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by s_q_b 10y ago
This is digital Stockhold syndrome. Excel is something managers and executives can understand, so it became the default language for data analysis. Now technologists trapped using it have to create ex post facto justifications for why it&#x
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Most financial firms need their quants to worry less about the new programming language hotness, and more about moving entire systems off unbelievably complicated Excel spreadsheets.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
That's a lovely bedtime story for children at Old Exeter, ending with a British strategic withdrawal rather than humiliating defeat, but we prefer to teach actual history on this side of the pond. I think you're very confused abou
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by s_q_b 10y ago
In the United States, we do things a tad differently. The Federal government here is not a government of general jurisdiction. It operates on the principle of a social contract which reserves powers not specifically given to the Federal gov
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Good luck convincing South Korea, Japan, India, the EU, Britain, Australia, Canada....
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Well, sort of. You have to trust that the printed ID is unique.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
You still have to trust the machine that prints it. Which, I will admit, is still better than the current system. However, there are public ledger voting systems with stronger anonymity guarantees. So, my opinion is that if we're going
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Hello everyone, Thank you all for your time, your radical and innovative ideas, and most of all the outpouring of love and support. Although this was not my goal, over the past twenty four hours I've received several contacts from peop
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by s_q_b 10y ago
When ballots are not secret, they can influenced by social, political, or economic actors through punishment and reward. For example, voters in many places used to face extreme peril if they voted against the candidate picked by their socia
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Thanks, I did not know about that demo. I want to get the best available, within reason, so I am a bit skeptical of the smartphone + lens setups, but I will keep an open mind. Content is very scarce.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Very clever thinking with the flying harness, but unless somebody has practice doing it, there's no way my sister in medicine or my sister in biology will let me do that. We actually have an unweighting device for another relative, whi
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by s_q_b 10y ago
It's alright, and it's well taken. The cardboard setups are a clever hack, and the extension into Gear VR et al. is interesting, but I'm looking for something more immersive if possible.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
That's been medically ruled out, unfortunately.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
That Youtube video is really amazing. Mountain Dew VR also seems to created a really beautiful demo in 2014 on the Oculus Dev Kit. But they used lots of custom software hacks, and it appears to have been abandoned before any distribution. I
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Thank you! I'll search through the subreddit, but I'm hesitant to cross-post as I don't have a reddit account any more. With regard to locomotion, that's an interesting variable. I should have described his relevant acce
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Nope, you're right. I've conflated the two.
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Ask HN: At 91, My Grandfather's Only Regret Is Never Skateboarding. Best VR Rig?
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Drones are easier to sell.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Nope. [0] [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Patched
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by s_q_b 10y ago
"The Naturalistic Fallacy": Simply because something is natural does not make it good. Lava is natural, and food coloring is synthetic. Of which would you prefer to eat a pound? Version 1.2
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I'm trying to conceive of a t-shirt that would, merely by reading it, cause the reader to violate a copyright law. That one's difficult. Maybe one with a custom EULA, "By talking to me you acknowledge that you are agreeing to
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by s_q_b 10y ago
> I'm going to start selling shirts that say "Today I Broke The DMCA". That actually happened with DeCSS. Many many years ago, in an internet far far away, some clever hackers determined how to decrypt DRM-protected DVDs.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
This is among the most uninformed commentary regarding Tor that I have ever read. The author seems to understand nothing about the history of Tor, the usage of Tor, the technical design of Tor, Tor security research, encryption strategy, or
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by s_q_b 10y ago
> Part of me wonders if Mirai was meant as a grey hat warning since it's just showing what's possible only picking on low hanging fruit. I would wager that is correct. I certainly took it that way, especially after the source
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by s_q_b 10y ago
There were some worms spreading through IoT devices, lots of foreshadowing. The Hajime and Mirai worms, combined with the utter lack of response, were a pretty good indication some shit was about to go down. I've been Cassandra yelling
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Do you have anything in your home that you might wish to keep private? Any texts with loved ones? How about any intimate moments, whispered nothings that you would prefer not be recorded? Oh, you say you have nothing to hide. Do you have a
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Generally the devices poke holes in the firewall with UPnP. There are also other vectors (ZeroConf, STUN, CWMP). The problem is that, once past the firewall, many of these devices have weak to no security, e.g. open telnet daemons, root:roo
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Apple is unifying their operating systems. Apple has always wanted to be a closed system. In the beginning, Jobs made the Macintosh, the first computer he was truly charged with designing, a closed system. Literally. The case needed a speci
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Investment news is interesting for the metadata. Professional politicians don't watch CNN because they lack information that CNN can provide. They watch CNN so they know what the public is being told. Professional investors don't

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