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by allenz 8y ago
Sandboxing would be nice, but I don't think it's practical. Do you know of any secure plugin systems that can replace WordPress?
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by allenz 8y ago
I am not aware of any serious vulnerabilities in an up-to-date WordPress site. Its security practices seem reasonable. Your link shows that most of the vulnerabilities come from plugins, plus WordPress is a big target. WordPress is simple t
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> China isn't going full-bore on a market economy and democratic system... the Chinese in such a configuration would be absolutely un-stoppable This is ideology. For growth, it is the outcome that matters. Democracies can make terri
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by allenz 8y ago
I don't know of any systematic studies, but the balance of available evidence is that warrant approval rates are very high: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2017/08/10/...
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by allenz 8y ago
Defensive technology can shift the balance of power and escalate violence in ways that are hard to predict. Humvees carry armed soldiers, who could act more aggressively if they were safe from retaliation. Reagan's missile defense prop
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by allenz 8y ago
Here's the NIH overview of addiction treatment, summarizing thousands of studies: https://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/principles-drug-addic... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles&#x2F
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by allenz 8y ago
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/19/...
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by allenz 8y ago
Here's a solution: go back to the policy under Bush or Obama. Immigration policy is rarely pleasant, and we may have different views on hard choices, but I hope we can agree when a policy is evil.
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by allenz 8y ago
Where to draw the line is a matter of judgment for each business. All ethics and justice relies on judgment. No murderer knows whether they'll be sentenced to ten years or twenty, just as there is no list of exact crimes that will get
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by allenz 8y ago
It is official US government policy to separate children from their parents as a deterrent: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/16/us/politics/family-separa... Children have the right not to be abused.
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by allenz 8y ago
When ICE violates human rights, it's no longer a free speech issue. Microsoft shouldn't work with ICE in the same way that banks shouldn't work with sanctioned oligarchs.
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by allenz 8y ago
Sam Levigne is a performance artist. The context for this work is that ICE plans to increase its surveillance of immigrants, including surveillance of social media accounts. Sam argues that if this level of transparency is too invasive even
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by allenz 8y ago
Problem is, chasing the common denominator probably increased Quora's ad revenue. I think that Quora's high quality community was doomed as soon as Quora accepted venture funding.
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by allenz 8y ago
But then you're light enough for air launch or beam propulsion to be viable.
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by allenz 8y ago
Source on that claim? Here's a comment chain where the author admits that his library is noncompliant: https://probablydance.com/2017/02/26/i-wrote-the-fastest-has... . Also note the complete lack of a st
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by allenz 8y ago
Try Google Alerts: https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/4815696?hl=en
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by allenz 8y ago
http://sites.psu.edu/christiercl/2014/04/02/why-stereotypes-...
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by allenz 8y ago
Racial quotas are illegal, so Harvard cannot say it outright. Harvard says that race is considered as a factor in their holistic evaluation.
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by allenz 8y ago
I think that the physics scales pretty well, actually. It's just that once you get small enough, ground-based or air-based launch systems are going to be more effective than rockets. We're talking railguns, ram accelerators, beam-
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by allenz 8y ago
People care about non-physical properties. In copyright law, the same pattern of bits can be legal in one context and illegal in another.
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by allenz 8y ago
Of course it's a secondary hash. He's mapping buckets by a hash and a shift. This is not a new strategy, and xor, Fibonacci, and "real" hashes fall along a spectrum of average vs worst case runtime tradeoffs.
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by allenz 8y ago
> You can easily brute-force even the worst of all siphash in under 4min You assume that you know the seed or can directly observe the output, which is rare in practice. > upper bits of a hash function are always superior to the lower
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by allenz 8y ago
It's the same API, but I highly doubt that his implementation is fully compliant with the C++ standard.
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by allenz 8y ago
This is for a hashmap library where the hash functions are user-defined, so a secondary hash is justifiable.
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by allenz 8y ago
Yes, I agree with you that unordered_map should be slower. For context, the author shows off a graph where his custom Fibonacci implementation is the fastest, which proves nothing about Fibonacci hashing.
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by allenz 8y ago
It's not really fair to compare a custom implementation against the standard unordered_map implementations, which need to be fully general. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9675608 Still, I'm shocked that
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by allenz 8y ago
Laws are a balance of interests. There are legitimate reasons to show violent crimes in a documentary, work of art, or political commentary, which balance against the harm. There are no reasons to show child pornography. Sexual abuse emphas
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by allenz 8y ago
Many victims try to find out how their pictures are being shared, as in my second link, because they feel that knowing is better than not knowing. And considering how awful it must feel to know, I think that really says something. Privacy r
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by allenz 8y ago
Consider it as if you were a child victim. Imagine coming across these pictures of your abuse, or your family coming across these pictures. Or your coworkers. Or strangers. The pictures reenact the crime, invoking shame, dread, and helpless
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by allenz 8y ago
Child pornography and homeless people are not comparable. Homeless people have a right to shelter, whereas pictures do not have rights. We take down child pornography not because we wish to "sweep it under the rug", but because th

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