SilasX

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by SilasX 3y ago
I remember an old slashdot thread about a pedophile who took pictures of his victims and then tried to obscure it by swirl-distorting the faces. Police were able to sufficiently unswirl the faces and identify the victims and get a convictio
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by SilasX 3y ago
I remember seeing an online poster circulate that warned victims of domestic violence to turn off their secret phones during that time window.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Semi-related: AIUI, in most places where you legitimately want a “random number”, what you actually want is a number that is knowably, causally unrelated to the other figures so you know you’re screening off accidental correlations. In pr
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by SilasX 3y ago
I don't feel entitled to anything, it was just a suggestion for how they can communicate better, which they ostensibly want. I constantly get lauded for good presentations, and see others do them with unforced errors, so I thought I&#x
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by SilasX 3y ago
And when I shift a work to a new medium, I also shift over the conventions used to match that new medium -- and audience. It's an empathy thing.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Maybe a nitpick, but I think it would be more accurate to say that it has, in recent years, become policy to not confront thieves, even verbally and non-violently because so many of them are now willing to escalate to lethal force on th
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by SilasX 3y ago
Are you thinking of Genesis? I was talking about Gemini, the exchange owned by the Winklevoss twins. It has not collapsed. (Disclosure: I am an active user.) Genesis's lending operations are what collapsed.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Gemini, the subject of this story, for one.
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by SilasX 3y ago
“You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.” —- supposed quote from Napoleon about the first steamships. Yes, of course it would need measures to make i
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by SilasX 3y ago
That doesn't address why they wouldn't be able to sublease, except for your overgeneral "they're all custom" (sorry, bespoke), which I thought was allowed for such a large lease. In any case, a citation would be hel
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by SilasX 3y ago
I get that in theory, but this seems like a special case where they'd want to apply some judgment, especially since it requires a massive commitment of upfront capital that FB could almost certainly deploy more efficiently somewhere el
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by SilasX 3y ago
It is an insane amount! I initially assumed it was a case of “ha ha, M means a thousand, silly”, but no, the article confirms it’s millions, and equal to seven years of rent. Like, what? The landlord could fail to find another tenant for
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by SilasX 3y ago
Layperson here. “Claim of impunity” is muuuch more confusing than “claim of immunity”. The former sounds like they’re claiming that, in practice, they don’t get prosecuted (cf. “the gangs commit crimes with impunity”), rather than that they
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by SilasX 3y ago
Haha yeah even with the very specific project of “build a reliable, privacy oriented browser”, you’re scratching your head at where the money went. Like, “no unsigned extensions” with “oops we forgot to renew the cert, and you can’t opt out
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by SilasX 3y ago
> The Metropolitan Police operate only in London (hence the name.) Which are also known as Scotland Yard, so you don’t get to claim there’s some dependable relationship between names and jurisdiction :-p
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by SilasX 3y ago
I’ve had this happen to me as a cash/self-pay/no insurance involved patient before. They’re shameless.
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by SilasX 3y ago
And don’t forget the kink that, in Breaking Bad, Walt uses the term to refer to his spouse’s sibling’s husband.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Don’t they generally have ties to the underworld/extralegal means of reprisals against people who owe them money? So wouldn’t they have acted by now if this were true (even if not “successful”)?
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by SilasX 3y ago
Reddit shower thought: Sugary cereal is “part of a balanced breakfast” only in the sense that Darth Vader is “part of the balanced Force”.
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by SilasX 3y ago
I’ve had one retroactively up a pre-declared price on me, after the service was rendered, even when insurance wasn’t involved at all.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Yes, that's used to dismiss the significance of some of the asserted trends. But it also agrees that inflation really did go up: >>The change in the trade deficit (graphs 15 & 16) may be linked to the end of Bretton Woods i
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by SilasX 3y ago
Can you be more specific? That's a long, nuanced reply that suggests several legit explanations that account for some of the trends, none of which look like dismissing the whole thing as bad statistics, like you're claiming.[1] If
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by SilasX 3y ago
And which of the zillion declensions do they use? :-p
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by SilasX 3y ago
Except with Wikipedia's (slight) redesign it was actually a regression, especially on mobile. But with an extension for clicking links from the keyboard, it's (still) a joy to navigate.
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by SilasX 3y ago
Especially since, five posts in and having looked at his profile, I still can't figure out what exchange he's talking about. LedgerX I think? Edit: No, apparently one called Gibraltar. Why can't he say it upfront, or at least
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by SilasX 3y ago
Reminds me of the joke about, "Omg, that's amazing, the new iPhone will support voicechat ... and you can use your phone number as your screenname!"
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by SilasX 3y ago
"That's not the language they used. They simply admired your place of business and reflected on what a shame it would be if a negative event happened to it. How would you keep people from saying that? It's basically a stateme
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by SilasX 3y ago
Haha yeah this was the jaw dropping part back when OF (temporarily) suspended porn and claimed they would change course and make OF more about getting private sessions with Gordon Ramsay types. Like, no, dude. For better or worse, OF has be
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by SilasX 3y ago
Translation: "I think I'm better than you for being better able to detect sarcasm, and, as the better being, I think you should adapt to me rather than I to you. I believe that I will always be a perfect sarcasm detector, and immu
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by SilasX 3y ago
My favorite physical interpretation (discrete version): How many extra bits per character your data compression algorithm would need to store text from distribution P if it (mistakenly) assumed it were drawn from Q. That is, reserve the sho

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