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by ColanR 7y ago
A comment above you mentioned a fold-up screen. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22459669
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by ColanR 7y ago
Plan 9 could pull this off seamlessly. Each program window is a folder tree, so moving the window to the external screen would be as simple as remounting it on the remote server. Plan 9 is designed for that and does it trivially. The file
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by ColanR 7y ago
It would be interesting to apply those ideas to American society in general.
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by ColanR 7y ago
So maybe it's time to create a successor to x86-64. Nobody is preventing that from happening.
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by ColanR 7y ago
That's the point of my second paragraph. The pads would be an item of trade. You buy an 'OTP yubikey' with 2GB of otp data for each of the top 50 websites, plug it in, and you're good for a month. The website spends 10
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by ColanR 7y ago
Is that farfetched? It's trivial if you have a 5GB / month plan.
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by ColanR 7y ago
I wonder if encryption could be tied to the Second Amendment as well. I'd be interested in the legal theory discussing that. Many of the arguments I've seen here defending encryption are basically the same as those defending guns
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by ColanR 7y ago
I look forward to the day when one time pads are the norm for general encryption. A scifi novel I read, "A Deepness in the Sky" described how the pads themselves were a valuable item of trade. I don't think it's farfetc
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by ColanR 7y ago
Fantastic, if this isn't regulated out of existence.
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by ColanR 7y ago
I know the story...Schliemann went looking for Troy because the Illiad told him it existed.
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by ColanR 7y ago
To continue the pedantry, I don't think we know for sure that Achilles didn't exist. Troy certainly did, and we have the Iliad to thank for knowing to look for it.
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by ColanR 7y ago
"science" is the enactment of the scientific method, which involves hypotheses and Ockham's Razor. > "questioning the sources", is inherently anti-science There is no sense in which this is true. Have you ever g
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Conspiracy theories and the anti-science thinking behind them I don't think you understand what's behind the mindset of people who theorize conspiracies. There's no sense of being unscientific; in fact, such folks often
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by ColanR 7y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the explanation. And I agree, my script isn't that flexible. I believe that " | tee" was left in there from when I tried to skip the sudoers entry...it's definitely not pretty.
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by ColanR 7y ago
I don't think either are good options. I was reading on here recently about the $2.1M that the US gov paid (indirectly) to Signal, with the implication of the associated compromise of integrity. And PGP is so labyrinthine that most o
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by ColanR 7y ago
> for me that tool could only ever fake it by changing the pixels rather than the backlight (on every piece of hardware I have tried) I'm curious - I've done it both ways, scripting /sys/class and using xbacklight. On
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by ColanR 7y ago
You make it sound as if the problem is a media that is disinterested in publishing real stories. Maybe we need new mainstream media organizations?
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by ColanR 7y ago
Comparable to a library of unix programs - would you rather have small tools (/ organiziations) that are limited to a single job - which they are often optimized for - or a single behemoth which tries to do everything, and may not do i
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by ColanR 7y ago
And don't forget about harmonics. Seems like flicker at higher refresh rates would happen whenever the mental and external rates synchronize.
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by ColanR 7y ago
This is the allure of libertarianism - since a free democracy can't predict the quality of its leaders, representatives, and lobbyists, the government should be given as short a leash as possible to prevent things like a "truly sc
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by ColanR 7y ago
What is healthy, is that an American spent his money how he liked, the American media is free enough to have reported on it, American citizens are now well-informed enough to know that some of the folks they talk to online are paid, and the
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Operation Highjump and the UFO Connection(bibliotecapleyades.net)
1 points by ColanR 7y ago|1 comments
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by ColanR 7y ago
It's definitely a worthwhile question - whether facebook actually broke the rules, or whether the IRS just wants blood.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Note also that if these sightings are extraterrestrial in origin, that highly advanced civilization is closely following the Star Trek Prime Directive in its interactions with Earth.
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by ColanR 7y ago
> If some radio and optical trickery may lead an observer to believe that the device moves in impossible ways, it's valuable. Pretty sure this was ruled out by the multiple methods of observation used.
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by ColanR 7y ago
I don't think it's intellectually honest to label something as a conspiracy theory and brush it aside without discussion.
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by ColanR 7y ago
Well said! > Lastly, to make sites like 8chan out to have no value other than content some might find deplorable is, frankly, as close minded as those who the author apparently fears. It's nice that someone actually came out and sai
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by ColanR 7y ago
> The fact that no-one talks about any of this just goes to show the extent of the lobbying done by the telecom industry. If monsanto could do it, then others can too. I'm impressed by how quickly everyone decided that the scientif
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by ColanR 7y ago
Insofar as it's a semantic argument, it's irrelevant. > If 100 independent scientists reproduce results, those results themselves are a scientific consensus Not in any sense that's relevant to the discovery of new informat
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by ColanR 7y ago
> Aren't reproducible results a form of consensus? Not in the least. "Reproducible results" represents the technical and methodological ability to confirm that an effect is real. "Consensus" is whether a politic

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