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by xamuel 8y ago
HTTP is simple enough I can literally create a barebones semi-compliant HTTP server from scratch. If all it has to do is serve some static pages, I can do this in ~1000 lines or less. I don't need any infrastructure beyond basic TCP&#x
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by xamuel 8y ago
From a purely selfish perspective: HTTP worst case: your reader is harmed. HTTPS worst case: you yourself are harmed (e.g., if someone finds a zero-day in a cryptography library and uses it to run arbitrary code on your server)
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by xamuel 8y ago
Or reviving dead actors/celebrities. New John Wayne films, new early-Beatles performances. Or personalized films: insert your own family into (insert family-friendly classic film). I hope we don't throw the baby out with the bathw
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by xamuel 8y ago
This would only hinder amateurs. Pros will just intercept the camera's own sensors. (A simple version of which can be done by amateurs: take a certified video of an uncertified video.) Maybe you could build GPS into the signature, whic
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by xamuel 8y ago
Philosophy has done plenty since Wittgenstein. It takes hundreds of years for it to become household knowledge. So of course anyone who doesn't actively study it will feel it hasn't moved much. (Most laymen still don't know W
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by xamuel 8y ago
For those who just want the list (which is buried annoyingly deep): * New York * Florida * Connecticut * Nevada * Wyoming
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by xamuel 8y ago
I was not aware of that, but it looks pretty obviously related to what I wrote, lol! Thanks :)
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by xamuel 8y ago
The article points out that the trick can be applied to integrals to which it doesn't seem applicable, by introducing a new parameter to the integrand which was not there before. In general, that kind of tactic gives me hope someday ma
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by xamuel 8y ago
As opposed to the alternative where people buy said meds from a dude in an alleyway?
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by xamuel 8y ago
So ease access to the drugs and tighten the regulations around advertising. The fact we have consumer-driven ads for prescription drugs at all is like something you'd expect in a satire novel :P
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by xamuel 8y ago
Quite right. Incidentally, you might be interested in a recent paper of mine arguing that one extremely specific type of 'multiverse' (an extremely specific type of our living in a simulation run in a higher universe) is falsifiab
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by xamuel 8y ago
Question for someone who actually knows the details: do Everett/Tegmark really imply nightmare universes (as the article claims)? Or is this yet another instance of the common misconception that "if there are infinitely many unive
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A type of simulation some evidence suggests we don't live in (2018) [pdf](philpapers.org)
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by xamuel 8y ago
The final paragraph is my favorite. I have a PhD in mathematics but I've since realized I'm not a mathematician, I'm more of a logician/philosopher. I find the parable very interesting, but I can totally believe a lot of
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by xamuel 8y ago
R(3,3) doesn't say a clique necessarily forms. It says a clique forms or an anti-clique forms (or both). If all six are friends, then there are (6 choose 3) cliques. If all six hate each other, there are (6 choose 3) anti-cliques. If o
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by xamuel 8y ago
Oh, now I see what you're saying. Ok, you're right, to be pedantic, the original phenomenon should be reworded: Whenever 6+ kids get together, either there are 3 mutual friends, or there are 3 kids K1,K2,K3 such that for any two K
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by xamuel 8y ago
The isomorphism is: let the kids be nodes. Between kids x and y, place a red edge if x and y are friends, or place a blue edge if x and y are not friends.
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by xamuel 8y ago
This kind of proves the point. You're misunderstanding the mathematics. Asymmetry of friendship is irrelevant. Whether the friendships have non-local dependency is irrelevant. The kids' friendship and non-friendship IS a colored
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by xamuel 8y ago
For some reason, the situation reminds me of the plot from Dr. Strangelove :P
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by xamuel 8y ago
>2018-07-12 9:49 UTC: The attacker used the generated authentication token to publish eslint-config-eslint@5.0.2, which contained a malicious postinstall script that attempts to exfiltrate the local machine’s .npmrc authentication token.
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by xamuel 8y ago
Maybe a good way of explaining it would be like this: if someone magically had a blue spine, this technique would still show their spine as being white (unless the doctor already knew their spine was blue and adjusted the parameters accordi
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by xamuel 8y ago
Here's an example. You stumble on a bunch of psychology papers in which psychologists noticed that whenever 6+ kids get together, there are either three mutual friends, or three mutual non-friends. The psychologists think this has some
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by xamuel 8y ago
>In 1988 she sold the manuscript of The Trial for $2 million, at which point it became clear that one could turn quite a profit from Kafka To some, $2 million would be a bargain for, say, a new Kafka novel. The conspiracy theorist side o
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by xamuel 8y ago
He only did three novels, so you've already finished 1/3 of them. The Castle: The only difficulty here is some conversations take forever (probably because they were never revised). I'd suggest just plowing through them the f
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by xamuel 8y ago
The car dealer should have accounted for that risk in their interest rate. If the recipient of the car didn't sign anything, they should not be liable to return car or money. What if I took out a payment plan to buy a sandwich, gave th
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by xamuel 8y ago
Not sure why people are down-voting you. That's a very important and dangerous quotation from the article. This whole situation sheds a dim light on UK politics: is voting in the UK nothing more than a ritual to legitimize decisions al
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by xamuel 8y ago
Absolutely unsurprising given the current state of hype. How to get rich: (A) Start a page that applies photoshop effects to user-uploaded pictures. (B) Secretly accomplish A using low-paid grunts. (C) Claim it's done with AI, obtain a
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by xamuel 8y ago
>the "final frontier" of scientific research. Not in a literal sense Real AI would literally be the final frontier, because at that point, all the scientists could quit their jobs. The AI could replace them. But real AI is a
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by xamuel 8y ago
At least the architect in question was honest. It would have been so easy to spout some generic BS about "industry standard", "principle of parsimony", etc. etc.
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by xamuel 8y ago
You're implicitly assuming that you yourself have free will and/or are too complicated for a computer to mimic. Because if not, then I could just be a computer which doesn't even hear the words you are saying, and is merely r

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