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by kenthorvath 9y ago
The two aren't mutually exclusive. You can both invest in yourself, while investing in other opportunities. The problem is how to allocate your resources optimally. Having early access to motivated and talented programmers that may hav
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by kenthorvath 10y ago
From the project README: How bootstrapped works tldr - Percentile based confidence intervals based on bootstrap re-sampling with replacement. --- MIT OCW 18.05 has this to say about the technique: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses
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by kenthorvath 10y ago
It's not procrastination - it's just lazy evaluation.
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by kenthorvath 12y ago
Unbreakable crypto is a genie long out of the bottle. No amount of wishing, legislating, or fear-mongering is going to prevent terrorist organizations from implementing these well-described, mathematically sound, publicly available algorith
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by kenthorvath 12y ago
There is an iPad version. http://tapbots.com/software/tweetbot/ipad/
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by kenthorvath 12y ago
This is great. I started watching pretty late into the stream, though. Will the videos be archived and available after the event?
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by kenthorvath 12y ago
Yes. We can generally all agree that ISPs in the United States are effectively monopolists with no incentive to do what's right for their customers. Now, let's talk solutions.
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by kenthorvath 12y ago
Or you could pay an additional $5/month for a decent VPN. In fact, I have a number of close contacts who work in the industry who tell me that this type of practice is of heavy interest and routine on the wireless end of things. Compan
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by kenthorvath 13y ago
I suspect this is a distraction to direct the public's attention away from PRISM and the NSA controversy.
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by kenthorvath 13y ago
The article slams Alito, but the judgment was 5-4. Whenever rulings are this close, it suggests that there are nuances and rationale arguments on both sides. As disconcerting as this ruling is, there is likely more to this than the headline
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by kenthorvath 13y ago
Completely agreed - plaigiarism is rampant because collaboration is so natural and doing work for its own sake does nothing to advance one's understanding of the material. All subjects, to the greatest extent possible, should be heavily bas
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Bitcoin Tops $50USD on MtGox(mtgox.com)
87 points by kenthorvath 14y ago|90 comments
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Using Bitcoin is like paying for goods with shares of company stock... stock that can be broken down into almost arbitrarily small subunits... and which are immune to SEC regulation. There's nothing wrong with the bitcoin economy - it's jus
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Now worries - I didn't mean to sound argumentative and I agree with you that in the short run bubbles form. ^_^ Though, I would say freedom is not just _hard_ to control - it's impossible by definition. Freedom is not a short term thing, it
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Is freedom a bubble? There is tremendous value in freedom. Bitcoin provides this in abundance. Like P2P filesharing, no amount of legislation and regulation will wrest control of it back into the hands of the government and financial instit
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Agreed, caps here to highlight the change.
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
This: On October 28th, the Library of Congress decided to not renew an exemption for carrier unlocking cell phones* Should be changed as follows: "decided to not renew" => "decided NOT to renew" =(or)=> "FAILED to renew" at first g
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Of course, students have no reason to report deaths of relatives when there are no consequences to missing class. So, deaths most likely only get reported during exams.
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
This should be simulcast to an MIT auditorium.
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Please excuse the bluntness, but neither of the two things you mentioned (using smartphones and downloading illegal copies of movies) have anything to do with Kim Dotcom or his new startup, Mega. Your comment is therefore neither particular
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Ortiz will answer for her actions, perhaps not as a matter of law, but certainly as a matter of common sense and decency. No one should be exempt from behaving like a decent human being, and one does not need to break the law in order to be
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
What's wrong with algorithms?
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
"Cops use Taser on (+Unarmed) Uncooperative Woman (+Holding a Video Camera)" - Fixed that for you. Now: Why a taser? Couldn't they just slap her in handcuffs and escort her out of the store? Tasers are supposed to be substituted for lethal
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
That's what clinical trials and FDA approval is for (at least in theory).
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Just to clarify: The previous link I posted was not the one referenced in the Science Daily. That would be here: http://doi.wiley.com/10.1002/emmm.201200245 Unfortunately, all of these original articles are behind a paywall. Most of us he
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Blasco also published in Rejuvenation Research last year about a dietary supplement that activates telomerase. So, that + this makes for some interesting reading. http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.1089/rej.2010.1085
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Hacking Beaglebone for Cellular Data(sites.google.com)
1 points by kenthorvath 14y ago|0 comments
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Unbeholden - it says we don't take shit from anyone
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Here's the strawpoll version (live results, quantitative option): http://strawpoll.me/4231
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by kenthorvath 14y ago
Great idea for a tumblog!

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