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by cb18 11y ago
I'm sure those living in Timbuktu were writing books about how the English living in London at the time were barbarians in capable of learning to read or write. You're sure about that, even though there is zero evidence whatso
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The point is that it wasn't just blatant oppression, for oppression's sake. As people like to pretend because it better serves their victimhood narrative. Neither were Europeans acting in a purely altruistic manner of course, nobo
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Right, plus that part where Europeans have again and again revolutionized the modern world. But yeah otherwise exactly the same...
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The very first paragraph explains in detail that yes, the target audience is Africans. It is hoped that this book and its companion volume dealing with non-African peoples will be the beginning of a series of simple, readable accounts for
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by cb18 11y ago
Timbuktu/Mali is on the outskirts of the Arab/Islamic world. Not the area the text referenced as lacking literacy. What does the Great Zimbabwe link have to do with literacy? Other than lack of any evidence for. Gertrude Caton
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So you're saying colonialism was a net negative for the African people because of small pox? And therefore should never have occurred? I disagree, and say it was a net positive for the African people. If it had never occurred and Afric
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by cb18 11y ago
> This law is toxic to every part of California that works with technology. The scope is really much broader than that. Does your non-"tech company" company use an online payroll system? That would negatively affected. Do you
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by cb18 11y ago
> I'm referring to the analogy to "photocopying snail-mail letters." The analogy is that anybody who intercepts and stores encrypted communication data, has a kind of Schrodinger's Cat photo-copied letter. If at som
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by cb18 11y ago
How do you feel about encryption? Do you think it is a good and worthwhile thing for the modern world? If multi-billion dollar companies were mandated to spend their development efforts on ineffective, insecure cryptographic systems, do you
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Also, I should add that I noticed how after I took the points you raised, rendered them moot, and indeed turned them into points of support for my continued coherent argument, you countered with this semi-parseable red herring deflection. Q
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> government requiring companies to keep around communications data You seem strangely narrowly focused on that. Who really cares about that? That is a point of minor interest. The big issue at hand is this bill is attempting to coin so
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by cb18 11y ago
It wasn't really meant as a smear, I can see that interpretation though. I agree it would be quite sad for a woman of such advanced age to sell out her country for a few dollars. Any age of course, but at that age it would be extra cur
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by cb18 11y ago
If you receive a sealed letter and the police get a warrant, they can search your drawer and open that letter. Also, if you have a letter, you can discard of it as you see fit, and the information therein vanishes into the aether. This ag
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Dunning-Kruger What's even worse, is that she might be aware of what she is doing. > Blum's wife, Senator Dianne Feinstein, has received scrutiny due to her husband's government contracts and extensive business dealings
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by cb18 11y ago
It's not just chilling, it's insane. A crypto-secured digital communication should be analogous to sending an untampered with letter, or having a private conversation in a secure location. Just because the medium being communicate
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by cb18 11y ago
There is obviously a place for cryptography in both personal and commercial communications. I'm always curious when one hears a politician moaning on about the 'dangers' of cryptography, if they understand how intricately int
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by cb18 11y ago
Does anybody even know what the core of their business is? Are they a search engine? Are they some kind of media company? An ad agency? What is that they do? I think in an interesting way, this stems from their origins. They started out
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by cb18 11y ago
the most likely explanation is that Yahoo is being mismanaged to drive price down. Based on your second sentence, I don't think you mean the word 'mismanaged' here. That would imply those inside the company are intentionall
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> by self-censoring itself. This is is of course an area of concern. It is sometimes referred to as cognitive capture, akin to regulatory capture. It occurs when a regulatee so strongly paints a picture of how they feel the world sh
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> The days of punishing children for the crimes of their parents are long in the past. Except if the victims are white. Then so many people like to play the game of attempting to justify contemporary offence/injustice X, with histo
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If word gets out that a company's insurance is kinda shitty, they're going to find themselves with fewer customers going forward, which is not good for shareholder value. Nickle and diming on a claim isn't where shareholder
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by cb18 11y ago
How do they define which aspects of the captured image to extract, model, and transmit? If they were just modeling the humans, I could seeing using motion detection, or infrared perhaps, but they seem to have also extracted and modeled the
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by cb18 11y ago
Well, that answers most of that, thanks. (a simple repeat of something someone else said) I'm just hearing about this Ted Cruz Zodiac killer thing, these internet people are something else... https://twitter.com/Yolo_Te
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by cb18 11y ago
It was something like, "Hey Tay, do you think Ted Cruz is the Zodiac killer?" Tay: "No, I don't think Ted Cruz would be satisfied with killing only 5 innocent people." So there's a lot baked into that response,
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by cb18 11y ago
Ok, I'm no expert on this, like I said the whole thing blew up so quickly. I know they weren't all verbatim repeats, but I'm also pretty sure I saw tweets from tay without an @ symbol. Another thing to consider is that since
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This is an interesting story, because I imagine most people didn't even hear of it until after the thing had come and gone, and the thing sent something like xx,xxx tweets. And some of the tweets seem almost impossibly clever, well at
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The 'vulnerability' of the program to respond to commands of the sort, hey tay, repeat this [inflammatory comment]
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by cb18 11y ago
So straight-up censorship is a thing on HN now? I don't know how this could be argued off-topic when it directly pertained to the parent comment. If anything the parent comment was off-topic, and I found it unseemly that oska would use
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by cb18 11y ago
I too thought it was off-topic, but unless I'm mistaken that's what oska was referring to. S/he brought it up, don't chastise me. And you're right, they are mostly unrelated. That was the point of my comment, oska a
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by cb18 11y ago
It's probably strange because it describes a basic reality of the world, but one that so many people strain to avert their eyes from. I'm not making any generalisations about Jews. Just conveying what looking at any Sunday Times,

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