Macross8299

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by Macross8299 7y ago
Fishing boats could've been requisitioned from anywhere. Signs put up by party cadres. I think those are perhaps examples of propaganda that everyone on the ground there knows is false but are put up for the sake of the international m
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by Macross8299 7y ago
I think a "zero day" threat model and terminology is from the point of view of the blue team type of people running the system, not the vendor. From someone running a system, it doesn't matter if the vendor had 0 prior knowle
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by Macross8299 7y ago
I don't think "all Trump supporters hate immigrants" is a fair characterization, given that there are quite a few immigrants who are Trump supporters themselves. also, Godwin's law?
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by Macross8299 7y ago
The difference is that the US government isn't known for disappearing thousands of dissidents without trial and the president has a term limit. It's really not the same at all.
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by Macross8299 7y ago
Even if those anecdotes aren't true, isn't the perception of Seattle being a homeless-enabling city likely to make it a self-fulfilling prophecy if it's believed widely enough? Homeless people in Canada definitely try to make
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by Macross8299 7y ago
I believe even worse than showing you new sets of images is when the reCAPTCHA system gives you a "low trust score" and intentionally fades out the selected images, but very slowly, and replaces them with new images of the same ty
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by Macross8299 7y ago
I think as long as Comcast, AT&T, Viacom, Fox, CBS and Disney own over 90% of news media by viewership, I will keep referring to it as MSM since that is practically an oligopoly by any definition of the term
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by Macross8299 7y ago
Is "losing press room access" supposed to be some understandable defense of knowingly deceiving the public into a war? Doesn't seem all that different from the days of William Randolph Hearst.
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by Macross8299 7y ago
>I am struggling to see the threat model being faced here. We don't really know the full details of the breach, but if the facial recognition database contained names in a column associated with pictures, that data can absolutely be
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by Macross8299 7y ago
Why is the headline not "Facebook turned off features used by Cambridge analytica to datamine, microtarget and interfere in an election"? What a biased headline. Facebook really is damned if they do, damned if they don't acco
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by Macross8299 7y ago
Meanwhile, traditional news media is currently lobbying congress to make news organizations and online publishers exempt from anti-trust law in order to secure a better negotiating position with tech companies. [0] I don't trust them t
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Proposed house bill exempts media and online publishers from antitrust law(cnn.com)
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by Macross8299 7y ago
The reasoning is that the lawmakers don't really give a shit about antitrust or competitiveness of industries (because there are far worse monopolies to target), just control over the internet.
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by Macross8299 7y ago
It's pretty obvious that these probes aren't in good faith at all. If the government gave a shit about antitrust law or consumers, we wouldn't see things like Equifax/Transunion or Verizon/AT&T and other oligopo
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by Macross8299 7y ago
So we should delay life-saving and world-changing technology as long as possible until we can get some sort unrealistic international consensus (good luck with that, look at climate change) on the technology to make sure that the hand-wring
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by Macross8299 7y ago
Facebook isn't an editor, though, it's a curator. You use them interchangably but I think there's a crucial difference. An editor modifies to inject their own standards into the work. A curator just includes or disincludes as
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by Macross8299 7y ago
>let's make that explicit from a legal perspective and regulate them. Most people would also be pretty uncomfortable with the government vicariously deciding what they can say through Facebook. I'm sure it would cut both ways,
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by Macross8299 7y ago
Why is Facebook obligated to play the role of referee in games of political fact?
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by Macross8299 7y ago
Yeah, I really have noticed an increase in "Facebook is bad" content from mainstream media, usually blasting them because people use the platform to spread fake news as people have used any other platform to spread fake news since
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by Macross8299 7y ago
An average facebook user being able to ascertain the authenticity of something is a very poor barometer for its authenticity or legality. Average FB user probably couldn't tell you if Panama papers were authentic or not, so should thos
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by Macross8299 7y ago
>so are New York Times articles, because classy journalism looks good on the platform Interesting that a journalist thinks that Facebook is optimized for what "looks good" rather than what drives eyeballs. Facebook is just givi
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by Macross8299 7y ago
That assumes an "interesting" financial investment has to appreciate faster than all other investments that exist and that nobody would ever trade returns for less risk. People buy bonds, so I don't think that maximizing ROI
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by Macross8299 7y ago
I get that you're being sarcastic, but to further emphasize your point: As I understand it, Riot Games had something similar implemented -- a jury of peers called the tribunal to render decisions in order to punish bad player behaviour
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by Macross8299 7y ago
These are some great tips! Been looking for something similar to this app to help create anki decks directly from documents, kudos. A sidetrack but are there any good resources on using Anki for learning mathematics? Google brings up a lot
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by Macross8299 7y ago
Article doesn't say that, just that >The investigators’ reconstruction of the attack made it clear: even if, somehow, Valérie had had a loaded gun in her hand when the bear made his move, she wouldn’t have had a chance Really bad lu
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by Macross8299 7y ago
Grew up in Alberta, but spent a lot of time as a kid in the Kootenays in British Columbia, so no stranger to grizzlies. I've seen a few while hiking as well, very scary. I think the idea that a handgun cannot penetrate a Grizzly's
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by Macross8299 7y ago
Is the comment of "she should have had a gun" really that insensitive? I say this as someone who grew up in bear country and knew people that had bear spray readily accessible when outdoors. I'm sure some of them would'v
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by Macross8299 7y ago
You forget that there is a significant and very vocal segment in education and academia opposed to such standardized exams as the exams are perceived to undermine equity and social justice. Which may very well be a valid point, given the ex
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by Macross8299 7y ago
I think this might backfire, though. It's the same problem with Veracrypt/LUKS hidden volumes. If they know about the sandbox capability, they could easily say "okay, now unlock the real one" if they find nothing incrimi
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by Macross8299 7y ago
>“what other industry is there where the top decision-makers have never done the basic work of the company?” Not to belabour a point sibling comments have already made but I think it's the other way around, actually. Much more commo

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