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by tsally 17y ago
If you want to worry about something, worry that data can't be deleted, and advances in data mining (artificial intelligence) will change the laws of privacy forever. Perhaps, in 10 years from now, you'd wish for a remote wipe button. I'l
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by tsally 17y ago
It's not a cheap shot. The Kindle is designed for (figurative) book burning. Any book distribution system with strong DRM is. Amazon has the ability to remotely delete (or worse, modify) any book on any Kindle anywhere. Never in the hi
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by tsally 17y ago
When I recommend books I make a coffee shop recommendation and an airport recommendation. Both books are excellent, but the coffee shop book requires slower reader and more mental effort to get the benefit. Coffee shop: Plowing the Dark
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by tsally 17y ago
For instance, Rome goes more corrupt and falls to the Vandals. Then, almost always, the conquering side installs their own governors. It's how the world has worked for a long time, really up until mutually assured destruction actually. The
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by tsally 17y ago
I find his claim that India has declined since Independence from the British ignorant, and yes, idiotic. I'm arguing against his point of view as well, but name calling doesn't accomplish anything. Anger doesn't make the world a better p
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by tsally 17y ago
Decline in prosperity? You have no idea, you arrogant idiot. Not necessary. His intentions are good and I appreciate that lionhearted had the courage to bring up an uncommon point of view, even if it is misguided. He's honestly and open
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by tsally 17y ago
Well take China as a counter example. Britain is in part responsible for the collapse of the Qing Dynasty. At the time Lin Zexu was vilified by his own people because of the military attention he attracted from Britain (First Opium War).
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by tsally 17y ago
That's definitely a fair argument, and I don't think we are as opposed as I thought we were. The idea of building from scratch is appealing, but I think nation building is a really hard problem. I honestly think we don't have the experien
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by tsally 17y ago
You're intentions are good, no doubt there. I definitely didn't mean to imply it was intentional on your part. It's subtle, but it feels like the argument you put forth implies the colonized were lesser than the British in a fundamental s
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by tsally 17y ago
I'm not sure what in your study of British history lead you to believe that colonized nations under Britain had "minimal violence and corruption" and "safety". That's just not [EDIT: always] true. Slavery was the core of the British empire
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by tsally 17y ago
You shouldn't be down-voted to -4. Personally I think you're justified in taking lionhearted's as inflammatory and libelous. The claim that Hong Kong and the US are evidence for Britain's superiority is tenuous at best. The success or fa
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by tsally 17y ago
I asserted that it would be simpler due to the relative resources of the hostile forces in the countries, and I still stand by that assertion. As I said, the invasion is the trivial part, but you keep focusing on it. I did provide proof
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by tsally 17y ago
There's no plan (international or domestic) to rebuild politically bankrupt states. The idea that a mission to the Congo or the Sudan would be "simple" or "far simpler than Iraq" is patently false. The actual invasion is a trivial and ess
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by tsally 17y ago
This is all irrelevant to qeorge's point. Wepay is a company (dealing with financial transactions, of all things). The company has a blog post. This blog post advocates something that illegal. The spirit of the law does not change the a
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by tsally 17y ago
Public education is free in the United States too if your parents or guardian pay taxes. Whether the parents directly pay for tuition or not is not really the main thrust of my argument. The point is that supportive parents are critical f
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by tsally 17y ago
Seems your forgetting the part about where his parents provided him with a place to live, food, and security while he got the education that allowed him to win a million-dollar prize. Not to mention the fact that they probably paid for his
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by tsally 17y ago
I wonder if his parents have everything they want, like a reasonable retirement.
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by tsally 17y ago
In our periodic bouts of crunch time, such as the last three months, I end up sleeping at a hotel next to the office (about 25 times this calendar year). Oh man. Maybe it's just me being an ignorant American, but doing that for anything
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by tsally 17y ago
Definitely don't mind. Email: tss AT timsally DOT com Public key if you need: http://www.timsally.com/static/tss.asc I'm presenting a metamorphic engine at a hacking conference in April ( http://thotcon.org/ ). It'll be completely open s
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by tsally 17y ago
It's not all about the signatures. Vaccination would be just as ineffective as anti-virus if biological viruses were anything like computer viruses. Imagine billions of biological viruses that are instantly transmitted upon infection to a
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by tsally 17y ago
Find a video of this Blackhat talk from 2005. Pretty sure it's in the iTunes store in the podcast section. The video covers pretty much everything you need to know about the theory of such systems. http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-usa-05/
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by tsally 17y ago
Analogies between computer viruses and biological viruses are strained, overused, and abused. I'll just point out that our innate immune system doesn't use signature based detection, it uses a whitelist and behavioral/heuristic based detec
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by tsally 17y ago
Great example of why signature based detection for anti-virus is just a stopgap measure. You can be sure the anti-virus of the future (if there is one) will make limited to no use of malware signatures. I suppose it probably feels weird t
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by tsally 17y ago
I wouldn't have high expectations. It's par for the course for the people running http://pinboard.in . Honestly one of the only reasons I haven't bought an account.
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by tsally 17y ago
In my mind legitimate crawlers are large engineered programs that respect robots.txt, whereas a scraper might just be a Perl script some dude wrote to check a website for updates periodically. Technically I suppose they all should probably
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by tsally 17y ago
So is SearchYC done, or do they use a scraper not a crawler?
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by tsally 17y ago
M-x gdb Screenshot: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/images/gdb.png If you want to debug a Lisp, you can't do better than Slime. Not sure what the state of the art is on Clojure debuggers.
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by tsally 17y ago
So why are complex financial structures legal? There has to be some justification for them, even if they turn out to be gambling in practice.
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by tsally 17y ago
So increased skill leads to markets that are less efficient because of complicated bundles of investments/loans? Why are complicated investments/loans even legal? What's the given justification for them? My own train of thought lead in a
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by tsally 17y ago
I was having a discussion with my friend today on related topics and I couldn't figure out the answer to this question: where does the demand for talent in the finance industry come from? On a basic level, banks exist to facilitate loans.

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