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by woofie11 5y ago
I dislike this. The ½ comes from an integration. Whenever you see a square term in an equation, there's often a corresponding ½. Yes, we could "simplify" equations by getting rid of the ½ and squashing it into the units, but
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by woofie11 5y ago
Increasingly nominally. Right now, the protection is about 50%. I expect it will continue to fall as the virus evolves. 50% is a lot from a public health perspective -- there's a huge difference in the exponent -- but not something you
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by woofie11 5y ago
For the most part, these types of researchers don't publish in venues their claimed beneficiaries can't read: * It sets up horrible power dynamics in advocacy (parents with journal subscriptions can't advocate for their kids
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by woofie11 5y ago
No, I'm not defending the CCP's actions, and my best argument for the CCP is that I'd like a diversity of economic, political, and cultural systems around the world. I don't like monocultures. They're brittle.
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by woofie11 5y ago
> On experimentation, communism and authoritarianism have been tried many, many times. There's nothing novel or experimental about it. We know it sucks. We know what Taliban style Islamic theocracies are like too, Afghanistan has be
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by woofie11 5y ago
Well, the US did kinda oops away a million Muslims in response to 9/11, and over a half-million Americans in lack of response to COVID19. And we do have that whole gitmo thing. Plus, we had the whole slavery bit we keep forgetting abou
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by woofie11 5y ago
There's a famous quote attributed to Churchill: “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.” The only way we'll find better ones is if we keep exploring. It's not so much that I want more or fewer r
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by woofie11 5y ago
I'm no more or less comfortable with authoritarian government than I am with an authoritarian market-based corporatocracy. Odds are that you are under an NDA which limits your freedom of speech. Odds are that if you refused to sign one
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by woofie11 5y ago
I can think of close to zero times when I would need my full photo collection, in full resolution, all at once. In most cases, for showing photos, even 1080p highly-compressed is fine. In rare cases, I want to edit an old photo, and I want
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by woofie11 5y ago
Well, my experience is that grey/black markets and crime pop up virtually everywhere where people can't afford to make an honest living which covers food and housing. Once you reach a certain bar, people do the right thing. $40k i
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by woofie11 5y ago
Mid-range engineer at big tech makes $350k / year. I think having a vulnerability like this go to Microsoft instead of criminals is easily worth a few engineer-years. A $1M payout is just not unreasonable or even difficult for a $2.5T
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by woofie11 5y ago
I can pay for a terabyte of Amazon Glacier for $50/year. Amazon Deep Glacier is $12 per month. $300/year for 2TB isn't happening. I can buy a 12TB HDD for less, if I shop around. I'd like a service like this to keep smal
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by woofie11 5y ago
The context you're missing is it doesn't matter. Next person to discover a similar vulnerability in Azure will have a choice: 1. Disclose to Microsoft for $40k 2. Disclose to an intelligence agency for several times that 3. Disclo
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by woofie11 5y ago
I certainly meant no attack on Bitcoin. I don't even have an opinion on Bitcoin. I do have a mild beef with many of the other uses of blockchain technologies, but bad uses don't invalidate a technology.
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by woofie11 5y ago
At present, the accepted definition doesn't. From Wikipedia: "A blockchain is a growing list of records, called blocks, that are linked together using cryptography. Each block contains a cryptographic hash of the previous block, a
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by woofie11 5y ago
This seems wrong.... git is a form of blockchain. My use for a blockchain is for a system where even if I were the only writer, I would want there to be an archival, tamperproof record which anyone can verify. I publish a daily hash, which
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by woofie11 5y ago
No. He means "clever" or "inquisitive." The way I think about programming changed a lot from having used different programming paradigms. Many programming paradigms have little real-world value, but they do make you thin
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by woofie11 5y ago
Can you interpret this graph for those of us who don't understand the point? Serious question.
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by woofie11 5y ago
I actually think the take-home pay would be below minimum wage here. 15-30 isn't take-home. In most companies, you'd be down to 7.5-15 after basic overhead (taxes, insurance, etc.). Add material costs, time to spend running web si
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by woofie11 5y ago
Have you published much? I haven't seen many careful reviewers. It's an anonymous process, and no reason to put in any effort at all. On the procrastination list, peer reviews are the very last thing scientists do.
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by woofie11 5y ago
Yeah. The math is wonky. Vaccinations reduce transmission by about 50%. They don't reach herd immunity even at 100% vaccination, but they do help. Vaccinations + N95 masks + modest social distancing likely would do it. But we'll p
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by woofie11 5y ago
Editor of BMJ estimates about 20% of scientific publications are fraudulent. https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/07/05/time-to-assume-that-hea... Fewer than half replicate. I would estimate a lot of that come
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by woofie11 5y ago
Have you seen peer review catch issues in papers you've submitted? Of the papers I've submitted, exactly one received a quality peer review. The rest were nonsense. Both accepted and rejected papers clearly weren't read. All
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by woofie11 5y ago
I wish there was a way for me to transform this statement. The peer review process is a joke. Preprints are every bit as good as peer-reviewed publications, for now. This will change if pre-prints ever offer bona fide academic points, but f
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by woofie11 5y ago
I'm less concerned about someone from a thousand years ago, as I am about me. COVID21 (or nukes or insert your favorite apocalypse) sweeps through and wipes out 90% of mankind. We instantly lose our ability to manufacture ICs, which re
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by woofie11 5y ago
I don't get the economics here. The sword run around 300 euro in the online storefront, and claim to be 10-20 hours of work. I pay about 15-30 euro per hour of labor. Toss in equipment, materials, labor, overhead, taxes, benefits, and
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by woofie11 5y ago
I kinda wish this stuff was saved in a warehouse somewhere in a deep cave. In a post-apocalyptic world, even a z80 microprocessor can put our tech tree 1000 years forward.
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by woofie11 5y ago
The whole point of Apple's system is that I don't need to upload an image anywhere. Images from my phone can be stolen and reviewed with no due process, based on proprietary Apple technology.
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by woofie11 5y ago
> False positives. Only false positives. I really doubt this. In the long term, a few people Apple wants to frame will surely slip into the mix. If Apple didn't want Trump to win, a CASM flag a week before the election might do it.
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by woofie11 5y ago
I don't really want my family photos reviewed by strangers. "Reducing the search space" of photos on my phone isn't an outcome I want to live with. At the time someone is looking at photos of my, my wife/husband&#x2

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