thesteamboat

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   by thesteamboat 15y ago

   I'm confused. Was this an objection to your terminology, or just to hearing you criticize someone? Either one is totally preposterous, but I'm sitting here trying to imagine how someone could find the phrase 'dropped the ball' as offensive.
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   by thesteamboat 15y ago

   The quote that spoke to me in the article > When you pay $199 for Fire, you’re not buying a gadget you’re filing citizen papers for the digital duchy of Amazonia. I know many people don't mind living in walled garden, especially if it's
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   by thesteamboat 15y ago

   This pdf ( http://www.cs.princeton.edu/theory/complexity/ipchap.pdf ) which is a draft chapter from a book by Arora and Barak, shows that if GI is NP-complete, then the polynomial hierarchy collapses to the second level. Collapse to the fir
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   by thesteamboat 15y ago

   >> 7. You can buy coins temporarily just so you can buy something... > This is so kludgey that I don't see it as a benefit, and IMO touting it as a benefit just makes Bitcoin look worse. It's a benefit if it can easily add anony
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   by thesteamboat 15y ago

   I'd really like to see this updated for the modern era of web browsing and smart phones, but I don't know much in the space myself.
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   Update of In the Beginning... Was the Command Line(garote.bdmonkeys.net)

   2 points by thesteamboat 15y ago|1 comments
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   by thesteamboat 15y ago

   This varies greatly by field. In theoretical computer science, most conferences have turnaround times on the order of 3 months or so.
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   by thesteamboat 15y ago

   You can also do cib (for inside '()') and ciB (for inside '[]') and cis (for inside sentences).
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   by thesteamboat 15y ago

   Probably because it's fun? If you spend half your day reading papers on fully homomorphic encryption, I think we can forgive a little levity to compensate.
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    by thesteamboat 15y ago

    Perhaps you mean Tim Cook? Steve Cook is the famous computer scientist who proved that SAT is NP-Complete.
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    by thesteamboat 15y ago

    I must admit to currently having 280 tabs open. In my case, I open a bunch of things I intend to read (by browsing reddit or the like) and defer the reading of them indefinitely. In practice, most of the tabs are `legacy' tabs that I don't
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    by thesteamboat 15y ago

    I've heard this story one better. According to my father (a physician), hospitals being established in cities used McDonalds as a proxy for good locations or at least narrowing their search. I have no idea how accurate this actually is, b
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    by thesteamboat 15y ago

    We've made effective changes since then -- they just haven't been at screening. Passenger awareness that they should resist and reinforcing cockpit doors have greatly increased security. The TSA? Not so much. See http://www.theatlantic.com
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    by thesteamboat 15y ago

    By black holes do you mean wormholes?
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    by thesteamboat 15y ago

    I'm curious as to what easy advances there were in cooking. Do you mean something along the lines of better heat sources or do you mean recipes?
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    by thesteamboat 15y ago

    Not to mention all this Bitcoin stuff we've been hearing about recently. If it actually takes off there's potential in setting up physical systems/cards to facilitate point-of-sale bitcoin transactions in physical space.
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    by thesteamboat 15y ago

    I believe he was using other people's translations. (At least, in the English version, he compared it to other's French and German translations.)