EvilTerran

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by EvilTerran 7y ago
Who argued that, where? I don't see it in this subthread. Regardless, as I said in my comment, I only mentioned the Unix model "for example" - not to "shift the goalposts", just because I'm more familiar with
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by EvilTerran 7y ago
The malicious code may well have the necessary permissions to write to the profile folder, but not to modify the executable. Under the Unix security model, for example, that would be pretty likely: your profile's owned by your account,
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by EvilTerran 7y ago
I don't know off-hand. The claim that this "is the future the EU has voted for" was made by the article, not by me. I was, for the sake of argument, taking the article at its word on that - and observing that, in that light
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by EvilTerran 7y ago
> there is an AI that is granted supreme power to censor content Its decisions were overruled by humans. That's not "supreme power". In effect, some uploads were pre-moderated instead of retromodded. There's nothing n
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by EvilTerran 7y ago
> The company identified 32 copies of the document, all of which were removed and then reinstated > A separate request Quartz made to reinstate its own versions of the document was resolved 17 minutes after we sent it, seemingly after
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by EvilTerran 7y ago
Speaking of alternatives, there's also Dokan: https://dokan-dev.github.io/
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by EvilTerran 7y ago
Are you aware of the Links programming language / research project? It lets you write code in a uniform syntax that compiles down to a mixture of Javascript, server-side code, and SQL - all from the same source file, if you like. Clien
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
> The mechanism of action of analgesic drugs is very simple and well-understood. https://academic.oup.com/bjaed/article/14/4/153/293533 (2013) the exact mechanism of action of paracetamol [ie a
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
Conversely, the shorthand scale does divide into perfect thirds (#555, #AAA) or fifths (#333, #666, #999, #CCC).
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
Firefox's Reader View works great on Medium too.
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
I can see how that could be a problem with modal logins, but it doesn't have to be a show-stopper: when the modal opens, the site could history.pushState() to a URL that would, when navigated to directly later, serve the page with the
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
> Tay is an instance of deliberate manipulation, but YouTube is a case of wrong incentives. I think it near-certain that YouTube is both . Considering the obvious value of getting your video into as many people's recommendation str
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
There's some relevant work going on in the "crev" project, discussed here a couple of weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18824923 The big idea is for people to publish cryptographically signed &q
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
That chart was an assessment of the situation in the UK in 2011, not the US in the present day.
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
From my reading of https://www.ampproject.org/docs/fundamentals/spec , it looks like you could override this behaviour in uBlock Origin with a style cosmetic filter. Something like... ##html[amp] body,html[\2
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
That sounds like Content Blocking kicking in - that's only active in Private Browsing by default: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/content-blocking I note that page says "By default, content blocking
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
Python has the same idea, albeit on a smaller scale, with its "from __future__ import <feature>" statements: https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0236/
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
Nicotine has stimulant & nootropic effects: https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine#benefits Tobacco also naturally contains, in addition to the nicotine, other compounds that act like MAOIs - ie, as antidepressants: https:&#x2
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
Do you have any citations for these claims? Not calling you a liar or anything - I'm just not at all familiar with the site in question, and it seems like it'd be important evidence if we want to fairly judge paypal's behavio
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
That's a huge help, thank you!
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
For the benefit of laypeople like myself: - IID: "independent and identically distributed", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_and_identically_di... - OLS: "ordinary least squares", https:&#
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Don't be snarky. Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
In spreadsheets, too!
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
I use the old mobile site, it's fantastically light-weight: https://i.reddit.com You can change the subdomain to "i" on any reddit page, or access the same version by adding ".compact" to the end of the
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
As far as I've been able to tell, Derek Smart and Chris Roberts have a long-standing bitter rivalry over who can make the best space game, driven by the substantial egos on the both of them. At present, that mostly manifests as Smart d
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
I wouldn't say the chance is exactly zero - if Google's monopolistic behaviour surrounding Chrome (the "install our browser!" nags on their web properties come to mind) get too egregious, they may be forced to divest v
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
> some russian company spending $100K on facebook ads The Kremlin internet propaganda project had, at its peak, a budget of more than $1.25 million per month . https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018&
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
I'm reminded of the (possibly apocryphal) stories of criminals who underwent various procedures to remove their fingerprints - methodical scarring, acid burns, skin grafts from elsewhere on the body, etc: even the procedures that worke
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
Well said. You've elucidated my thinking better than I could. Another aspect: I've set up my browser to be pretty aggressive about blocking ads & trackers, to the extent that in practice any website is limited to tracking only
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by EvilTerran 8y ago
> Isn't this copyright violation? Eh... maybe? I mean, you could achieve the same end result with a proxy/VPN and your browser's reader mode - to do it that way wouldn't be copyright infringement, would it? I feel lik

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