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Re:Death Note: L, Anonymity and Eluding Entropy (2017) on Monday August 05, 2019 @07:10PM (#20620216)
Maybe, look for "Butterfly effects[1]" happening around you, i.e., small insignificant events that have huge, enormous after-effects.

Essentially, if there were a system that could send information from the future to the past, the future agent would want to be "as discreet as" possible, while still achieving "nearly perfect" outcome. Note that the future agent has the advantage of reiterating over and over his/her choices, because, well, the "future-future" he/she can still send a signal to his/her past about want went wrong the previous time.

This happens to be a common plot for a lot of various time-travel movies and TV shows like Dark, Umbrella Academy, etc.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect

Re:Understanding Bihar’s Super 30 Phenomenon on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @02:25PM (#20567673)
> While education systems in west are focused towards collaboration, Indian education system makes them compete against each other like wild dogs.

P.S.: the "competition" is just for entrance to these premier Indian colleges. I guess, the same would hold true if you want to enter prestigious U.S. colleges like Stanford, Harvard, Yale, or any other Ivy League colleges. Of course, in India, the number of students applying is vastly different, which is what makes it super competitive.

Re:AdTech Sucks on Friday June 07, 2019 @02:07PM (#20127175)
> "However, when I am searching for a pressure cooker, it would be great to go to a centralized repository of ads and look through who markets this sort of thing the best and may be have some objective reviews along with it..."

Isn't this similar to what Amazon Marketplace does? Of course, they do allow advertisers to promote their stuff, but apart from a top few sponsored content, rest all are ranked by reviews (or so they say).

Re:How we spent two weeks hunting an NFS bug in the Linux kernel on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @09:31PM (#18557579)
Great post! In my own experience of working with NFS version 4 servers, we discovered several bugs that have been actually fixed in latest version of kernels. The unfortunate thing is that most enterprises still run old CentOS / Redhat release kernels that although are stable, but yet lack several of these fixes.