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   by api 11y ago

   This is the difference between the HN audience and the general audience. In general, the average user doesn't care about privacy or security at all. I develop a network virtualization product, and I spent a ton of time on security aspe
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   by api 11y ago

   Only the people doing it know the goal. I can speculate of course. It could just be standard 'fog of war' type stuff, or related to softening US public support for interventions against Russian actions in places like Ukraine. It c
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   by api 11y ago

   They're disturbingly effective. I personally know more than one person who's had their brain sucked out by Putin's sock puppet troll army. (If indeed that's what it is, and if I were a betting man I'd bet something
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   by api 11y ago

   "Information transmitted: All text typed on the keyboard is stored in temporary files, and sent (once per 30 mins) to:" No. Way. I don't believe it. Someone please investigate. Edit: looking at the comment section of this art
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   by api 11y ago

   They swiped away their CEO. :P
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   by api 11y ago

   Wow. When I wrote the previous I half thought I might be nuts, but this is actually more paranoia-inspiring than what I was suggesting. How did I not hear about this story?!? This isn't just fake news. It's a full-blown fake event
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   by api 11y ago

   Holy wow that is both awesome and dangerous as hell. If you hit something, it's going to basically shoot your spine out through your tailbone.
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   by api 11y ago

   If you're looking for a rabbit hole, look into the links between elements of the Western 'alternative' media and Putin's propaganda apparatus. It's very interesting to wonder about how far this influence might go, e
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   by api 11y ago

   If it -- they -- are truly sentient, they'll be both. There will be good and bad and everything in between, just like people.
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    by api 11y ago

    I get irritated at the "but science!" crowd on these issues... Not because they are always wrong but because they don't get the social undercurrents at work here. People preemptively reject GMOs for a fairly rational reason:
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    by api 11y ago

    Hackers is a movie that I thought was terrible when it came out (even as a youngster!), but now seems like a wonderful 90s period piece. It snapshots the whole hacker/raver/"burner" techno-counterculture axis of the 1990
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    by api 11y ago

    The real problem is that inflation is only occurring in those areas. Other areas are flat or deflationary.
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    by api 11y ago

    I'd also recommend Upstream Color, which has an almost more creatively baroque yet strangely logical plot. Maybe mix it with this: http://www.amazon.com/Parasite-Rex-Bizarre-Dangerous-Creatur...
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    by api 11y ago

    Oh yeah. Corrected. (Edited original.)
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    by api 11y ago

    I have too many to list. Here are some of the highlights that come to mind. 2001: A Space Odyssey -- had a profound effect on me as a child. It both reinforced my interest in science and opened my mind to the sheer size and scale and myster
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    by api 11y ago

    This strikes me as the general problem with nuclear power: it works so well -- in a sense -- that it tears apart the fabric of matter itself, making its components, fuels, wastes, etc. absolute hell to handle. It's tough to use matter
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    by api 11y ago

    I try to maintain my mental vitality by limiting nostalgia and intentionally seeking out new things. For example, I do this thing periodically with my music collection where I create a playlist of only music made in the past 5 years. If tha
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    by api 11y ago

    Fight the man hard enough and you win. Now you're the man. It wasn't colonization that yuppified hackerdom. It was evolution. Most of the old school hackers became yuppies when they found out they could make lots of money off th
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    by api 11y ago

    I read the rest of your replies and I think I misunderstood your point a bit (as did the rest of the crowd). I don't agree that assortive mating could do what you suggest as quickly as you're suggesting -- evolution is slower than
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    by api 11y ago

    You must be new here. There's a sizable cadre of IQ score worshipping neo-eugenicists around here. More people need to actually study evolutionary biology. Like I mean the real kind with math and combinatorics and stuff. Or maybe I&#x2
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    by api 11y ago

    If this site wants to be effective, it should link to more than just a video. Don't make me sit and watch a video to get the most important ideas. Summarize them at least! The reason people disable SELinux is that it leads to obscure h
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    by api 11y ago

    Sure, but if humans are going into deep space (beyond Mars in this case) then we're talking about nuclear propulsion at least which means you've got lots of power.
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    by api 11y ago

    Might makes right is the law of nature. Anything else is unnatural.
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    by api 11y ago

    If you only own your labor, you are a serf.
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    by api 11y ago

    To build a solid financial foundation, you have to own something . Otherwise you are a service employee. Take away copyright and only the owners of financial and physical capital can own anything. This is the "everyone is now a servic
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    by api 11y ago

    All those artists had patrons, a high end form of busking for tips, and none had any power in that relationship at all. It's never been easy for an artist to make a living, but taking rights away just makes it harder. An artist can giv
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    by api 11y ago

    Can someone explain without using "magic happens here" arguments how an author, musician, etc. would build a portfolio of assets from which they could attain any measure of financial security in this world? Working for tips is not
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    by api 11y ago

    Also important to note that even if you pirate, you are increasing a film or album's viral coefficient and possibly helping verbally promote it. So yeah, if you hate an industry boycott it. Remove it from your life.
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    by api 11y ago

    There are many reasons for this, but a big one only hinted at in this article is the firewall. Firewalls and NAT effectively break the Internet. They require centralization -- two devices cannot communicate without it. We've adopted
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    by api 11y ago

    There are already so many ways to fingerprint a browser, it's really not something they need.