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Federal court rules NSA may lawfully intercept American communications (1983)(nytimes.com)
2 points by jackpirate 5y ago|1 comments
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by jackpirate 5y ago
The problem is that most ordinary people view that as a positive, not a negative.
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by jackpirate 5y ago
You seem to have several misunderstandings about the intent of US law in this thread. The intent of US law is specifically to allow many guilty people to be freed due to procedural errors, and so the fact that this happens is not taking &qu
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by jackpirate 6y ago
Does anyone here have a recommendation on an actually good book about cybersecurity policy? My sense is that all existing books are trash.
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Mathematical games interesting to both you and a 5-year-old child(mathoverflow.net)
1 points by jackpirate 6y ago|0 comments
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by jackpirate 6y ago
I've always assumed that whenever the law was originally passed, the fine and jail time were more sensibly related, but inflation has caused the fine's impact to plummet without reducing the jail time in a similar way. I'd l
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by jackpirate 6y ago
It shocked me at first too, but on thinking about it the policy a bit more I think it's actually quite reasonable. Environmental pollution directly results in increased human death (due to cancers/etc), and GP wants the people res
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by jackpirate 6y ago
Amazon is great, but it's hardly "one of the most enduring companies of all time" yet. It's not even 30 years old.
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by jackpirate 6y ago
Or my old pet peeve: refrigerators. They open like cabinets instead of like drawers. The cold air goes out, the warm air goes in, and you get to pay for the energy to cool it off. Why not make them like a chest of drawers? This one has an
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by jackpirate 6y ago
I don't think this is true. I once spent some time at an Amish community, and I saw their elderly and sick all living relatively productive lives. They were cooking, cleaning, watching children, and performing other small tasks that m
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by jackpirate 6y ago
I would love a source on this. But even if true, that still paints Trump as the bigger golfer since Obama had 2x as many years to play essentially the same amount of golf.
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by jackpirate 6y ago
The interesting thing about the Magnus effect is that the lift goes up with the second power of the radius of the rotor Due to E = mv^2, doesn't the energy required to spin the rotor also go up with the square of the radius? Thus, t
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Operation Mockingbird(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jackpirate 6y ago|1 comments
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by jackpirate 6y ago
This is a needlessly divisive interpretation of that tweet. The tweet lists 5 concrete ways of becoming a billionaire, and you're putting words in the author's mouth by labeling them all "exploitative/criminal", wh
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by jackpirate 6y ago
My family does an email thread where everyone posts gifts ideas... I'd actually really want the donation, but I don't want to say that publicly for fear of seeming "holier than thou" and ruining other people's fun.
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by jackpirate 6y ago
I downvoted you because it's perfectly possible to "believe" something because there is evidence for it. Plenty of scientists will say they "believe" in evolution, for example.
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by jackpirate 6y ago
There are plenty of libraries for computable numbers [1], which sit between the rationals and reals [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computable_number
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by jackpirate 6y ago
Retirement is an even lower risk and lower stress position :)
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by jackpirate 6y ago
Another alternative model besides linear would be quadratic (or another X^(1+epsilon) polynomial where epsilon is small). This would avoid the problem of negative data and likely fit the data better than an exponential.
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by jackpirate 6y ago
Soviets certainly tried to create these positive feedback loops, although it's arguable how successful they were. The standard example is the Stakhanovite Movement [1], which rewarded workers for more productive output. [1] https:&#x
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by jackpirate 6y ago
I wouldn't have expected any functions to be 5KiB or larger. That seems like a lot of assembly to me, and so it makes sense to me that these functions would be "accidentally" generated by inlining. I'm curious what perc
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by jackpirate 6y ago
I happen to know that two popular machine learning libraries (MLPack and Vowpal Wabbit) have merged pull requests from North Korea. I know this because I was teaching a class on open source software development to North Korean students in
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by jackpirate 6y ago
I've also never heard this claim before despite quite a bit of work on nuclear weapons policy. I've asked a question about it on /r/AskHistorians to get more clarification: https://www.reddit.com/r/
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by jackpirate 6y ago
math professors are incentivized to spend years of their lives writing a textbook they can then have their students buy every semester, and thus create a second revenue stream for themselves Honestly, they're not incentivized by mone
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by jackpirate 6y ago
Those are just slogs that most people can get through if they stick it out... Most adults in the US do not even have a college degree. For their children, aspiring to be a doctor would be incredibly ambitious and an amazing accomplishme
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by jackpirate 6y ago
This is not correct. Major R1 universities have grants and endowments as their primary source of income, but the vast majority of schools do not fall into this category. All liberal arts colleges, religious colleges, for-profit colleges,
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by jackpirate 6y ago
My reaction to those numbers is different. 5 years seems absurdly large to me for a spontaneous act of vandalism that cost the tax payers max $100,000.
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by jackpirate 6y ago
The US has more prisoners per capita than North Korea.
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by jackpirate 6y ago
1 tab used 6gb of memory for me on firefox, yikes!
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by jackpirate 6y ago
There's already a few more general repos out there. For example, this one focuses on US attrocities: https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/master/us_atrociti... And this one is a general one ab

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