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by ggggtez 6y ago
There is a reason you don't see this type of attack more often, and it's not because it's difficult to do. It's because social engineering attacks are noisy as heck. Within 30 minutes of them posting these tweets, you ca
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>White House officials were concerned about President Donald Trump’s Twitter account, which he uses daily to push out news and other information. They assured the public that his account has extra protections. I had suspected that they h
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> dumb things I never stole $100,000 when I was a kid. Sometimes 17-year olds murder other people too. Society can't ignore it just because he's a minor. If he had posted memes, that would be one thing. But instead he decided t
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by ggggtez 6y ago
The Krebs article says that prior to the bitcoin hack, they were selling accounts such as @6 for $2000. They probably had a rapidly shrinking window and the bitcoin scam was the last ditch effort before whatever admin account they hijacked
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Imagine a 17 year old robs a bank and steal 100k from the savings accounts of random people. Or a 17 year old steals a couple of cars from random people off the street... The crime is not breaking into Twitter. The crime is theft. Twitter d
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I'm all for education, but I don't think it's quite that simple. Why should we value a degree in philosophy the same as a degree in the sciences? And there is an undercurrent in your post which seems to say that Philosopher
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by ggggtez 6y ago
I'm inclined to take the realistic approach: It's in their best interest to fight any anti-trust investigation, regardless on whether their denial is legitimate or not. A successful anti-trust suit could cost FB billions of dollar
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by ggggtez 6y ago
This is how court orders work. See other lawsuits where company emails were obtained. This list of 2500 words is not random. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gm-powerpoint_n_5340385
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Let's not pretend that Facebook isn't accused of a myriad of anti-competitive practices. Not even Facebook is claiming that the EU doesn't have grounds for a search. They are simply saying the search is overbroad.
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I have to imagine that's because people spend 10% of their income on the churches that you aren't accounting for. The people are paying one way or another, the question is whether public society will fill the gap or leave it to co
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Rape is a successful evolutionary strategy in many animals. See ducks.
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Indeed, I have seen community centers in the US that do all that (perhaps with the exception of Hospitals). I don't recommend going to your church when you need to go to a hospital. Go to a hospital. Doctors spend 12 years in school fo
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Have you considered that you might just be jaded? Why should a 1980 USSR concrete building be your idea of the best that a "community center" can be, in the USA in 2020? Doesn't your complaint have more to do with the USSR th
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> this is quickly becoming an obsolete understanding of religion Yes, I stand by my words. If you read them again, you'll see you are arguing with something I didn't say. If 29% of religious people have left the church (50&#x2F
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People are fleeing, in fact. An important thing to remember is that in these polls, when they say things like "No religion in particular" they don't actually mean that these people are Atheists. They mean they don't ascr
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by ggggtez 6y ago
The tax exemption clearly seems to indicate it is only for religious services. Which means that other charities, including ones without a religious message, are disadvantaged. While the treatment may still be preferential (it still has s
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> where people connect with the spiritual world In the USA, this is quickly becoming an obsolete understanding of religion. Regular church attendance is down from 70% to just over 50% in the last 20 years, according to Gallup. People are
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> even the best cameras would never even be in the same competing arena as the human eye All it takes is looking at photos from space telescopes, or electron microscopes... It should be obvious that technology can make better cameras tha
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> gender fluidity would disappear Transhumanism would result in the opposite. The very idea of a gender binary should be called into question when you reach the level of augmenting and transcending the limits of your flesh. The author se
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by ggggtez 6y ago
The site title claims that the user can "generate abstract paintings", but really the user can "view prerendered images". It's misleading. I don't care if they clarify somewhere else on the site. The intention
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Like a cornered animal, if someone is acting jumpy you don't know what they might do. If it helps, imagine you are a police officer and you stop someone for speeding on the highway... You are just trying to give them a fine, but they a
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by ggggtez 6y ago
It's possible the doctor knows something the parents of the kid don't. You don't treat the symptom (high T levels) you treat the disease (the behavior disorder). It's possible there is something about the boy's medi
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by ggggtez 6y ago
It's hardly a random employee's fault that Google lost the court case. I doubt anyone would be fired for a $600k mistake. When you work processing legal requests, there is always a chance you get sued. If Google blamed their court
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Miscarriages are not births. If the birth rate remains at 2.1 you can have as many miscarriages as you want, and the population will still increase. The same with Hikkikomori, and gay people. As long as there is 2.1 children born for every
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by ggggtez 6y ago
> go talk to penniless lottery winners You are just proving my point. They have no money. To buy happiness you need money. It's obvious on the face of it. Do people who were rich in the past and could buy all the food they could eat
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by ggggtez 6y ago
It doesn't seem to be required that an animal have sensory information. [1] I'm not convinced by the argument that a computer can't think just because it doesn't experience the world. If anything, experiments like (1)
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The authors main point is bunk if his only defense of that point is that humans are smart. The "learning" problem is solved. We've developed numerous algorithms to take a neural network and have it learn a task. We've so
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It's fully possible for a computer to do symbolic math without reducing the symbols to a decimal.
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The offender I hear most often now a days is trying to use Quantum Mechanics to bring free-will back into play. The idea being that if any part of nature is unpredictable, then that could be a mechanism for where free-will might come from.
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by ggggtez 6y ago
Let's not be so foolish as to think that CEOs actually spend all their money. Even the average silicon valley engineer is dumping a large portion of their pay into investments. Bill Gates has so much money, he can afford to eradicate d

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