JohnStrangeII

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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Anyone who wants to commit a serious crime with the help of others will physically destroy the evidence that leads to those helpers before committing the crime. Getting the phone data after the crime has been committed is not going to help
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
So your challenging the definition of a mass shooting they use because it somehow doesn't cohere with your personal thoughts about it. But the problem of defining a mass shooting and that various definitions are controversial is mentio
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
It's a great city, I still miss living there. I used to use public transport to go to work and it was awesome. Going to work by bike on large bike lanes is even better. Not to speak of the lack of car noise, which is the most annoying
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
To be fair, I cannot imagine any nation to sell a current-generation hi tech stealth fighter jet to foreign countries without hiding some kill switch somewhere in the firmware. I always thought this is somehow implied and that countries who
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
That sounds overly optimistic.
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with that assessment, just wanted to correct your definition of populism by a more adequate one that is based on indicators of tendencies. There is no problem identifying right wing and left wing positions
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Your definition is wrong. Populism is a political strategy based on the oversimplification of issues, inventing scapegoats, and generally appealing to popular "bar talk" as offering solutions to problems that are in reality way mo
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
However, this is not about nuclear proliferation, of course. Otherwise the US would impose tough sanctions on Israel and even threaten them with military strikes, because there is strong evidence that Israel has a secret nuclear weapons pro
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
> Does the same argument apply to SELinux? That the NSA can already compromise any version of the Linux kernel, or alternatively that the NSA has been fighting itself since the year 2000? Definitely. As far as I can see (public civilia
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
On the contrary, the NSA's motives are clear and transparent. Try to make the system secure against anyone else and breakable by us.
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
It's a military agency whose stated mission goal (among others) is to be able to compromise any military or civil information processing system used by non-US citizens. You're a bit gullible if you think that the nice folks from t
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
I still think it's problematic, since it is in the vital interest of the NSA, and one of its core missions, to be able to penetrate endpoint security at that level. If they contribute to Coreboot, then that means either that they want
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
I'm surprised. I've always thought that "Amazon's Choice" was paid advertisement and have avoided these suggestions. When I buy something on Amazon, I usually take reviews from elsewhere into account or click on the
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
I'm using Emacs for my daily tasks, both writing and programming. One question I have to more experienced Emacs users: Can you recommend an email client? It needs to be able to display html mails. Currently, I use claws-mail and am fai
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
AFAIK, currently probably not, but this would be a bad basis for extrapolation about future capabilities. Conventional supercomputers are insanely fast and current quantum computers do not yet have many qubits yet. But - very loosely speaki
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
I also gave an example of an equally silly software patent. Besides, I would not call different sorts of patents "completely unrelated". All of them have trolls, have been granted for silly and trivial things, and the system is co
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
This is not really meant as a critique, more of a general suggestion for implementers to improve their docs. As someone who teaches logic and works with standard logics from time to time (HOL with Lambek Calculus, normal and classical modal
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I think the only sane answer would be a clearcut Yes, but the question is also highly misleading by insinuating that software patents actually cover innovative theorems. The vast majority of them don't. Austin Meyer, the maker of the X
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Same here(though not a mathematician). Patenting algorithms is so horribly wrong on every level, it's still beyond my comprehension how this could ever be allowed. Some of the patents are ridiculously absurd and luckily rarely enforced
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
What about bootstrapping by writing an interpreter for language X and then implement a compiler in X? That used to be common practice and has many advantages, such as easy targeting of new systems. Maybe with tools like LLVM it has become a
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
What I mean is 20 minutes/day to get your Vitamin D levels right.
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Okay, I'm not a physician, but for me as a layman there does not seem to be anything new in the study described. Yes, not taking it without indication has always been the professional recommendation. Stopping Aspirin treatment can also
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
I wouldn't say so. The CIA and high ranking military officials certainly hated him and wanted him dead. There was a strong motive and there many inconsistencies in the way the case was handled afterwards. The majority of higher ranking
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Unless you think people should be punished for thought crimes, that seems like exactly the right kind of "it worked" to me. You don't want to give these toxic communities a broad recruitment platform and you don't want t
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
It's such a pity that LatexDraw is not developed more. It would be the ideal solution if it had a few more features. I currently use Dia for the same purpose as the author uses, but I have to admit that the graphics in this article loo
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
Plenty of individuals who can make decisions for themselves live in filth and squalor, too. As long as they don't cause serious harm or violate other basic moral standards like the freedom of others, right to property, etc., people&#x2
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
30% is fairly low, and your suggestion that schizophrenics refuse treatment a lot is pointless. Some of them refuse it, other do not refuse it, and you help those who do not refuse it. The situation of homeless is not as bad in countries wi
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
> All these things exist in many developed countries, but they don't solve the problem either. You're just claiming this without providing any evidence and I believe this to be false (in tendency), unless by "solving th
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
The problem is that you don't offer any solution. Sure, some homeless people, schizophrenics, and sociopaths are unpleasant to deal with and will find themselves unwanted wherever they go, both due to their own actions and due to preju
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by JohnStrangeII 7y ago
The point is that everybody already constantly enforces his/her own rules by socially interacting with others and giving the respective feedback. There is no need for someone else to enforce your rules or write them down. The funny thi

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