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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Because in school, you are still a babbling infant learning to use the new language that you’re learning: mathematics. You don’t try to teach infants who are still on the babbling phase, the complexities of metaphor or nuance. People have a
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
So, to be fair, the thing about his displeasure with Android was in response to somebody asking if he would be involved in helping maintain a fork that’s being set up. He said no and gave his Android reasons. Which to me sounds like he’s li
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Well, SOSUS had cables that people knew fed into landing stations on the coast but what exactly they were for remained classified until like the 1980s. So those are literally classified government cables. If you mean secret Internet cables,
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Oh, I see now. I mean, I don’t disagree that the most aggressive way for the ICRC to handle it would be to claim it as some kind of emerging customary norm rather than trying to whet appetites for a new AP to address it. You can never be su
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Right, that’s why I said: “This is the sort of thing that you would need to include in an Additional Protocol.” I think some people were confused why they were calling it an emblem. It’s an analogy to the protective emblems agreed in the GC
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying in that second paragraph. Can you expand a little bit? There is no “legislation” involved here at all. These are treaties. If there’s no treaty agreement, there’s no right period (setting aside c
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Of course. I’d go further: it wouldn’t even make sense to try to achieve consensus until you have at least one functional technical solution. I just meant that this seems like the first step in that process. A couple of other comments seem
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
An order to show cause? I guess you could call that an “investigation,” although it feels weird to me. By “on my own,” he has to be referring to sanctions power. He has no authority to just go a-sleuthing. “Outside of this trial” means he’s
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I’m really not in love with the headline, which is admittedly The Verge’s own. The judge didn’t say he was going to “investigate” Google independently. Judges don’t have that power. He said he’d “get to the bottom of” the spoliation questio
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Yes, I was too loose with me words again. I was gesturing at relative consistency (especially, at least, when compared to the lack of serious doubt about ZF/C’s consistency), as well as the work of folks like RB Jensen and Randall Holm
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Yes, but as I said in a separate comment elsewhere on this story, the sort of interesting question is, how do they extend the legal protection to this digital emblem? I smell a draft additional protocol in the pipeline.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
There isn’t, of course, but they are clearly laying the groundwork to extend IHL that direction. Which, as I said in a different comment, seems to me like it would require an Additional Protocol to the GCs, because it surely isn’t and won’t
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
What’s interesting to me is that they are using the analogy with the actual red-cross like that automatically makes digital resources with the emblem entitled to protection in the same way that buildings and vehicles are. In other words, th
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
It’s merely meant to be a digital equivalent of a physical red cross/crescent on a battlefield. So if the “hackers” are members of the armed forces of a State Party to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, then… yes, they had better look up
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Because when you actually read the linked article, you will see that it usually contrasts cybercrime with the use of cyberattacks during a time of armed conflict. In other words, this isn’t about cybercrime. This is clearly targeting state
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Nice to see a fellow teacher hanging out in these parts!
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I’d think exactly the contrary: science majors would approach a history of science course expecting a history of discoveries leading from the Days o’ Ignorance to the Present, the Frontier of Knowledge. Or at the very least they’ll expect t
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
OTOH, poverty is multidimensional in a way that simply giving money to the poor will not (because it cannot) solve. Which is not an argument against giving money to the poor, of course. My point is only that real scholarship on poverty an
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Although N.B.: it’s still an open question whether NF is consistent.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I didn’t say PM was wrong. I said the ideas behind it were—-although I should’ve said idea (singular) insofar as I was thinking in particular of the strong form of logicism motivating Russell.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Yes, it was a tad tendentious, but I don’t think anyone really buys the logicist program anymore. Don’t get me wrong, PM is marvelous and there’s no gainsaying its enormous historical impact. If your characterization of Metamath is correct,
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Principia was an attempt to derive math from logical ground up, motivated by ideas about the foundations of mathematics and logic (wrong ones, it turned out). Knuth is more like A Magical Mystery Tour of Algorithms, wherein Knuth is both to
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Ha, I was thinking of Wheel of Time series. This is what I get for commenting while on NyQuil.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Maybe look at some of the trial exhibits that have been posted on the DOJ website. Google sure as hell thinks defaults matter a lot. And intent matters at trial.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> The information just needs you to go out and get it. I am definitely going to use that. And since I teach ninth graders, I predict I will be using that on a daily basis. Blessings upon you. (And the curses of ~175 9th graders every yea
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
People say season two was better than season one but season one was so bad I can’t bring myself to watch season two.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Justified true belief plus. YMMV on the plus.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I am so sending this to our district IT people the next time they make us change our passwords at school.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Stupid question: is “bump” the actual name for the bumps you talk about or is there some tricked out fancy name for them? (Curiosity only.)
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
As the 9th Circuit said in this case on 10/27/23: “On appeal, Plaintiffs claim that a violation of the [Washington Privacy Act] itself is an invasion of privacy that constitutes remediable injury. But the statutory text does not

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