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by grandalf 9y ago
I'm not aware of a single missing email. If someone had come forward with an email and offered it as evidence that WL had withheld even a single one, I would view WL much differently. Instead, WL took the trouble to DKIM verify as many
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by grandalf 9y ago
Since when is spending trillions to attack a nation justified by its leader being an asshole? Saddam was mild compared to many other regimes at the time and was a US ally for years prior. We basically annexed Iraq to support US regional int
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by grandalf 9y ago
What difference does Assange's personality make? If someone revealed Donald Trump's taxes, would you care if that person was a disgruntled, mentally unstable former-employee who had served time in prison for a morally abhorrent of
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by grandalf 9y ago
> He is no more a neutral party when talking about Clinton than Clinton would be talking about Assange. This may or may not be true, but it does not matter since the approach WL takes is to release materials in full without editorial dis
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by grandalf 9y ago
> If they had wanted to extradite him to Guantanamo, they would've done it long ago. Do you have any evidence to support this claim?
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by grandalf 9y ago
Donald Trump is completely irrelevant to my support of Assange. Like many of his critics, you are making a lot of ad hominem attacks on Assange rather than focusing on his massive contributions to democracy and journalism.
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by grandalf 9y ago
not yet but perhaps in the future. We're hiring fwiw.
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by grandalf 9y ago
In the days when Mayer was at Google, Silicon Valley was one of the few places in America with a relatively meritocratic labor market and its firms (including Google at the time) had risen to prominence by upsetting incumbent industries and
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by grandalf 9y ago
I'm building one, slightly different use case though.
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True, and people also deserve the chance to reinvent themselves.
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by grandalf 9y ago
> This author notes that they "feel bad" about consuming AMP content I found this comment interesting as well. I really like the instant load aspect and would much rather not waste time waiting for a slow page to load. I think
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by grandalf 9y ago
> The autists I know of have no special skills or magical insights This is not necessarily a counter-argument since it is limited to the sample size of those you know. The argument supposes that there would be enough benefit to the upsid
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by grandalf 9y ago
I suggest doing something between work and home that you enjoy and that can fully distract you from work. Some hobbies are like this... an hour doing it and you will pretty much forget your work "self". Don't feel the need
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by grandalf 9y ago
> has failed to consider these fairly obvious principles No, but I think that those spreading these kinds of reports are intentionally masking the way that they are meant to be used in intelligence circles. This happened during the build
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by grandalf 9y ago
There is no supporting evidence for the assertion that it was "Russia" or about the nature of the "hacking groups". There is also no consideration of the possibility of false attribution of the above. Suppose I see that
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by grandalf 9y ago
Does anyone know what minimum level of "homomorphism" is necessary to insulate the entity doing surveillance or analytics from legal action? I ask this about the following contexts: - government surveillance: does using a homomorp
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by grandalf 9y ago
It's embarrassing how much some people seem to forget about rationality and skepticism when thinking about this issue. The leaked info contains a few more specifics about the hand waving from a few months ago, but no actual evidence. W
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by grandalf 9y ago
> by experts Experts in what? Security research or PR?
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by grandalf 9y ago
Right. This is the core problem. Most people who wind up in HR are rule-followers who are acutely aware of the legal risks associated with harassment culture.
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by grandalf 9y ago
While standardized tests are criticized for rewarding general intelligence at the expense of other strengths, it seems that college admissions has been steadily devaluing general intelligence over the years. Correspondingly, the alphabet te
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by grandalf 9y ago
Great points. It could be argued that adjusting a parameter like block size should be easy and that this not being possible is a design limitation of Bitcoin. However if you consider that miners (or more abstractly, mining rigs themselves)
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by grandalf 9y ago
The question to ask is why are the fees high? Because the demand for faster transactions is very high. While this seems like a technical glitch to some, it is easily addressed using traditional finance techniques or via side chains. Fees e
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by grandalf 9y ago
> it's an illiquid market for them at the volumes they are looking to trade This is the case with any market. Try liquidating a few million shares of any stock. There are large volume desks already (associated with major financial i
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by grandalf 9y ago
Of course there will be corrections. There are a small number of people who own a large enough percentage of BTC that when they cash out the market will correct significantly. There are some forces acting against this: - The general useful
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by grandalf 9y ago
Exactly. Trump just took steps that benefit the incumbent auto industry Musk is trying to disrupt.
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by grandalf 9y ago
I've made this point before and people are always skeptical. Consider how many fewer moving parts an electric car has. It's like the difference between solid state electronics and vacuum tube electronics.
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by grandalf 9y ago
I think you might underestimate the cost of services that address the extended consequences of basic poverty. There is lots of criminal enforcement, healthcare, housing, etc., that is disproportionally expensive to maintain due to the perve
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by grandalf 9y ago
> I don't agree that he could have used any other social media to the same effect. Information propagates and decays on Twitter much, much faster than on other mainstream platforms I certainly agree that Twitter's characteristi
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by grandalf 9y ago
You can google the headline of a NYT article in an incognito window and when the article comes up in the search results you can read it without a paywall getting in the way.
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by grandalf 9y ago
In 2016 the US was still vulnerable to a Kardashian style PR stunt attack. Trump performed this attack over and over again and garnered an estimated $2B of free advertising from it. Trump used Twitter to do this, but he could have used oth

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