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by eganist 2y ago
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3230399/ Have you seen anything newer that resoundingly disputes this and the studies cited herein? More recent, and accounting for more recent studies: https:&#x
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by eganist 2y ago
> That’s seems fine to me if they’re all reasonable. You’re using a very sinister tone. What aspect of their reply "Not even, this person is complaining about the color scheme options in multiple threads" registered as "ve
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by eganist 2y ago
Others are calling this out but they're not able to state why : They're listed as adversaries and not enemies because aiding an enemy country suddenly unlocks a litany of other crimes. Enemy is very specifically defined: htt
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by eganist 2y ago
Lots of discussion around this today - figured I'd post the raw text of the bill that was actually signed into law, H.R.815 - "Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, and for oth
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Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act(congress.gov)
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by eganist 2y ago
The raw text of the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/815/...
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by eganist 2y ago
> By the looks of it, it seems like you want the US to be more like the CCP than the other way around. Imitating authoritarian governments harms America's global reputation for "freedom and democracy", if that reputation e
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by eganist 2y ago
> Nobody would donate to Wikipedia if they knew it could survive on a few million dollars each year and it had hundreds of millions of dollars handy, and no new work was being done to add services and improve existing services. I mean, I
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by eganist 2y ago
This is an interesting comment that seems to miss the point. > If fundraising dips in the future, so what? They cut back? It's sad to see folks get laid off, but that's essentially what the author is arguing for, so it's k
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by eganist 3y ago
> SMS is magnitudes less secure than the Secure Enclave in my phone. The secure enclave on a rooted phone that no longer has execution integrity?
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by eganist 3y ago
Curious, can you name this institution that only allows the app to be used as the second factor without fallbacks?
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by eganist 3y ago
How would that stick? You can just sign into the bank via your web browser in the case of a nonfunctional app. The apps just give you added security assurances beyond using the web. "The app can't function in a low security enviro
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by eganist 3y ago
Way out of my depth here, but I'm guessing the main hurdles to turning this into a drug are encapsulation in a way that survives injection (or better yet, ingestion) as well as either targeting of infected cells or at least ensuring th
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by eganist 3y ago
When bots invariably redirect captcha chat messages to a call center in (x) country to solve for 1̶0̶ ̶c̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ (thanks flotzam) 0.2 cents, what's the next step in this cat and mouse game?
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by eganist 3y ago
You're entirely right. I was mostly just picking nits at op saying the funding wasn't direct. But it's functionally both direct and exclusive in that if Google pulls out, even if e.g Bing comes in with a bid it'll likely
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by eganist 3y ago
> Is Walmart now beholden to me? They owe you a box of crackers. Once you've departed with it, they're no longer beholden to you.
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by eganist 3y ago
> But not the only, nor a direct funding. Being paid directly for a service by a company (Google paying for the privilege of being the default) is to be directly funded by that company. You're right that it's not the only sourc
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by eganist 3y ago
Did keto 10.5 months of last year, lost 51lbs. Stopped, regained 20lbs and stabilized. I still want to lose more though as I'm not where I should be for my height, so I'm going the medicated route. If you're going to spend th
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by eganist 3y ago
I think you're assuming more about my policy preferences than I've let on. This conversation isn't likely to be productive as a result.
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by eganist 3y ago
> That you are in some real or perceived negative situation does not mean I should be obligated to help you. Whether I help you or not is my own decision. Since it's a core belief of yours, you should keep voting that way, whereas I
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by eganist 3y ago
> You expect Google to scan the database of companies in every country continuously to see if employees are executives of them? How would this handle different people who have the same name? > Disclosure: I work at Google. It's G
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by eganist 3y ago
> eventually want to build out a tool to accurately monitor a student's performance over time. How does AutoMark account for disparities in quality of education?
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by eganist 3y ago
The tldr is basically: * Guy vaccinated himself very, very often for reasons unknown. * We observed interesting things [implied: that we probably would never have observed otherwise because nobody would ever set up a study for this specific
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by eganist 3y ago
I *really* don't want to see us encourage gamifying HN submissions. Something can be highly ranked for a myriad of reasons, including for technically controversial ones (e.g different philosophies in solving specific technical challeng
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by eganist 3y ago
Nowhere in my comment did I imply that everyone thinks this way, or that op specifically thinks this way.
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by eganist 3y ago
> Your needs and wants are not a claim on my life. My life is my own. If you want to feed your money into whatever you define good as, go ahead. Dont expect anyone to cater to your whims with the fruits of their labors though. This quote
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by eganist 3y ago
The concept of "cognitive confinement" (your term I presume. It's neat, I hope it sticks) was explored in Spiderman 2. I'm being entirely serious. Even though the visualization of the reactor was wildly off the mark, thi
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by eganist 3y ago
With the US at least, it can probably be loosely tested by comparing declassified records (50 years on) with program size at the time.
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by eganist 3y ago
If you're wondering what the Radcliffe Wave is like I was, from the article: > A few years ago, astronomers uncovered one of the Milky Way's greatest secrets: An enormous, wave-shaped chain of gaseous clouds in our sun's b
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by eganist 3y ago
So there's an interesting legal question here. If someone's drunk (i.e diminished reasoning) and steps into the car expecting that a feature named "full self driving" will safely drive them home, how is responsibility di

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