tedks

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by tedks 12y ago
Copyright is a legal construct, not a technical construct. It doesn't matter where the data is. If a judge decides it's copyright infringement to save webpages, it will be. I can't imagine that the WSJ or any other paywalled
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by tedks 12y ago
Well, I use an Android phone, but regardless, I've never given anyone permission. Maybe in a legal sense someone could claim that, but that's irrelevant to what's actually happened. Stop letting game-riggers dictate your view
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by tedks 12y ago
I consider my phone to be my property. Typically, other people or corporations can't make changes to my property without my permission. I guess by "mobile infrastructure" you can extend that to "every phone," in whi
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by tedks 12y ago
My opinion about cops being horrible to rape and DV survivors comes from my work in the communities. I live in Washington DC and would never in a million years ask a metro cop for help. Nor do I typically see people doing so. The only thing
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by tedks 12y ago
I've spent a large part of my life doing various pro-union anti-corporate-misbehavior etc activism and have come to the conclusion there is literally nothing us plebs can do at this point. The MEND/AQI style asymmetric warfare is
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by tedks 12y ago
Uber is a dirty company. Well then. I hope you don't wear t-shirts made by slave kids in Honduran sweatshops, eat food fertilized by Monsanto, or buy anything that gives money to the Koch brothers. I hope you never drink Coke, since th
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by tedks 12y ago
It's not a prisoner's dilemma. A prisoner's dilemma is a wholly fictional and game-theoretic construct involving single, isolated interactions among perfectly rational agents. None of that has anything to do with hu
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by tedks 12y ago
I would never ask a cop for directions or ask why my metro card isn't working. For all I know I could look at some roided-up armored highschool graduate funny and end up with a hole in my face. Police are horrible to rape and domesti
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by tedks 12y ago
Virtually everything is worth entering into cards. Anki's interface is very tedious, but it's nearly always worth it. Looking back at source material is not a form of spaced repetition. By learning that you don't need to reme
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by tedks 12y ago
It's functionally infinite, because it's bounded by encoding time, not storage capacity. If you spent your entire life learning you would not learn enough to exhaust your long-term memory. This is a very basic fact about human m
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by tedks 12y ago
Because there's still no good exabrain. Notes.txt quickly becomes an unsearchable, undiscoverable mess of crap; wikis are hard to maintain and too heavyweight; desktop wikis never really work right and usually have shit mobile experien
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by tedks 12y ago
Even with a dynamic software updating system in place, you shouldn't be deploying dynamic updates directly to production without testing them. It'd be pretty stupid to deploy an update by any mechanism that would render a service
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by tedks 12y ago
The Uptrack service was obviously proprietary, but the Ksplice software itself (everything to actually make and install the patches) was open source. There are plenty of mirrors on github: https://github.com/linux-kernel-liv
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by tedks 12y ago
No serious politician would support universal health care, basic income, or full human rights for LGBT people, but that doesn't make those causes any less right. What positive value comes from Snowden releasing the atrocities of the Am
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by tedks 12y ago
Mm. So, implicit learning is a scientific term, that should be contrasted with semantic or declarative learning rather than "explicit" or "~~intentional~~" learning. Implicit learning trains implicit or procedural memory
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by tedks 12y ago
...the incentives being the contract.
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HackBack: A DIY Guide for those without the patience to wait for whistleblowers(pastebin.com)
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by tedks 12y ago
Wait what? How can you take issue with anything Foursquare does then? They aren't taking your data without paying you if they aren't taking your data.
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by tedks 12y ago
In 2004 the Tea Party didn't exist.
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by tedks 12y ago
Then uninstall the app, nobody's forcing you to keep it.
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by tedks 12y ago
Ridiculously type-A people can't see a game without wanting to win it. That's at least what got me on foursquare. Really sad to see points go. Every time I traveled I'd try to top my high score and I really think it helped.
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by tedks 12y ago
Seems like the original author is only commenting on Reddit. It's surprising that this was posted to /r/Anarchism instead of a bigger subreddit like /r/tech or /r/politics. That makes me think that the ori
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by tedks 12y ago
I'd most like to know how the developers reacted -- to losing offices, to speeding up dev cycles, to changing up testing. Presumably some of them were supportive, some of them were against it, but what were their reasons, and how did t
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by tedks 12y ago
This article has depressingly little about how Microsoft went about changing the culture from a waterfall to agile mindset. The article is also pretty rosy; I'd expect a little more bumps on the way.
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by tedks 12y ago
I wouldn't say that converging operations is limited to social psychology. Virtually all memory research (cognitive, not neurological) is conducted in the same way. As various other areas get more neurological basis I think psychology
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by tedks 12y ago
Milgram's obedience study was tested on adult men, between ages 30-40 IIRC. There were 19 later experiments, you wouldn't call them replications because they weren't exactly the same, but they were all consistent, and they sa
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by tedks 12y ago
...you're responding to a point I didn't make. That comment is about the fallacy of psychology "testing everything on undergrads." Please read what you respond to.
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by tedks 12y ago
Well "pbhjpbhj," like I said, you're confusing logical positivism with science. Positivism, the idea that we can only believe propositions which are proved correct, lost favor in the late 1800's. Modern science, includin
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by tedks 12y ago
You're conflating a number of ideas, but the overall trend in your post is towards a debunked theory of science called positivism. You should research that.
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by tedks 12y ago
...but the optic nerve of a 20 year old is the same from a scientific perspective in almost all respects to the optic nerve of a 30 year old. Maybe if that optic nerve signaled some horribly deep work of literature like 100 years of solitud

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