds actually make a package of bricks and compare the resulting margin t
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by roc 14y ago
It's been that way for a while. I've been buying and ripping myself since back when the last independent record store around me closed, and online music was only selling DRM'd 128kbps tracks. It was really about the DRM and the quality (I'
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by roc 14y ago
They're grappling with costs because their professional ethics require they treat people who can't pay, yet their business obligations require they don't treat those people until it's serious and likely expensive. So because X number of peo

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