EmilioMartinez

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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
And that's where apathy plays in.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
Could you share what your political activism consists on, for context?
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
It's just as often that one optimizes for minima than for maxima (eg. latency or revenue). When there isn't a natural orden it's a coin flip (eg compounding latency and revenue in a single function). And anyways both are func
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>sines and cosines are polynomials evaluated on the complex unit circle Could you explain further?
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
Posed as a more general question: In what ways can a company that handles the information flow of lawmakers (personal info, browsing habits, software updates, etc) can influence their acting by psychological backdoors?
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>They totally still call you paranoid Id' say it's weirder still. A lot of people are well aware, and some even spout the wildest speculations about data usage, but if you actually go beyond shallow comments and suggest action
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>In short, it is a way for someone to pay to stand out. Oh boy, that is putting it so naively. The tricky part with "status for sale" is projecting some semblance of legitimacy. Specially among more tech savy and piraty communi
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
Maybe if the acceleration is smooth enough, but the sudden appearance of a new g yanking your head to your chest might be dangerous for a baby.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
And yet, you might find yourself being held legally accountable for what's posted
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
Ironically, I recall a discussion on HN about people being irrationally afraid of A/B testing, and how overcoming it could greatly benefit society (the centerpiece topic at the moment were variants of hospital posters about hand-washin
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
Yeah, there was a lot of denouncing evil practices, and very little instrospection. Like with every human vice, there being bad agents exploiting the phenomenon shouldn't overshadow the fact that its deep rooted in how we work, because
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
I was surprised that comment went through a production of dozens of people and no one saw a problem with it.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
They did do one healthy clarification to that effect: >And what they contained weren't glowing lines of code: Instead, Neil could see login screens.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
Always wondered the same. More so, it baffles me that locksmiths use physical keys to copy new keys, propagating errors in the long run.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
That sounds like one of the reasons why there were less indications.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>rebrand it. Drop the word "nuclear". I laughed at the thought of A/B testing new names of fundamental forces across different demographics.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
This. It's a handwavy familiar term (without defending its usage). Remember that nowadays people call soundless videos "GIFs", browsers curtail web adresses, and companies report leak passwords as being encrypted when they we
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
I always wondered, given how disingenuous they are by saying "training purposes", doesn't that weight in in any way during a legal process? You'd still have yourself to blame if you naively believe everyone, but is it le
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
The process you describe nostalgically is called braindrain on the third world, and if it's wavering it's due to changing economic and geopolitical landscapes. The process itself created an outflow of scientific and technological
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
Just playing OP's advocate here, he did say "software security", as in security through software. I'm sure there's another counter-example though.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
gamil.com is such a weird place. Gamil Design appears to be a legitimate business with a crappy site, but you just know how coveted the domain must be by bad actors. Their first entry is "OK you hackers out there – you confounded us fo
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>The discoveries are forcing researchers to rewrite textbooks I see comments like this all too often. It makes it sound like textbooks were not supposed to be updated anyways. I fear people expect science to "settle".
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
This begs the question: Is it illegal to design a nuclear weapon? Or any weapon for that matter, sounds like hell of a hobby. Could you outsource a modern day Kalashnikov to the third world through the daily Slack and Zoom?
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
I like seeing what habits I might have that others could find annoying.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>What happens if you were banned from Facebook Your social credit goes down, of course
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>it makes sense to have an account to keep track of what games you own no? Not in the least
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
How do we create laws for these contingencies? Should we list all the possible manners in which consumers shouldn't be screwed? Should we provide flexible guidelines? It risks becoming a regulatory hell too for small developers to navi
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
You can tell they had long meetings about the eggplant and peach animations.
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
>unhelpful & simplistic Self-describing like that says a lot about a person. How is that unhelpful? What's the problem with simplicity? It was an opening statement for a long description about her personality, how could it have
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by EmilioMartinez 6y ago
I prefer the idea of content being dynamic, with users being able to expand on certain points, and more direct access to sources. Interfacing that would be a bitch though.

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