wolfgke

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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Even by whack-job libertarian standards, nobody should be free to interfere with the peaceful enjoyment of others. People have very different views on where the personal boundaries of the freedom of each individual are.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Can you imagine if it was the other way? "Well I have no idea what it means, but they said these few sheets of math would be interesting to you and I thought you'd like to have them." I can easily imagine that there exis
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Not necessarily, but it's hard for me to imagine what a non-constructive proof of P=NP would look like. Have a look at the proof of the Robertson-Seymour theorem. Here the Wikipedia section about its importance in complexity theor
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by wolfgke 8y ago
A lot of the world's memory is also stored in shadow libraries such as Library Genesis and sci-hub.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> On the modern battlefield, one side having considerably more processing power than the other side might swing the strategic balance. This means more sophisticated missiles, ECM, battlefield coordination, targeting, etc... all on the si
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> It does speak to the enormous costs, but, given the kinds of operations that they're serving with this thing, it makes some sense to me. Just a consideration: would it be cheaper to build and use an express railroad line between t
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by wolfgke 8y ago
I love my current work (in research). But it is nothing that I would ever claim to be proud of. Doing work on top of the world level is not something to be proud of, but a minimum qualification to be even suitable for research.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I ask candidates to tell me about something they created they are proud of, and why. Never be proud of anything that you created - since it probably is not of "top of the world quality". Even in the rare case that it is - it
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> This - we really need a law requiring companies post what the jobs pays. It would solve so many problems - including ones like this, gender discrimination, etc. A much simpler solution: if lots of programmers would strongly avoid to ta
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I think the widescale lack of communicating without empathizing pheromones is quite obviously making a shitstorm of the whole wide world. I rather believe that deep empathy for your own groups is the cause of many shitstorms. To quote
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Isn't programming more or less a group endeavor now? It is still more solitary than many other jobs. On the other hand, I hate that it becomes more and more a group endeavor - I would love if it stayed much more solitary as in for
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> What infrastructure do you have in mind? All kinds. From your mentioned international work contracts and payments over structuring the work/code so that in can easier be distributed worldwide,using standardized hardware and softwa
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> That is why the small startup has to do what FANG is not willing to do, like full remote work anywhere for everyone. This is in my opinion (because of the infrastructure) easier to do for FANG than for the startup.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Even more curious is that IT culture is basically that if you want to get paid what you're worth, you have to quit and go to another company. This is a very US-centric perspective. At least in Germany, the situation is somehwat di
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by wolfgke 8y ago
It is a difference whether the fault for this lies at the Google engineers or the kernel maintainers.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> And at that point you have to ask what is gained, and at this point the answer is "nothing". Not having to care about the permanent breaking of internal kernel APIs is not "nothing".
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> They're prosecuting him for conspiracy to break into DoD computers. So for doing source research.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19599699 (sorry for this shameless promotion of my HN submission)
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by wolfgke 8y ago
There are people who quite like this outsider role. Concerning the "Hollywood argument": if I think how Hollywood demands DRM in evermore standards and to infect your life, not being liked by Hollywood is one of the best advertise
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Do you seriously think the thing keeping you from paying for this article is lack of anonymity? First: I wrote about "a way to do micropayments completely anonymously" which is actually two things: 1. a way to do micropayme
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> what would your ideal means of both reading these stories, and funding the production of them, look like? First step: create a way to do micropayments completely anonymously in the internet.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I had no idea code bodies have been doing this... incredible. Requiring private individuals to pay a private entity for access to the law under which they are bound is unconscionable, to say the least. In particular for people who are
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> Do you believe that the Linux Kernel is fragmented? I do.
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> And so trusting third party certificate issuers who currently don't verify websites or their owners and having them now certify apps is a pretty big leap. That is why you should only do this if you are aware of the consequences.
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What it’s like to live with a chronic urge to die(highline.huffingtonpost.com)
14 points by wolfgke 8y ago|1 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
Follow-ups: https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1114951724769456128 https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/1113919962995884033
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Julian Assange Will Be Expelled from Ecuador's Embassy(twitter.com)
2 points by wolfgke 8y ago|1 comments
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> One reason that Europe has very few innovative new companies created in the last 25 years is that everyone is at the coffee shop writing poetry. I rather think a central reason (at least in Germany) lies in the complicated laws regardi
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> I find it strange that the author would not publish the paper on his website but would submit it to random people that ask for it on email. I don't know whether he will submit it to random people who ask for it. But he will probab
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by wolfgke 8y ago
> This link is to an extended abstract. Is the full paper available? The website of one of the authors is > http://pt.withington.org/ Just ask him. :-)

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