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by jack6e 9y ago
It's easy to differentiate: real software developers use butterflies [0]. [0] https://www.xkcd.com/378/
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by jack6e 9y ago
>> "You know what I've noticed? Nobody panics when things go 'according to plan.' Even if the plan is horrifying!" - Joker from the Dark Knight We mostly expect this type of nomination from Trump. But as mos
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by jack6e 9y ago
And this is why we have fallen so far. Partisan blame is fine for the campaign trail, but as soon as the president takes office he becomes the adult and the responsibility for starting, continuing, or stopping activities falls on him and
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by jack6e 9y ago
The meta-game at this point is open to just about any type of psychological trick. We know/suspect Kaspersky helping FSB/GRU, but we also know that CIA/NSA store and use fingerprints from other nation states and can assume Ru
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by jack6e 9y ago
Interesting that the story references this malware's similarities to Project Sauron, and that the two main modules here are named GollumApp and Cahnadr, which looks not entirely dissimilar from how one might play with the Russian versi
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Slow Thought: A Manifesto(aeon.co)
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by jack6e 9y ago
Not to mention they only banned words whose predominant circulation is among uninformed media and those whose only association with firearms is that same media. Google decided "gun" was dangerous, but not "firearm", &quo
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by jack6e 9y ago
How do I submit a pull request on Github asking that "hunter2" be removed from his list?
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by jack6e 9y ago
But the reason they are considered qualified to serve as credentialing authorities is, in part, due to their perceived reliability. Of course the significance of published work and its influence on the field is perhaps the primary driver of
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by jack6e 9y ago
> I'm not allowed to not pay my taxes But you ARE allowed and entirely free to move to cities with lower tax rates, or states with no income tax at all, or any other location that provides you a better balance of income to tax cos
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by jack6e 9y ago
Whenever people suggest that 21st-century content (namely that distributed through TV, but also in books) is somehow uniquely lascivious, I know they have not read any popular late-medieval or Renaissance literature. Anyone who has read Boc
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by jack6e 9y ago
Agreed, this is incredible - especially to have something that can be perused in physical format. Looking through some of the examples for the languages I know well enough to judge, these seem to be good quality. As a simple case in point,
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by jack6e 9y ago
I tried on a larger color picture that was taken with a low quality phone camera and received entirely unimpressive results. It was hard to tell if anything had even been done.
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by jack6e 9y ago
Great point. I wonder what Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran think about our reaction, and what ways they see to manipulate it. Most Americans now consider war as "something our all-powerful military does in other places and protect
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by jack6e 9y ago
In some ways I think the poor design decisions start with making a system of this nature, with this purpose, digital in the first place. With the current state of weapons systems, multi-domain tactics, and the technical capabilities of near
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by jack6e 9y ago
Your point reminds me of an anecdote from a talk [1] shared on HN a few days ago [2] where the speaker quoted Saul Bellow on FDR's fireside chats as saying people were "not considering but affirming" their content. The point
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by jack6e 9y ago
The fabled RESF home base.
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by jack6e 9y ago
> What Would You Pay to Keep Your Digital Footprint 100% Private? The form of the question belies the real problem with our current laws around digital data and privacy: the assumption that digital privacy is not a right and thus requi
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by jack6e 9y ago
Great article a few years ago from the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150402-the-worst-place-on-...
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by jack6e 9y ago
> The one and only remedy to Net Neutrality is robust competition Are you saying NN is a bad thing that needs to be healed by competition? Because that is exactly what the article is arguing. More regulation generally burdens potential
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by jack6e 9y ago
Thank you for offering this rebuttal and clarification. Reading through the comments I was starting to wonder if I had read a different article than everyone else, or if the regulatory, misnamed "net neutrality", propaganda machin
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by jack6e 9y ago
So will Bob, if Apple is any indication.
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by jack6e 9y ago
> The most impressive thing to me is how similar the iPhone X is to the original iPhone (shown side by side in the second picture). And really, how similar every non-notebook/desktop Apple product has been to each other one. Desig
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by jack6e 9y ago
This is a decent introduction into this fascinating cultural history, but there is much more to the myth of the yew tree and sadly we seem to have lost almost all understanding of it. Medieval stories in both England and France relate certa
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by jack6e 9y ago
I am not saying the phone is revolutionary, I am saying that Apple and some supporters/reviewers call it revolutionary. See Apple's own page for the X[1]. The use the slogan, "Say hello to the future", and for the Face
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by jack6e 9y ago
Even though the overall tone of this review was upbeat and positive, it seemed that the baseline conclusion was: "hopefully we find a use for the minor iterative improvements that will make this more than just the next release in a ser
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by jack6e 9y ago
> unconsciously people will look at an X to unlock it even though it only needs to see you, not the reverse. That does not seem to be the case as the reviewer puts it. Even when he was looking at his iPhone X he could not always get it
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by jack6e 9y ago
I am not saying they would take his phone or remove his account, but that they would restrict Twitter from using/selling his data.
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by jack6e 9y ago
I wonder if FBI/Secret Service swoop in to prevent the President's data from being sold in these cases. Or if they restrict its use/sale by other platforms as well.
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by jack6e 9y ago
> Twitter said its data-retention policies made it unable to reconcile the figures for periods before last year’s fourth quarter. Is Twitter really claiming that they do not store even aggregated data on number of users for more than a

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