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by ab5tract 2y ago
For your second point: That line of reasoning has traditionally resulted in underfunding of security. It’s also quite impossible in practice. Say that you know for a fact that CrowdStrike prevented a ransomware attack. How can you accuratel
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by ab5tract 2y ago
I expect it’s less offensive in full form than it is in its clickbait title, but this line of thinking is beyond disturbing to me. As someone who doesn’t have children and likely never will, I can think of few things more upsetting than rec
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Early science in the Renaissance and later, until the 20th century, was almost entirely driven by people who could afford to pursue their efforts while sustained by income that required little or zero direct effort. Give humanity a chance.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
“Tied up in a war” is a funny way to say “aggressively breaking Chinese law in order to hook local populations, make tons of drug money, and collapse public order.” The Opium Wars were a cynical prototype for the modern war on drugs, which
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by ab5tract 2y ago
And here’s why it’s irrelevant and inconsequential…
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Seems unlikely that a computer was involved in this.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Fun fact: Bison created deep, wide grooves in the plains and prairies that were subsequently used by the settlers moving west in their wagons.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
It’s absolutely mind boggling that this author tries to fundamentally equate “weird nerds” as autistic, only to then present an example of a weird nerd who has never been documented as autistic.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Can I ask you to explain how this is at all relevant to the clear statistical fact that not every weird nerd is autistic?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
I didn’t set up any advanced structural editing in neovim and I don’t recall any such features existing in DrRacket’s editor. The only reason, as I understand it, for using Emacs is this much vaunted ability to evaluate expressions in the e
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Any time I get excited to go and try a Lisp, the tutorial will state categorically that I need to install and learn EMacs as well. And that is where my excitement quickly ends. Why is it so difficult for languages in these families to integ
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by ab5tract 2y ago
What you have described is, in fact, a mode of perpetuating ideology. If what you awere saying were accurate, it would absolve all capitalistic endeavors of reinforcing ideology, even the essential ideology of capitalism inherent in those e
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by ab5tract 2y ago
No, it makes the paradigm ubiquitous.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Do I? Is that legally mandated now?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
How is it legally possible to avoid a jury just because the absolute, immutable majority of people understand that you are guilty?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
In all seriousness: > "Google asserted that its check, which it said covered its alleged overcharges for online ads, allows it to sidestep a jury trial whether or not the government takes it." Who, exactly, the fuck do they thi
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by ab5tract 2y ago
As soon as you heard an AI laughing, you should have rejected it categorically. Simps.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Are you honestly saying that crypto currencies are so fragile that the mere knowledge of a token identifier is enough to frame the owner for a crime? If so, that's just further evidence of how ridiculous the entire crypto currency conc
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by ab5tract 2y ago
The combination of plants that creates ayahuasca appeared in a dream. Shamans have identified cancers and illnesses in people. If science can’t cope with these realities, that’s a science problem.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
Wouldn’t a more apt question be “would this apply to a company dedicated to swapping the serial numbers between after market firearms?” For my taste, the answer is en emphatic yes it would and yes it should. And I would expect any service o
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by ab5tract 2y ago
And you just happen to know the precise shape of it all? Reality just unfolded its entire mysteries for you and you alone, I guess.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
You mean, it’s journalism?
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by ab5tract 2y ago
You seem to have missed the point entirely: The scientists who considered it a myth were completely, utterly wrong. I think it is perfectly healthy to have skepticism about scientists who wage war against "myths". See also the lon
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by ab5tract 2y ago
The existence of Troy was once considered a myth.
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by ab5tract 2y ago
> Almost everyone, as it turns out, is wrong about flow. For sure this one is.
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by ab5tract 3y ago
Sorry, but that’s nonsense. There were millions of humans living side by side with these bison before both were genocided. Equating “civilization” with “humanity” or “human nature” is a false equivalence.
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by ab5tract 3y ago
This should include a year in the title so as not to give the impression that this was written after the xz incident.
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by ab5tract 3y ago
The person who added the malicious blobs and signed the compromized archives was literally a maintainer of the project.
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by ab5tract 3y ago
Were there not many MS-DOS clones at the time?
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by ab5tract 3y ago
The truth is that _truths are contentious_. AI simply cannot fully convey the discourse around any given topic without angering or neglecting one group or another. This means that the creators of a given AI will necessarily pick and choose

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