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by yk 12y ago
I would call it rather a back of the envelope calculation, but if the multiplyer is too small, then you increase dept more than GDP. So yes, the policy of a stimulus program still needs to be good enough, my point is that after a certain po
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by yk 12y ago
No matter how you measure it, the Government of Japan is up to its neck in debt, and is still sinking. Thing is, you need to measure the dept against some measure of economic activity ( or actually against some measure of pay back
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by yk 12y ago
Just trying to make sense of the news, ( did I miss something, or is this the current state of the rumor mill?) 1. Truecrypt.org redirects to TrueCrypt's sourceforge account. 2. The sourceforge page is defaced. 3. There is a signed(?)
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by yk 12y ago
I think the problem of Python 3 is, that it is too close to Python 2. Learning Python for the first time is really fun, compared to other languages. There is almost always a interesting technique that does exactly what you need and usually
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by yk 12y ago
In the last year we did see Linux on HD controllers and SD cards, so I do not think that they need to be backdoored by default, but a exploitable keyboard controller seems to be possible.
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by yk 12y ago
We have essentially such a system in Germany, does not work well. Thing is, that the owner of the network has then to compete with the resellers, but the resellers need to play nice with the owner. The result is a total mess of regulation t
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by yk 12y ago
They are not space time diagrams, they are Feynman graphs. Technically they are a clever way to write down the terms of a series expansion. In the convention used, on the left hand side are the incoming particles and the outgoing particles
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by yk 12y ago
Thing is, computers were build to handle scientific problems. And it shows in numerical programs, a especially egregious example was a simulation program with ~1k LOC main. However it is possible to work with that since it has a lot of stru
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by yk 12y ago
The post somewhat misses the point of the title ( or I did overthink it). The anecdote is interesting, but not exactly a example of a arguable compiler bug. On the other hand, I think that The compiler is always right is a rather good gen
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by yk 12y ago
The solution is recognizing that a 'honest' or 'good' metric is not possible. Thing is, to produce such a list you need to have some function f, which maps the complex opinions of each and every user of the site into an
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by yk 13y ago
Both Snowden and Schneier said something to the effect of "trust the math." [1,2] Additionally the leaked Tor presentation [3] seems to indicate, that the NSA can not break the primitives used in Tor. So the algorithms that were c
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by yk 13y ago
You have a statement like "user aquisition is build in" roughly in the middle of the presentation but you don't explain that point. Which has a quite puzzling effect, since I had up to that point apparently completely misunde
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Synanon's Sober Utopia: How a Drug Rehab Program Became a Violent Cult(paleofuture.gizmodo.com)
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by yk 13y ago
If I understand correctly, they demonstrated gates in living cells. Which immediately raises further questions, can they also build circuits, where do I get that stuff and how does IO work? And to quote Gibson: the future is weird.
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by yk 13y ago
You should perhaps submit it to r/C_Programming/ since you looked there for beta readers.
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by yk 13y ago
I was one of the beta readers. The book makes quite a different trade off from most other beginner C books. Most other books follow the K&R model of short examples and a lot of detail on the topic in question, while Build your own Lisp
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by yk 13y ago
Basically Lisp is based on a very different paradigm than most mainstream languages. So if you know Lisp and program in something else, then half of the time you are reminded that the current problem would be really easy in lisp.
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by yk 13y ago
There are two different kinds of randomness [1], one is lack of knowledge, the dice you could calculate or the precise times of keystrokes which could be easily measured. The other is 'true' randomness, that is the claim that no e
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by yk 13y ago
Thing is, just like with code, you write good comments by throwing away bad ones. The writing of the bad ones is not optional.
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by yk 13y ago
> The particular definition of wrong used by Alexander would be interesting to know. Probably the definition includes, "found in a congressional report."
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by yk 13y ago
Turkey is also just blocking "illegal content."
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by yk 13y ago
Sure, build a tor client directly into Firefox.
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by yk 13y ago
The problem is of course, that we still map these different effects to the human perceptible colors, and then use a human brain and a ontology shaped by human perception to understand the resulting picture. So this needs a footnote in the f
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by yk 13y ago
I did quit my phd project half a year ago, and quite a bit of what you are writing reminds me of the time before I did quit. So first of all, you are not alone with this experience. Others were there before, and sadly others will encounter
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by yk 13y ago
I am not talking about cell volume, I am talking about number of cells. So if a single celled organism is hit by a gamma ray and a cell dies, it is dead. If a tree looses a single cell, it will probably survive.
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by yk 13y ago
Well cross section, which is in a quite handwaving way proportional to surface area.
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by yk 13y ago
Help its stangely addictive. ( Well done.) I really hope there are no subliminal messages embedded in the .gifs.
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by yk 13y ago
After hammering on my keyboard (somewhat) coherently for a long time, I would conjecture that the board is too large. So I tried to us down and either left or right alternately and switching left and right when a position would not move any
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by yk 13y ago
My guess is, for a micro-organism death of a single cell is deadly. So the first photon that comes along kills. ( A bit more formal, irradiation effects are probably proportional to the surface area, while available cells, and thus ratio of
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by yk 13y ago
Not really. The big difference between electro-magnetism and gravity is, that you have positive and negative charge for EM and only positive charge for gravity. So you can not shield gravity, because the shielding can only add to the gravit

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