eurleif

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by eurleif 13y ago
Are they literally collecting nothing now, not even enough to link IP addresses with subscriber identities? I love privacy as much as everyone else, but real crimes do happen online, and I wonder about the consequences.
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by eurleif 13y ago
Meh, why not just store them locally (or on Dropbox) encrypted with a key only you know?
543.
by eurleif 13y ago
>You message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Was there a time when this was actually true?
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by eurleif 13y ago
It might be useful if a database could enable encryption on specific columns (which would make those columns unindexable).
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by eurleif 13y ago
How would you combine that with indexing? Seems like data needs to be unencrypted to be indexed. And if you're not doing any indexing, isn't it as simple as converting the user's data to JSON, and encrypting the JSON?
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by eurleif 13y ago
>Apple's genius with the iPhone and iPad, was realising its time had not come, and waiting and refining their design until the basic underlying hardware "caught up" and they could provide a product suitable for "norma
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by eurleif 13y ago
But that wasn't the question. The question was whether it was a consistent position for someone to oppose gay marriage, but not discriminate as an employer.
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by eurleif 13y ago
>There is no grey scale here. Either you think that people (regardless of their sexual orientation) are equal, or you don't. You don't get to pick who to assign rights to based on if they work for your company or not. Mozilla i
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by eurleif 13y ago
Couldn't HyperLogLog be implemented efficiently using Lua scripting?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Cool. I wonder if bloom filters might be up next?
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by eurleif 13y ago
Also seems similar to this. A gaming company was fined $1 million for embedding a BTC miner. http://www.wired.com/2013/11/e-sports/
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by eurleif 13y ago
It seems to be saying "you can't prove the conclusion of the argument is false", not "you can't prove anything". You can still prove the argument is invalid.
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by eurleif 13y ago
And cars that won't start if you don't pay your loan are already a thing: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/wayoflife/04/17/aa.bills....
554.
by eurleif 13y ago
Maintaining a Go wrapper for Android's Java APIs sounds non-trivial, and probably has security implications as well.
555.
by eurleif 13y ago
It's possible they changed their name because they wanted to blend in, but that other things they did to blend in were what caused their success, not the name change.
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by eurleif 13y ago
I think Tor is probably the best option. For now, I've just put up a link[0] to the Turkish short Tor manual[1]. As far as I can see, the Turkish government hasn't block the Tor project's site yet(?). If they do, but they don
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by eurleif 13y ago
I have a site that receives >200k daily uniques from Turkey. I feel like I should put something up to tell my Turkish users about how to get around their government's Internet blocking, but I'm not sure exactly what to put up.
558.
by eurleif 13y ago
If it's sufficiently better than the current technology to overcome the switching costs, it sticks.
559.
by eurleif 13y ago
I took it to mean http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Paperclip_maximizer
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by eurleif 13y ago
Thanks, that makes sense. I was thinking of a different definition of "consciousness", the "hard problem" definition. [0] For an ant to feel pain, it would have to be conscious in the hard problem sense. [0] http:/
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by eurleif 13y ago
>I also found the random remark of "consciousness = what it feels like to have a neocortex" interesting. So there's a way it feels to not have a neocortex? Doesn't feeling anything imply you're conscious, which m
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by eurleif 13y ago
http://paulgraham.com/ramenprofitable.html#f1n
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by eurleif 13y ago
You didn't just say "highly abstract", you also said "intellectually demanding". You only seem to be addressing the "highly abstract" part now. All of the failure modes you mention sound like failures of i
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by eurleif 13y ago
>How does this claim square with sites like the Daily WTF, which provide evidence that many gainfully employed programmers do not, in fact, use their brains very much? With the more or less weekly announcements of "security breaches
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by eurleif 13y ago
>python classes are open so you can just add a method to a concrete class to get single-dispatch if that's all you need. Except then your method shares a namespace with all the other methods defined on the class, which is ugly, and
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by eurleif 13y ago
Anecdote time: I was not just homeschooled, but unschooled. Unschooling basically means that instead of my parents teaching me, I was expected to learn on my own. They provided some direction and assistance, but they weren't especially
567.
by eurleif 13y ago
>Just because they're largely minors doesn't, to me, mean that their parents have the right to deny them a future in favor of whatever their personal reasons may be. Yes, this is an infringement on the 'rights' of par
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by eurleif 13y ago
Why? It's not as good.
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by eurleif 13y ago
>to most people having everyone on earth think that they are criminally incompetent is not worth $400 million. Have you ever in your life seen a reality TV show? You really think people aren't willing to debase themselves for money?
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by eurleif 13y ago
>For those who are discouraged by the signup - I understand, but due to the nature of the game it is necessary to prevent cheating. Can you please elaborate on why you believe signup is necessary to prevent cheating?

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