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by wfn 10y ago
Seconding this; especially if you find a well-written comment you disagree with, you might even upvote it and disagree in text form. Making this into one of the guidelines may, I think, be a good idea.
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by wfn 10y ago
Don't forget, however, that Norway's population is ~5.2M, vs. UK's ~65.1M. (Norway's GDP per capita is ~$69k, UK's is ~$41k).
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by wfn 10y ago
I was thinking, IPFS + Gopher or a Gopher-like system. But lose the damn JS, use Lua or something if so desired, and lose the JS web compatibility requirement. Allow public key encryption and signing on a per-document basis.
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by wfn 10y ago
With all due respect, I agree with 'guitarbill in relation to your second paragraph: please consider not spreading rumours based on your own speculation. To quote one 'tptacek, "if there's an important story here, someon
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by wfn 10y ago
> OK, what would you do, then? Something like this, perhaps: https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-talk/2016-June/04... TL;DR: neutral court of arbitration hears the case with all the private detail
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by wfn 10y ago
..but also see consistency bias and commitment effects (e.g.: http://lesswrong.com/lw/4e/cached_selves/ )
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by wfn 10y ago
You may like https://stem.torproject.org/tutorials/over_the_river.html , then! The sample code there can create permanent or ephemeral/short-lived hidden services. It uses the `stem` library (now named `nyx`, iirc
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by wfn 10y ago
obfs4-type Tor bridges should still work iirc? ( https://bridges.torproject.org/bridges?transport=obfs4 ) meek should also work in mainland China. See https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-use-%E2%80%9Cmee
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by wfn 10y ago
Nicely argued! Honest question: > and having a non-binary system of logic makes it nearly impossible to develop any formal system of reasoning Surely there have been efforts (probabilistic inference - I wonder if there's a rigorou
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by wfn 10y ago
I wonder... [Generic speculation follows] Assuming the query was not rhetorical, I would wager that at least as far as analytic philosophy is concerned, it's the vast differences in vocabularies (linguistic/conceptual). Take any
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by wfn 10y ago
What happened? How did they piss people off?
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by wfn 10y ago
This reminds me of one particular video by Adam Curtis (he uses Serkov as an example, too): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyop0d30UqQ
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by wfn 10y ago
Cool pastebin! Does it have some way of linking up multiple pastes, or is the list linked compiled manually (the latter, I assume), i.e. manually entered hyperlinks?
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by wfn 10y ago
Let me save you the time and (having watched and read quite a bit of Maciej's stuff, internalizing his reasoning about many things in our culture) tell you that he was being deliberately facetious here. (Maybe "facetious" is
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by wfn 10y ago
To do or not to do the following is of course entirely your / YCF's prerogative, but: would you perhaps consider providing a more quantitative answer to 'toyg's query below - in particular: "Even easier: how many up
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by wfn 10y ago
Re. the former, I would start by reading e.g. http://idlewords.com/2015/11/the_advertising_bubble.htm and http://idlewords.com/talks/internet_with_a_human_face.htm
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by wfn 10y ago
Apparently the "verification" shell script that Craig supplied had a deliberate typo which made signature check step worthless: https://www.reddit.com/r/btc/comments/4hfyyo/gavin_can_you_p...
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by wfn 10y ago
Related: has anyone here read "Society Against the State"[1]? I've been meaning to start reading it but haven't as of yet. It's a set of essays; supposed to be based on some good anthropological work done by Clastre
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by wfn 11y ago
What steps would you take to make sure Pinboard is taken to the next level? Where would the money go? Would you consider investing, assuming you get the funding, at least $1m into a $plashy landing page? Finally, what is your strategy (and
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by wfn 11y ago
Right, but then (1) your VPN will have a browsing profile which aggregates your otherwise ephemeral, anonymized and un-correlated browsing sessions; and (2) it would be easy for adversaries to extract that very helpful profile. If your thre
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Computers Are a Sadness, I Am the Cure – James Mickens(vimeo.com)
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by wfn 11y ago
Yep, if you are able to gather data over near-infrared (NIR) as well as red channels, you can compute NDVI which is a kind of vegetation index. It's interesting stuff and I would look into using the tech for agriculture surveys, consta
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by wfn 11y ago
Sure, I guess with index-only scans the picture does shift a bit, right? And quite a few cases are reducible to those, so this can't be ignored.
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by wfn 11y ago
> In other words, cache misses are taken into account to the extent that the model above is reflective of your workload and hw environment. Fair enough. Though I think they have in mind cache misses in the sense of page faults here?
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by wfn 11y ago
Aha, yeah I recall reading suggestions akin to those for SSDs. Nice! There's also `ALTER TABLE SET STATISTICS` and default_statistics_target config parameter (for supposedly smart query planning on the fly?) (though would have to re-re
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by wfn 11y ago
True - that's what I had to battle with as well - disk seek cost vs. read speeds - Postgres does collect stats on that IIRC (in special tables), but might still need to advise it on that. And do lots of EXPLAIN ANALYZE (incl. BUFFERS s
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by wfn 11y ago
> Sequential isn’t Always the Worst Indeed! And sometimes it gets even more nuanced - when say the way the index(es) would be used would imply a lot of disk seeking (or page faults if not the whole of index(es) is/are in memory (y
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by wfn 11y ago
Nice product! OT: do you know of any other automated security scanning services (hosted/SaaS)? Have you considered expanding beyond AWS (though AWS customers are probably your target audience and entire focus)?
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by wfn 11y ago
Pity someone down-voted you. From what I take it, you were basically simply asking, "what if the 'infinite amount' at 'all frequencies' were reaching you in a non-uniform distribution of frequencies? - would the ori
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by wfn 11y ago
Whatever one's musings on the status and the notion of ethnic states etc., I don't think the situation is comparable. In my (our?) case (Baltic states), there was (more of) a concrete "bad Other", whereas in Syria a prox

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