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by wolfgke 7y ago
Where?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I asked at my local university library in Germany: they can't be accessed there.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Interesting. Then shouldn't we (and PR people involved in QC) stop focusing on the cryptographical capabilities of QC, and start focusing on its other potential applications, like protein folding? Until now in the media, it seems
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I often think that shyness is rather a natural protection (like an immune response) against a world that is simply full off assholes. So you should really carefully consider whether you want to overcome your shyness.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> This is the kind of thing you could test without just spinning out a just-so story. Scientists could test it, but I surely do not have the capacity and capability to do so.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> If I was that concerned, I'd get a burner phone with a prepaid SIM card and create my account from a public computer while covering my face. In the EU countries, it has (by law) become very hard to obtain an anonymous prepaid SIM
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by wolfgke 7y ago
At least the founders of Posteo show a strong willingness to proceed against attempts of intimidation which they face. See for example > https://posteo.de/blog/bnetza-entscheidung-zu-posteo-kryptog... > https:&#
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by wolfgke 7y ago
One problem with ProtonMail that is also relevant here is that ProtonMail does not allow to pay anonymously for the service (so that investigators are able to follow the money trail). On the other hand (this is not supposed to be an adverti
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> It is often cited as exactly the reason, and appears to be the scientific consensus. In fact you can see large swings in diagnosis numbers based on socioeconomic factors[0], which definitely hints at diagnostic bias. A counterthesis ba
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Isn't this correct in English? I, as a non-native English speaker, would write "thrice at perception, dexterity and mind work" (instead of "both at perception, dexterity and mind work"), but I am not sure wheth
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> All sorts of games that started as nothing more than "community" mods but ended up as their own standalone game? Writing mods has in general nothing to do with bazaar style.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> who end up being left with the impression that graph isomorphism and factorization are NP-hard, because (a) they hear those problems are hard, and (b) they're told the polynomials are the easy problems, and (c) the only non-polyno
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> One thing that's bothered me ever since I heard about complexity theory is why there is no explanation given as to why polynomial complexities are given such special status. It's just taken for granted that polynomials are t
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by wolfgke 7y ago
(2015)
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> Makes me wonder what would have happened if it had been developed bazaar-style. I am not aware of any good game that has been developed bazaar-style.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> If you believe content is worth paying for at all, the price of a cup of coffee every month seems perfectly reasonable. First: In the USA, a cup of coffee might cost 5$; in other countries, it is much cheaper. Second: Every payment you
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Much shorter and general headline concerning the type of problem: Complexity Is a Security Risk
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> And the web fixed these issues, one by one, on one end by being simplified by generations and generations of technologists Creating a website today is much more complicated than it was in the 90s, where the web standards (e.g. HTML) w
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The web should be a library, a collective knowledge. Sounds like an ad for Library Genesis and Sci-Hub. :-)
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> There are two ALDIs as article mentions and they differ in quality At least in Germany, where there exist both Aldi and Aldi Süd, quality is not a trait that people would claim that these two differ (they would rather say that the diff
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Pong has no first-person perspective.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Every FPS is a MIDI Maze clone.
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The Powerful Group Shaping the Rise of Hindu Nationalism in India(npr.org)
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Their service incentivizes ransomware authors, so this absolutely needs transparency. I don't think that companies that offer ransomware decryption services have a problem with this incentive. More ransomware means more customers
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I disagree that all patches are somehow ethically wrong (bugfixes and security patches are obvious counterexamples). Not to mention that if the author felt otherwise, they wouldn't have released the code under a license that allow
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> and that's even more anti-community than any other suggestion. Shipping a fork that is different from the version that is created by the original author is also very anti-community. At least make it clear that you ship something d
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> At grade 3, a lot of the value in homework is simply in learning how to do homework correctly. In other words: turning the respective pupil into a virtuously working machine.
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Relevant: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Are you for, or against capitalism? It comes down to that! This has nothing to do with capitalism, but with copyright.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> (Disclaimer: I co-authored a paper referenced in the article) The submission links to a video, not a paper. Thus: what paper are you referring to?

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