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by tottenhm 10y ago
> neither they nor their users would have an interest in this being established. I'm on the fence about that one. On the flip-side: 1. If they don't police it, then Facebook as a whole gets a reputation for disinformation. (Whe
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by tottenhm 10y ago
> The isolation of academia from reality is so large that you almost have to say it is deliberate. Yes... but for context, we can compare an academy with a factory, a military, a primary school, a hospital, a ride-share, or a church. If
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by tottenhm 11y ago
An interesting point. There was a similar issue with SMS (federating with big telcos), and Whatsapp (among others) did a nice job of routing around that (by piggybacking on SMS). It's interesting to think about how a genuinely open pla
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by tottenhm 11y ago
I am very much a novice, but here goes... I don't think the paper was trying to speak to truncation generally. Truncation is a weakening of the crypto by definition. (Reduce bits => reduce security.) It is easier (cheaper) to find a
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by tottenhm 11y ago
As the Gnome-KDE bit unfolded, my first reaction was, "Guffaw! What a silly detail! That's not proving any thing. And no one would expect to bond with a stranger over that." But that is not a flaw or limitation in the writing
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Toward open source email previewing(civicrm.org)
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by tottenhm 11y ago
I share your concern that this functionality could be abused, but disagree with your attempt to treat this as black-and-white or as a matter of personal character. There are both ethical reasons and unethical reasons why an app-developer wo
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by tottenhm 11y ago
The probability of swarming would be influenced by multiple factors, eg * Higher popularity => More peers => Higher probability that multiple peers want the same packfiles. * Higher popularity => More commits => More permutation
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by tottenhm 12y ago
"...non-idiomatic variable name casing (snake_case_in_ruby, camelCaseInJavaScript, dashes-in-lisp, scheme-predicates?, &c.)..." That usage of "idiomatic" feels idiomatic to me. ;) (I'd usually bite my tongue abo
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by tottenhm 12y ago
> If nobody understands a mathematical proof, does it count? That depends. If it deals with integers, yes. If it deals with real numbers, no.
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by tottenhm 12y ago
For many of these criticisms, can't we strike the balance by designing rules based on an individual's proxy-power (ie the #people for which they proxy). For example: re:1) For any individual exercising a proxy-power <10, all vo
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by tottenhm 12y ago
"Users apparently dislike this workflow so much that they don’t bother contributing at all: significantly less people are editing Wikipedia than did a few years ago." To be fair, I think this exaggerates the role of the editing UI
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by tottenhm 12y ago
Went to watch the July 4 fireworks in SF tonight, but it was cloudy, causing the fireworks to soften into a vague burst of color. I thought, "This looks just like CNN's coverage of the Gulf War. Except without all the fear and dea
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by tottenhm 12y ago
The article suggests that regulators will feel pressure to accept at least one major merger and reject at least one. Among them, a merger of #3+#4 wireless carriers (Sprint+TMobile) to form a new #3 seems less pernicious than a merger of #1