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by three14 17y ago
The case in favor of strict parsing is always that you'll catch bugs sooner. The point of his argument is that you forgot about pesky humans, and real life software - where strict parsing means a computer that's much less useful. (In his pa
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Anscombe's Quartet(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by three14 17y ago|0 comments
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by three14 17y ago
I think you can see an example closer to the disaster in the comic with the attempt to standardize a required video format for HTML 5: http://lists.whatwg.org/htdig.cgi/whatwg-whatwg.org/2009-Jun...
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by three14 17y ago
His point is that the sum total of all the things they do to you when you do a "serious crime" is less than the sum of the things they do to you if you pirate music. This doesn't seem like a common sense notion of justice. Even if you don
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by three14 17y ago
That strikes me as similar to "bad luck to the guy having his house under the moon". Eclipses require everything to line up just right, even if the object in space is huge.
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by three14 17y ago
Could you explain? I can't evaluate the technical merits, but is there an alternative if you actually want a scheduler to cater to a desktop user's needs?
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by three14 17y ago
But any change to the scheduler is a regression for someone, more or less by definition. Do you mean that they can't change it anymore at all?
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Drilling a Square Hole (with a rotating bit)(maa.org)
91 points by three14 17y ago|20 comments
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by three14 17y ago
I felt likewise, but maybe he's still a good salesperson. Ever have the experience that someone made you feel too embarrassed to walk away without buying something? I feel like he's hinting at a technique that would work with me. "What?
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by three14 17y ago
YC is great. But I would think with all the smart people here, if the market was efficient in fields with high barriers to entry, Tesla Motors would have a few more competitors.
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by three14 17y ago
It does solve a market inefficiency. To me, that highlights a different inefficiency - imagine what a couple of bright YC founders could do in the rechargeable battery market, or the solar cell market - if they only had enough money to ent
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by three14 17y ago
This reminds me a lot of a previous NYTimes article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/14/technology/start-ups/14sta... "Weary of Looking for Work, Some Create Their Own" Which I thought was discussed here, but I can't find a link.
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by three14 17y ago
"However, obscurity can never make a secure algorithm more secure." If you're talking about the security of the algorithm, fine. But you're talking about the security of the system, and the algorithm is seldom the problem. If it takes two
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by three14 17y ago
I have given it a closer look. Many times. You're making an argument by assertion: Kerckhoffs' principle says don't keep secrets other than the key, so therefore you have to not keep secrets other than the key. Huh? Kerckhoffs' principle
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by three14 17y ago
Reading my comment over, I realize that I wasn't so clear. There are two almost unrelated issues: AT&T has poor security - agreed. Security through obscurity is a universal evil - not so fast. Quick example - you have ciphertext where
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by three14 17y ago
A lower megapixel count than the previous version of the same camera, so it's a pretty explicit signal.
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by three14 17y ago
Security through obscurity gets a bad rap. You rely on the "obscurity" of your password. The main issue is relying on false obscurity, both in systems (your program rot-13s your password) and in passwords (you pick an easy to guess passwor
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by three14 17y ago
That's kind of a bizarre way to put it. Science has very little to say about the probability of God. Science has removed some old proofs of God - the watchmaker proof in particular, by providing alternative explanations for the existen
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by three14 17y ago
Because companies that get complacent seem to lose the ability to innovate, so you get ten years of steady profits, and then finally someone eats your lunch. Anyway, I have an ethical problem with companies maximizing profits at the expense
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by three14 17y ago
Believe it or not, Israel already has sufficient reason not to fire theirs first. Try a thought experiment - what would happen to Israel if they did? The only way I can imagine Israel getting away with dropping one on Iran is if Iran conti
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by three14 17y ago
That was discussed in the linked post.
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by three14 17y ago
It appears from Wikipedia that the border is disputed. If so, it looks like the Indian position is that Google is taking sides, but Google might just have been attempting to stay neutral.
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by three14 17y ago
I wish someone would explain how this is supposed to work. So, speculators bid up the price of oil from the "natural" price of $30 a barrel to, say, $100 a barrel. Some of the oil now goes to the speculators. A few months or a year or tw
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by three14 17y ago
That's a different meaning of shock. The shock in A Modest Proposal doesn't read like "I have no self control" or "Look! A drunk in the gutter."
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by three14 17y ago
I suspect that the writer didn't mean MITM, but rather a passive eavesdropper. More significantly, this doesn't actually prevent replay attacks either. There are essentially two "cookies" (I'm oversimplifying) - long term, and single sessi
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by three14 17y ago
You're assuming that a monkey that eats 20% less than a monkey that's given the choice to eat as much as it wants necessarily isn't underfed? Maybe. But without some other research that I've missed, that really begs the question. I thin
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by three14 17y ago
I haven't read the studies. Still, why isn't it reasonable to think that a monkey that eats too little will die more readily under stress? You can remove clearly unrelated causes (e.g. monkeys run over by bicyclists), but it's not nearly
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by three14 17y ago
We could still discourage voting to show agreement or disagreement, even if sometimes people won't actually pay attention to the guidelines in the hopes of having better discussions. If you had only one upvote, given the choice, would you g
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by three14 17y ago
Not at all. You can be a happy capitalist with lots of money without being different in a "qualitative" way from your poorer neighbors. At least in principle.
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by three14 17y ago
Agreed. Still, I can't decipher the IKE spec, but does it really prevent this - i.e. do any of the other building blocks actually prevent the conversation from continuing using a compromised shared key?

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