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by cvwright 8y ago
> Your Twitter is a self curated feed of the people you want to see. While that may have originally been the intention of the site, and it might even be what Twitter still publicly claims to do, that is not at all what they actually gi
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by cvwright 8y ago
> a Russian KGB asset who has been compromised and being blackmailed I miss the days when only half the country was consumed with insane conspiracy theories.
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by cvwright 8y ago
Sounds exactly like the Country Cat in Portland.
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by cvwright 8y ago
I was there just over a year ago, and it was pretty bad then too. We waited probably 90 minutes for burgers at lunchtime the last time we went.
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by cvwright 8y ago
Until earlier this year, I used to live in that neighborhood. I've been to Stanich's -- we could walk there from our house. This whole episode is bizarre. The food really was not that good. Not by a long shot. Which makes wh
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by cvwright 8y ago
Is it such a terrible thing if someone with a different political orientation has something to say? Do their politics make the rest of the letter any less interesting?
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by cvwright 8y ago
So citizens are being asked to give up fundamental freedoms because law enforcement is failing to do its job?
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by cvwright 8y ago
I knew I wasn't the only one who watched Explorers in the 80s. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089114
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by cvwright 8y ago
That makes sense. Thank you for clarifying. Knowing it's used as a technical term helps to reduce the creep factor somewhat.
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by cvwright 8y ago
I understand that Facebook is in a very tough position, trying to deal with very sophisticated and well-resourced propaganda organizations out of Russia and who-knows-where-else. But still, I find this post more than a little creepy. It&#x2
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by cvwright 8y ago
IIRC they were also using a clever (sneaky) application of copyright law to enforce this. They used a few special sectors on the disk to store an image to which they hold the copyright. The Xbox checks to make sure the image is there in t
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by cvwright 8y ago
> If you want to live in a libertarian fantasy world with no safety net, you are free to create one, and try to attract citizens to your country. For better or worse, you just described the early industrial United States. And people flo
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by cvwright 8y ago
> > They've lost some of the key risk-takers and creatives > Who are those? Well, there was this guy Steve, for one...
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by cvwright 8y ago
Wall Street quant bros thought they had analytical models for prices that were based on reasonable math and science. Turns out, their models vastly under-estimated the probability of a big crash. Apparently there was even a big hegdge fun
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by cvwright 8y ago
I agree, it's very convenient. Especially because you can sit and read through the voter's pamphlet as you make your selections. On the other hand, voting by mail opens up huge opportunities for coercion or vote buying/sel
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by cvwright 8y ago
> If you were influenced by a high-church growing up, you're more likely appreciate hymns. Counterpoint: Lots of people, especially those who had not-great experiences growing up in the church, tend to go hard in a different directi
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by cvwright 8y ago
> Switchfoot You would probably also appreciate Jon Foreman's (Switchfoot founder) solo work too.
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by cvwright 8y ago
Also, as far as I understand the argument, it goes beyond "Canadian steel is a national security risk". A couple of years ago, Mexico was caught laundering $2B of Chinese aluminum to avoid US taxes. http://fortune.com&
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by cvwright 8y ago
First author of the linked paper here. It's an interesting question. Actually the voice activation (on/off periods of sending vs silence) was the first thing we looked at in that project. There's definitely some information
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by cvwright 8y ago
Unfortunately I think you have it backwards. Some people just really, really like to fight, and to purge heretics from the group of pure believers. It also doesn't help that the smallest misstep is sufficient to switch one from &quot
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by cvwright 8y ago
The way they work around state space explosion is pretty cool. They push all the state off into another module, whose correctness they verify using other methods. Then they tell the symbolic execution engine that the state-holding module
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by cvwright 8y ago
This is very cool work. Our group had talked about trying something similar to the "lazy proofs" idea several years ago, but we never got around to actually trying it out. So it's very exciting to see someone do it! Hopeful
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by cvwright 8y ago
Often one "significant result" has to be serialized into 3-4 conference papers in order for it to be digestible and reviewable by the referees. There are exceptions of course, like Gentry's fully homomorphic encryption, but t
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A natural language approach to automated cryptanalysis of two-time pads (2006)(dl.acm.org)
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by cvwright 8y ago
Is that really a fair characterization? The two-time pad is like Vigenere with a very long key. Offhand, I'd expect that makes the cryptanalysis much more challenging than for Vigenere with a typical short key.
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by cvwright 8y ago
It's a fun problem. See Mason et al, CCS 2006 for an automated approach using natural language processing. https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1180435
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by cvwright 8y ago
Yeah I don't know. With this administration, anything is possible. There's lots of bad blood between silicon valley progressives and the Trump admin, too.
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by cvwright 8y ago
No you're right, this particular behavior doesn't help to preserve their monopoly. It's evidence that they already have one. Companies who have to survive in a competitive marketplace don't typically go around driving
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by cvwright 8y ago
That's a very good question. Supposing YT is still unprofitable after all these years, isn't that evidence of dumping? In other words, evidence of Google/Alphabet illegally pushing in to take over this market?
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by cvwright 8y ago
Eventually this is going to get them in trouble with the Sherman Antitrust Act. From Wikipedia: > "Innocent monopoly", or monopoly achieved solely by merit, is perfectly legal, but acts by a monopolist to artificially preserve

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