Ansil849

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by Ansil849 5y ago
Sometimes even "regular" ASCII surnames cause problems. When written in the Latin alphabet, my surname is one letter. I've had an amazing amount of problems with this not just due to technical limitations (like various forms
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> For decades, the FDA has regulated hearing aids as a prescription medical device — an arrangement that adds to the cost and effort people must expend to get them. What is the rationale for this?
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Software engineers have career choices. We're not talking about a 'do evil shit or be unemployed' situation here.
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To the engineers who design things like this: fuck you.
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> Can we use the same reasoning to explain why more women earn degrees than men? Men are not interested in education? I really want to hear the people in the comments making claims that women just aren't interested in tech and that
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So you genuinely believe that the reason your daughter prefers "pink pretty things" is because her "brain works differently"? You really don't think any cultural messaging that girls are supposed to like "pink
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Can't tell if this comment is missing a /s tag.
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As opposed to omnivores who consume normalized pro-animal death content in their regular feeds?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
Yes, you're totally right. If the conditions are met that you are 1) behind a CG-NAT, and 2) a statistically significant sample of other users on that CG-NAT is using the same VPN node, then yes it "could be a very effective form
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I don't at all see how you managed to jump to the conclusion that vegans are "or are at least subjected to more of an echo-chamber effect from their peers". This seems entirely unfounded.
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Not at all. Unless there are tons of people on that network who are using the same VPN as you, it would be trivial to figure out the endpoint.
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Yes, in standard consumer ISP cases, it literally does.
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No, but in a subpoena it is.
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There are hundreds, if not thousands, of VPN services. Why would someone you care about targeting use your specific one? Or is the point that you're just conducting a massive dragnet operation to see what you find? In that case, it&#x2
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What's the point of paying anonymously if you are presumably going to be connecting to it from your IP anyway? Unless you're using it with another anonymizing option first.
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> The problem for me, perhaps like many, is that there are just too many things that I can easily find on Amazon that are much harder to find elsewhere. Like what? Ebay, Alibaba, Etsy, Newegg, Abebooks...these seemingly cover most use-ca
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I feel like there are plenty of other e-retailers which allow you to sell your product on their platform, which are not in the business of selling competing products that they manufacture themselves. Ebay obviously comes to mind, followed b
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I mean....yes this is despicable behavior, but did anyone really expect otherwise? Why would you sell your product on a website which can be your competitor, granting it access to all of your sales metrics and customers? I most definitely d
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by Ansil849 5y ago
What I don't understand: this person seems highly intelligent, I mean he's a nuclear engineer for crying out loud, but yet reading their email correspondence he comes off extremely stupid. How can we reconcile this?
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> To me it seem like he either applied an erroneous method or, more likely in my opinion, just had erroneous naive checking Of course the method was erroneous, that's not the point I am (apparently rather poorly) trying to get acros
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> It's entirely possible he got one right by chance. It probably wasn't strictly by chance, very likely convinced himself of some pattern that doesn't really hold This is exactly the attitude I alluded to in my earlier pos
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> Whatever method he'd come up with, it was pretty badly mistaken. It's curious, historically, but almost certainly mathematically uninteresting. He did not just stumble onto two correct primes in the 17th century by chance. He
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by Ansil849 5y ago
LinkedIn: got access to your email contacts list, and spammed everyone in it, multiple times. (This is the reason I do not use LinkedIn, is I do not support a company that is founded on sending out spam).
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The only things "important" are having basic food to eat and a place to sleep. Everything else in life is "curiosity". It is incredibly annoying when the question of importance is brought up, typically when things like p
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Could someone tell me as a layperson, how finding these numbers is helping humanity? How do _you_ help humanity by browsing and posting? Like, what a weird thing to ask. I assume you ask the same thing of everything, right?
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I think one of the biggest mysteries (in my mind anyway), is how Mersenne found his original list of primes. Yes, some were shown to be incorrect and some he missed...but him finding the amount that he did still seems amazing to me, and I d
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No, but: > you are complicit in things like this by developing the technical infrastructure that makes it all possible
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I think there is a stark contrast between something like a digital lynch mob and disassociation. The latter is simply doing things like not interacting with people whose behavior you find egregious.
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I definitely agree with your point that Facebook is not a singular problematic entity and not even in a singular problematic industry, it's just the one this thread is about. > Or we could just let people (and by extension advertise
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You have it backwards. This is a _response_ to toxicity and people willingly associating and enabling this toxicity.

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