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by deogeo 7y ago
I believe Belyayev had a control group, yes.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Even so, the change in behavior seems genuine, when compared to what it was initially. The experimental fault also seems easy to fix - just compare behavior to other fur-farm foxes, instead of wild ones.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I think https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/mans-new-bes... has much of the same content, and might be easier to read.
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Belyayev's Fox Experiment(en.wikipedia.org)
109 points by deogeo 7y ago|30 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
> witness statements submitted to the court by US prosecutors on Saturday argue that Assange does not enjoy First Amendment protections because he is not a US citizen and because the amendment allegedly does not protect speech made outsi
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'd be interested in learning more.
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by deogeo 7y ago
I thought we were talking about non-mail-in ballots, that you print at home, but submit personally.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Birth-control is libido-suppressing?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> According to a copy of Williams’ agreement that Apple attached to its complaint, the contract required that Williams “will not plan or engage in any other employment” that competes with Apple or is directly related to the company. &quo
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by deogeo 7y ago
As long as you're not in 1950s US and vote for a socialist, or vote against the communist party in any eastern European country for much of the 20th century, or against Putin or the CCP, or vote conservative and have aspirations in aca
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by deogeo 7y ago
I'm confused - wouldn't that mean the vote isn't secret?
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by deogeo 7y ago
Why is Tesla (or any car manufacturer) allowed to keep the code secret?
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by deogeo 7y ago
Not just TLS connection, but the whole stack of voting software vendor, OS vendor, and phone hardware. Edit ("posting too fast"): For paper votes, no computers need be involved at all - they can be counted and summed by hand.
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by deogeo 7y ago
Stuff white people like: Yoga, tacos and pretending the white supremacy that fuels cultural appropriation doesn't exist -- https://www.salon.com/2016/10/03/stuff-white-people-like-yog... Cultural appr
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by deogeo 7y ago
> And if you could pre-print your completed ballot Your printer will betray you by printing invisible identifying dots on your ballot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
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by deogeo 7y ago
Turnout can also be improved by voting on Sundays instead of work days. Yet they skipped that step and went right for electronic voting, that's nearly unanimously opposed by experts.
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by deogeo 7y ago
In related news, Saudi Arabia hacked Bezos' phone: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22122779 Could a similar hack be done on a larger scale, and used to alter votes before they are sent, without changing the electr
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Privacy isn’t important until, suddenly, it is. That suddenly might come sooner rather than later, as the Chinese Tencent has invested an undisclosed amount into Discord: https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-
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by deogeo 7y ago
And user agent string based protections are even more easily foiled, that's why I don't believe this can be plausibly counted under DDoS protection.
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Not enough migrants arriving to keep pay down – Irish Central Bank (2019)(independent.ie)
2 points by deogeo 7y ago|0 comments
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by deogeo 7y ago
This would be much better solved with IP-based rate limits. And if IP-based doesn't work, then you're dealing with a DDOS, and it doesn't sound like this case was DDOS protection.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> malicious actors and abuse It's hard to consider simply viewing content to be malicious or abusive, no matter how automated.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> any user with a karma > 1000 is trivial to dox How so?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> but if everything goes without "surprises" in real life, I would be surprised. Do you also shave all those, and those only, who do not shave themselves?
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by deogeo 7y ago
> but as soon as the rest of the society realizes what is going on, I fear that there will a massive backlash. This backlash cannot come soon enough.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> Why do protesters have an expectation of privacy? You asked about harm. Expectation of privacy is a different matter. And they might expect privacy due to wearing masks - why is it okay to regulate those, but not facial recognition? Wh
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by deogeo 7y ago
> The result is that the burden of debt and property taxes motivates young adults to work hard and progress economically. Then we should double the interest rates on that debt and raise taxes on the poor, to motivate them even more, and
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by deogeo 7y ago
And whistleblowing anonymously is getting more difficult, due to all the surveillance whose downsides are purely theoretical...
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by deogeo 7y ago
Though trade with China flows both ways, if you look at know-how and production capacity, it only goes one way - towards China.
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by deogeo 7y ago
> I've yet to see privacy advocates identify actual undeserved harms that have come to people as a result of the technology that they want to regulate. Harms like protesters getting identified, in Hong Kong and elsewhere?

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