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by shubb 13y ago
You stumble across something wider and interesting - representatives of democratic states writing international conventions to create obligations to implement unpopular laws. We see this in the response to copyright infringement too e.g. AC
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Some people do seem to genuinely look down on 'blue collar' work. Last week, my sisters friends went for a meal out to celebrate her birthday. Her boyfriend drives freight trains, and seems to get some strange attitude from her fr
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That depends how you look at it. One important thing I and you gained from our education was the learned ability to apply ourselves to tasks set by another, that had little relevance to our lives and dreams, for abstract reward. I use that
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This is pretty cool. I think in a more normal office than used in the pictures (i.e. less light lower ceilings), it would feel like you were in a jungle. Maybe if you add humidity and increase the temperature, it will appeal to our jungle d
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by shubb 13y ago
By air? Surely what we need is a hyperloop for sandwiches? The toast sandwiches can be prepared anywhere in the world, then sent under the ocean in little magnetically accelerated capsules. Because the capsules are travelling in a vaccume,
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I'm not sure that knowing how to code is even that useful for most people. Let me explain - coding is neccesary when you are doing something technically innovative. As things become less inovative, layers of abstraction are built to ma
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Part of this is that programming has changed, or perhaps that there are new areas that require different sorts of people.The further you get from web applications, the more like this the people are. What kind of work attracts people that pr
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What I find fascinating about this talk is that almost every point was true then, but not now. Between tablet computing, and the popularisation of dynamic languages and scaling / big data problems that came with web 2.0, everything has
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That would look to be correct, see here for example: http://hackers2devnull.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/exploiting-pos... In which case, I woner why more sites (or evil ads via an ad network) don't attack our home
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I tried to figure out how to do this a while ago. Doesn't anti cross site scripting built into most modern browsers stop this? The flash and java security models certainly do. I think you can do this by serving the user a hidden form t
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Reputation counts for something, and reputations can be damaged. A lot of people trust Adi 'The A in RSA' Shamir, because of what he has done in the past. They have to. It takes a long time to get the background to understand cryp
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I think in practice, the first time someone needed to do this, a bunch of high grade academic cryptographers would acts as expert witnesses pro-bono. From there, it would be like a hacking case - an expert explains the issue to the jury, wh
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The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference This is a book on STL (updated for C++ 11) is a classic, and actually very readable. Quite a lot for advanced users, but also not too dry! http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/pr
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You'd have to define merit. For instance, on the one hand 'general intelligence' has been shown to be heritable (via adopted twin studies), but on the other, 'general intelligence' scores have increased massively in
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Well, he said that the research was funded by Citi bank's 'philanthropic' foundation. Is he mentioning that to insinuate that a bank is trying to produce de-anonymizing scare research about Bitcoin, which need not be true so
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Not sure about that. People tend to stick with an email address - after they sign up, it is a lot of effort to change it. They need to re-register for things, etc. I'd say the primary component is, how did they sign up for their first
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I did not convert, sorry. Those actually sound about right.
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Thank's Ada. I guess I've been sort of avoiding Finance, so I certainly didn't study up enough pre-interview. I'm hoping someone will post saying there is another way - I like working on things that I really care about..
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by shubb 13y ago
I can tell you the UK values are screwed up. No one I know earns that kind of money, and it's not just me (see here [1]). Reading HackerNews makes me feel like there is a subset of very well paid developers. I am curious what makes the
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The problem with 23andmMe is that genetics can't currently tell us much about our risk of developing common genetic diseases. Some diseases are caused by a single gene. These are rare because people with a dominant copy of that gene ar
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I think sometimes it is hard to understand people who are just in a different place to us. We have values, and those change over time, and they reflect the values of society, which change over time. Is someone living true to their values so
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I wonder if it is an early miner, or a certain black pirate...
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I'm just repeating what wikipedia says was in the OPLAN, which would reflect what the pentagon thinks. I think it did plan to respond to movement south with a first strike, as you say. But NK know that too, presuming they read wikipedi
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Regarding your last paragraph, the operation plans for conflict with north korea are sumarized on wikipedia. They essentially predict the north of south korea would be overrun, following artillary bombardment around the border / later
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I wonder if there is room for a site called LiveInNinja.com, which matches 'engineer cofounders' with people who have ideas, and can put someone up for free while they create them...
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Fascinating. I know the ones I wear work, but they were 'borrowed' from a server room, so might be somehow different... This blog talks about the 'filtering' you describe, completely new to me... http://eardef
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Err... electronic active noise canceling headphones don't work on speech, only against simple droning noises. I'm talking about headphones that use thick pads of material and a strong seal around your ears to straight block sound.
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Oh yeah, if you look for 'recording headphones' you can find regular headphones rated not to leak sound. Apparently it's pretty important during recording sessions. I liked the look of these: http://www.extremehead
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Sounds like you need to find a way of working remote (at that company or somewhere else). I figure if much of your life is spent at work, life is too short to work somewhere you can't achieve your best.
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In my open office, I currently code next to some project managers, who spend all day on the phone negotiating. This is a bit bad, but I just wear PPE Ear Defenders all day, on top of in ear headphones. With both of these, I can't hear

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