grandalf

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by grandalf 9y ago
> I'm afraid corrupt regimes would be the ones who benefit the most from such tools. They already do. But since the tools are under the radar there is not all that much pressure on technology firms to follow best practices. For exa
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by grandalf 9y ago
> Wiretapping and search warrants... True, but there is a big difference between presenting evidence to a judge to obtain a search warrant and subsequently manually wiretapping a phone line or two and the sort of massive-scale surveillan
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by grandalf 9y ago
> We should try to think of some concrete steps to resist this. It feels like we have to try, since there's so much at stake. Great point. One idea I had recently is to start an organization in the same spirit as Open AI called Op
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by grandalf 9y ago
I completely agree that our leaders would exploit loopholes. My point was meant mainly to describe the scenario if the Federal government were effectively constrained. Would the public have supported a tax increase in 2004 when the cost of
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by grandalf 9y ago
From his perspective as the head of the FBI whose job it is to achieve outcomes within the law, of course Comey advocates encryption backdoors. He would likely also advocate allowing the FBI to suspend the bill of rights for any suspect dur
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by grandalf 9y ago
When issues of local government financial problems come up, I think it's important to remember that local governments are typically not able to undertake deficit spending the way the Federal government is. If the US Federal government
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by grandalf 9y ago
This is very clever. I'd like to be able to "guard" my account by declining certain transactions, even if I made them willingly or agreed to have them scheduled.
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by grandalf 9y ago
I keep waiting for the price of these things to dip below $400. $999 is a very premium price and makes it hard to buy it as an impulse purchase.
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by grandalf 9y ago
This guy has written extensively about the business: https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Wildlife-Filmmaker-Challe...
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by grandalf 9y ago
Even if once each year Apple picked a "blessed" list of commodity hardware (one motherboard, one graphics card, etc.) that was supported, it would still be a major improvement over the status quo. Apple could pick partly based on
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by grandalf 10y ago
Oakland is great except for the poverty and side-effects of poverty. An influx of capital and ownership drives away poverty and makes it a non-issue.
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by grandalf 10y ago
Why doesn't someone just buy up most of Detroit and create a massive campus with affordable Victorian homes everywhere.
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by grandalf 10y ago
I used this: https://github.com/technomancy/emacs-starter-kit Some of it has been subsumed into newer emacs releases. In general, find out which modes are considered best for whatever you are doing, install them, and t
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by grandalf 10y ago
What vinalla js immutable types?
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by grandalf 10y ago
It would be fine if it started out accounting for those things by week, then eventually by day and hour.
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by grandalf 10y ago
By restricting the project to data provided by governments there is absolutely zero chance of much additional accountability being offered by this platform. I think all recipients of public funds should be required to account for all spendi
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Realistically? National security. This is absolutely not the case. Sure there are some classified programs but the majority of government spending and money flows should be 100% transparent. It's not because there is some degree o
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by grandalf 10y ago
I agree that it's reasonable in theory to have some of this stuff going on. I also agree that it's reasonable in theory to do incidental collection. But the problem is that the NSA began doing a lot of this stuff without democrati
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by grandalf 10y ago
I like IRCCloud, it lets me use an open platform, but pay for archival of the channels I care about.
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by grandalf 10y ago
These are good points. I'll respond with a few things that I think are relevant: > an argument for being a late-adopter Definitely. I was an early adopter of 23andme, and there is value to 23andme's research arm when a custome
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by grandalf 10y ago
I'm surprised to see all the fear-mongering in this thread. We leave genetic material behind everywhere we go. 23andme analyzes only a small subset of one's DNA. The most important thing to realize about genetics is that very few
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by grandalf 10y ago
This has amazing potential for use in sock puppet accounts.
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by grandalf 10y ago
I had an idea a few years ago to make a chrome plugin that would send encrypted emails (containing a randomly generated message) to all sorts of Muslim country email addresses, helping to reduce the fruitfulness of encryption circumvention
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by grandalf 10y ago
My suggestion is to focus on inconveniences. So far, the ones I've found most frustrating are: - poor support for a dual monitor configuration with one 4K and one 1080p monitor. - please include in the official deb repo multiple vers
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by grandalf 10y ago
Using multiple monitors is exactly the opposite of the emacs philosophy and the unix philosophy. If anything, it can be described as the Bloomberg philosophy, modeling one's development setup after a Bloomberg terminal, designed for qu
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by grandalf 10y ago
Wow! I do a lot of shopping on amazon but this gives me pause.
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by grandalf 10y ago
Amazon makes massive profit from counterfeits. I've been the unwitting purchaser of several counterfeit products and it's rarely worth the hassle of returning them. I just realized the other day that some wifi cameras I purchased
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by grandalf 10y ago
Very interesting! Thanks for the clarification. Would you say that the ML/AI aspect is "easy" once the automation is built? Or does the automation offer limited value without fairly sophisticated algorithms?
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by grandalf 10y ago
He was listed as one of the reporters, but was actually an intern and was released. Clearly the guy is an activist, it just seems he's got a very unusual system of ethics that guide his activism, which most people would consider over t
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by grandalf 10y ago
Predicting peaks in supply and demand for energy is essentially turning the utility into a hedge fund. I think it's worth considering the overall characteristics of the "improved" algorithm, since the ML optimizations are lik

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