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by eggie 10y ago
I really like Signal, at least as far as I can tell from the UI and the single conversation I've managed to have using it. The biggest problem that we (my whole friend group) seem to be having is that we can't find each other due
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by eggie 10y ago
I have the same problem with Signal. Basically, I can't find anyone or be found because I rarely use my current phone number. The phone number linking seems completely superfluous and has destroyed the user experience for me by prevent
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by eggie 10y ago
It is a precise technical term, and using it for a company name is unsettling to a graph theorist. But, it's probably cool for almost everyone else.
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by eggie 10y ago
Someone was talking about how, when you use existing systems to translate an poem written in arabic by a ten year old it comes out unintelligible, but the same process is flawless for descriptions of terrorist attacks.
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by eggie 10y ago
What if these aren't establishment propagandists, but are regular people who are seriously concerned? What should they do? What would the right response of the paper be to a demagogue? In retrospect, fake news might have been the most
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by eggie 10y ago
Would you characterize the disconnect you found a bit more?
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by eggie 10y ago
I find it incredible that even living in the liberal echo chamber I never heard news about this proposal! I am even from Appalachia! Part of the problem is that those in the media forgot about people who are different from them--- for whom
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by eggie 10y ago
The liberals are a kind of politically oppressed demographic and cultural majority. Conservatives enjoy the sensation of lording their control of the political sphere over liberals. It's validation of their position that nothing else i
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by eggie 10y ago
They were extremely limited in the resources they could bring to bear on the genome. Sequencing was expensive and complicated, so even by sequencing several people the best they could do was make one composite image of the whole genome. Rep
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by eggie 10y ago
I find it hard to believe that monopolistic control of the media is good for the happiness of people in totalitarian regimes. By analogy I think the maintenance of the public space in common is important for the good of all. Projects like t
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by eggie 10y ago
Telegrams clients (and the e2e encryption) are open source. For instance: https://github.com/DrKLO/Telegram Curious if you know why the crypto is half-baked. Has it been broken? edit: found Signal server, I think: htt
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by eggie 10y ago
Yes, but you have to have a facebook account...
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by eggie 10y ago
> Facebook has become massively popular and is still growing. While I am not particularly active on it, I recognize this is atypical. Think about how many devs ise FB OAuth for example, as it is insanely prolific. But are they real users
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by eggie 10y ago
> Ps: so far I am the only e-hermit I know that has left FB. Yet, once my kids grow and join FB I may need to re-join to go visit them. I have also completely rejected their platform(s). A lot of people say this will destroy your social
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by eggie 10y ago
I actually think that the duck (ddg.gg) is better. I now find it difficult to use google, which feels clunky and capricious. I make thousands of queries a day for work, so I really can't excuse poor performance. For a while I would swi
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by eggie 10y ago
> I think that the real answer might be something quite embarrassing, and politically incorrect. I'm curious what you think it might be. I would guess here but lack experience to guide my guess.
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by eggie 10y ago
> Ethereum contracts have a giant target on them for security researchers who want to earn money. This is true, but the fork suggests the only way to do this will be by shorting the currency rather than trading the ETH earned from exploi
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by eggie 10y ago
> Also, the server knows your contact list, (and bans you if you dont sync), and someone could tap your wifi to get your contact list. Wouldn't they also have a contact log for each user? That plus the contact list is a pretty nice
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by eggie 10y ago
Do you (or does anyone) know if WhatsApp/Facebook have a contact log available for each user? I thought this was visible to the service end despite the use of e2e encryption on the contents of messages, but maybe I misunderstand the pr
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by eggie 10y ago
They don't find it works then share. They are randomly sharing, and sometimes it works. Bacterial sex.
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by eggie 10y ago
Microorganisms have been able to cope with each other for damn near a billion years using toxin-antitoxin systems. People are exploring these as negative selection systems. Traditionally, antibiotics are used. http://nar.oxfordjo
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by eggie 10y ago
It could be that you share certain alleles at a much higher rate than expected by chance. That said, if the study is working off the Framingham data, I do wonder how general a conclusion it is...
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by eggie 10y ago
I did cringe. This is my field. (I know virtually all of the people he's been talking with.) The descriptions are accurate, but murky. One huge missing piece is a description of the structure of the genome. There is one mention of the
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by eggie 10y ago
You're forgetting the other point that the poster made, that your DNA is no more yours than your grandparents', or cousins, or any other ancestor or distant relative that shares bits of their genome with you. By the way, we are al
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by eggie 10y ago
They could influence elections, shift social policy to help certain people, and generally engineer the social world in their own image. It will be very hard to tell if this is happening. They could become the whole internet. In many places
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by eggie 10y ago
> But I'm at a loss to draw the correct conclusion from this. Is it rational that Facebook is now worth 6x as much as Ford? I worry that I see it as over-hyped because of my discomfort in the future it proposes. Its valuation repres
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by eggie 10y ago
Many of us non-UK people find your position hilarious. You seek freedom from a representative system in a monarchy whose upper legislature is composed of hereditary titulars. You'll say they don't do much, and I'll remind you
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by eggie 11y ago
What does this do? Let's break down the description from the site: > Cello converts electronic design specifications of combinational logic to complete DNA sequences encoding transcriptional logic circuits that can be executed in ba
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by eggie 11y ago
> Likewise, do you include the energy used to evolve the human brain? I was thinking of this in a limited, human-promoting sense. We shouldn't lose sight of our own special powers just because a computer the size of a house can outs
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by eggie 11y ago
I would love to compare the energy requirements of the AlphaGo and Mr. Sedol. I imagine there are many orders of magnitude in difference between them. Perhaps the most fair comparison would be between a computer that uses no more energy tha

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