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by jckt 13y ago
I think by competition he/she meant spying and not social media?
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by jckt 13y ago
Skimming, sure. But really reading the paper, ie confirming its soundedness, requires going through most if not all the ideas and steps presented. Depending on the paper it can take weeks or even months. The ten tests in the OP take at most
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by jckt 13y ago
And no offence to beef-jerky lovers, but good beef is wasted when turned into jerky...
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by jckt 13y ago
I doubt they really care about HN's opinion given the vast number of criticisms put forward, but I do really hope that they'd post more product information, perhaps more of the science, more of the research. Again, as I've sa
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by jckt 13y ago
This. I've been thinking a lot about this (not particularly hard, admittedly) lately. I suppose the main problem would be that those in power, i.e. politicians, will mostly be out of a job once such a task were to be undertaken.
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by jckt 13y ago
Exactly. War can happen without it being declared. Now that's scary.
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by jckt 13y ago
Basically every country that he can probably go to under the conditions he made (medical), without rousing suspicion, has an extradition treaty with the USA. Certainly if he wanted to go to Afghanistan for "epilepsy treatment", it
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by jckt 13y ago
Only on the surface is it close to Singapore. When you are a part of what political pundits have always hyped up as "the biggest threat to the USA/the next superpower", things change -- attitudes change. " Western leanin
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by jckt 13y ago
Why did the NYT hire him? Is it so that they maintain some "balance" in their opinion pieces?
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by jckt 13y ago
Probably not very accurate (just because most movies aren't, anyway). But I think most of the cast actually lived through the GDR years (in the GDR), and I figure that's how they acted so damn well. To anyone considering watching
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by jckt 13y ago
Oktoberfest in the South? /j
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by jckt 13y ago
I'd say a lot of people actually prefer it that way. A lot of people complained that the initial WikiLeaks releases (the cables, specifically) were too "dangerous" -- many names belonging to American servicemen, etc. It was o
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by jckt 13y ago
I agree with you, but I'd also like to point out that, despite the ridiculous censorship and corruption in China and Russia, it's not like the DPRK where everyone is mind-controlled (exaggeration) and there's no real dissiden
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by jckt 13y ago
I find it hard to believe that he can be anywhere so easily. The NSA isn't omniscient, but certainly it keeps close tabs on people that work with/for them?
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by jckt 13y ago
Check out beggi's post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5852564 Iceland cannot make guarantees either. Also, I suspect that booking a flight would raise a lot of suspicion. Spies spy on spies -- people like Snowde
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Hackers plan space satellites to combat censorship (2012)(bbc.co.uk)
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by jckt 13y ago
It says here that he was on leave from his NSA job for treatment for his epilepsy (well, that's what he told the NSA). It's been known that medical tourism is somewhat big in Hong Kong (though mostly for other Asians, particularly
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by jckt 13y ago
For something more in-depth about the types of randomness, Brian Hayes has a superb article: http://bit-player.org/2011/a-slight-discrepancy
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by jckt 13y ago
Sorry, I didn't realise that such a term was even widely used. Accepted!
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by jckt 13y ago
Why do you say Islamist and not radical Islamist , while you say Christian extremism and not just Christian ?
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by jckt 13y ago
I think he's implicitly referring to American government codenames... From http://www.designation-systems.net/usmilav/codenames.html#_C... "Code Words are printed using all capital letters."
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by jckt 13y ago
I didn't think marijuana was such a big thing there? I was under the impression that it was mostly just a tourist thing rather than a real part of the local culture
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by jckt 13y ago
Is that it though? Is this just a note-taking app that, as it looks, has less features than Evernote? (web interface, etc). Does look nice, though, I'll give Vesper that.
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by jckt 13y ago
Good question. Though I suppose it's not too difficult to state in terms of the Abel-Ruffini theorem, but then again that watered down version would probably fail to mention the wide-reaching consequences of Galois...
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by jckt 13y ago
I mostly learned Blender myself (3 years ago...good times). I remember using this: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro It also recommends this book: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Blending_Into_Pytho... for sc
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by jckt 13y ago
"laptop running a sophisticated math program" I wonder what that is? Or is it just Mathematica or something?
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by jckt 13y ago
Large American institution with a history of infringing on people's rights attempts to enforce a design of a commercial computer chip? Hmm, where have I heard of that before...? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
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by jckt 13y ago
I used to believe this under-specialisation was a good thing. That a more general college education was better. But as I see it now, a liberal education has mostly just given us liberally educated people, but not liberal learners. I'd say,
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by jckt 13y ago
Indeed. I bet I could quote some Westboro Baptist Church-goers, and Christianity would look disgusting.
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by jckt 13y ago
There is a difference between laws based on principle, and laws based on observation. I think Singapore has been a model based on empirical observation -- tightly controlled, but prosperous and happy (vague terms, admittedly), despite what

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