hackerblues

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by hackerblues 2y ago
> Productivity be damned, RTO makes fiscal sense when you have a 15 year lease on a building you can't get out of. I don't agree with it, but I can see why you'd want warm bodies in seats when you pay 20,000 (or more) a mo
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by hackerblues 2y ago
I'd be interested to know if you might be able to if you could find problems by looking at invariants over partitions of the space. Like Is the number of solutions with v1=false plus the number with v1=true the number with v1 free? If
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by hackerblues 9y ago
CF: effective altruism or 80,000 hours for more in this vein.
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by hackerblues 9y ago
It was an accomplice who used the information. "Mr Obama's senior science and technology adviser John Holdren had his personal accounts hacked and Gamble passed all of his personal details to an accomplice who used them to make h
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by hackerblues 10y ago
Anecdotal, but my grandfather has always advocated building physical fitness in your youth primarily to to have a strong base to carry you into old age.
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by hackerblues 12y ago
I of course have no idea what the real answer is, but if you play out the hypothetical this is hardly a paradox. NK hacks Sony. US uses technique x to attribute the attack to NK. In the course of a shared investigation NK learns what techni
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by hackerblues 12y ago
In your jewellery store example I think it may be reasonable to prosecute the person. In increasing levels of seriousness: 1. The person is walking by the store and, in the course of their everyday activity, sees that the door is ajar; they
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by hackerblues 14y ago
My argument is that the public paying for a thing is not sufficient grounds for claiming that the public should have use of that thing. Since knowledge creation and nuclear weapons are both examples of things which the public pays for, I de
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by hackerblues 14y ago
[BACKGROUND INFORMATION] When a person makes a claim like "All X's are Y's" then it is sufficient to provide a single example of an X which isn't a Y to demonstrate that the claim is false. The example is referred to as a counter example. [
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by hackerblues 14y ago
The public's taxes also fund the military. Extending your principle to this case implies that the public owns the countries nuclear arsenal. Can you advise what this ownership should practically entail? Should I get access to the weapons? S
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by hackerblues 14y ago
If you're trying to gain information and experience then it is silly to try to optimise for "How many pages have I looked at?" You need to come to terms with what the author is claiming, critically evaluate the argument used to support thos
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by hackerblues 15y ago
I believe the previous commentator was referring to the work conducted by Latanya Sweeney http://dataprivacylab.org/projects/identifiability/paper1.pd... "In this document, I report on experiments I conducted using 1990 U.S. Census summar
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by hackerblues 15y ago
The way you are talking about jargon in mathematics suggests you have a limited experience of what mathematicians do. Here's an illustrative example of mathematics as done by mathematicians. ~~~~~~~~~~~ Define: An integer n is `even' if th
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by hackerblues 15y ago
I certainly agree that an intuitive understanding of a concept can be helpful as a guide and emotionally satisfying. However, I don't think that it is at all sufficient and it is precisely "mathematical gibberish" which resolves the problem
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by hackerblues 15y ago
I believe that a common problem for people who are proof reading documents is the brains tendency to complete patterns based on partial information. This causes a person to read not what is actually written but instead what they expect to r
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by hackerblues 15y ago
I didn't know how cheaply a laptop could be purchased for so I just checked on Ebay for Used/Refurbished laptops. Currently there are 47 'Buy It Now', nominally complete and working, laptops/netbooks available for $40-60. They all looked pr
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by hackerblues 15y ago
For biology: - Various advancements in stem cell research. Eg: skin cells into stem cells. - The creation of a living organism with a completely synthetically constructed genome. - The sequencing of the human genome. - Nearly all of neurosc
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by hackerblues 15y ago
I poked through the websites source code and found a link to it. http://audio.sxsw.com/2011/podcasts/DeathoftheTextbook.mp3
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by hackerblues 15y ago
I assume my Google searches and Gmail inbox influence the ads I see when checking my email and searching the web respectively.
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by hackerblues 15y ago
This seems very promising - thanks for the link!
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Ask HN: Theory for Keyboard Shortcut Layout
2 points by hackerblues 15y ago|2 comments
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by hackerblues 15y ago
On the same theme of general interest talks by specialists, I'm quite a fan of the Long Now Foundation podcasts.
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by hackerblues 15y ago
Surely the context of the filming is important though. If he had gone into the bathroom and was filming people using the toilet then it wouldn't be enough that "He was given permission to film the yellow badge people. On his lunch break. Us
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by hackerblues 15y ago
Is this not a reasonable suggestion? Any organisation which is unable to ensure its financial survival will by definition go extinct and so be unable to achieve anything else.
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by hackerblues 15y ago
There are three components. Generation -> Grid -> Homes and Business It is possible to change the type of generation without having to change the way electricity is taken out of the grid to power things. This makes it easier to make
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by hackerblues 15y ago
For people who aren't up to speed on Abstract Algebra, the analogy to have in mind is: A: Rectangles and squares are the same things. B: That isn't correct. All squares are rectangles but the reverse isn't true. A: I only care about the num
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by hackerblues 15y ago
My background as a mathematician likely biases this answer. Someone who has experienced life outside of academia will likely have different advice. The mathematics you will likely want to know includes: - Multivariate Calculus/Matrix Stuff/
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by hackerblues 15y ago
The aspect of university which can be replicated in self study is the aquisition of knowledge from a source. Regardless of the source, your professor saying "Display text in Python with the 'print' command." or you reading it in a book, you
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by hackerblues 15y ago
"I think that part of the problem is that there's inflation in upvotes because people have an unlimited supply." It's not obvious to me that this is true. Here is a counterexample: In the extreme case, if the user base consisted of a set of
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by hackerblues 15y ago
I see computers as addressing a different part of the problem. Lets take as a given that people need a way to recall pieces of information for use in the future. 1. Initially people would probably just wander around aimlessly and hope that

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