nishonia

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by nishonia 12y ago
That is an interesting line of thinking. At some point we'll likely break from the invisible hand of the greedy gene, but I'd be surprised if we're there yet.
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by nishonia 12y ago
You know that "responsible whistleblowing" has failed multiple times in the past right? Anybody who is upset with Snowden for not repeating the same pattern that failed to change anything, except the destruction of the whistleblo
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by nishonia 12y ago
Retinal scans are out, iris scans are in. If I remember correctly, beyond the age of 5 the iris banding pattern remains the same. Retinal scans get tripped up by things like pregnancy and other health issues. I'd never use it for a
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by nishonia 12y ago
> values, which are cultural. It only takes one exception to disprove a rule, and in the interest of not inviting debate - I'll pick an obvious example: biological imperatives have nothing to do with culture. Everytime I hear somebo
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by nishonia 12y ago
> Because come on, if we don't have culture, what do we have? Well reasoned and logical action?
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by nishonia 12y ago
Terrorism is pretty well defined, only recently has the the term been corrupted. If you were to do a survey of material on the subject you'd find that the vast majority of literature is related to state military action, written decade
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by nishonia 12y ago
Ok, so what makes a threat credible enough to instill terror? Seriously, terror. I'm not talking about a level of concern that causes people to modify their behavior around media consumption, I'm talking about the level of terro
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by nishonia 12y ago
That is far too broad a definition - and still not completely correct. Terrorism falls within the spectrum of warfare, it isn't as simple as "Well I feel terrorized, so my tormentor must be a terrorist!" Also, the emotional
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by nishonia 12y ago
This whole thing has made for some interesting people watching opportunities. I think the only people who were completely unsurprised by all this are those who: 1) Understood the technical requirements to pull this level of surveillance of
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by nishonia 12y ago
> I suppose most of the NSA's work is the result of our own base, human natures... It is in the best interest of the state to cripple the internet as much as possible. This isn't to protect you, it is to control you - rancher
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by nishonia 12y ago
I used IMDB several years ago, but now see that their usage policy is restricted to "personal" use. Who is going to download 1.11 GB of compressed text for personal use? http://www.imdb.com/interfaces
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by nishonia 12y ago
A couple of years ago, I was an operations analyst - my employer used USPS to deliver millions of DVDs... USPS completely depends on bulk shipping and they'll happily provide product packaging at all scales - down to the carrier route
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by nishonia 12y ago
> all of them are mutually incompatible in most situations. I haven't compiled against every implementation, but I did just recently rerun a report I create 4 years ago under a different engine. I spent about 20 minutes addressing
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by nishonia 12y ago
Folks are going to have to suck it up and accept the fact that the human experience is always changing. Cursive writing and the Dewey Decimal system were once important, and we may be getting to the point now where rote memorization is uni
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by nishonia 12y ago
The flip side of that is, you can't refuse the USPS. Everything I care about comes to me electronically or through a parcel service, I only need USPS a couple of times a year (USG stuff like DL renewal). Even so, I need to collect my
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by nishonia 12y ago
TeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX... there are a lot of engines that can properly render a *.tex file.
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by nishonia 12y ago
Have they contracted PR out to Ocean Marketing?
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by nishonia 12y ago
The last bit concerning the flexibility of foreign word adoption is key, I think. I heard a radio story a long time ago on the topic of word mutation in the English language (I think it was a story on ebonics). The theory was put forward
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by nishonia 12y ago
What you are describing might be true of other countries, but that isn't the way it works in the US. You aren't too far off on the military training issue, immediate obedience to orders is incredibly important - at the lowest ran
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by nishonia 12y ago
That isn't even close to being true. SNCOs and WOs need to be pretty clever, and they start off as E-1s. It works for the military, but then they aren't taking the short sighted position of filtering out folks who are "too
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by nishonia 12y ago
The CEO of Overstock, Patrick Byrne, is an outspoken libertarian. It is just as likely that a political move as it is a 'marketing ploy'.
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by nishonia 12y ago
Flow ratio balance will fall apart for whoever has the shortest route to Netflix, so it is certainly a very interesting problem. Verizon has demonstrated that it isn't interested in fixing the problem though (by refusing Netflix cache
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by nishonia 12y ago
> after all, they're both ISPs No, Level 3 is not an ISP. So the argument doesn't work the other way around. Also, you've framed things to make it sound as if Level 3 is initiating the traffic, when it is Verizon custome
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by nishonia 12y ago
ISPs pay for transit, tier 1 networks do not (by definition). Level 3 is definitely a tier 1 network, but Verizon is acting as both a tier 1 and an ISP. It isn't a very complex problem, tier 1 networks don't pay transit.
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by nishonia 12y ago
> ...it is true that when you have a peering point with unbalanced traffic flows, the side sending more traffic is supposed to pay the side receiving more traffic. Up until very recently the only time you paid for peering was when you we