venomsnake

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by venomsnake 10y ago
I am staunchly against quotas and affirmative action. And supporter of pure merit hiring - not even culture fit. Just expertise. This does not mean that this approach did not yield something that the current crop of diversity thinkers stron
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by venomsnake 10y ago
The people that are couple of sigmas more talented than the average are unique enough. They are category of their own. So using them as pro-diversity argument is just not working. Because any person with the Turing's level of talent is
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by venomsnake 10y ago
With HN lately it is a coin toss whether a statement will be downvoted or upvoted when talking about diversity. It seems that there is split - depends on who is awake what the reaction will be. Anyway - I never did or intend to do karma who
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by venomsnake 10y ago
We will take anyone as long as their IQ and capabilities are off the scale (as the two ladies in question) probably won't result in the kind of diversity that the diversity people would appreciate. They (diversity advocates) have been
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Look. The "wrong" person won. We did nothing to stop the anti vaxxer bullshit. Or the MLM schemes. Or any fake science news about breakthroughs. All of the new age crap. Any spiritual content. Any gossip site. Any conspiracy theor
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by venomsnake 10y ago
And how about using outgoing VPN from your office? If you are and IT security chief and see somebody doing it - what will you think?
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Any encryption that relies on CA certificates whose issuers can be coerced by the government is not secure by default if you want to protect yourself from said government.
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by venomsnake 10y ago
I suspected (disclaimer, didn't vote, because has no right to, but supported Trump since the first dilbert articles). But I thought that in the long run the identity politics and social justice gone berserk are the greater danger. And
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Locking my door no. But building 4 meter concrete fence with barbed wire and armed guards around my house probably is. Is encryption door lock(which in the real world are trivial to bypass in case of valid warrant) or Bond villain's la
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Interesting how people start to see conspiracy theories when their side is losing. There is no grand fascist conspiracy (unless we use the original meaning of fascism - the intertwining of state and big corporations - in which case we are l
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by venomsnake 10y ago
We will just burn more and more ...
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by venomsnake 10y ago
I said while the pitchfork crowd was leftish (back in the ancient days before November 2016), I say it now when this one is on the right - stop it. Stop destroying people's lives for stupid shit they say on the internet with mob justic
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by venomsnake 10y ago
I think the GP meant civilian Americans chopping other Americans heads with katanas. Also isn't the katana mostly stabbing weapon? Slicing someone in two requires too much effort IMO.
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Nowadays you can do it with drone, camera and facial recognition software. If president Le Pen needs the info she could get in 2 days.
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Because the coefficient of friction could be greater than 1. And the "sticking" force is proportional to the tire area. And the air pushes you down while you move. As long as the torque is lower than friction you should be fine.
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by venomsnake 10y ago
You need to tell "Power Overwhelming" to the car
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by venomsnake 10y ago
At 2.6-sh second mark your car accelerates with more than 9.8m/s^2 to get to 60. But even lower accelerations will glue you to the seat because gravity acceleration affects every part of your body. Where as the car grabs you by the but
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Don't forget that cars get progressively safer with each passing year. So and uptick could actually mean quite a spike if you normalize.
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by venomsnake 10y ago
The attack does nothing that could not be done by just booting a live CD, if you have physical access to the device. It does not decrypt the disk - since the key is encrypted with the right password.
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by venomsnake 10y ago
The Ministry of Truth
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by venomsnake 10y ago
The cure is worse than the illness. The left went out of its way to take every word Trump said literally. In the most damning way, to produce outrage. Are the 3000 thousand opinion pieces assuming that that Megyn blood was coming from her v
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by venomsnake 10y ago
The government I think could possibly use the commerce clause to impose obligation on a corporation certify its ranking algorithms which could lead to some extremely fun results. A law that prevents google algorithm to (not)take truthiness
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by venomsnake 10y ago
I am not sure, but I think that the problem are the integers. If people were allowed a fractional vote I think that some of that contradictions will disappear. We cripple ourselves by assuming 1 person = 1 vote to 1 candidate. But if we wer
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by venomsnake 10y ago
There is not such thing as alt-right since a lot of people there do support leftist schemes of redistribution for the citizens. It is nationalism plain and simple.
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Honest question - how fast can we train AI to know language?
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Back in the day the dumb phones had an interesting function - you could use them for synchronous real time voice communication over public switching network. Unless apple removed it with the headphone jack - it is probably still somewhere i
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Even left wing pundits admits that ACA is in trouble in its current form. The article assumes that the new government and congress want ACA to work or make sense. Hint - they don't care too much. ACA was probably the greatest waste of
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by venomsnake 10y ago
I totally read the article. i said he sounds almost reasonable. But that does not erase his body of work in the 2008-2012 years. You cannot make yourself rich with Fox dough and then - oh well, we must unite, when you are probably guilty fo
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by venomsnake 10y ago
So - if you go insane and then insane once more you sound almost normal. Seems like Glenn Beck is the Bursar from the unseen university. Of course there is the little problem with trying to explain away his sins instead of atoning for them.
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by venomsnake 10y ago
Dunno - I think that spheres of influence concept is extremely proper for the upcoming multipolar world.

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