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by smadge 8y ago
You raise a great point. Deceptive social media propaganda campaigns are already happening; bots only decrease the costs.
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by smadge 8y ago
Introduce a heavy tax on fossil fuels and use the revenue to subsidize research and development and installation of sustainable energy sources.
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by smadge 8y ago
Well, if you are writing a python program which needs this functionality, it would probably be better to write it in python instead of: password = os.popen("head -c 8 /dev/random | base64").read()
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by smadge 8y ago
Arbitrary, when used in mathematics, also does not mean chosen randomly. It is used as a synonym for “any” or “every.” Furthermore, it doesn’t really make sense to speak of “choosing randomly” from a set without specifying a probability dis
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If we accept your premises, it actually encourages the flamewar; if you think you're favorite language is being unfairly maligned by those brevity obsessed functional programmers, then the results in Kolmogorov complexity can give you
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by smadge 8y ago
Can you elaborate more? I was working with the model that more investigative journalism is better, but you seem to be suggesting that the presence of some news outlets inhibits others.
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Thanks!
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DNS is a distributed system, basically a giant distributed database. I don't know why the article calls it a centralized system.
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Also note that this is a transcript of a segment on the radio program “All Things Considered.” Typically their stories are in the 3 to 5 minute range, just as this story is. The format probably makes more sense for radio than it does for we
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Your choice of journalism as an example is unsettling. If the New York Times goes out of business, there is no guarantee that another news publisher will break the same stories. Some things will just not be investigated anymore and some imp
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by smadge 8y ago
I don’t think there is anything wrong with user agents downloading resources (like images and stylesheets) linked to by an html document. It is the providers, not the user agents, who have violated the trust of users by including unnecessar
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First, I think there should be a browser extension that rewrites links for various new sites from the bloated pages to these simple pages. Second, I think it is ironic that one of the major justifications for javascript on web pages is that
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That would mean a cop in 1980 is making $140,000 a year.
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I feel like my expectations for a president have been unrealistically set by the TV show the West Wing where president Bartlett is often staying up until 3am reading hundreds of pages of policy reports, not getting into Twitter fueds and re
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The origin mask quote(“The conjunction of two events can’t be more likely than just one event by itself.”) was in the context of an experiment in which subjects were given a description of a person and they responded that it was more likely
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by smadge 8y ago
>> The conjunction of two events can’t be more likely than just one event by itself. > This is mathematically incorrect. If two events are mutually dependent on the other to occur then two events are more likely to occur together t
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by smadge 8y ago
Yes.
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The number is the net revenue (income minus all operating expenses, including salaries/wages, facilities, goods, taxes, etc) divided by the number of employees.
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Amazon’s net income per employee is 33,000 USD [0]. This means every Amazon employee could get a 30,000 USD raise and Amazon would still be profitable. [0] https://csimarket.com/stocks/singleEfficiencyeit.php?code=AM...
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Amazon Boycott Unites Workers, Gamers, Shoppers for Prime Day Protest(forbes.com)
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Pretty cool! I was having trouble understanding the relationship between monoids and deterministic finite automata, but once I worked out an example by hand I was able to implement that transformation in Haskell: data MonoidMachine mo
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>> 33 years of software development. > Wait till you get older. Presumably someone with 33 years of software development experience is around 50 years old. How old do you think someone needs to be before they are qualified to comme
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Thank you for linking to the Erich Fromm interview! I have never heard of him before, but I find myself agreeing with most of his statements in this interview. What strikes me, and are relevant to this discussion, are his thoughts on aliena
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by smadge 8y ago
Kernighan saved the most interesting fact for his last comment: both grep and ed were written in assembly, not C!
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by smadge 8y ago
I second this. I wasn’t saying everyone should be painters or musicians or novel writers.
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You are mentioning retraining people who have already been through the education system. Weinstein is advocating restructuring the education system from one that creates docile workers who perform repetitive tasks for a wage to one that enc
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To be fair to Weinstein, he is saying that the enlightened self interest of the billionaire class to find a solution to capitalism arises from the threat of insurrection and the collapse their power. He describes Occupy as a peaceful warnin
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I agree, I don’t think dependent typing and validating the correctness of your program using formal proofs is ready for mainstream adoption. I think it might be ready for some domains, like aeronautics, where the cost of errors is very high
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by smadge 8y ago
I was curious about your example of expressing and validating that a sort function returns a sorted list using the type system. I found this paper [0] by McBride, McKinna, and Altenkirch about using dependent types in the language Epigram t
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Not to mention one of his supporters shot a peaceful protestor outside on of his rallys in Seattle last year.

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