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by bigbubba 6y ago
...I guess they just found little red bits. Gruesome to consider.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I wonder what other crimes have stochastic forms... could violent video games be stochastic murder, if among the thousands of players there is one disturbed person who might be inspired by depictions of violence to act violently? Could son
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Covering for your crime by committing a far more severe crime seems like a pretty bad idea... though I think there is no shortage of criminals with bad ideas, so this seems at least plausible.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I agree that's the coherent prescribed definition of terrorism. In practice, whether somebody admits something was terrorism depends largely on which side they agree with. When they agree with the terrorist, euphemisms like 'fre
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There is truth to this, particularly the sorts of war that target civilian populations to demoralize the enemy. Another term for 'strategic bombing' is 'terror bombing'. > One of the strategies of war is to demorali
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by bigbubba 6y ago
One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. There are certainly people who believe both or either of those were terrorism.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> How often do we hear about bombings where the bombers broadcast an evacuation message on a loudspeaker for 15 minutes prior to the explosion? This is how the Provisional Irish Republican Army operated, at least some of the time. For
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Does Ray Nagin really support your point? From what I know he was born in New Orleans with working class parents. Also the demographics section of the wiki page for New Orleans doesn't seem ti support your claim that Katrina washed a
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Has anybody used this a lot? I'm curious if it's something you can grow accustomed to, and if so, whether switching back to a normal editor will induce a strange sensation of the normal editor spinning in some way (similar to the
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It's easy to say "This tech is dangerous and shouldn't be used.... except in this one scenario which coincidentally is a personal pet interest of mine." Cyclists want to use it against drivers, I'm sure shop owner
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Nike missile project. [...] This would have turned the bay area into glass What is your basis for this claim? Are you aware that a great deal of atmospheric nuclear testing has been conducted, so the effects of nukes in the atmosphe
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Can you spoonfeed me here? If ~/bin is in my PATH and is writable to my user, what is the problem with /usr/local/bin being the same on my personal computer with a single human user?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
On what timescale should a claim be falsifiable or verifiable? I guess tens of thousands of years is probably too long.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
They would surely use hydraulics not pneumatics, but this is a good point. Garbage trucks are half truck, half front end loader. And loaders aren't exactly cheap either.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Shitty cops with tech are still shitty cops. Does this really need to be explained?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'd think it specifically of doctors who specialize in human bodies, not computer stuff. SolarWinds on the other hand could not possibly be excused for ignorance.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
You have much more trust in UK authorities than I think they warrant. It is said regulations are written in blood; that means the regulations that preceded present regulations are the result of past experts being wrong. What are the chanc
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by bigbubba 6y ago
It reminds me of the memex essay: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memex
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> The expectation is for people to be able to exit the building or at least get to a lower floor, because that’s the usual case. That's the expectation in America surely, but is it in the UK? In America people are told to get the
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I think you're probably right in this case. However The Quiet One , a stealth helicopter based on the Hughes OH-6, was reputedly tested over Los Angeles in the 70s. An unusually quiet helicopter doubtlessly attracts less attention t
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by bigbubba 6y ago
You're probably right that ignorance is the root of their apathy. Hopefully with this event making the news, doctors at least in the same specialty will hear about it and do something. Unencrypted offline records physically secured i
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Perhaps you could say they are ransoming the exclusive ownership of the data. But yes, 'blackmail' seems like a better fit.
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by bigbubba 6y ago
There are instances of humans assembling mammoth bones into some sort of structure: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/60-mammoths-ho... > 25,000-Year-Old Structure Built of the Bones of 60 Mammoths Ac
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by bigbubba 6y ago
They're not using cryptography, but aren't they demanding ransom? Is the use of cryptography an essential part of what it means for something to be ransomware, or is it merely a common implementation detail?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Lazy indifference probably explains it more than greed I think. If they cared, a doctor could add "burn a CD and put it in the filing cabinet with the other patient records" to the job duties of their secretary without increasi
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by bigbubba 6y ago
AFAIK bone loss occurs with age in both men and women, but accelerates for women after menopause. But did female dinosaurs have something like menopause?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
With no lifting surfaces?
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by bigbubba 6y ago
Just those clad in napalm I would think...
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by bigbubba 6y ago
> Worst case jumping from the 3-5th story is likely to result in serious injury but is often survivable. A brief web search suggests to me that about 50% of people who fall from 15 meters (approx 4th floor) will die. Those are awful
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by bigbubba 6y ago
I'll rephrase my point then; I think Less Wrong people spend a lot of time trying to figure out how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Or: They should stop sniffing their own farts, pull their heads out of the clouds, try not

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