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by deadowl 10y ago
A dead man switch on GMOs, in case there are any other unexpected consequences, has already been mentioned here. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12015572 And after reviewing that thread again, it appears such technolog
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by deadowl 10y ago
I know that at least Sprint already does this. You can typically see your call log on the bills, but getting text messages requires a notarized form. https://support.sprint.com/support/article/Get_your_text_mes...
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by deadowl 10y ago
This already happens without GMOs, e.g. Africanized bees. Meanwhile, having a dead man switch would turn GMO-based food systems into a potential weapon (i.e. don't mess with us or we'll put your country into a famine).
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by deadowl 10y ago
Patenting plant strains is a bit older than GMOs.
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by deadowl 10y ago
- "engineered to be vulnerable to confidential substance" - EV Probably the biggest threat of GMOs is that if you can make them more resilient to a herbicide, fungicide or what have you, that you can also make them more vulnerable
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by deadowl 10y ago
It's also one of the most conceptually difficult parts, which makes it a good learning opportunity.
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by deadowl 10y ago
This is a shoot-yourself-in-the-foot idea. First of all, it legitimizes the kind of BS Mormon Utopia plan that [the NewVistas project is trying to accomplish in VT and Provo, UT]( http://vtdigger.org/2016/06/19&#x2F
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by deadowl 10y ago
The film with the aliens and Jeff Goldblum made that particularly clear.
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by deadowl 10y ago
I saw some opposition research guys in the UVM Bailey Howe Library late last year. They stood out like a sore thumb, dressed like hipsters--in the special collections room, and pulling multiple boxes on Bernie Sanders at a time. I'd ne
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by deadowl 10y ago
Easy, just repeat the gun emoji 21 times and it has plenty of meaning.
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by deadowl 10y ago
Does FairPoint?
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by deadowl 10y ago
From what I understand, salting prevents computing the tables ahead of time and the ability to cross-reference a single password hash against all other password hashes. It doesn't prevent people who have access to both the salt and the
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by deadowl 10y ago
There's nothing to stop anyone from creating a reverse lookup table by systematically generating strings and their hash, and aside from dictionary words, this is an example of low hanging fruit. It's a repeated sequence of charact
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by deadowl 10y ago
There are entire companies built on tracking non-users around the internet.
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by deadowl 10y ago
I don't get a lot of opportunities to play around with JS frameworks, which is odd because I hobby-code a lot in JS. I imagine the top reasons to use frameworks are cross-browser compatibility and support for scalability in the domain
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by deadowl 10y ago
I imagine designing thorough unit tests for 2000 lines of code could take a few weeks, and continue to have sparse edge cases crop up over the course of years. They're nice to have for mature software components. If you're prototy
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by deadowl 10y ago
Good to know!
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by deadowl 10y ago
I would really like if Unicode properties were implemented. I'd also like to see a RegExp escape function. String padding sees common enough usage that it should be added.
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by deadowl 10y ago
I've found more formal database schemas are often lost on people that don't work with relational data. Any ideas on how to avoid that?
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by deadowl 10y ago
That works for most decision tree models. Venn diagrams are better for explaining anything having to do with set models. Cartesian graphs are good at explaining time/space complexity.
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by deadowl 10y ago
Maybe if I was using Python or Ruby. But JS? REALLY ugly practice. Multiple blank lines not allowed? I usually go with two to segment heavily procedural code. The most appalling thing by far though is spaces instead of tabs... what's w
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by deadowl 10y ago
If they're on a home email server, they always need a warrant. For hosted email, they don't require a warrant for older emails.
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by deadowl 10y ago
With the ACLU and EFF backing, I'm not finding any significant negatives. On the other hand, this bill is so overdue that it leaves me wondering.
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by deadowl 10y ago
On a downer note, this is so overdue that I'm wondering why now instead of ten years ago.
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by deadowl 10y ago
Home email servers require a warrant. It's third-party email servers, or even third-party hosts, that this is addressing. That is assuming my past understanding is correct. It should be unconstitutional as it stands now, as anything pa
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by deadowl 10y ago
As a Vermont resident, I'm happy Senator Batman (Leahy) co-authored the Senate version.
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by deadowl 10y ago
If you host your own private server, from what I recall reading (and looks consistent with a cursory Google search), a warrant is required to review your emails. Edit: looks like it only applies to in-home servers, not hosted ones.
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by deadowl 10y ago
About fucking time (pardon my language)
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by deadowl 10y ago
I know that Vermont effectively abolished slavery by 1777. Massachusetts effectively abolished it in 1783. There were still lots of loopholes though.
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by deadowl 10y ago
It's not hard for an organization to put a system in place to mitigate any particular individual from making a poor decision. Entering into any decision that is high-stakes inherently justifies the cost of the existence or creation of

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