Moodles

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Facial recognition technology can expose political orientation(nature.com)
3 points by Moodles 6y ago|1 comments
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by Moodles 6y ago
What % of bitcoin owners own it for political reasons along your lines, compared to people just using it as an investment?
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by Moodles 6y ago
Yeah, I could believe aliens would have ciphers that mix add, modulo, xor, etc. in some way, but the choices we use in designs do seem to be somewhat random among a large set of possible decisions (though I could be wrong, and it would be r
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I've often thought that alien civilizations would also probably invent asymmetric cryptography pretty much the same as us: Lattices, Diffie-Hellman, RSA, etc. Those are all based on very pure mathematical problems. Whereas symmetric cr
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That's literally what the conversation is about: debating what someone else is likely thinking. And look, on another thread I've already been called a racist haha. Just incredible, it's like clockwork.
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You sound quite partisan to be honest, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. It is true that Trump's (or anyone's) opponents are allowed to be outraged over serious things. But you literally just pointed out at the left
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by Moodles 6y ago
Haha of course. I don't have any experience being a democrat in, say, Wyoming, so I'm not entirely sure if my observation is correct. But I would genuinely feel like my career is in jeopardy if I wore a MAGA hat to the tech office
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by Moodles 6y ago
Man, I think both sides are ridiculous. I don't like myself when I get drawn into these kinds of discussions. It's obviously not going to be productive. > "Guess I'll have to explain [because you're too dumb to g
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by Moodles 6y ago
Melania Trump — like all the first ladies — spent a great deal of time doing charity work for kids and so on. Most of the time, nobody paid any attention to her clothes. One time, she wears a jacket, and explains why she's wearing it:
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by Moodles 6y ago
Oh jeez. The first lady didn't wear a coat to secretly tell people she hate children. Even if she did secretly hate children (despite all her charity work), why would she want to "secretly" tell the media this by wearing a co
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by Moodles 6y ago
Maybe it's my social bubble of working in tech and so on, but it seems like the left dominate the outrage more these days. Certainly social media and mainstream media is heavily left-leaning. It's obvious to me which side you have
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by Moodles 6y ago
Right, so now the outrage is about the other side's outrage? Ironically, they probably talk about the tan suit more now? And I don't know, how can you have it both ways? If you make fun of Trump's hair or his wife's coat
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by Moodles 6y ago
Wait, what? Are you saying Melania actually wore the coat for that reason? Or are you saying the left's outrage is worse than the right? My OP about Melania was sarcastic: she actually wore it to say she doesn't care about the bul
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by Moodles 6y ago
Both sides are idiots about fashion: The right: Obama's tan suit. (I actually don't know much about this, can't be bothered to investigate as I'm sure it was dumb) The left: Melania Trump's "I don't care,
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Or, maybe they're lying to discourage more calls? In any case, their best strategy is to claim they're out of the short position so really them saying so is useless information.
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by Moodles 6y ago
A better question is: If Melvin made a huge short position and is now finally out of it, why would they bother telling everyone? ;-)
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I agree with you, though it would have been nice if you listed a single view going the other direction ;-)
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> Whatever they say, they have the keys to decrypt it. This is a baseless assertion.
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I understand and agree that the author adds his own $0.02 here and there. But you don't have to agree with every word in the book to think it provides value. I think the book functions as an easy read high level overview of human histo
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by Moodles 6y ago
I recommend anyone who's interested in early humans and human development to read the book Sapiens: https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/d... I really enjoyed it!
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by Moodles 6y ago
You have provided an exmaple (I assume, I didn't click the link because I have a productivity blocker which I obviously need to update for Hacker News, lol) of a bad thing on one platform, but not another. But ok, are there vice versa
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by Moodles 6y ago
I understand (and agree) that the majority of knowledge we have is based on authority. I'm not suggesting everyone should do their own climate change research to believe climate change. I'm just suggesting they don't have to
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Right. So a somewhat rough analysis would be: sample a range of "average" tweets on both platform and somehow aggregate an average "hate" value. What I'm getting at is, I understand Parler is generally a right-leani
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> This is another question in good faith. Can you provide any evidence at all that you're not knowingly asking that as a political/debating tactic to suggest your proposition is reasonable, knowing full well that the purpose of
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Yes, because the trade off is worth it, and we should treat people like grownups who can think for themselves. Why not encourage critical thinking and wider reading, instead of being the police of literally all the information on your giant
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by Moodles 6y ago
> On one hand, Parler was a hate site, filled with conspiracy theories, radicalization and racism. This is a question in good faith. Can you provide any evidence at all that Parler had more “hate” than Twitter, etc.?
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by Moodles 6y ago
Shame you couldn't just do 4 days worth of work and play hooky on the 5th day?
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I agree with OP's interpretation: > A more charitable interpretation is that the copy/paste isn't because the authors are hopelessly out of touch: instead, they're seeking to enable the direct re-use of all of the exe
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I think it's poor journalism without due diligence verging on clickbait.
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In Britain we have a phrase to describe silly outrage news like this: "Storm in a teacup". This, combined with "Signal hacked by cellebrite" last week (bullshit: https://signal.org/blog/cellebrite-an

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