The sooner we figure out a way to cut out credit card processors from the purchase experience the better.
I really like the fraud protection my credit card offers me. Totally worth the effective 2% tax on the price of goods. Debit cards aren't the same. I haven't been impressed with PayPal, and have no reason to try the Apple/Google/MS/Startup offerings - CCs work fine.
No, that's not it. Just because something isn't broken for you doesn't mean you're a representative sample.
I have a 50 Mb connection and my ISP and YouTube are friends, all needed money having changed hands. YouTube still blows goats on some videos, while working fine on others. They have some serious issues with their back-end.
"Classified" is too nebulous for useful discussion - what is the data classified as? Anything classified Secret or above is on an entirely different network - another of Bush's "internets". Confidential information, the same sort of thing any company keeps confidential, is on normal networks, just with a layer of security, just like anywhere else. The military also has a separate network for operational security.
Well, not spouses - former spouses maybe. "Till death do we part" and all that.
When you live with injustice your whole life, powerless to resist in any meaningful way, the thought that your oppressors will be punished in the afterlife is quite appealing, and appears in almost every religion. It also serves an important role in society, by limiting the bad behavior of many believers, including a few fairly unpleasant kings over the centuries. Don't knock it.
It seems very likely it's the same story coming through two channels - and probably has a historical basis. Imagine if your neighbor was a crazy survivalist who kept insisting the river would flood, and was so obsessed by it that he built a huge boat for his family and farm animals. Now imagine that the river actually flooded, and he drifted away safely while most people drowned. People would keep telling that story forever - the one time that the crazy survivalist guy was actually right!
To me, the historical accuracy is irrelevant. Does it matter whether Socrates actually had the Socratic dialogs that Plato wrote? Does it matter whether Socrates even existed (of course, we know he did, as independent authors mention him, generally to mock him as a pedo)? The philosophy espoused can still be evaluated on its own merits, and if you loathe religious hypocrites, you might find the story entertaining as well.
Don't discount a moral argument just because it's being made from a religious perspective. There's quite good advice to be found in religious texts, both on morality and on how to be happy with life as you find it.
The problem here is that Prof. Dunning's principle could apply to anybody, including college professors.
So how does he know he is correct?
It's a good joke, but it's also the key realization that led to the use of double-blind studies. Someone had published a paper to the effect that no human studies could be trusted, because the observer effect would taint the study. It was a really depressing paper until someone pointed out that it was itself based on human studies, and thus the conclusion shouldn't be taken too seriously. More serious contemplation of the problem eventually led to double-blind studies being the norm for serious work.
The more you know, the more you're unsure about. Of course, the more you know, the more you're sure about as well, but any sort of deep study perpetually raises more questions than it answers. Further, the deeper you study a subject, the more you realize you have only approximations - good, useful approximations one hopes, but still.
Or, in the words of someone wiser than me, "the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore of uncertainty."
Ah, so it sounds like there would be an interesting story there then, although it's a bit late for it to be "news" I guess. I'd sure like to read a non-sensationalized report on where the ball was actually dropped, given how embarrassing the outcome was for the US.
Because you know via your magic psychic powers that there's nothing interesting to report when the US left men behind to die when an embassy got overrun. It's not even possible someone in the chain of command made a newsworthy mistake, says your magic psychic powers?
This is why she quit - she was tired of being told they don't run stories that would reflect badly on the wrong people or causes, regardless of facts. This is also why "only old people" watch the broadcast news or read the newspaper for news - it's so blatantly biased these days, why bother?
But they also teach religious studies and anthropology at universities. Here we have a fascinating American subculture, poorly studied in published works, and the nearly-uncontacted tribe wants to hold a tribal council at the University itself.
And idiots will protest because they have no tolerance for this subculture they disagree with. That's a terrible affront to science.
It is when it works to discourage women who do not fit the stereotypes, and there are many who do not, from entering fields they could excel in
It's OK to be weird.
Every fucking geek my age is weird. All of us were "discouraged", women and men alike, and as a result are quite welcoming to any who make it through.
