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by jackpirate 6y ago
Or is the ad informing him he can buy access to a spirit that will accompany him on his self selected journey and help his own desires and achieve his goals? The anti-ad argument is that he shouldn't have to buy this spirit. If Ni
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by jackpirate 6y ago
X written as )( is the absolute worst. It always looks like two parenthesis when I'm grading student writing and I have no idea how to parse what they write.
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by jackpirate 6y ago
I know lots of UC math/cs profs who meet 1-1 with high school students every week. Currently, the process is pretty informal, where local high school students just knock on the doors of professors until one agrees to regular meetings.
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by jackpirate 7y ago
I think it is the best four years of life for many (maybe most?) Americans at least This cannot be true as most Americans do not go to college. Of those that do, most do not do it the "traditional" timeframe of 4 contiguous yea
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by jackpirate 7y ago
Markdown supports all of those things and is the standard. So I don't understand what you mean by "if Markdown had never been adopted, we would have a standard..."
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by jackpirate 7y ago
That's not true. Amazon can have a significantly more accurate classifier running on their backend that processes the transmitted audio. And this classifier can be more accurate due to both more computation and it would have access t
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by jackpirate 7y ago
While I was in North Korea, I basically never used a VPN and rarely had problems with any services. A handful of news sites were blocked (ironically the sites did the blocking and provided a message about sanctions; the North Korean govern
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by jackpirate 7y ago
... to offer public repo access in US-sanctioned countries like Iran, Syria, and Cuba. You should also add North Korea to that list. Three years ago I spent a semester in Pyongyang teaching a course on open source software development, a
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How to disable the kill command on Linux(superuser.com)
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by jackpirate 7y ago
there is no reason why the average person retaining a lawyer can't go through the effort of finding one they are comfortable with. You are vastly overestimating the ability of an "average" person to be able to understand an
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by jackpirate 7y ago
This is not a hypothetical. Doctors are literally making these decisions everyday when they practice medice, and the CDC is also making these decisions right now in the context of the coronavirus.
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by jackpirate 7y ago
If we have to choose between having a 75 year old and a 5 year old die, most people would choose the 75 year old. They would be dying relatively soon anyways.
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by jackpirate 7y ago
I agree they are not interesting points. But they are exactly the problem you are complaining about for email. Also respectfully: If the point of your writeup is to suggest that the signal protocol is better than the SMTP protocol , th
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by jackpirate 7y ago
An alternative signal client could forward all messages to a gmail account (pt 1 from my original post) and store the messages in plain text on the local computer (point 2). Of course these would be very poor design choices for the alternat
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by jackpirate 7y ago
I don't think you've addressed my point. My point is that an alternative client (and hence UX) for the Signal protocol could still have all the flaws that you point out about email. Therefore, the security of Signal is fundament
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by jackpirate 7y ago
It's not the core email UX that's the problem; it's SMTP email that's the problem. You're article seems to argue the opposite to me. For example, the following quotes are all related to the email UX: 1. In any g
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by jackpirate 7y ago
To add to your point: I ran some experiments a while back with curved coins. The coins have to be absurdly shaped before the shape affects the outcomes: https://izbicki.me/blog/how-to-create-an-unfair-coin-and-pro...
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by jackpirate 7y ago
It's pretty clear that the US hacks other countries far more than other countries hack the US. That's why the US has historically been very reticent to agree to treaties that would limit a country's ability to hack.
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by jackpirate 7y ago
the fact that there's no singular, perfect way I think the author definitely agrees that there's no "singular, perfect way" based on their use of the phrase pareto optimal. Instead, the author is claiming is that some
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by jackpirate 7y ago
Who cares what decade the tech is from? Those missiles landed dead-center on buildings. (Seriously, look at the images!) This demonstrates an impressive operational capability to select which targets to destroy.
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by jackpirate 7y ago
Foreign intelligence services are likely just as interested in hiring FAANG employees as they are soldiers. A compromised Googler could get them lots of access.
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by jackpirate 7y ago
It's pretty easy to do something with that info. Let's say there's a pokestop on a military installation, then most visitors are likely to be military personnel, and now we have a list of phones of military personnel. What&
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by jackpirate 7y ago
Those tests are also highly contrived and do not match real world scenarios. Experts mostly agree that ICBM intercept capabilities remain essentially untested, and are likely to fail in the real world. The armscontrolwonk.com blog site ha
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by jackpirate 7y ago
I would like to see the evidence that this isn't just some actors in costumes. It's easy to believe something like this happened in real life and got video taped. Certainly more unbelievable things have been caught on film. But
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by jackpirate 7y ago
That was my point. From a psychiatrist's perspective, "change things" means reduce/eliminate symptoms. From a psychologists perspective, however, the goal is to manage symptoms rather than reduce symptoms. This distin
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by jackpirate 7y ago
Hmmm... I'm pretty skeptical of the premise that "All therapy books start with a claim that their form of therapy will change everything." My wife practices Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and the foundation of her approa
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by jackpirate 7y ago
Also arguably worse than nothing as it could make people living in the area more complacent. In this case, I think it really depends on the use-cases and whether proper warnings are displayed.
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by jackpirate 7y ago
Modules are "simpler" than vectors because they have fewer axioms, but they are also much harder to understand. For example, not all modules have a basis, which can make them much harder to work with. For background on the math,
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by jackpirate 7y ago
Computing is a fundamental skill that forms the basis for all of modern life. We here at hacker news are constantly advocating that everyone (in the US) should learn some amount of programming, and I believe the same holds true in North Ko
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by jackpirate 7y ago
As someone who has professional experience running/developing cyberwarfare and nuclear military operations with the US military, I can unequivocally state that the work I did at PUST was not developing these capabilities for North Kore

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