ObviousScience

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by ObviousScience 12y ago
> (1) 99.6% is not that much higher than the usual federal prosecution rates (I think they get a net of ~96% when I looked it up a few months for a different discussion), It's an order of magnitude better, which is mildly startling.
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Except that I know people who have accepted plea bargains for things that they probably would have prevailed at trial on, because the risk of losing at trial outweighs accepting the plea bargain (or they didn't have the money for a pro
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
A city with 50,000 compromised heaters drawing 1.5KW lets an attacker play with 75MW on the electric grid. (I just picked the middle value in a list of heaters; probably not a good estimate.) A moderate county (roughly 2 million people in 8
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
For the record, I downvoted you both for posting insubstantial comments that are basically throwing out an opinion with nothing of substance, while I upvoted this one for talking about relevant issues. But I do think that there's an ar
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
It's absolutely fantastic that < 100 years of purposeful hardware research and < 1 year of training can compete with 3 billion years of meandering hardware building and 16 years of training, to the point that the latter feels the
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I've always wanted to experiment with taking small doses of LSD (~10-20ug) reguarly. I thought it would be an interesting experience, since I tend to feel more personable on LSD, especially during the come up/come down from it.
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Fly back? You'd probably just drop the cargo and crash the drone somewhere random nearby. If you're smuggling 100k of drugs (or even 30k of drugs), you can just accept the 5k airframe as a transport cost and move on.
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
> The idea of having tools to parse and rewrite my code to be as generic as possible came to me years ago. You basically want an obfuscator that replaces all the names of things with generics, and then randomly permutes blocks of code w
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Have you ever had your bitcoins stolen? I'd rather have my credit card stolen, which I'm not liable for if I report it promptly, instead of just being out of the funds permanently.
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Your comment doesn't reply to his argument, which in your terms, is that we should optimize for cheaper builds that are more visible over more expensive builds than are less visible (or rather, adjust the blend of the two we produce) s
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
There's already precedent about this involving radiated IR, which ruled that police may not use such tools without a warrant, as it violates what people normally consider to be private information. It's possible that different rul
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
It doesn't help their case in my mind that they probably broke the law with the seizures they performed: I was using Megaupload to store backups and distribute files I legally owned, such a game maps or documents. During their raids, t
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I'm curious how often the lowest price is > 90% of Amazon's price. (And for that matter, > 80%, 65%, and 50%.) There's a certain premium I'm willing to pay to have it all handled by one reliable company, as long as
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
It also works if you disable javascript.
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I'm late to the party, but you can (theoretically) receive the death penalty in the US from the federal government for operating as a drug kingpin. There's some unsettled aspects that may allow you to appeal that sentence, but it&
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I hear that a lot, but I just don't have about more than even 30 minutes of pretend interest to give people I find boring. Maybe I'm an asshole, but I genuinely prefer to just sit alone and think about things than talk to people I
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
About 5 parents are killed in the US a week. Of course, this isn't a HUGE danger, I'm just saying that it's a risk to having children. (This isn't counting things like mothers dying from childbirth, which still also happ
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
For the record, plane geometry wasn't solved by Euclid's "Elements"; the conjecture about the 5th postulate remained open for a substantial amount of time, and other axioms were introduced when it was pointed out that Eu
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I think it's incredibly selfish and poorly thought out to create another kind of mind only if it serves us. Much like parenting, I think it should be done because there's another kind of mind to be had, regardless of the exact out
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
> However, by their measure, the results that were prepared in LaTeX were inferior to the results created in in Word. They didn't measure the quality of the typesetting in any fashion, though, which is what the GP's claim was a
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
There are two major faults in this study: 1. They compare only "errors", but don't have any measure of overall document quality. It's certainly the case that it's easier to make mistakes in LaTeX, but I find that pe
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I agree that the standard exists for a reason; my point was that it's unfair to characterize him as not trying. The standard doesn't just make it hard to follow someone who sets out a new branch in depth - it makes it virtually im
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
As I recall, he's personally tutoring at least one other mathematician, doing lectures, etc -- that is, I'm pretty sure he's doing the last two of your suggestions. Writing books, of course, is a multi-year process in additio
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
> "simply not qualified" to issue a definitive statement on the proof unless they start from the very basics of his theory How is it arrogant to say people need to study the whole branch, from the beginning, rather than just t
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
The thing is, I can smear $5M across say 5 physical locations in a way I can't with actual money. With actual money, the best I could do is put $1M at each physical location. With bitcoin, I could put a portion of the key at each physi
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Even with automatic transfers, I think there's a difference between wallets that are queued up and actively sending money out of the system, and wallets that are queued up to do so (or to refill that wallet). The difference lies in the
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I think the point is that most web developers (even very good, experienced ones) are amateurs at topics like server security or financial accounting/controls because those topics are outside of their domain knowledge. It takes more tha
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
I can't speak to the statistic about households, because I don't understand enough about how that's measured or where the correlation would be significant. However: > According to a separate study cited by the Journal, onl
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
> Earlier today Vance gave the keynote speech at the conference, hosted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, saying he was going “rouge” by speaking out on the matter. He made an emotional plea that police might not be able to stop cr
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by ObviousScience 12y ago
Flash drives have two weaknesses: 1. The complexity of the USB protocol enables certain kinds of attacks that aren't possible through a floppy interface. 2. The circuitry present in a USB drive is capable of being partially replaced wi

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