M_Grey

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by M_Grey 10y ago
Well, it didn't seem to bother Juanita Martinez too much.
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...We're all carrying around smartphones, surely that's how you "normalize tracking"?
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More importantly, they must be pretty aware of the fact that they'll be tracking minors, and all that entails. They know that their lifeblood is their reputation for being utterly family-friendly. At the end of the day, it's just.
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I think that MWI is pretty much like any ontology, in that you find a lot more interest in it when you're not dealing with physicists. At the end of the day, it doesn't change the math, it doesn't change much of anything, a
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I won't deny that FB has a huge userbase, but no, that's still not most of us. In addition, broadcast tv isn't shitting the bed because people aren't tired of the deal you've described; they're just cutting t
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Most of us: I lock my doors and might have a gun just in case, but I recognize the value and role of laws. In the real world we have to accept that we need to defend ourselves, and also act collectively through politics and law to protect e
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Except that those "most people" are the ones who are directly responsible for electing the current crop of leaders who have put us in this position, so I'm running a bit low on universal love and compassion, sue me. Moreover
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The counter-arguments: A VPN that sells your information and eventually, inevitably is caught, will lose their entire business. Meanwhile they can make a perfectly good profit just... providing the desired service. There are also people who
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European Commission Considering Open-Access Publishing(sciencemag.org)
3 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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>I'm no fan of the DPRK regime, but isn't it naive to assume that any state, even a completely mismanaged despotic one, will "inevitably" collapse? I could not agree more, and if it does collapse there will be a lot o
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by M_Grey 10y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/29/is-lyft-r... You may be right, but I don't think this is all as obscure as some people would like to think. That's an article that seems to re
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More likely people will, without ever understanding any of this, become agitated and then over time... nothing they recognize will happen, nothing they can see will change. It will be even harder to get their attention next time...
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That's where a decent router that can support your VPN comes in. Look, I grant you this is not perfect, and there is no perfect enduser solution, but if you want to stop the bleeding, that's how.
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Honestly, I love everything he writes... The Diamond Age in particular I think is a bit underrated.
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Good VPNs have DNS leak protection now, and frankly, I recommend avoiding one that doesn't.
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Encrypted VPN that doesn't keep records (I like NordVPN, but have had good experiences with others like IPV and PIA), uMatrix, uBlock Origin, and don't forget to turn on your user agent spoofing options.
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Echoes of a Black Hole(aeon.co)
3 points by M_Grey 10y ago|0 comments
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Fingers crossed At the very least, if QM emerges into your end of things, it should do so in clearly defined ways, and at scales/energies which have some hope of being probed.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Ahhh, that makes a lot of sense; big warm systems that are still fascinating, but definitely not dominated by QM.
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That attitude is true to a point, but surely people don't think that Gore would have invaded Iraq? That difference alone strikes me as so obvious and tangible, that there's no excuse for these kinds of false equivalences anymore.
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I mean, when you say that you parted ways, did you go over to something like deBB?
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It doesn't have an ontology with a current prayer of being falsifies, which is the same thing if you're interested in the science and not the popsci. Exceptions exist, hence AdS/CFT correspondence and M-Theory, but they are e
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Very little about QM is intuitive at the ontological level; what matters is that it's logical at the mathematical and practical level. Lasers work, the math works, the ontology doesn't.
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I was expecting something pretty dramatic when I clicked on the linked "extinction event," but it's just the same thing. I can't get a sense if this is one very frustrated person, or if this is really a worrying trend. M
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Well we're in total agreement then, just with slightly different perspectives. I think if we were both told to come to a mutual decision about a plan for the future of humanity, the plans would resemble each other more than anything. S
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Between Applebaum, Waymo, and the crash that got the Waymo suit mentioned in every article about the crash for a couple of days... well, maybe they'll hear about it sooner or later. Certainly any Uber competitors must be sitting in a r
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Over the next year or so, it should be clear if they'll be left in the cold, or very wealthy. Pretty much everyone seems to agree that the Model 3 needs to do well in an unprecedented way (not impossible), or Tesla is in very deep trou
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I agree with you completely, but if you want a bit of insight as to why this quote has become absolutely inescapable: Farcry 3. The antagonist in that game was pretty laughably overwrought, but people loved him, and that was one of his favo
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I agree, but I think that vaping of concentrates, edibles, and sub-lingual preparations are the biggest in the next decade or two. Now that people with degrees can work in this space without fear for their freedom, lives, and careers, inter
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In terms of smoking, pipes and hookahs have been the strong preference, but of course prohibition made having that kind of obvious paraphernalia difficult or impossible. By contrast, in a time when a lot of people were rolling their own c

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