I sure hope we're past the days where being into formal logic/math/whatever automatically made you the target for bullying (or at least that it's a bit better now), but life includes obstacles! If children are afraid to do what they like, when it leads to a well-paying career (the top career outside politics in many nations), maybe the problem isn't that their slightly discouraged by the culture.Maybe the problem is we're not raising kids with the strength of character to overcome adversity.
Life will have "discouragements" and setbacks of various sorts. That's just how life works. Don't let it stop you!
Actually, that was more or less the problem. With no understanding of nutrition (just like today, nutrition experts knew nothing), they packed in a bunch of protein and few calories. Meat was thought to be more foodly than veggies, more food per pound, but they effectively starved to death on their Atkins diet.
With normal banking you have all sorts of paper trails to argue from - and while it suck to have to prove your innocence, there are professionals to help you do so. With significant BTC income, all the paper trail burden is on you. The default assumption is that every BTC you spend had a cost basis of 0, so you effectively have to pay taxes twice unless you track the cost basis consistently. All that's true of stocks/bonds as well, but these days your broker is required to keep track for you, and might actually do so accurately, on a good day.
Ah, I see. You've never dealt with the IRS. Here's how it goes: we've taken all your stuff and thrown your ass in jail for criminal evasion - you owe us $80 million for the $100 million you hid in bitcoin. Prove otherwise if you want to pay less.
Talking mass cash seizures here, not just a couple angry drunks. You don't think broke local governments would go door-to-door seizing all cash found? It's not uncommon historically.
See, that's the problem: people confuse "technology" with "iThings". Technology is the ability to make and deliver the same stuff using fewer people, less energy, and less raw materials. Automation, materials science, supply chains and logistics improvements that reduce waste, increased efficiency in freight, and so on.
Hate to comment on what was a joke post, but can't resist when geekoid is wrong.
The hard part of a sealed case is cooling. Any sort of air-cooling can't work, obviously. Passive cooling through the case is unlikely with a high-end video card. With water cooling you can have a very large heatsink separate from the sealed case (with the appropriate plumbing), and if jets of water are flying around, you could cool very efficiently by catching a few of them with the heatsink from time to time.
Yo dawg, we water-cooled your water-cooled case so you can ski while you ski.
Except that is not "one line". It is six lines. Any program can be a "one-liner" if there is no limit on the line length. Well, unless you writing it in Python.
The line length limit is 256 bytes, of course. And these hacks are the basic-equivalent of the C obfuscation contest.
As the authors say: "I'd like to think it is self documenting. The code speaks for itself; even if what it has to say is not very nice."
Well, obviously more than 50% of something can be above average, as average is different from median, and that probably is the case with schools, but that's beside the point.
Technology is efficiency: growth with the same resources. Nothing impossible about that, as long as we stay far from communism.
And of course, exponential growth eventually trumps any petty concerns about distribution of what we have today, which is why the average American has it so much better than 99% of people who have ever lived -- not that you'd know it for all the moaning.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Growth per-capita is another way to say "standard of living". That which provides growth given the same resources is called "technology".
Technological improvement is increased standard of living from the same resources. Capitalism's model depends on endless technological improvement, and thus endlessly funds technological improvement, resulting in continued improvement in standard of living.
You'd be better served in life by less arrogance and better reading comprehension. I can understand that attitude from someone in their early 20s -- at that age life can still seem simple and thus everyone's an idiot for not agreeing with you -- but I rather think you'd need hexadecimal to still be in your 20s.
Do you understand that PBKDF2 is chained iterated hashing, and informally calling that process just "a hash" is normal? Do you get that rainbow tables make it easy to retrieve a percentage of passwords from a large credentials store, but only if they all use the same salt? Changing the salt (the salt parameter to PBKDF2 or whatever) in some per-user way defeats this.
Building a rainbow table of 1 billion likely passwords with a 100ms hash only takes 30k core-hours. 10 years ago that was a big deal, but now that's one day and a few hundred bucks on a commercial cloud, or cheaper on a botnet. (And I'd bet there are hardware solutions that make it trivial.)
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The sooner we figure out a way to cut out credit card processors from the purchase experience the better.
