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by auganov 6y ago
I don't think anybody is criticizing the tool itself. The authors are trying to pitch this as an anti disinformation tool. Which makes it look like one of these Twitter "bot" detection sites used to harass legitimate users. I
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by auganov 6y ago
I'm guessing people will go with the highest probability guess. It's like when people ask about religion. Most won't take "I have no religion" for an answer if you're from a country/place where that's
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Even if you take the three biggest EU economies (Germany, France and Italy) you're still off by over $20k per capita vs the US (at over $60k). And ironically out of these three Germany has the highest per capita and they're the on
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by auganov 6y ago
> how will this still enormously wealthy and advanced continent EU's GDP per capita is roughly half of that of the US. Not exactly super wealthy by any standard. Considering the slow growth all throughout the EU it's not coping
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by auganov 6y ago
Can't help but see the anti social backlash as another reincarnation of luddism. The tech is what it is. Hating the biggest companies behind it won't change it. You not using it won't change the world either. Just like refusi
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by auganov 6y ago
If it's not "Russia" it's going to be a big embarrassment to many of his opponents. And worst case, even if it was Russia, it would still make him look good to be the one who got this confession from Assange.
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> This reminds me of people back in the day saying that homosexuality is a "disease" which is being spread by homosexuality. You're just assuming that the hypothesis of contagion necessarily carries some negative connotati
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> My first job was a short term remote developing contract. My coworkers thought I was foreign for the first few weeks because of my poor spelling in code comments. It's better when I have access to good spelling or grammar checkers
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by auganov 6y ago
Could try reaching out on Twitter to tech journalists. Or emailing some. Write this story yourself as if you were a journalist covering it (just don't write in 3rd person) and put it up on the company blog (or wherever). Link to that w
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by auganov 6y ago
You can recommend just based on content. I hardly ever open the youtube homepage. And often open links in incognito mode. Still get to see all these recommendations next to a video. I don't see how you could not have a "recommenda
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by auganov 6y ago
According to this [0] there are only about 1.5k exit nodes and over 6k relays total. It's a pretty small network. I'm not an expert on tor internals but it sounds to me like a sufficiently dedicated player could easily control a b
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by auganov 6y ago
> The form and nature of these beings vary in reports, but one thing remains curiously constant: People tend to rank these encounters among the most meaningful experiences of their lives. For some people, these encounters change their be
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by auganov 6y ago
So kind of like REBL but open source? I tried using REBL for a while but found it to be more of an annoyance in the long run. For regular values pprinting to a buffer in Emacs is more than enough (and better since I can use all the same key
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by auganov 6y ago
My understanding is the quizzes were just viral Facebook apps to get API authorizations which back then let you download a lot of friends' basic data. Simple scraping would get you a lot of the same data back then but it would be more
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by auganov 6y ago
If that's how you define "real" followers then you might as well use an IM application instead. IMO the whole point of (Twitter style) social media is having effortless reach and interactions without explicitly sending stuff
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by auganov 6y ago
Well, using public WiFi is a good example of a situation where there is a reasonable expectation of tampering. Point is there's no easy win if you don't adequately understand your threat model. If you then end up using the VPN eve
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by auganov 6y ago
If you want to keep your followers you'd need to migrate before they ban you. But yes, I guess you can start over somewhere else while on big ones you're out forever. So in that sense I guess it is a tiny improvement. But if most
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by auganov 6y ago
> Much less risk to be de-platformed from your favorite walled-garden for obscure reasons. Federation does absolutely nothing for this. The risk is probably even higher given how small most of these instances are. Much more likely to run
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by auganov 6y ago
The whole idea of VPNs (or extra hops in general[0]) providing security is very context specific. For the vast majority of people they seemingly chose to trust a VPN provider over their ISP which is hard to justify. If you don't have a
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by auganov 6y ago
> First off, the trend line on that graph is clearly upwards. You can’t cherry pick one outlier data point as the starting point and then say that anything below that point doesn’t matter. And where did I claim that? Both RSS and UAH sho
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by auganov 6y ago
As per UAH we're just about on par with the 1998/1999 peak. Back then it was supposed to keep going up too, but took an almost 20 year break for whatever reason. https://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads
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by auganov 6y ago
Most of these companies would kill for an opportunity to enter China. I don't know what the latest is [0], but 5 years back following these laws meant you'd have to be a standard domestic company which a non-citizen cannot incorpo
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by auganov 6y ago
Less than 30 minutes. Pretty simple to follow too.
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In the context of learning some valuable already revered wisdom I don't think you'll find much of it. Now in a general sense there will be a lot of things you didn't expect in any book. So tons of information but not the kind
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by auganov 6y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but it wasn't publicly available in the sense that it was linked to from some publicly facing website. I'm understanding that they found some URL scheme that spit out these records. So quite an edge ca
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by auganov 6y ago
Well, yes, why would you let them? I don't want to live a life which could be ruined by a mob simply pointing out something I have said. I can't help but wonder if people afraid of "doxxing" are paranoid or really posti
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by auganov 6y ago
The problem is, if a book fulfills all your 4 criteria it's extremely unlikely its "wisdom" hasn't become common knowledge. No surprise = no information. A truly life changing book would need to have been ignored or misu
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by auganov 6y ago
The first study you linked looked at 29518 people and that's how they controlled for comorbid illnesses: > As a measure of comorbid illness at the start of the study, we created a dummy variable ‘comorbidity’ identifying women who h
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If you have two people subject to same circumstances and one experiences significantly more distress they are weaker in some sense. Doesn't mean they're less virtuous in what they have done. But obviously everybody should strive t
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by auganov 6y ago
Going with a very medicalized framework could very well be an adaptive behavior on part of the professionals too. The common sense approach makes it much harder to build a rich field of scientific looking knowledge and products.

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