calais

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by calais 7y ago
Those sure are some small California residents.
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by calais 7y ago
I would pay a monthly fee for a web browser if 1. It could be bundled into my monthly internet bill 2. The fee was not more than 10 USD 3. The browser had actively developed ad blocking and 4. Nuisance blocking and 5. Tracking protection an
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by calais 7y ago
Good to hear about the R&D-friendly stock exchange. I hope this and eventually private equity will enable Chinese tech to do well enough that they don't need to pursue the less laudable strategy— > Made in China 2025 is Beijing&
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by calais 7y ago
I don't think China misreads the protests, however their state media depicts it. They see it clearly as a challenge to their authority. It is a push for greater independence for Hong Kong. Beijing simply isn't willing to yield.
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by calais 7y ago
I envision the practice of performance psychiatry as part of a broader 'neurochemical infrastructure,' to use the phrase of an old hippie, who saw psychedelics as another part of the same.
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by calais 7y ago
Goldwater, in particular, brought a greater skepticism of expertise to American conservatism, which has come to define it.
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by calais 7y ago
A trend that seems implicated in what Nichols reports but that he doesn't touch on much is the secularization of identity. Expertise is much more threatening to people's egos as people come to identify with things that didn't
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by calais 7y ago
That's definitely the feeling I've gotten from the Debian repositories, which are very cautious about what to distribute. I was thinking about it in the abstract.
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by calais 7y ago
What an informed reply! Thank you for pointing out the influence of mobilized, coordinated resources on security. I will have to factor this perspective into my own and reconsider.
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by calais 7y ago
This is a flaw with the repository model for software distribution: it confers the authority of the OS developers to packages not scrutinized to the same degree. Users' metal models of trustworthiness don't track very well the act
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by calais 7y ago
We can reasonably disagree about the quality of their security. More generally though tech diversity makes a difference in security: Dan Geer did an excellent talk about this.
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by calais 7y ago
What Wikipedia records about it is precisely all I knew about it. Thank you for the exposition and commentary. I don't think Linux nerds' taking the case personally is weird, though: antagonism towards Microsoft specifically is a
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by calais 7y ago
So that more secure implementations than MS's can offer a transition for organizations dependent on it.
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by calais 7y ago
Antitrust law isn't a tool to secure democracy but to secure competition. I don't think the worry is about actions taken by Microsoft hurting democracy; the concern is MS systems being insecure owing to a lack of competitive press
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by calais 7y ago
The last time antitrust action was taken against Microsoft ( United States v. Microsoft Corp. , filed in 2001), law folks' tech-illiteracy and Microsoft's slitheriness led to a penalty of merely having to publish API documentation
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by calais 7y ago
That would be a much better law than the lawmakers'.
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by calais 7y ago
Metzinger, Being No One (2004) may be just the step forward to which you refer. The prereflexive sense of self (as, say, a point-source of will and identity) is empirically inaccurate and faulty, and Metzinger attacks philosophy grounded
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by calais 7y ago
Everyone but the most callous of businessthralls has felt, at times, the same reaction as Keynes elicits here, against the ugliness of a world turned by free trade and markets. Such arrangements of human desire (what else is a market?) do o
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by calais 7y ago
The rebuttal takes a view which is close to my heart—but [Motl] puts it so viciously, dismisses without genuine inquiry or curiosity the intriguing claims of the article, and plays so much faster and looser with his ideas than the author he