I really like the fraud protection my credit card offers me. Totally worth the effective 2% tax on the price of goods. Debit cards aren't the same. I haven't been impressed with PayPal, and have no reason to try the Apple/Google/MS/Startup offerings - CCs work fine.
No, that's not it. Just because something isn't broken for you doesn't mean you're a representative sample.
I have a 50 Mb connection and my ISP and YouTube are friends, all needed money having changed hands. YouTube still blows goats on some videos, while working fine on others. They have some serious issues with their back-end.
"Classified" is too nebulous for useful discussion - what is the data classified as? Anything classified Secret or above is on an entirely different network - another of Bush's "internets". Confidential information, the same sort of thing any company keeps confidential, is on normal networks, just with a layer of security, just like anywhere else. The military also has a separate network for operational security.
Well, not spouses - former spouses maybe. "Till death do we part" and all that.
When you live with injustice your whole life, powerless to resist in any meaningful way, the thought that your oppressors will be punished in the afterlife is quite appealing, and appears in almost every religion. It also serves an important role in society, by limiting the bad behavior of many believers, including a few fairly unpleasant kings over the centuries. Don't knock it.
It seems very likely it's the same story coming through two channels - and probably has a historical basis. Imagine if your neighbor was a crazy survivalist who kept insisting the river would flood, and was so obsessed by it that he built a huge boat for his family and farm animals. Now imagine that the river actually flooded, and he drifted away safely while most people drowned. People would keep telling that story forever - the one time that the crazy survivalist guy was actually right!
To me, the historical accuracy is irrelevant. Does it matter whether Socrates actually had the Socratic dialogs that Plato wrote? Does it matter whether Socrates even existed (of course, we know he did, as independent authors mention him, generally to mock him as a pedo)? The philosophy espoused can still be evaluated on its own merits, and if you loathe religious hypocrites, you might find the story entertaining as well.
Don't discount a moral argument just because it's being made from a religious perspective. There's quite good advice to be found in religious texts, both on morality and on how to be happy with life as you find it.
The problem here is that Prof. Dunning's principle could apply to anybody, including college professors.
So how does he know he is correct?
It's a good joke, but it's also the key realization that led to the use of double-blind studies. Someone had published a paper to the effect that no human studies could be trusted, because the observer effect would taint the study. It was a really depressing paper until someone pointed out that it was itself based on human studies, and thus the conclusion shouldn't be taken too seriously. More serious contemplation of the problem eventually led to double-blind studies being the norm for serious work.
The more you know, the more you're unsure about. Of course, the more you know, the more you're sure about as well, but any sort of deep study perpetually raises more questions than it answers. Further, the deeper you study a subject, the more you realize you have only approximations - good, useful approximations one hopes, but still.
Or, in the words of someone wiser than me, "the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore of uncertainty."
Ah, so it sounds like there would be an interesting story there then, although it's a bit late for it to be "news" I guess. I'd sure like to read a non-sensationalized report on where the ball was actually dropped, given how embarrassing the outcome was for the US.
Because you know via your magic psychic powers that there's nothing interesting to report when the US left men behind to die when an embassy got overrun. It's not even possible someone in the chain of command made a newsworthy mistake, says your magic psychic powers?
This is why she quit - she was tired of being told they don't run stories that would reflect badly on the wrong people or causes, regardless of facts. This is also why "only old people" watch the broadcast news or read the newspaper for news - it's so blatantly biased these days, why bother?
The second conference idea is made of win and awesome.
But they also teach religious studies and anthropology at universities. Here we have a fascinating American subculture, poorly studied in published works, and the nearly-uncontacted tribe wants to hold a tribal council at the University itself.
And idiots will protest because they have no tolerance for this subculture they disagree with. That's a terrible affront to science.
It is when it works to discourage women who do not fit the stereotypes, and there are many who do not, from entering fields they could excel in
It's OK to be weird.
Every fucking geek my age is weird. All of us were "discouraged", women and men alike, and as a result are quite welcoming to any who make it through.
