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by jgg 13y ago
I'm a guy who likes abstract stuff, and that definition seems extraordinarily abstract to me, to the point of obfuscating the actual meaning of what we're talking about. Am I right that seems that the definition of grammar there i
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by jgg 13y ago
If a writing system doesn't count (it's a fair point, and I understand what you're saying), then how does one counter the evidence in the article that one speaker of one language does a task better than speakers of a differen
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by jgg 13y ago
I was using the computer languages as a facetious example to illustrate a point, the idea being that a context one is immersed in colors perceptions, and I was simply stating that applied to a human language, I don't see why that woul
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by jgg 13y ago
What? What about the studies that show that reading Arabic literally uses different parts of your brain than when reading other languages, or even the evidence presented in the article? Even intuitively, it would make sense that different l
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by jgg 13y ago
I'm not a member of any "Crypto Cabal", and I use the term sardonically, directed at the people people who come out of the woodwork to pimp/gratify themselves and their businesses by posting bullshit about crypto, especi
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by jgg 13y ago
I don't think he's unwilling to cooperate, and I don't mean to pick on the guy, because he's basically become a whipping boy. I think the reason he reacts so adversely to the criticism is the obvious use of him by blogge
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by jgg 13y ago
I voted you up due to sentiment, and I don't mean to sound like a grumpy member of the Cabal of Crypto Criticizers, but what's the point in Nadim developing the application if he won't respond well to honest peer review and w
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by jgg 13y ago
FYI, be careful what you post and respond to. I'm not sure if it was this comment, my many "Fuck the NSA" comments or something else, but it appears that all of my Internet traffic is now being routed through an EC2 instance
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by jgg 13y ago
I disagree entirely. The genius behind the the US Constitution was its acceptance of the idea that power, no matter how just, will eventually corrupt, which is why our freedoms were supposed to be rather absolute. I think there are almost n
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KGB Defector Explains the Theory and Practice of Subversion (1983)(youtube.com)
6 points by jgg 13y ago|1 comments
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by jgg 13y ago
Sorry for not replying (I had noprocrast on!)..I think he's not only exploiting empathy (for power and justification), but is also using the article to bolster himself and make himself fantastic, when the characteristics he assigns to
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by jgg 13y ago
No, I'm laughing at all the people in this thread who think that this person in sincere (if they are actually a psychopath at all). People are a means to an end to a psychopath...
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by jgg 13y ago
That makes sense...it's typical Latin American populism that has more valid reasoning than normal. Saab did have a cheaper offer, although ostensibly a government that "spies" is evil and not someone you'd want to buy mi
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by jgg 13y ago
I knew someone was going to say that... The only point I wanted to make is that someone using a protocol (variant or original) that someone hasn't seen before is not inherently damning in and of itself. Mine was a general point, and yo
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by jgg 13y ago
I scratched my head after reading your comment, and waited to see if anyone else would say something. Colin's problem was that his (hand-written, from the looks of it) crypto primitives allowed him to use AES-CTR with a non-incrementin
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by jgg 13y ago
Reddit didn't invent the word "shill." I understood the article just fine! Did you? I don't care what his job is - he still lied! The internal logic of that piece is, "if he didn't deny it, people would think i
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by jgg 13y ago
Clapper said, "No" and "not wittingly." That mind-rotting article you linked to is one guy speculating that he was put on the spot and had to say something in order to not confirm that they were openly spying on people..
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by jgg 13y ago
You'd have to find a way to negotiate the volume password electronically if you didn't do it in person, which in turn would basically just be asymmetric crypto, which would probably lead you to PGP.
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by jgg 13y ago
Right, Loren, so: * even though Congress was lied to/mislead about the scope of the NSA's programs, by none other than the Director of National Intelligence [1] * despite the fact that the NSA hastily rushed to justify an invasi
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by jgg 13y ago
How should this political theory be presented, in your mind?
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by jgg 13y ago
The problem is that when the batshit-crazy people are crazy, they're really batshit, and the official story is a more comfortable option for anyone. Most people do not utilize true, rational thought, so to them the world is a false d
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by jgg 13y ago
I think math can be taught just fine without dragging programming into it. Basic math is usually abstracted away in programming anyway - it would be no different than using a calculator. Plus, the level that you'd need to reach for the
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by jgg 13y ago
What we need are more people who know what they're doing. I find it condescending to assume that we really need to coddle more people and make them feel good about coding. Do we need to make this same argument for electrical engineer
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by jgg 13y ago
Because the teacher's puppet touched me in a bad place, and I project my self-hatred onto others.
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by jgg 13y ago
I have no idea what you're talking about!
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by jgg 13y ago
I have no idea what in the Hell you're blathering about. If you read the goddamned article, he generalizes the humanities. That's like reading a scathing Yelp review of a dodgy restaurant and saying "he hates food!" Yo
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by jgg 13y ago
I studied mathematics and computer engineering, and I've probably read more papers than you. Just because I have the ability to write doesn't make me an English major - you're just a moron! Insert 3 credits and try again, dum
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by jgg 13y ago
And if they end up serving no practical use they end up discarded and ignored by scientists and engineers (if maybe not pure mathematicians). The author's point is that there is no such selective pressure on lit crit. Practical use ≠
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by jgg 13y ago
What was claimed: Field X has resisted "uselessness" (to some arbitrary extent, assumed to be noticeable since the author felt like mentioning it as being significant in relation to the humanities) due to influence of the commerci
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by jgg 13y ago
His argument is that science and engineering haven't drifted from reality due to commercial interest. I am saying that whether or not science and engineering are tied to reality has little to do with being relevant to the commercial wo

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