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by badRNG 5y ago
The goal here wouldn't be to form a successful business, but to serve needs directly. Creative, innovative people will continue to create and innovate as long as they are employed specifically to those ends.
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by badRNG 5y ago
> At what point do we just give up with side-channel attacks on consumer devices and assume the mentality that all consumer devices connected to the internet should be treated as insecure by default. There is always an endless stream of
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> I used to share your belief, but as I got older, I realized... Windows isn't targeted to us, the faux technocratic elite that grew up with computers: it's targeted to the average person, and the average person, largely, is te
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by badRNG 5y ago
Honest question, what value would it have provided the Saudis to support the 9/11 bombings? The US has had a long, largely positive relationship with the Kingdom to include extensive economic investment as well as military support sinc
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>Most of the normal, non-techie folks I have talked to about this find the idea of taking nudes as scandalous and wouldn't take the risk. Damn near every person I've ever met in my age group who has used a smartphone or compute
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by badRNG 5y ago
Jesus Christ that thread is a mess... > Is this really a common thing people do? Take nude photos and leave them in the phone? > It amazes me that people take photos of themselves naked. They will be leaked eventually. I mean, I expec
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Someone Dead Ruined My Life Again. (CGP Grey)(youtube.com)
7 points by badRNG 5y ago|2 comments
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> Be it government, or union - the effect is the same. I agree with your desire for oversight and accountability for either, but there is a difference of at least institutional momentum. I don't think anyone would consider instituti
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by badRNG 5y ago
The fact is his papers were rejected from highly respected journals. If I send an incorrect math proof to hundreds of math journals and one small open access journal decides to publish it, I haven't disproven math, nor would anyone thi
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> If you are in a field with so called "peer reviewed research" and someone can publish complete made up bullshit, then your entire field of study is garbage. The problem is, that's simply not what's happening. Boghos
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>I think you missed the point. >I'm not sure what you're point is here? The point is that Boghossian has built his brand over the past decade as an "anti-SJW" thought-leader and has used methods like the Sokal hoax
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Can you provide an example?
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Boghossian is well-known for Sokal Hoaxes where he submits bogus papers to hundreds of journals (where it seems only obscure open access journals seem to actually publish) to discredit "feminism" and "the left" when they
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by badRNG 5y ago
I don't see how this is meaningfully different from any other period of social conflict in the US. This article could just as well have been written about the struggle for gay marriage, the Civil Rights Movement, desegregation, women&#
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by badRNG 5y ago
It seems like this question could be asked at any period of social conflict historically in the West. How did ideas that were once extremely radical like women's equality in the social sphere (to include holding office and suffrage), d
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by badRNG 5y ago
This really raises the question, what is the role of a chaplain anymore? At a school tolerant of religious diversity, I don't imagine a Christian chaplain would be of much help for explicitly religious matters for a Muslim student. Nor
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by badRNG 5y ago
To be fair, there are religious atheists, though often not Christian. There are (neo)-pagans, Buddhists, and minority religious group members (various indigenous religions, The Satanic Temple, among others) that often describe themselves as
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by badRNG 5y ago
But let's be honest here: MIC is a truly upsetting privacy violation all on its own.
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I think we as people are predisposed to believing that unexplained phenomena are the actions of some sort of agent. Humans that more often associated rustling in the grass with a predator had a better shot at sharing their genes than ones t
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Sure, they aren't selling strings of user passwords or pictures of users' government ID, so I guess the word "all" is inaccurate (in a wholly pedantic sort of way that's a red herring from what the actual concern be
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by badRNG 5y ago
As someone who feels the same way as the commenter you are replying to: it does feel strange that the head of WhatsApp owned by Facebook would have even the slightest bit of credibility when discussing privacy, especially as it relates
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by badRNG 5y ago
> But people have tried, guess which social networks self-select out of survival? Is the implication that a social media network won't survive if it doesn't steal my contacts? Besides, not all social media companies stoop to th
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by badRNG 5y ago
For Facebook to be selling my data, it isn't necessary that they email a data broker some spreadsheet of my personal data. Selling advertisers access to an incredibly intimate and private picture of my personal life so that they can be
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by badRNG 5y ago
Oh man, Homeworld was an absolute treasure of 90s gaming
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Cease and Desist of Facebook and Instagram – Barinsta(github.com)
9 points by badRNG 5y ago|3 comments
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by badRNG 5y ago
I wish the author had gone for something a little less clickbait-ish as this is the first time I'd heard about the scandal.
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by badRNG 5y ago
To the people downvoting this comment: I see you disagree with an upvote/downvote system, but use that same system to communicate that belief. Curious.
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Operations Underway to Restore Payload Computer on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope(nasa.gov)
3 points by badRNG 5y ago|0 comments
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What else is one to do?
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by badRNG 5y ago
Well, I have to imagine features like auto emergency braking, lane departure warning, blind spot detection, and many more have saved countless lives AND prevented many accidents. I know they've saved me personally from an accident.

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