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by fineman 11y ago
I'm sure that what the British did to China doesn't justify the death penalty for simple drug possession or use. Especially when it's a hot-button issue that almost guarantees the lack of a fair trial. Besides, it seems wider
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by fineman 11y ago
Nonsense. Gwern doesn't need to do anything for anyone. It's an interesting issue, and a way investigators may be attacked, but it's their responsibility alone. There exists data. This is that data. The data may bite. Touch t
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by fineman 11y ago
Noscript covers most of them. :) For a less "nuclear" option, use Adblock Plus. And this suggestion might help the defaults a bit: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27776 And if that doesn't
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by fineman 11y ago
I think this ignores long-term readership. Most uneducated users know how to close the entire tab and hate spam. So you'll keep getting 0.2% of an ever-smaller and more-confused set of users. In the meantime, the rest of us will learn
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by fineman 11y ago
How about ascii art? Actually, this is an interesting topic. Poisoning a dataset. CP would work for private security investigators, and to poison against government investigators you could use leaked classified secrets. Could you work aroun
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by fineman 11y ago
This very specifically is an argument against scanning on the distribution end. A false sense of security hurts more than deleting STONED.EXE (and likewise, all other malware caught by signature) helps. Point to a modern virus scanner and a
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by fineman 11y ago
In the case the pre-screener is honest, having them pre-check the work only saves you downloading a few virus executables at the cost of some work. If the case the pre-screener isn't honest, it's saved you nothing at all and cost
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by fineman 11y ago
Practice safe computing instead of expecting others to do it for you. What malware 'is" can even be a difficult question. Is a RAT malware, or a way to log people snooping on your computer? Also, new malware is discovered. So it&#
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by fineman 11y ago
Yeah, brutal authoritarian governments with no concern for human life. A drunk/high citizen is a slave that cannot work.
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by fineman 11y ago
Yeah, the valuation is all in the trademark. "New Economy". There's nothing preventing Uber2 from taking over (except a big ugly pink mustache.) But the customer service of Uber/etc is night and day different than Taxis.
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by fineman 11y ago
Where's your post analyzing taxi driver wages? Or server wages. Because bosses always get most of the profits.
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by fineman 11y ago
> I think it's hard to underestimate the degree to which our knowledge of biology has changed [...] That's not the issue. That relates to us understanding why it's dangerous. But wondering if it's dangerous and te
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by fineman 11y ago
NO!!! You can't end the game! No! > The title isn't really a bad description of the article at all so to call it "totally wrong" is false. Totally wrong. It implies things were decided, and that they were overruled, a
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by fineman 11y ago
Your bitching is longer than what you're bitching about. That's the cancer. And no, it's not pointless definitional games, the title is intentionally totally wrong. Black vs white. It's not like it's mostly right bu
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by fineman 11y ago
No, they're right. The title mislead me. The title suggests the EU decided something. Done. And then some European parliament came in and vetoed it. wtf? Instead, a correct title would seem to be "European parliament strongly reje
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by fineman 11y ago
In simple terms of time and money, yes. But in terms of not producing mountains of asphalt, especially. It's merely hot and dusty work, it doesn't stink at all.
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by fineman 11y ago
Your point was that LEDs don't break even. My point is that there's a threshold at which they would. If you only ever grew one tomato then you probably could buy a cheap plane ticket to deliver it, for less than the lights. So you
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by fineman 11y ago
From your reference, I think this supports the other meaning: > The verb "monopolise" refers to the process by which a company gains the ability to raise prices or exclude competitors. As I see it, without that ability to exclu
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by fineman 11y ago
Yes, I'd still grow just one single tomato and send it on many millions of trips. I'll call it "travel-with-my-tomato.com" (Overnight charges may apply for trips to mars.) /s
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by fineman 11y ago
I don't think the only store in town selling widgets has a widget monopoly unless there's something preventing another store from selling widgets. Until then they're just first-movers. But I will agree about Github. They had
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by fineman 11y ago
Wrong. There are distance and repetition factors you are failing to consider. With a single trip 100m trip, the LEDs lose. With 10^7 100km trips, the LEDs win. The question is where the line is, and the answer is that it's going down a
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by fineman 11y ago
Correct. But you could do a pretty good idea with some honeypots (customers) and a few agreements with ISPs to see where similar packets go.
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by fineman 11y ago
> The US army does much more than Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo [...] Sure. If it was just that stuff we'd abolish it. But recruits (and the public) need to see the atrocities they needlessly commit all to easily. Without knowing the cos
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by fineman 11y ago
Yeah, the Germans deserved their debt. TL;DR - they killed a few people. The Greeks are like people who bought more home than they could afford because a bank offered them a predatory loan. But unlike the USA, Greece can't print money
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by fineman 11y ago
No chance it could come from the banks that made the bad loans? You know, make the criminals pay. I imagine that would have more impact than making the victims pay.
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by fineman 11y ago
> Also, a nit: the butterfly effect has nothing to do with this discussion. It's an effect [...] Sorry, I had assumed it as an idiom without establishing a shared lexicon. I mean, an effect so small as to only possibly be significan
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by fineman 11y ago
Exactly, and my answer is 1000 times more empirical than yours. You imagine some tiny butterfly effect that might impact something vague but are ignoring the masses of evidence of the straight forward problems. Hoofbeats, horses, etc. Also,
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by fineman 11y ago
Of course it will be cheaper. Because the alternative to an STD in this argument is an STD and a baby. (Who may or may not be born with the STD.)
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by fineman 11y ago
Unfortunately "free to home school" their children is really a code-word for keeping their children inhumanely isolated for cult compliance reasons. Thought control.
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by fineman 11y ago
It's their children who are forcing the issue - by having sex. Denying access to proper medical consultations and care is recognized as a human rights violation. You don't have a right to forbid your child's access to the hea

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