simonb

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by simonb 13y ago
Most European cities will make you carry your bike from time to time or make huge detours. But, like you, I'm not the target customer for this so maybe people in general are more careful with route planning.
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by simonb 13y ago
Not necessarily. QR systems such as Maxle are sturdy enough for competitive downhill use. Also 10 pounds is a huge difference not just in the effort needed to propel the bike forward but also in terms of maneuverability, especially as it is
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UK e-border system so overwhelmed that 650,000 smuggling alerts were deleted(theguardian.com)
1 points by simonb 13y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 13y ago
Looking at "similar scandals" on the same page, science/engineering does not come out unscratched either. Also I always found Sokal affair a bit stacked against the offending the journal. The issue was "Science Wars&quot
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How to Fake Fingerprints(wikihow.com)
4 points by simonb 13y ago|0 comments
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Authentication Flaws in the Tesla Model S REST API(broadcast.oreilly.com)
6 points by simonb 13y ago|0 comments
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Airline classes as wealth redistribution(spectator.co.uk)
41 points by simonb 13y ago|51 comments
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by simonb 13y ago
There aren't that many on the road to begin with. To put this into perspective: during 1990-1994 there were 5 fatalities in Volvo 240s with 186000 cars on the road [ http://www.iihs.org/externaldata/srdata/docs
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Panopticlick (browser fingerprint test)(panopticlick.eff.org)
1 points by simonb 13y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 13y ago
This already does dimensional reduction using neural networks (for details see papers cited at the bottom of the page).
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GlassUp raised $100K on Indiegogo — but PayPal is refusing to pay up(venturebeat.com)
5 points by simonb 13y ago|1 comments
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by simonb 13y ago
With regards to multiple selections, have you seen: http://emacsrocks.com/e08.html http://emacsrocks.com/e13.html
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NOVA: A Functional Language for Data Parallelism(research.nvidia.com)
4 points by simonb 13y ago|0 comments
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Why Is the United States So Sick?(slate.com)
10 points by simonb 13y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 13y ago
Wouldn't exchanges have precisely this signature in the blockchain?
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The Californian Ideology(hrc.wmin.ac.uk)
1 points by simonb 13y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 14y ago
That's just one step away from reasoning form a paradox and patting yourself on the back, how you have proved something (would the same argumentation be as enticing if it were based on misappropriation or misunderstanding like that of using
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Unifying Programming and Math – The Dependent Type Revolution(spin.atomicobject.com)
7 points by simonb 14y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 14y ago
Because you then don't need the complexity (& boilerplate) of SERIES or LOOP the moment you want to do a series of transformations on a slightly bigger list.
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How Inter-service Rivalries Doomed the Galactic Empire(overthinkingit.com)
2 points by simonb 14y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 14y ago
TrailMeme [ http://trailmeme.com/ ] is a step in this direction.
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by simonb 14y ago
This can be viewed as a corollary to Perlis's "It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than 10 functions on 10 data structures." [ http://www.cs.yale.edu/quotes.html ]
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by simonb 14y ago
It would be very interesting to see a breakdown of people (diss)agreeing with pg's thesis by hacker/maker vs. business person.
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Know When to Stop Designing, Quantitatively(azarask.in)
1 points by simonb 14y ago|0 comments
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Mixing first-order and higher-order control(axisofeval.blogspot.co.at)
1 points by simonb 14y ago|0 comments
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by simonb 14y ago
I wonder if this has anything to do with CLANG [0] (the recently kickstarted sword-fighting simulator). In some of the videos they hinted that a custom controller is coming down the line. [0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/c
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Racket vs. Clojure(programming-puzzler.blogspot.se)
5 points by simonb 14y ago|0 comments
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Prismatic Architecture(highscalability.com)
3 points by simonb 14y ago|1 comments
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by simonb 14y ago
Sure, but if you are concerned about privacy/surveillance, you use a new (one-time) address for each transaction.
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by simonb 14y ago
There is always bitcoin.

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