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   by verbify 10y ago

   I used to support instant runoff voting. In fact, I voted to change the UK voting method to instant runoff in the 2011 UK Referendum. However, I've become less enamoured with it. People don't understand it. It's used in Londo
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   by verbify 10y ago

   As far as I know, the Chromium project has been pretty good about pushing open standards. I reckon that's because the company divisions operate as silos. And this doesn't need to contradict pushing their proprietary app platforms.
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   by verbify 10y ago

   I meant liver disease. But I'll leave it this way because it's funnier. And pretty tasty.
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   by verbify 10y ago

   It would be far more specific - you'd collect all their medical details, their ethnicity, age, etc., and then you end up with: 'Salt consumption can increase the risk of liver consumption for middle-aged males of African descent&#
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   by verbify 10y ago

   Would it be possible/easy to add the speed of encrypting/decrypting the data as a separate loss function? Potentially this could lead to cryptography being a less expensive computation.
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   by verbify 10y ago

   > Let's say a team wants to build a website. Are you sure you'll have better odds at making it in time with a specialist for HTML, CSS, and Javascript? Yes, I'd prefer an expert in LESS and SASS and another expert in Angul
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   by verbify 10y ago

   I recommend reading 'The Wealth of Nations'. As an economics textbook, it is fairly dated, but it makes the point that ten people with a specific specialization can do more than ten people all doing the same work at once. Therefor
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   by verbify 10y ago

   Biased sample here, but I spoke to multiple people with 'bregret' - they told me they only voted for brexit because they thought it wouldn't happen and wanted to stick it to the man. The stupidity of these people boggles my m
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   by verbify 10y ago

   Not to mention the syntax is nicer. Compare the wordy: > document.getElementById('myid'); to > $('#myid'); I feel the same way about underscore. Regardless of the helper functions, readability goes up.
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    by verbify 10y ago

    Also for public information: There are hacks that allow wired connections to be set as metered: http://www.windowscentral.com/how-set-ethernet-connection-me...
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    by verbify 10y ago

    So the message 'do not turn off your computer' is just a suggestion?
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    by verbify 10y ago

    Get it from multiple sources, and do a diff.
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    by verbify 10y ago

    Granted Heartbleed was only exploitable for a few years, but Shellshock was available since '89 And I'm pretty sure bug bounties would apply to shellshock and heartbleed as long as you can find a company with a bounty program that
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    by verbify 10y ago

    If you suspect yourself to be a selected recipient (e.g. you're Edward Snowden) I reckon you should compile your own binaries. Or read 'Reflections on Trusting Trust'.
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    by verbify 10y ago

    We had access to openssl code, and yet heartbleed happened.
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    by verbify 10y ago

    If people were that diligent, heartbleed would never have happened.
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    by verbify 10y ago

    Head of development.
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    by verbify 10y ago

    Many software developers write in-house applications for SMEs. These will be used by sometimes dozens or hundreds of people - not millions or billions. Companies that write software applications that have millions or billions of users gener
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    How One 19-Year-Old Illinois Man Is Distorting National Polling Averages(nytimes.com)

    3 points by verbify 10y ago|0 comments
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    by verbify 10y ago

    I think the bigger point is that smart devices should gracefully degrade to dumb devices.
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    by verbify 10y ago

    Lost traffic on websites = lost revenue.
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    by verbify 10y ago

    I did misread that. I think the point still stands. The cheapest server cpus from 2010 are 60% as good as the best 2016 cpus. It might be close to the iPhone 7's latest chip or Google's Pixel. But most people don't have the l
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    by verbify 10y ago

    > Most people have smart phones which are much more powerful than servers from 6 years ago. This isn't even remotely true. The most powerful servers from 6 years ago is a xeon x7560, which has a 40% higher passmark score than even t
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    by verbify 10y ago

    > Like the chrome extension I'm hacking together on weekends which allows people to search for restaurants around them. I have no idea how I can monetize it Have you considered paid promotion by restaurants to be at the top of the l
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    by verbify 10y ago

    Yup, it amazes me that WhatsApp, an instant messaging app, was founded in 2010.
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    by verbify 10y ago

    I thought the resolution was also tied to motion sickness, but I could be wrong. I've noticed on benchmarks that the relationship between resolution and framerate is exponential - so a lower resolution will go a long way to a higher fr
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    by verbify 10y ago

    Yup, VR games always seemed so much more constrained in some way.
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    by verbify 10y ago

    According to this thread: http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/answers/id-3180987/ps4-pro-equ... The GPU in the PS4 pro will be the RX480 desktop-equivalent graphics card. This has a slight lower passmark than the Nvidia
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    by verbify 10y ago

    Have you tried a HTC Vive with a decent (GTX 970 or better) graphics card and cpu? Apparently being motion sick is all about the framerate and resolution, and I don't think the Playstation has a graphics card that can handle a framerat
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    by verbify 10y ago

    Whoops, badly misread that.