I sure hope we're past the days where being into formal logic/math/whatever automatically made you the target for bullying (or at least that it's a bit better now), but life includes obstacles! If children are afraid to do what they like, when it leads to a well-paying career (the top career outside politics in many nations), maybe the problem isn't that their slightly discouraged by the culture. Maybe the problem is we're not raising kids with the strength of character to overcome adversity.
Life will have "discouragements" and setbacks of various sorts. That's just how life works. Don't let it stop you!
Actually, that was more or less the problem. With no understanding of nutrition (just like today, nutrition experts knew nothing), they packed in a bunch of protein and few calories. Meat was thought to be more foodly than veggies, more food per pound, but they effectively starved to death on their Atkins diet.
With normal banking you have all sorts of paper trails to argue from - and while it suck to have to prove your innocence, there are professionals to help you do so. With significant BTC income, all the paper trail burden is on you. The default assumption is that every BTC you spend had a cost basis of 0, so you effectively have to pay taxes twice unless you track the cost basis consistently. All that's true of stocks/bonds as well, but these days your broker is required to keep track for you, and might actually do so accurately, on a good day.
So the IRS says "we think you owe us $80 million because bitcoin - prove otherwise". Now what?
Ah, I see. You've never dealt with the IRS. Here's how it goes: we've taken all your stuff and thrown your ass in jail for criminal evasion - you owe us $80 million for the $100 million you hid in bitcoin. Prove otherwise if you want to pay less.
Talking mass cash seizures here, not just a couple angry drunks. You don't think broke local governments would go door-to-door seizing all cash found? It's not uncommon historically.
See, that's the problem: people confuse "technology" with "iThings". Technology is the ability to make and deliver the same stuff using fewer people, less energy, and less raw materials. Automation, materials science, supply chains and logistics improvements that reduce waste, increased efficiency in freight, and so on.
Hate to comment on what was a joke post, but can't resist when geekoid is wrong.
The hard part of a sealed case is cooling. Any sort of air-cooling can't work, obviously. Passive cooling through the case is unlikely with a high-end video card. With water cooling you can have a very large heatsink separate from the sealed case (with the appropriate plumbing), and if jets of water are flying around, you could cool very efficiently by catching a few of them with the heatsink from time to time.
Yo dawg, we water-cooled your water-cooled case so you can ski while you ski.
Except that is not "one line". It is six lines. Any program can be a "one-liner" if there is no limit on the line length. Well, unless you writing it in Python.
The line length limit is 256 bytes, of course. And these hacks are the basic-equivalent of the C obfuscation contest.
As the authors say: "I'd like to think it is self documenting. The code speaks for itself; even if what it has to say is not very nice."
Make it water-cooled! Duh.
Well, obviously more than 50% of something can be above average, as average is different from median, and that probably is the case with schools, but that's beside the point.
Technology is efficiency: growth with the same resources. Nothing impossible about that, as long as we stay far from communism.
And of course, exponential growth eventually trumps any petty concerns about distribution of what we have today, which is why the average American has it so much better than 99% of people who have ever lived -- not that you'd know it for all the moaning.
Capitalism's model depends on endless growth.
You say that like it's a bad thing. Growth per-capita is another way to say "standard of living". That which provides growth given the same resources is called "technology".
Technological improvement is increased standard of living from the same resources. Capitalism's model depends on endless technological improvement, and thus endlessly funds technological improvement, resulting in continued improvement in standard of living.
You'd be better served in life by less arrogance and better reading comprehension. I can understand that attitude from someone in their early 20s -- at that age life can still seem simple and thus everyone's an idiot for not agreeing with you -- but I rather think you'd need hexadecimal to still be in your 20s.
Do you understand that PBKDF2 is chained iterated hashing, and informally calling that process just "a hash" is normal? Do you get that rainbow tables make it easy to retrieve a percentage of passwords from a large credentials store, but only if they all use the same salt? Changing the salt (the salt parameter to PBKDF2 or whatever) in some per-user way defeats this.
Building a rainbow table of 1 billion likely passwords with a 100ms hash only takes 30k core-hours. 10 years ago that was a big deal, but now that's one day and a few hundred bucks on a commercial cloud, or cheaper on a botnet. (And I'd bet there are hardware solutions that make it trivial.)