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by thyrsus 13y ago
Even (especially?) geniuses compartmentalize. I applaud life saving and misery reduction regardless of who does it, and I'm not going to make my approval contingent on an apology for past wrongs. The Gates foundation seems to be doing
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by thyrsus 13y ago
I don't believe those who have contempt for the poor have any less contempt for science, and social science in particular.
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by thyrsus 13y ago
I wonder if 00000000 was ever read into the congressional record? http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/launch-code-for-u...
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Malaysian wins removal from US 'no fly' list(seattlepi.com)
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by thyrsus 13y ago
My biggest workflow problem is remembering to commit. Then it occurs to me to commit, I do a "git status" and holy crud, what do all those changes do? So I'm resolving now to commit... when? Any time a new test succeeds (wit
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by thyrsus 13y ago
How long were the beta periods for RHEL 4, 5, 6? I know there's no commitment, but I'd like to tighten my vague idea of how long the beta period will be. Right now, I guess more than a day and less than a year.
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by thyrsus 13y ago
I'm in the midst of a heart attack, and I'm supposed to optimize cost/benefit of the area hospitals according to available data on expenses and outcomes. I invite those in favour of market solutions to propose practical resp
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by thyrsus 13y ago
if(condition, do: a, else: b) looks like a function, but that implies Elixir does lazy evaluation so that only one of a or b gets evaluated. Or is something else going on?
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by thyrsus 13y ago
It is quite possible the clients do not have access to the source code. They may further have no competence in coding nor even in obtaining competent assistance in coding.
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by thyrsus 13y ago
Just because you and I can't imagine a social sharing site that is to Facebook what Google is to Altavista doesn't mean it doesn't exist. We don't know until the alternatives have been tried, and "yet another socia
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by thyrsus 13y ago
I'd appreciate some examples of tools that make programming "easy". Easier than assembler? OK, check. Easy in general? I want that.
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by thyrsus 13y ago
The patent is on "novel" sequences, like "Roundup-Ready", but plants have a tendency to broadcast (old meaning) their genome (e.g., pollen).
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by thyrsus 13y ago
[Edit: apparently, the decryption does not happen real time. Instead, the encyrpted traffic is stored and decrypted later. Either NSA/GCHQ think the latency introduced by doing a full mitm with the private key would blow their cover,
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by thyrsus 13y ago
Not exactly. Think of this analogy: the NSA built an enormously expensive sieve net to fish the entire Pacific Ocean (Google). While the Pacific may be deeper and wider than your innocuous little lagoon, that lagoon probably hasn't a
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by thyrsus 13y ago
If it were worth the trouble: cell phone location records, taxi credit card transaction records, or taxi dispatcher records.
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by thyrsus 13y ago
In the U.S., banks can charge you a fee for having less than an agreed amount in the account. They're required to tell you in advance what that minimum amount is (and it may be $0), but they're free to set their policies at will.
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by thyrsus 13y ago
According to this http://wealthcycles.com/features/cypress-bailout-deal-is-pil... deposits under 100,000 euros were exempt, with a 40% forfeiture of amounts over 100,000. There were other proposals, but that appears t
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by thyrsus 13y ago
In graph theory, one usually has a set of nodes (A, B, C, ...) and a set(!) of edges between the nodes, either directed ((A,B), (A,C), (B,A)) or undirected (in which edge (A,B) implies (B,A), (A,C) implies (C,A), etc.). Sets don't hav
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by thyrsus 13y ago
When folks stop talking about trees and start talking about graphs, they seem to forget that you usually want to have an order on the edges. I think an outliner is a great way to explore a fully connected directed graph with sequenced edges
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by thyrsus 13y ago
So that's why North Carolina Republicans just outlawed "Shariah law".
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by thyrsus 13y ago
Whenever I wash my glass carafe with soap, either I rinse for more than ten minutes or I can still taste the soap - so I don't do that. I usually do successive rinses for a minute, but if I'm feeling serious I use (cheap, store b
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by thyrsus 13y ago
That sounds wonderful, but the line I'd always heard was "A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into" - that is, they are expensive to maintain. How do you avoid that?
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by thyrsus 13y ago
It occurred to me that the increased efficiency might find these a niche as rapid trans-oceanic transport, but 15 feet from the surface is too low for waves likely to be encountered in ocean storms.
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by thyrsus 13y ago
What does "cheaply" mean? One could still buy ramen?
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by thyrsus 13y ago
Call me cynical, but this exudes the intellectual aroma of Fuller's "Synergetics". In the words of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (and remembering everything to which it referred): "Mostly harmless."
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by thyrsus 13y ago
Yes - we have seen language contorted into meaninglessness by by lawyers and courts. "Waterboarding is not torture." "Data recordings are not data collection." "Drones cause one civilian casualty per hundreds kno
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by thyrsus 13y ago
Someone more knowledgeable than I should confirm or deny this, but my understanding was that TOR should be resilient to a single point attack like that. On the other hand, if they can watch packet timing on a significant fraction of interm
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by thyrsus 13y ago
I'd like to snoop on my (self initiated) https traffic so I can write a monitor for a third party web app that is only available over https. In a similar situation but with clear text, I've made use of a perl proxy that generates
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by thyrsus 13y ago
First, that was very useful; bookmarked. That took me 30 minutes to read. I think I might feel like I've learned the language after spending 8 hours working the examples a la "Learn Python the Hard Way". Luckily, I'm n
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by thyrsus 13y ago
Does this apply to non-startups? Once one becomes an incumbent, is it not wise to minimize external access (inherent in outsourcing)? E.g., the core competency of the NSA might not be system administration, but perhaps they would now pref

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