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by zby 11y ago
But then the super-human intelligence will give us some convincing arguments for one or the other side :)
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by zby 11y ago
Frameworks are framing libraries are liberating :)
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by zby 11y ago
Yeah - that was it. Apparently it is in public domain now: http://www.sffaudio.com/the-unreconstructed-m-by-philip-k-di... so you can read it here: http://www.sffaudio.com/podcasts/TheUnreconstructedMBy
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by zby 11y ago
Hmm - but: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Fide... Looks like it was not that easy - even for a superpower like the USA. Now imagine that they had miniature bots that could follow the target (an
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by zby 11y ago
The biggest problem with this is that this is perfect for political assasinations. It can be precise enough and it can be probably leave little traces or be made hard to identify who was controlling the weapon - just like now we have proble
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by zby 11y ago
Poisonous stings instead of explosives
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by zby 11y ago
Another take on that subject: http://www.faz.net/aktuell/feuilleton/debatten/the-digital-d...
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by zby 11y ago
Do you disable Java Script in your browser? Or maybe you only go to websites that you are sure about?
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by zby 11y ago
Looks like with cameras we are already there: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/02/this-is-why-people-fear-... "Imagine buying an internet-enabled surveillance camera, network attached storage device, or home
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by zby 11y ago
Sorry - I was curious what the HN bunch would tell about this. But you are right - there is not enough information right now for any deep comments. The examples so far are too simple.
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by zby 11y ago
Yeah - this is a hard problem and the chances are small. Nevertheless if you had 20+ years of experience in programming textual languages than it is no surprise that you understand them better than visual languages. That part of your argume
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by zby 11y ago
How much of that 20+ years of experience was in visual languages and how much it was in textual languages?
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Luna: Visual and textual functional programming language(luna-lang.org)
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by zby 11y ago
In traditional societies public outrage has always been taboo. In our society, when you take into account traditional communication modes, it is not that different. The problem is with electronic communication - which feels like a private c
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by zby 11y ago
The point was about code 'too concise' - this is different from 'not clear'.
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by zby 11y ago
In my opinion programming is about solving programming problems. There are other important parts - like understanding user needs etc - but solving problems is at the core of it. In practice usually these programming problems are easier - bu
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by zby 11y ago
The problem with people writing too concise code is with their motivation not with their abilities - and so it is probably impossible to test (at least directly), because on the test they would have the motivation to do the right thing.
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by zby 11y ago
Just to make it explicit - what kind of trade-offs do you have on mind? I have some stake in https://Codility.com - I could perhaps ask them to add a new kind of tests :)
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by zby 11y ago
Interesting - how would you flag it? In what way was their code gibberish? In my experience people who understand complex concepts can also understand how to write clear code. Maybe those that you are writing about were not motivated to do
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by zby 11y ago
You are right that the biggest part of the job is easy - but testing the easy parts is useless - all programmers would pass it. A test must be hard in some way if it is to filter people. Disclaimer: I have a stake in https://codi
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by zby 11y ago
It is only dramatic because you seem to think that Mike Hearn declared the cryptocurrency experiment a failure - but he did not. Bitcoin is the first decentralized cryptocurrency - if it fails because of some social dynamic issues - there w
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by zby 11y ago
This anthropomorphising is a good way to deliver the message: The devices and applications are not any more simple tools, like a hammer or axe, that we operate - they are more controlled remotely by their creators then by their users.
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by zby 11y ago
Not really - just read wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock Galileo improved the clock slightly - but 'inventing timekeeping' is only a clickbait. A much better article on the history of timekeeping
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by zby 11y ago
"Ending cronyism is fairly straight-forward" - I don't think so. Surely you can end one kind of cronyism by replacing it by another one - but it is practically impossible to have a system where those who are better off cannot
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by zby 11y ago
That Enigma project that he bases his opinion on looks rather suspicious for me. Here is their white-paper: http://enigma.media.mit.edu/enigma_full.pdf I am a bit skeptical on anything with blockchain in the synopsis these
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by zby 11y ago
The centralized systems are more efficient. Is that a typo in your comment? Assuming that you mean calculating the inefficiencies caused by decentralization - that is easy - it is the whole mining industry. A centralized server would not
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by zby 11y ago
Not really - if a wing moves through fluid without viscosity it still has to move the particles down.
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by zby 11y ago
It is great atrticle - but one thing it has backwards - Bernoulli principle is harder to understand than the second Newton law. Also I don't buy that viscosity argument - viscosity diverts air not down - but vertically. The move down i
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by zby 11y ago
Surveillance is unstoppable - even if we don't let the authorities to have security cams it will be the population that will have them.
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by zby 11y ago
Cyber-security in general is political. This guy is a cryptographer - so it is natural that he formulated this for his own area - but it is too narrow. Hackers are now routinely the foot soldiers of the cyber-war of everyone against everyon

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