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by eindiran 7y ago
If you have a negative utilitarian moral outlook, it follows that if some beings will suffer by existing and its not possible to know which beings they are in advance, then bringing any beings into existence willfully is morally wrong. I am
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by eindiran 7y ago
That's correct, but I think its "Benford's Law" rather than "Bedford's Law". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford%27s_law
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by eindiran 7y ago
Ross Ulbricht made some mistakes by reusing account names etc that he had made on the clearnet[0, 1]. But at the time there were (tinfoil-hat-wearing) folks that thought that this was actually parallel construction and Tor was backdoored. H
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by eindiran 7y ago
DuckDuckGo doesn't "use bing under the hood" exactly: it has a large number of sources, including some other search engines like Bing, Yahoo and Yandex but also its own crawler ("DuckDuckGoBot")[0]. [0] https:&#x2F
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by eindiran 7y ago
That's what it actually is. If you look at cloudyo's comment history, its all about Duple.
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Putting stickers over your cameras might be a reasonable thing to do, but it's pretty silly to pretend your threat model is the same as Mark Zuckerberg's.
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I just edited the article to explain that. It is well observed in modern-humans and fossil hominids. There's evidence that it is observed in other primates, including great apes and monkeys, but the evidence is conflicting; so probably
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by eindiran 7y ago
The rules of Magic are quite complex so you'll be hard pressed to find a resource that actually covers all of them that's able to be digested quickly. The reason there is so much to learn is that cards have rules on them, and ther
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by eindiran 7y ago
If that's the case, then folks should be focused on making it easier to get state ID and widen the class of IDs that can be used (state ID/voter ID card/passport/driver's license). From this page though, it seems li
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by eindiran 7y ago
France has a similar setup to what you described; however, in towns and cities with >1000 voters, they do require a state-issued identification document specifically because using mail/other forms of id and a large list of names doe
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by eindiran 7y ago
It seems like Canada (for Federal elections at least) and most European countries have voter ID laws [0]. Notably, the UK does not; they scrapped government issued ID cards altogether in 2011([1]). I'm not sure why requiring ID to vote
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Blue-Green Deployment (2010)(martinfowler.com)
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It is no longer an open source license, and is now a "source available" available license.
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You are confusing "source-available" software with "open source" software. Open source software is defined by the definition given here: https://opensource.org/osd This license (BSL) is source-available,
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by eindiran 7y ago
I think the link points to a photo in the article right now. This is the correct link: https://venturebeat.com/2019/11/06/github-over-80-of-reposit... Also, looking at the original report, the headline is not
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by eindiran 7y ago
In the world of software, I think this counterpoint definitely applies. When faced with a new problem, especially when greenfielding, I sometimes have the impulse to just jump in and start writing code. Almost every time that I succumb to t
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by eindiran 7y ago
Yeah, this vector was avoidable by individuals who had good operational security, but the operation still got addresses for 10K+ individuals: they recorded around 27K transactions, so that means over a third of users relied on the built-in
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by eindiran 7y ago
I do worry about it in the case of tobacco. I think the big push to ban nicotine vaping is driven by big tobacco, and politicians cashing in on the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement: it created really perverse incentives where states lite
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by eindiran 7y ago
A few years ago the police did something similar by running a honeypot site called Hansa [0]; they gained control of the site, but rather than shutting it down immediately, they quietly ran the site for a few months, making changes to it in
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by eindiran 7y ago
In case anyone is considering downvoting this response, check this out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face_book Apparently "face book" was a concept/generic phrase in common use before Facebook was a thi
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Countershading(en.wikipedia.org)
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It helps a lot if the university you're coming from had a reputation for difficulty and grade deflation. Academia is incestuous enough that people will usually be clued into that. Barring that, having excellent rec letters and GRE scor
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by eindiran 7y ago
If your request for evidence is about the claim that most Uchicago students receive aid: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/financial-aid-budget-forecas... If its about the claim that this is an example of price discrimin
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by eindiran 7y ago
As long as the delivery companies are paying enough into public transit that it benefits everyone, I think this is a win-win.
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by eindiran 7y ago
Admittedly, I believe Gemini released their stablecoin well after the end of the 2017 bull cryptocurrency market. It was much easier to get people to try your shitty new coin in 2017 than it is now, so demand for any new coin will be lower.
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by eindiran 7y ago
I'm a graduate of Uchicago (from shortly after you), and to offer a different perspective, I'm still paying off my loans (and will be for another 6 years), but I'm incredibly glad I went. I thought the undergraduate experienc
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by eindiran 7y ago
Given that most (yes, most) students at the University of Chicago receive financial aid, what you're seeing is a sticker price. The school is using the high sticker price + financial aid to perform very efficient price discrimination[0
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This really isn't true anymore, but people keep regurgitating it. Chicago has a lot of behavioral economists like Thaler/List/Levitt, a lot of people who work on econometrics or mathematical economics like Harberger/Uhli
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by eindiran 7y ago
Definitely check out the browser extension TrackMeNot, mentioned in the article: it runs searches in the background to obfuscate what internet behavior is actually yours. https://trackmenot.io/
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by eindiran 7y ago
Hi dang, I want to say first that I think you do a great job of moderating the site, which I imagine is an enormous and difficult task. Is it always "enough" for users to flag an article for it to be removed? I remember the highly

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