zerebubuth

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by zerebubuth 3y ago
This looks really interesting. What do you think the license of the articles should be?
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by zerebubuth 8y ago
I don't think we can assume it's within 1 hour of being reported. The press release also says: > In addition to referrals, internet companies should implement proactive measures, including automated detection, to effectively an
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by zerebubuth 8y ago
I think there's a big difference between "everyone else is awful", "there's statistically enough awful individuals" and "every driver is trying to kill me". Only the last one of those is going to lead
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by zerebubuth 8y ago
I wonder if part of the problem might be a natural tendency to generalise bad behaviour of a small number onto the whole group? For example, I might see several instances of individual cyclists running red lights and generalise that to &quo
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by zerebubuth 8y ago
Sounds a lot like the "on the fly parsing" (§3.1) in Alagiannis' NoDB (See https://stratos.seas.harvard.edu/files/stratos/files/nodb-ca... for details).
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by zerebubuth 8y ago
I think you're absolutely correct! In each round, I reckon the optimal strategy for the "cut" will likely be the same as partisan cuts are now; densely pack the opposition's supporters into a small number of districts, w
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by zerebubuth 8y ago
Do you think it might work to tell Facebook that in a year's time they'll be broken up into (for example) 5 separate companies, and their users will be assigned at random to one of those parts but must also be allowed to move betw
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by zerebubuth 8y ago
I'm glad you found them useful! The code which made all the metro extracts was embedded as a Chef recipe, although I'm sure you could just extract the bits which do stuff from the Chef wrappers: https://github.com/
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by zerebubuth 8y ago
Mapzen, a now sadly defunct mapping startup, also had an awesome (if I say so myself - I used to work there, but not on that team) vector tile renderer for browser and mobile. Check it out at https://github.com/tangrams Als
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by zerebubuth 8y ago
Mapzen, a now sadly defunct mapping startup, released all of its software open-source, including WebGL mobile and browser SDKs, map tile rendering, search and routing. Take a look at: https://github.com/tangrams/ http
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by zerebubuth 8y ago
One method for making a copy or crawl very difficult to tamper with is to publish a hash somewhere difficult to forge (e.g: in a national newspaper or opentimestamps). That won't prove the copy wasn't manipulated before it was arc
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
> for me the solution was to find social circles beyond work. For me I have my church community and also meetup groups with other developers in a similar field. I think you are exactly right. Additionally, I think having a variety of soc
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
This is why I subscribe to an independent review and consumer advice service / magazine. Money, even in small amounts, seems to distort reviews. Before I trust a review I want to know where the money that paid for it came from.
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
> Like many new technologies, it can be used for both good and bad. Harnessing nuclear reactions can be used to generate massive amounts of electricity, or to level cities. What's important is that it's regulated, not that it&#
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
> If you asked users to mark stories they considered fake, some would mark info wars and some would mark huff post. It's possible that's the right answer, and that there should be more scepticism of stories from both of those s
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
Wow! That's really impressive. Seems like a _lot_ of work and ingenuity went into this. It's great that large, corporate projects like Chrome OS are attracting the sustained attention necessary to find bugs such as this one. But I
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
> Under capitalism wealth and power always concentrates Not always. The share of wealth owned by the top 10% in the USA fell between 1932 and 1952, and again between 1962 and 1985 [1]. [1] http://gabriel-zucman.eu/files&#
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
> If there is no way to be productive there (aka jobs) they can and should move. A possible problem might be that a failing area is likely to be undesirable and therefore have low property prices and concomitant taxes. Moving to a more d
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
I absolutely agree that Wallaroo Labs wrote the code, and they get to decide what license is on it. It is, as you say, their business. > And don't forget that programmers need to eat too. "Widely used" does not directly tr
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
I think that one of the great benefits to open source platforms such as PostgreSQL, Hadoop, Kafka and others is that their open license guarantees no vendor lock-in. This means users can relax in the knowledge that the platform won't d
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
I wasn't suggesting that anyone define or prove a "market rate" for intangibles. I agree that would be a waste of time. The reason I mentioned it was as a contrast to IP licenses, for which no market exists. Profits are subje
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
I thought that a necessary part of the "Double Irish with a Dutch Sandwich" was that a company in a tax haven can license IP to its subsidiary at an arbitrary price. Therefore, that company can offset any profit its own subsidiary
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
> My hope is that technologists also get involved in the political process — in government, in think-tanks, universities, and so on. How does one do this? What might Bruce Schneier be thinking of that the EFF, Liberty, Privacy Internatio
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
From the data on the Wikipedia page for the Boeing 747, it looks like the empty weight is around half the maximum take-off weight. Passenger and cargo aircraft seem to usually turn around quite quickly and spend only a small amount of time
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
An example from the linked blog post: > It strikes me that anti-microkernel sentiment most vocally originates as a sort of tribal affiliation mechanism by Linux users to ward off insecurity. I think the post would be a better reference a
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
The authors of the paper identify a trend of "growth that began in the 1970's", and say that correlates with the emergence of IT firms being able to erect barriers to competition. It might be coincidence, but the late 1970s i
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
> by the time that millennials walk the halls of power, their parents will have signed away all their rights. I don't think this is a generational thing. Governments have always been trying to spy on their citizens since governments
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
I think that expectations from physical-world objects could be clashing with online service "objects". For example, if I buy a physical-world object then it's well-understood that the vendor can't break into my house and
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by zerebubuth 9y ago
I think that a big problem with the UK rail privatisation was that it split a large, badly-run monopoly up into smaller, regional monopolies. Some of which have proved to be just as badly-run. In some ways this seems similar to the breakup
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by zerebubuth 10y ago
Single-payer systems are not without problems either. Unless we're rich enough, as a society, to pay for perfect healthcare for everyone then there will be some people who get less than perfect care. In an individual-pays system, those

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