danlitt

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by danlitt 7mo ago
I disagree that information flow is required. Do you have a reference for that? Certainly it is an important consideration. But consider all the real literary works contained in the infinite library of babel.[1] Are they original works just
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by danlitt 7mo ago
Thank you for providing a reference! I certainly admit that "very similar photographs are not copies" as the reference states. And certainly physical copying qualifies as copying in the sense of copyright. However I still think co
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by danlitt 7mo ago
I only said the probability is higher , not that the probability is 1!
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by danlitt 7mo ago
This is exactly what I had in mind when I said I was simplifying :) it is a valid point.
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by danlitt 7mo ago
I am pretty sure this article is predicated on a misunderstanding of what a "clean room" implementation means. It does not mean "as long as you never read the original code, whatever you write is yours". If you had a her
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by danlitt 7mo ago
in public is the operative word (and surveillance cameras in public are extremely recent and very controversial, so not as strong an argument as you might be thinking)
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by danlitt 7mo ago
What are you talking about? It is illegal to tap people's phone lines or to interfere with mail. Are you saying people don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy even when it's illegal to be spied on?
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by danlitt 7mo ago
> This is a false equivalency. I'm not making an equivalency. I'm just trying to get you to think how something that is at surface level true is not necessarily a "fair argument". > I don't have to use TikTok
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by danlitt 7mo ago
It certainly can be - destruction of evidence is a crime. If they can prove you destroyed evidence, even if they can't prove that the destroyed evidence incriminates you, that's criminal behaviour. For instance if it's kno
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by danlitt 7mo ago
Not answering my question! > Police cannot access your E2EE DMs with a warrant. They can and do, regularly. What they can't do is prevent you from deleting your DMs if you know you're under investigation and likely to be caught
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by danlitt 7mo ago
It should be obvious from how contrived your wording is that nobody thinks of them this way.
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by danlitt 7mo ago
I don't think you confused anything, except for the terminology the platform uses. There is an obvious expectation of privacy when sending direct messages!
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by danlitt 7mo ago
> I think it's a fair argument in this scenario to say that a platform has a better opportunity to protect minors if messages aren't encrypted Would it be a fair argument to say the police have a better opportunity to prevent c
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by danlitt 7mo ago
> there is more of an expectation of privacy on those medium What does the "p" in "pm" stand for?
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by danlitt 7mo ago
Can it generate one? Sure. But it won't mean anything, since you don't know (and nobody knows) the "true" distribution.
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by danlitt 8mo ago
From your exact link, > The aeolipile is considered to be the first recorded steam engine or reaction steam turbine, but it is neither a practical source of power nor a direct predecessor of the type of steam engine invented during the I
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by danlitt 8mo ago
>>> How Many Hoops Are Too Many Hoops? >> It's really not that many hoops > That's... What the article is about I have no idea what you're trying to say here.
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by danlitt 8mo ago
This is too strong of a statement. There are perfectly sensible reasons to NIMBY certain activities. For instance, burning wood is probably ok in general, but a horrible idea in heavily populated cities. Obviously, California is not compose
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by danlitt 8mo ago
Why does the title say "You better have a ... account" when the end of the article is literally a link to the form which does not require an account? I agree that the UI here is bad, but I feel like the title is just misrepresenti
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by danlitt 8mo ago
>taking advantage of vulnerable people What on earth do you mean by this? Who is getting taken advantage of?
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by danlitt 8mo ago
"Search is currently unavailable when logged out"
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by danlitt 8mo ago
Interesting! This seems superficially related to GNU Mes[1], although I imagine femtolisp does not require its small source to be written in a "simple" dialect of C. [1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/mes/
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by danlitt 8mo ago
Do I need to point out that the OP describes a US commitment to the free speech of Europeans ?
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by danlitt 8mo ago
I didn't say that they weren't. Hundreds of people were arrested for opposing the proscription of Palestine Action. The UK's defence of free expression is not great. What I did say is that the US's position is not as a d
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by danlitt 8mo ago
Got anything substantive to say?
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by danlitt 8mo ago
The US's low press freedom index is precisely because people are being legally intimidated for wrongthink. It is not limited to the press, either. Mahmoud Khalil (the Palestinian activist detained by ICE on fake immigration charges f
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by danlitt 8mo ago
I guess when you say "work" you mean precisely mechanical work. If so, I don't think it is implied anywhere that the work "comes from nowhere". If a person is doing mechanical work then that work must come from resp
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by danlitt 8mo ago
> I don't think anyone disputes that if you very significantly increase exercise but also maintain calorific input then you will lose weight This is exactly what is disputed by the link you posted. They measured directly the energ
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by danlitt 8mo ago
Surely there is some lag on these numbers, and they correspond to projects commissioned during the Biden admin? The current administration has been extremely hostile to renewables in terms of rhetoric, I would be surprised if they were lyin
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by danlitt 8mo ago
Sorry, I must have misunderstood, I thought you were still on the topic of the subsidy.

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