rwallace

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by rwallace 11y ago
I'm no expert on bitcoin, but as I understand it, the answer is not really: bitcoin works by numbers, but they are not equivalent to the serial numbers on dollar bills, more like rough equivalents of bank account numbers, login passwor
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by rwallace 11y ago
Either I'm misunderstanding this or other people are, because I'm seeing other people interpret this as saying Japanese law doesn't allow ownership of intangible things, which of course it does. My take on it is that this is
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by rwallace 11y ago
No, but you can train to remember that eight hours is normal; it's the people who think six hours is normal - or rather, the ideology they've bought into - that's alien.
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by rwallace 11y ago
Okay, so it sounds like compared to Europe, the U.S. has a thinner safety net such that welfare alone won't keep you afloat, but it will supplement a low-wage job such that the combination will keep you afloat?
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by rwallace 11y ago
How exactly does the economics of getting a job flipping burgers in the U.S. work out these days? Not a rhetorical question, I don't actually know the answer. Are employers willing to employ fifty-year-olds in such a capacity? How does
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by rwallace 11y ago
Well, that's like saying you blew a Google interview question because you failed to recognize a black vine weevil, therefore keeping up with entomology is pretty important. One company having a buggy interview process that asks questio
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by rwallace 11y ago
Why are you so sure about that? And what do you think they're actually doing? I'm not privy to any inside information or anything, but that screenshot seemed to be saying they are; I don't see why they would say so if they&#x
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by rwallace 11y ago
What of that? Profiting from people's misfortune is not in and of itself wrong. (If it were, we would have to start by condemning every doctor in the world.) What's wrong is causing misfortune. If anyone is to be called scumbags
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by rwallace 11y ago
Interesting! Would it be accurate to say that as the amount of computing power and memory per CPU has increased over the years, so also has the percentage of scientific problems where a single simulation instance will fit on a single CPU? C
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by rwallace 11y ago
That's true for many purposes, but is it true for physical simulations? Don't they need communication on every time step?
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by rwallace 11y ago
Pastebin for binary files? By the look of things, clean and easy to use? Handy! It's probably time to start thinking about ways to monetise this to pay for the hosting costs at least. Also, have you talked to a lawyer yet? If this take
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by rwallace 11y ago
What happened here wasn't that the copilot sat there waiting for the intended time to come about and pressed the button exactly at that intended time and just didn't know what the time was supposed to be. What happened was that he
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by rwallace 11y ago
You're talking about different timescales. Interstellar travel is the long-term goal, but everyone understands it's not going to happen in the next decade. Thus, SpaceX is launching satellites and space station cargoes and The Spa
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by rwallace 11y ago
No, in this case, by far the most likely outcome is the autopilot would have pushed the button at the right time, creating no need for the copilot to override it.
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by rwallace 11y ago
> What's your stance on autopilot driven cars and trucks? The sooner we can switch to them, the better... > Arguably, roadway accidents far, far outnumber the number per-capita of space accidents. ... for this reason.
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by rwallace 11y ago
Absolutely not. Learning more about how things work is a fine idea, but this is 2015, not 1515; there are plenty of resources you can study in your own time without paying extortionate fees.
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by rwallace 11y ago
That would certainly be good news! I don't suppose you remember any references to how?
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by rwallace 11y ago
> It's a free service - what do you expect? No reasonable person expects support for free, but relying heavily on a free service would be a lot less scary if there was an option to get customer support for $100, refundable if they c
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by rwallace 11y ago
You are definitely selling yourself short. This is one area where you absolutely must not trust your instincts; they will give you wildly wrong answers. A rule of thumb to start off with for calculating freelance/contract/consulti
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by rwallace 11y ago
MySQL is okay. I still think Postgres is better, but the more severe of the problems MySQL had in its early days have been fixed, and honestly it's good enough for most sites. Certainly it's far better than MongoDb.
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by rwallace 11y ago
You might have missed it among all the bad advice about multitasking and working stupid hours, but he did give one piece of good advice in all that. His job was to do with systems administration/operations, and what he did was to write
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by rwallace 11y ago
So if I understand you correctly, what you're saying is, those who already have and are used to wielding power, are (whether rightly or wrongly, it's what their intuition tells them according to their experience so far) reasonably
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by rwallace 11y ago
How not? Sure, the people who ordered the system installed might have planned to arrange a hack themselves, but once it's in place, anyone can hack it.
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by rwallace 11y ago
But why? Usually when people believe untrue things despite being informed otherwise, it's because at some level they see social status in it. Is there any status to be gained by claiming e-voting to be secure?
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by rwallace 11y ago
The push to e-voting actually surprises me - if it was just one country, I'd write it off as just one of those things, but the fact that it keeps happening in country after country. Generally speaking, most human behaviour can be expla
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by rwallace 11y ago
> And we have Siri and headsets to make calling while driving as secure as talking to a child while driving. Apparently, headsets do not make calling while driving as safe as talking to a passenger while driving. If something happens, a
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by rwallace 11y ago
I'd say it is consonant with it. Making salaries public has a strong flattening effect - it makes it much more difficult for people of the same rank to have different pay. Someone else said in Norway all salaries are public, which fits
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by rwallace 11y ago
I do mean what you think I mean, and I understand what you're saying, but if the sort of volume of spam people are talking about became the norm, for me it would be either white list or stop owning a phone at all. Between those two opt
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by rwallace 11y ago
Not feasible without AI that can understand natural language, which is a long way off. Bad idea even if it were feasible. If you are afraid teachers will teach your children falsehoods - which could happen, granted - then teach them how to
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by rwallace 11y ago
Sounds like the practical near-term solution would be a white list: only allow calls from a list of known callers.

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