alive2007

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Fight for Your Right to Rootkit(fawqasfal.substack.com)
2 points by alive2007 4y ago|0 comments
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by alive2007 8y ago
The real shocker is that it took until 2012 for this pivotal algorithm to win a Nobel Prize. David Gale had passed by then! The Nobel committee must be backlogged to Hell and back.
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by alive2007 10y ago
I see this sort of application having a lot of use in the kinds of derivative pop music developed by ensembles of songwriters and manufactured purely to generate radio hits. Bacon's Triptych of George Dyer is genius. The average person
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by alive2007 10y ago
In other news, bananas have surpassed OS X in daily Caloric consumption. I knew Apple couldn't make it without Jobs. People conflate the purposes of various products under the umbrella term "social network", which makes the
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The Zipf Curve – On IQ and Determinism(medium.com)
2 points by alive2007 10y ago|0 comments
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by alive2007 10y ago
I have thought of a fundamental fallacy in my argument. If the Universe is a computer, then it should be able to be entirely simulated within a program. Ergo, this simulation must be able to reach a point in time in which the human inside t
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LSD: QED, the Universe Is Turing-Complete(medium.com)
2 points by alive2007 10y ago|2 comments
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The Platonic Company(medium.com)
1 points by alive2007 10y ago|0 comments
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by alive2007 10y ago
I've spent some time with Stallman in real life. There is very little variance between Ubuntu and OS X to him. They both have free kernels (Linux, XNU) that come with nonfree binary blobs (device drivers) and nonfree userlands (Ubuntu
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Software Is the Platonic Daemon(medium.com)
3 points by alive2007 10y ago|0 comments
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The Problem with Stallman(medium.com)
2 points by alive2007 10y ago|3 comments
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by alive2007 10y ago
I noticed that myself. I clarified my point. IQ is heritable within observable socioeconomic brackets.
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by alive2007 10y ago
Perhaps my subjective belief of the Valley rhetoric is wrong.
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The Intellectual War on Race(medium.com)
2 points by alive2007 10y ago|2 comments
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by alive2007 10y ago
In a philosophical sense, it is not helpful to perceive the difference between "ideas" and "execution" as a binary reduction on two sets. Instead, I view it as the idea-execution gradient. The theoretical limit on an ide
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Why Ideas Matter More Than Execution(medium.com)
1 points by alive2007 10y ago|4 comments
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by alive2007 10y ago
Yeah, I definitely agree that iOS is a walled garden. It sucks and I hope Android continues growing in the high-end smartphone field so it can demolish the restrictive ecosystem that is iOS. The Play Store is relatively free. If anything, a
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Software is Dead; Long Live Software : On Massive P/E Ratios And Founder Control(medium.com)
1 points by alive2007 10y ago|0 comments
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by alive2007 10y ago
I guess in a superficial sense, OSS is still losing. But it's losing less than it was losing 10 years ago. Its been steadily growing in popularity. F(x) is still negative, but f'(x) is positive.
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by alive2007 10y ago
Good points. Developers need to make a living. In Microsoft's heyday, Microsoft could abuse their monopoly to coerce developers to care more about making a living than they cared about what they liked (OSS). Now, this simply isn't
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Microsoft Died with the DoJ Ruling in 1998, and Why That Means OSS Is Winning(medium.com)
6 points by alive2007 10y ago|6 comments
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Quantum Leap of Faith: Depression and Psychedelics in Therapy(medium.com)
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by alive2007 11y ago
Minor question; is it just me or is the "Results of Interview Simulations by Mean Score" a bit difficult to parse? I understand that observing the behavior of any singular cohort involves looking at the endpoints of the cohort&#x2
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by alive2007 11y ago
>[something semantic and pedantic about maritime vessels vs taking other's property] Piracy, or copyright infringement, or whatever the fuck you want to call it, and theft have the same practical effect : you're accessing a con
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by alive2007 11y ago
People often use this very semantic, very pedantic difference and expand it to make it a difference in practical effect. Piracy and theft have the same practical effect : you're accessing a consumable good without paying the requisite
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by alive2007 11y ago
I know, it just ticks me off when people act like they're on some fucking morally righteous journey of freedom against the evil companies, and not just finding a sleazy way to get free movies like every other broke college kid.
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by alive2007 11y ago
I'm not saying piracy has had no part in a positive change in society. I know that, without Napster, stuff like iTunes and Spotify couldn't exist. I know that Spotify itself started out with a repository of pirated music. I know t
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by alive2007 11y ago
> if a movie company won't let me pay them to let me watch a movie/TV show via Steam, Netflix, or even from their own site, then I'll just watch it on Popcorn Time and it's their loss. Right, except you don't hav