For instance, their paper says that concatenating a million one byte strings into a single million byte string takes 274 seconds. That should take much less than one second
wtf. The only way it could take that long would be if they were concatenating them as immutable strings and had to copy the result repeatedly.
1984 was not a warning *or* a how to manual. It was a novel.
It was one guy, George Orwell's imagination, mainly commenting on Stalinist Russia, as part of the wider movement of the western Left's dissatisfaction and sense of betrayal over developments in the USSR. The Cold War drove the popularity of 1984 and its sister work, Animal Farm, because they could be used in the wider struggle against Communism.
Things that are slightly like what is depicted in 1984 are not automatically bad, nor are things not in 1984 automatically okay.
Yeah. There's no evidence presented to back up the claim that criminals just do crime elsewhere or elsewhen. Obviously any law enforcement measure isn't perfect, but thus far all the data shows this thing works. Professor Geoffrey Alpert is just mouthing off.
It seems counter-intuitive, but maybe electronic transmission of data is actually more secure than physical transport? Wipe all devices before crossing borders with them, then pull the backup over the internet (through a properly secured connection, of course).
BitCoins are too much in use to ever really go down in value for any length of time now that China is in the game.
They've dropped steadily for most of 2014, though. One could argue that that all of that was still correcting the bubble in late 2013, but that correction has lasted well over a year now. There hasn't really been a good time to hold on to Bitcoin since then, with a few short-term exceptions.
Yeah, Ukraine would never trade Snowden to the US for military aid against Russia.
Well, if the US were willing to risk an armed conflict with Russia in order to get their hands on Snowden, they don't need to wait...
I'd trust an AI over any incompetent human operator in that respect.
like, eg., Predator drones?
The move from that to autonomy is mostly software...
> What a fucking babby.
how is linus formed
Also, most places that do use them internally (eg. the apt repositories) seem to only use the adjective and ditch the animal.
acting with such impunity, you can get in trouble with the law
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We'd become xenophobic omnicidal recluses and have to be locked away in a time lock...
wait what? Is that a thing people do?
Is sharing targetting info useful enough to justify having to recharge your gun every X hours, and risk suffering a software crash every now and then? And what if your adversary intercepts all that valuable targetting info you are broadcasting, and now know exactly where all your guys are and where they are aiming?
"Experience has proved that some people indeed know everything." -- Russell Baker
