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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> Or how else are we going to send secure messages in the future? That's an intriguing comment. What do you mean by that? Do you mean a future when governments force tech companies to install backdoors in all end-to-end encrypted
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
But why does Amazon no longer include order details in their confirmation emails? They did so before 2020. The most plausible explanation for this change is to prevent Google from mining your detailed purchase history. Some other theories
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
>> all that complexity would have led to a gargantuan number of bugs and the universe would have crashed > This has always seemed to me one of the best arguments against the simulation hypothesis. Can you expand on that? Are yo
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
I presume they use less water because a front-loading washer can saturate all the clothes with a shallow pool of water in a sideways rotating drum whereas a top loader could not possibly soak all the clothes in a vertical drum unless it fil
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
I'm surprised that the cost of development was only $800 million — the equivalent of $13.6 billion today. That's minuscule by the standards of congressional spending. Compare it to another engineering project of national importanc
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> Barker said he bought seven “Step2 All Around Playtime Patio with Canopy” sets from a seller on Amazon.ca, using his payment card on file to pay nearly $2,000 for the items. Presumably Baker would have immediately shown the RCMP the
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> Consider a company that manufactures its product on lathes. Assume that it has ten lathes that can just meet production requirements. Assume also that each lathe wears out in ten years and that the company has its investment plans so
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
Are there discoveries or theories from the field of psychology that are (a) not obvious and (b) generally regarded as correct? For example, things like general relativity, continental drift, or evolution from the fields of physics, geology,
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> Government data shows 100 public school teachers killed themselves from January 2018 to June 2023 I think this kind of data analysis would be impossible in the U.S. and Canada, unless done by a government agency. I've never hear
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> draw parallels with other complex systems My first thought was how software complexity imitates life. I remember seeing a reference[1] that about 5-10% of all Windows operating system source code was dedicated to security in one sense
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> NASA did offer an insurance scheme, but in the early days of space exploration, it didn’t cover the actual space flight part. The assumption that NASA or some other branch of the government wouldn't take care of the families of
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> is so very simple Years ago, when the Monty Hall problem was not well known , I've seen with my own eyes that it was hard to convince some very smart people of the correct answer. Indeed, after being convinced through simulatio
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
I'm still looking for an intuitive or ELI5 explanation of the mechanism for this bias. The original paper says: The standard model of coin flipping was extended by Persi Diaconis who proposed that when people flip a ordinary coin, th
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
I assumed that the 1% bias was entirely due to coins that did not undergo any rotation at all. However, reading that you told people that the coin has to flip at least once, I think I assumed wrongly. It sounds like the bias is due to coins
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> Why would you test it? I recall conversations on Usenet decades ago about the Monty Hall problem[1] in which people gave elementary proofs that probabilities don't change by opening a door. Even from mathematicians and statistic
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> The High-Level Idea ... where di,j=EncDK2(wi,j), ci=EncRK1(Di) and ptr(ci) is a pointer to ciphertext c My eyes just glaze over when even the "high-level explanation" jumps into formal notation like this. I wish the article
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> cats have an inborn instinct to murder small critters for fun, and don't need to be taught that If a cat has never seen mice before and no one has taught it to chase mice (and if it's not even hungry), then I simply can&#x2
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
The next breakthrough we need is with fusion technology. With unlimited fusion energy, room temperature superconductivity, and (soon) artificial general intelligence, the singularity won't be long off.
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> fruitless traffic stops than responses to service calls As a counterargument, I read somewhere that the number one way that serious criminals are caught is due to motor vehicle violations. The theory being that someone who doesn&#x27
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
I'm upvoting you because that's excellent link I hadn't seen before. However, it does tend to confirm what I was saying: the policies and procedures of syncing are so damn complicated. It also confirms that your photos and no
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
I'm going to be in the minority here, but I don't want Apple (or Android or anybody) syncing my documents, photos, or passwords. I'll do my own local backups or backups to a server I control, or at the very least using encryp
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
Déjà vu for me. This reminds of the early days of the web when I was trying to explain it to an elderly guy — a retired math teacher no less — who thought it couldn't possibly succeed: Who's going to pay for all this? Why would an
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> you are not receiving an authoritative or 1st person kind of answer That’s how most human beings work as well. Ask someone about what India or Thailand is like, and even if they’ve never been there, they’ll be happy to give you a reh
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> Gotta be a doctor or lawyer ... today they'd be pushing for programmer. Where are you getting that from? Parents and teachers still push for doctor or lawyer for smart kids. Only if doctor or lawyer is unattainable would they su
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by cantrevealname 3y ago
> There was no shortage of TiO₂ in the US. But the article says that the US lacked the ore: “Back when they were building the airplane the United States didn’t have the ore supplies – an ore called rutile ore. It’s a very sandy soil a
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by cantrevealname 4y ago
I think it’s a mistake to test the worn and fresh disks at different intervals. I.e., testing worn disks in years 1 and 3, and fresh disks in years 2 and 4. Let’s say that the worn disks are found to have failed the hash check in year 1 a
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by cantrevealname 4y ago
Do you have an opinion on or evidence for/against this comment that the purpose is a continuous timelapse video of major portions of the city to backtrack vehicles after a crime has occurred?[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.
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by cantrevealname 4y ago
I wonder how the government officials were able to track him for decades? The Man of the Hole moved at least 50 times during that period in an area of 31 square miles (8,000 ha), which is one-third bigger than the land area of Manhattan. We
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by cantrevealname 4y ago
Can you tell us more about the circumstances? Do you mean airport security screening or do you means customs and immigration? Why were picked? Did they ask for your login / BIOS / disk encryption passwords? For how long were they
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by cantrevealname 4y ago
> TrueCrypt still works and doesn't have any known vulnerabilities afaik. I second this comment. Plus TrueCrypt has passed a serious source code audit. I'm not aware of any on-the-fly encryption system that has had the scruti

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