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by hurin 11y ago
> bets are the evolution there will produce life forms similar to ours That's exactly the anthropomorphic bias. Why wouldn't it be a huge mycelium? How do we even know there aren't types of life-forms made of structures th
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by hurin 11y ago
Now your parents would be considered libertarian nuts and prosecuted by the state. Notice how what were once normal parents are now "free-range" parents.
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by hurin 11y ago
Terence Mckenna who I generally think is kind of, really, nuts - criticized the way of thinking which anthropomorphized the idea of alien life, In this particular case I think it is a highly valid criticism: our conception of extra-terrestr
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by hurin 12y ago
/sigh @hackernews turning into your typical reddit thread.
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by hurin 12y ago
To quote the email: because we need your help. we have a great production incentive environment in NY Because of all of this, I think it’s important to significantly support his reelection efforts and NY law only allows corporations to
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by hurin 12y ago
Not being 100% sure which command this will correct to is dangerous. Also the need for this is largely negated by a shell with autosuggestions.
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by hurin 12y ago
I tend to agree - the documents relating to actual abuses are worth releasing, - but releasing the entire trove (and granted I haven't looked at all of it) seems arbitrary and without principal.
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by hurin 12y ago
What's the actual legal status on this? It definitely seems to circumvent the law - but is it clearly criminal? Have such abuses been prosecuted successfully in the past?
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by hurin 12y ago
There are gui clients that support both protocols (i.e. I think Pidgin does) - why not just write a plugin that allows to cross-communicate between the two?
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by hurin 12y ago
I don't necessarily see why MS would purchase Slack instead of delivering their own solution. Unlike Skype it's not really key to have a large-user base on the service, all that matters is that your entire business is running the
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by hurin 12y ago
Unlike switching VM's or databases, switching from one front-end for a pseudo-irc-client to another is essentially simple, the migration is probably significantly less painful, there are no proprietary formats in the way (.pdf .dwg). T
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by hurin 12y ago
So you're saying the real cost-savings don't kick in until you're landing it back on the pad, hence salvage from sea is only important as far as perfecting the technology?
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by hurin 12y ago
Question: Why don't they land into the water instead of a hard surface? (Wouldn't this give them more leeway in terms of impulse?) Edit: i.e. landing on a net stretched (under the lake/ocean-surface) by 3 or 4 ships - reel th
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by hurin 12y ago
>Python developers would almost all upgrade in a single minute for 30%+ better performance. But strangely they don't - PyPy has hardly gained traction (albeit the python2->python3 switch didn't help) and looking at the bench
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by hurin 12y ago
Maybe the Arstechnica article is biased towards the defense attorney's side of the story - but I definitely don't see the primary issue here as being law enforcement officers installed said software (as you pointed out, this is
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by hurin 12y ago
"The allegations submitted for review appear to be limited to misdemeanor violations which do not rise to a threshold for assigning a case to the CID Special Investigations Unit," the commander of the CID wrote in a September 29
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by hurin 12y ago
Seems like a variation on the king's wise men puzzle.
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by hurin 12y ago
Exactly, you have to exchange public-keys via another method - which is also potentially vulnerable.
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by hurin 12y ago
> New keypairs would be generated on the client every time you join a chatroom. Another member of the chatroom sends you the shared_key encrypted by your public key. Server knows nothing, stores no keys. Keys exchanged between users. The
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by hurin 12y ago
The problem with end-to-end encryption is not the encryption but the key-exchange (and especially so for multi-user setups). If you are trusting the server to create or associate identities with keys, the end-to-end encryption is easily sub
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by hurin 12y ago
Yes except it's all plain-text on the server?
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by hurin 12y ago
And this is secured how exactly?
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by hurin 12y ago
Let's not turn this into a discussion of something other than what it is: a harmless prank . Kids have been pranking teachers since before public education was a thing, let alone computers. I'm not saying it's a good or smar
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by hurin 12y ago
Back in middle-school; the public library nearby installed 4-5 new machines down on a lower level for word-processing (they were better than my home pc even), so pretty soon we had Unreal Tournament installed on every machine, and that woul
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by hurin 12y ago
Windows has lots of easy windows (?!) for getting administrator privileges without any password - Or at least had (haven't used it for a few iterations except on rare occasions). Also from my experience all of the sand-boxing software
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by hurin 12y ago
I guess it's storing the pointer to the data? That sounds pretty bad. At any-rate it's one of two things, either you store the whole item or you store a hash. If you're storing the whole item it's not a filter and you do
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by hurin 12y ago
// The InverseBloomFilter may report a false negative but can never report a false positive. This is actually not true and not possible. There is a good explanation here: http://cstheory.stackexchange.com/a/
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by hurin 12y ago
I think it's not so simple. If someone is renting out an apartment for a month they can afford to spend time doing paper-work, receiving the renters etc, because the turn-over per rental is large enough (and Airbnb provides guarantees
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by hurin 12y ago
Probably the biggest issue here is conflict resolution. How do you deal with claims, what is expected wear and tear etc. I think this is why in practice people don't rent or loan their own things to those they don't know. It'
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by hurin 12y ago
> That whole thing about the tor keyboard intercept by nsa was never proven afaik. Yeah RMS is already considerably crazy for most readers, adding clearly false claims as references doesn't help.

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