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The dumb thing is we actually have a word for this. The word is queer. I'm still unsure as to why this word isn't used for most contexts where the LGBT[...] are currently used. We use the word "gay" and that used to be a
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I'm all for abstracting. I like Rails, for example. That said, it gets truly difficult to add or change stuff at the more abstract layers. For example, adding recursive querying to an existing ORM is tough . And on the rare occasion
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Most things that wealthy people want that has to be purchased with after tax dollars, like I don't know a flight to visit a family member, they can pay for just fine out of the pittance they pay themselves in salary. The real trick the
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The corporation that uses the roads and operates under the safety of the police and military of a country should not be paying some other country, it barely has anything to do with, a lower tax due to some accounting shenanigans.
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Well, yes this is kinda true, but comments help and the ability for others to edit your answer if they have enough karma also helps. Plus a ton of people update their answers to say "Update: My answer was once the right one, but in Pyt
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You surely must be joking! Harmed investors are the ones that should have done the due diligence in the first place. That they got anything back at all was due to the diligence of the whistle blower. People should be rewarded for calling ou
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You did miss something. The Wynne government implemented a cap and trade system before the federal mandated carbon pricing system came into place and also implemented many other policies like an outright ban on coal power plants. If you l
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This isn't true. I understand the economics and that a fairly administered carbon tax would be good, but other systems like cap and trade with targeted legislation do actually work in practice. Take the province of Ontario, for example
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It's useful for future historians. We're not just exploring space, we're leaving something behind for the future of humanity.
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That's what data warehouses are good for though. So long as you have something you can join on, you don't need to worry about how the application developers structure their systems.
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Yeah I know all about In-Q-Tel and DARPA. I have a friend who was funded by In-Q-Tel a decade ago or so. The thing that I'm trying to express, the thing that policy makers can't quite get their heads around, is that war AI is diff
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But this is partially my point. We didn't nickel and dime all the crazy geniuses that put together the manhattan project in 200 different startups over 15 years. War AI isn't something you can bootstrap. You need serious resources
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This is a pitiful sum. We're talking over 15 years for the strongest alliance in the world. Just $1B? What is this a school for ants? We're talking 1/12th of an aircraft carrier. For all of Nato? How much was put into the M
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There are many people that have made quiet choices and can't talk about them for numerous reason. NDAs for example, or, my favourite: Sometimes there is no defence for a certain type of technique. It's just something nobody though
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Users expect forms to submit when the click the button. If they change their mind about signing up or purchasing something, they don't expect to get emailed if they didn't click the button. That's the dark pattern. Not the wo
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It seems that they do, but they don't. Plenty of information flows through emails, chat, social media, direct search on websites like Amazon. The internet is large, and Google is a very big player, but they're not controlling all
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I'm surprised theres no error correction in your uplink. Crazy.
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They do deserve freedom in a broader sense, yes, but the world is unfortunate and sanctions are how we discourage war. Most of the time sanctions are targeted to individuals or corporations, but there are cases where it is country-wide.
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Because we do not see the value. I was into crypto really early and I was slowly more and more disgusted what it supported in society. Constant exit scams, criminals using it evade the law, etc. And on the other side, you had to be so freak
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Small bit of feedback for the landing page Theo: On a MacBook Pro the image of the app looks a bit shoddy. The font doesn't look as crisp as it could. It would be better if you could serve a retina option. These days it's pretty e
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Oh come on. I speak more Russian than I do French, but even I can recognize the wonderful culture and je ne sais quoi that comes with Quebec and French Canada's influence on Canadian culture. I'm happy that they are here and that
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All drugs? Carfentanil which has a lethal dose that's so small it's hard to notice or see? I understand legalizing somethings we don't necessarily even like to put up with, but if something is as lethal as a gun I'm pret
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Arms races, the growing search space for attack asymmetries, and the ever increasing mobility of capital paired with the inherent centralization of returns due to computing. Housing price inflation and advantages to children are examples of
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In 2001 I worked on a project for some of the federal agencies that used remote biometrics for authentication in addition to password use. I'm not sure if it was safe from replay attacks, but still. It wasn't that the feds didn&#x
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It's interesting that they block Hacker News and not CNN. I take it that any social network is by default blocked?
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I can't remember which book I read it in, probably Dark Territory or Cyberspies, but the French were actually able to hack into the computers of the war room for the joint chiefs and POTUS. They were so freaked out that they were able
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No I meant the DPRK. I don't know enough about the Chinese military to comment on their strategy, other than the stuff everyone knows like "hide our capacity, and bide your time" which is clearly what they're doing (or a
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Well, kinda. The actors have different playbooks. America's is "get in as quietly and as targeted as possible, and make the damage look like random equipment failing." Which makes sense. If they wanted to do value targeting a
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If you like podcasts, try Left, Right & Center by KCRW. Their sister show All the Presidents' Lawyers is pretty good too, but what I like about LR&C is that it really does show multiple sides without a constant yelling fest. Su
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How is it not open source?

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