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by woofie11 5y ago
I think it's only the dumb ones who get caught. Source: I've met a few white collar criminals.
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by woofie11 5y ago
Apple is claiming to have a visual equivalent to a cryptographic hash -- one which won't change with a single byte, but only if the image is substantially different. At least their security analysis relies on that. From their whitepape
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by woofie11 5y ago
No. Most proper cryptographic hash systems (e.g. used for verifying files, rather than data structures) never have collisions. Try to find a SHA256 collision. Anywhere, ever, in the history of mankind. This isn't for lack of looking. A
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by woofie11 5y ago
Yeah, no. * If I click on the web site, there is no privacy policy given. It just links back to the front page (Chrome) * Anything with a subscription has got to send some data somewhere. * All the language about "privacy-centric"
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by woofie11 5y ago
Indeed... * All the potential wars where nations had a disagreement, but did nothing. * All the chemical and biological weapons nations might have built, but didn't. * ... And I'm sure glad we built universal surveillance systems.
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by woofie11 5y ago
> This is logistically impossible and completely unrealistic. If you can find any literature or any experts suggesting that this is feasible, please share. This doesn't need to be 100%. Large swaths of the world rely on help for vac
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by woofie11 5y ago
I don't quite think that's how it works with Linux. Linux was not trademarked. Some asshole grabbed the trademark, fraudulently. There was a litigation. It was moved into stewardship so the same thing doesn't happen again. h
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by woofie11 5y ago
The trademark situation here seems impossible. I wasn't even aware that redis was a trademark, and everyone I know has been using it generically for years, including the Redis Labs itself. They have a few paths: - Become evil and nasty
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by woofie11 5y ago
I wouldn't want this in git mainline. git is a clear, simple file format (with a horrible user space) which makes sense as the back end of far more things than it is used for. I feel like integrating this into mainline is a little bit
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by woofie11 5y ago
Spirited and informed debate: Virtually everything I see suggests that the effect is bimodal: 1. Everyone gets vaccinated at the same time, and the disease goes away. Not a lot of disease means not a lot of mutations. 2. No one gets vaccina
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by woofie11 5y ago
It can, but it's a lousy argument. If my body doesn't affect your body, it should be my choice. Freedom is an American value. It's not a world value, and I wouldn't impose it on other countries, but it is an American one
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by woofie11 5y ago
I found it varies. When I don't find something with DDG, I use !g to switch to Google. Google often finds it. But the reverse is true too. DDG is now my default, but before, when Google didn't find something, I'd switch to DD
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by woofie11 5y ago
I'll tell you another secret: Basic economics works pretty well and isn't very hard. Economists are poor because there isn't any competitive advantage. Any competently-run business of any significant size should have plenty o
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by woofie11 5y ago
That's actually quite exactly the behavior you expect from a competitive duopoly. In a duopoly, I know that if I lower prices, you'll match. Operating at the Nash Equilibrium isn't anticompetitive. I'm not disagreeing wi
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by woofie11 5y ago
Marketshare. The law sees marketshare. * Google and Apple compete against each other, so there is no monopoly. * Microsoft had no effective competitors. You don't need a monopoly for antitrust, but it sure makes for a stronger case.
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by woofie11 5y ago
It's funny, but I think that attitude is how it got that way. Most places, it's not okay to criticize the system. Without criticism, things don't improve. In Slavic countries, it's expected that everyone criticize the sy
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by woofie11 5y ago
I've been really sad to see Poland Westernize as quickly as it did. It lost a lot of its essence. One piece missing from this article, though, is the world-class education system. Compare Poland and the US on PISA scores. I think only
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by woofie11 5y ago
Cite? * There are different levels of "humungous." In Soviet-style countries, party members were "rich" in the sense of having a few times the resources of a typical citizen (e.g. 5x). In the US, the rich might have $100
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by woofie11 5y ago
Do a quick web search for Dweck: 1) Results don't replicate. 2) Look up her article in Nature, which claims to be preregistered, then look at the actual preregistration. See the data mismatch. 3) Read her book, and look at the claims i
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by woofie11 5y ago
My recollection was that Google was outgunned by Baidu and similar Chinese tools, who were being actively supported by the CCP, while Google was half-tolerate. At the same time, it was losing security, IP, and reputation. There was a nice P
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by woofie11 5y ago
Read the license. "Pay once and don't use it" would be a fair description.
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by woofie11 5y ago
This is exactly right. About half of the people I've seen leave MIT for faculty positions at better schools engaged in these kinds of academic fraud. I only saw one case of outright fabrication, but publishing results which the researc
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by woofie11 5y ago
He indubitably is. And this is common. MIT uses NDAs and non-disparage agreements to cover stuff like this up, unless you bring it up first in a very public forum. Stanford has researchers who are well-known outright frauds now driving educ
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by woofie11 5y ago
Goodness, I hope not! I run GNU/Linux, and use encryption. Any mandatory technology which could scan my hard drive for child porn could scan it for: - Antigovernment subversive materials - Embarrassing things to blackmail me with - Non
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by woofie11 5y ago
.... Wait a minute. You got a bluetooth headset working reliably with Linux? Tell me more...
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by woofie11 5y ago
My problem is that all of these are incompatible. Woe be to whomever has an OSS app, an ALSA app, a JACK app, and a PulseAudio app, all of which want to run at the same time. I don't get why this was never fixed at the kernel level. Yo
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by woofie11 5y ago
I disagree. There are incompatible design disciplines and architectures. 100% functional code is a lot better than 99% functional. 99% functional is a mess. 100% functional gives strong guarantees. You can split up code horizontally (MVC),
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by woofie11 5y ago
I've seen amateur programmers produced great code, due to cultures of code review, peer mentorship, high professional standards, and time to think deeply through problems and talk things over. I've worked in companies where great
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by woofie11 5y ago
Outwards arrogance is often the manifestation of impostor syndrome, but I digress. Corporate arrogance isn't a property of individual personalities. Most Googlers are perfectly nice people. The Google corporate culture is a whole is ro
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by woofie11 5y ago
It's helpful to explain this to recent grads. A lot of really good people are discouraged by repeated rejection. However, high levels of rejection of very qualified people are built into this (and many similar) systems. You have to be

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