temujin

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by temujin 10y ago
Fraud prevention actually is a security issue. Not an Internet security issue, so mistakes aren't punished that quickly, but the analogy is still sound.
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by temujin 10y ago
The problem is, once the government chooses to not close a known loophole, the number of people who exploit it may increase by orders of magnitude. Without a willingness to add the other 1350 pages, you may end up with something like 70% f
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by temujin 11y ago
* Just within the last 50 years, we've made a ton of progress on this "impossible problem". By any reasonable measure, global poverty has been cut by at least half. Keep in mind that both China and India each still have l
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by temujin 11y ago
In practice, the question is if getting to X+n:Y is more than ten times as expensive as getting to X+(n/2):Y+(n/2), does it still make sense to prioritize the former? This is not an argument against the "Hidden Genius Project
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by temujin 11y ago
Most economists agree that Lee Kuan Yew did a better job at increasing his people's prosperity than almost every other developing-country leader of his era. An increasing number of African leaders (Rwanda's Paul Kagame is an espe
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by temujin 11y ago
It appears that you consider, among other things, Singapore's rise over the last 50 years to be "evil". This puts you at odds with practically the entire economics profession, and just about everyone else in the world trying
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by temujin 11y ago
In the repeated game of life, you can end up ahead if, by forswearing extreme cruelty toward others even when it's locally "efficient", you significantly reduce the probability of others behaving so cruelly toward you. This
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by temujin 11y ago
Better representations are already used for downstream data analysis and continue to be improved; see e.g. http://arxiv.org/abs/1506.08452 . However, algorithms for producing variant calls from raw sequencer output are
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by temujin 11y ago
Unfortunately, WW1 indicates that trade is at most secondary in importance in keeping the peace.
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by temujin 11y ago
The efficient, egalitarian solution to poverty is improvement of the home countries, not open borders. This is most obvious for China; that country has so many people that if one attempted to "solve Chinese poverty" via brute for
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by temujin 11y ago
In the US, yes. In China, not so much. For all the correlations which are greatly attenuated in China, it is safe to conclude that inequality is not a significant cause of the corresponding phenomenon; instead, causation goes the other dir
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by temujin 11y ago
(2007)
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by temujin 12y ago
I can't believe there is no mention of Ready Player One in this article.
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by temujin 12y ago
By definition, somebody has to have a most heavily locked door in the world. In your analogy, it's clear to me that the US is better suited for that status than any of the other realistic candidates.
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by temujin 12y ago
As for your restatement, it no longer has anything to do with immigration policy, since there are plenty of "high level" Chinese native employees at Chinese companies. I'd also choose unemployment over a low-level job at a p
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by temujin 12y ago
> On the other hand, what would exit from a country without another country to go to mean? Ordinary self-interest and the existence of >200 independent countries make it very likely that someone who just wants to be a contributor to a
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by temujin 12y ago
This has nothing to do with exit, and suggesting otherwise implies bad faith on your part. (The exception is if you've literally never read anything like the remainder of this paragraph. In that case, you can demonstrate good faith b
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by temujin 12y ago
It's way more asymmetric than that. The US government is in a better position to work for Americans' interests than those of foreigners; the Mexican government has a comparative advantage in working for Mexican citizen interests,
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by temujin 12y ago
I've followed a similar path for the last three years, and it has worked out very well for me so far. I don't even want to think about how low the odds were of getting initial funding for my side project through the usual grant s
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by temujin 12y ago
Although I was able to get around the Great Firewall while living in Shenzhen and Beijing, connection speed/quality was bad enough that more than tripling my rent to live in HK was easily worth it for Internet alone. Quality of service
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by temujin 12y ago
Thanks a lot for this work, btw; I found your labor of division blog posts last year and integrated your code into my permutation generation logic, to very nice effect.
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by temujin 13y ago
I seriously don't understand why so many people don't habitually use braces there... if (...) { goto fail; } if (...) { goto fail; goto fail; } if (...) { goto fail; } tada, not actually a bug!
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by temujin 13y ago
(2002)
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by temujin 13y ago
"If you are writing multithreaded programs, you _will_ have locks, period." Not necessarily. In scientific computing, it is common to encounter "embarrassingly parallel" scenarios where each thread can solve equal-sized
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by temujin 13y ago
I was born during the Cold War, but I'm capable of understanding that (i) when the government failed to give Bradley Manning due process, they forfeited the moral right to criticize Snowden for fleeing. Daniel Ellsberg is in a better
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by temujin 13y ago
Exactly. I would not have objected to Manning receiving multiple life sentences for his violation of the law, if due process had been respected. But it wasn't. In his defense of Snowden's decision to flee the country, Daniel Ell
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by temujin 13y ago
At minimum, due to the failure of due process in the Bradley Manning case, Snowden is entirely immune to criticism for his choice to leave the country. And after the Bolivian presidential plane was forced to land, he gained immunity to cri
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by temujin 13y ago
This is oversimplified. In many cases, it is the conjunction of a reasonably strong prior belief and the absence of preexisting "proof" that motivates a scientist (or mathematician) to try to prove something in the first place. T
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by temujin 13y ago
Speaking of genome sequencing, if "immutable" and problematic group differences exist, genome sequencing is a crucial step toward making them mutable. (And if they do not exist, genome sequencing will help establish that.)
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by temujin 13y ago
Zhang is married.

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