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LeVar Burton Reads(art19.com)
42 points by jwfxpr 9y ago|11 comments
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
Yes. Opinions are important in interpreting whether or not a historical case can be interpreted as a precedent in a current one. That's one of the principal concepts in common law systems.
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
Original EFF blog post without Medium's login interstitial: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/06/provider-fought-secret...
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
That's an excellent brief answer, thank you for your perspective and time!
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
Could you unpack your statement about the careful code writing, or link to an explanation? We would usually expect a formal third-party audit to substantiate such a claim, but if there is other good evidence for their code's secure imp
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
Those examples you give are good large-scale ones. But the impact of society on science is universal and pervasive, down to the observational biases of the individual humans handling instruments. It is a major project within science to elim
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
So the only possible positions are the extremes? By acknowledging that science and society have an unavoidable structural relationship you give yourself a framework for developing tools to improve that relationship. There are plenty of prob
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Survivorship Bias (2013)(youarenotsosmart.com)
3 points by jwfxpr 9y ago|0 comments
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
> "be able not to forget who I am, have some money to live, and not shit my pants" Seems like those deserve a place in all of the 6 months, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years and 30 years goals. At least one of them is achievable? Righ
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
Perhaps you would find the original article https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2017/5/18/15655638/charles-... has the weighty facts that this response-to-criticism lacks. I strongly disagree with the
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
He allows for the likely possibility that government(s) will want to be a part of a civilization-altering grand enterprise, but he's not assuming it in his planning (at least, not in the paper here presented). He explicitly addresses c
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
Absolutely, I'm not criticising the construction of solar system models. I'm simply pointing out that if you lack a deeper understanding of the system they represent (or don't interrogate your understanding adequately), the s
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
"IT security is just like driving on the highway in the sense that anyone going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster is clearly a maniac" Excellent metaphor!
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A Facebook AI Unexpectedly Created Its Own Unique Language(futurism.com)
3 points by jwfxpr 9y ago|0 comments
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
Non-PDF version: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7546536/
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Aussie consumer watchdog draft decision not to force carriers to allow roaming(accc.gov.au)
1 points by jwfxpr 9y ago|0 comments
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Semantics aren't silly in science, nor in education. I don't think it's so uninteresting as to be worthy of ridicule. It is not, in fact, obvious to the layperson that the Jupiter-Sun System would have a barycenter that doesn
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Ataribox(ataribox.com)
2 points by jwfxpr 9y ago|0 comments
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Building anxiety into AI will make it less likely to kill all humans(arxiv.org)
1 points by jwfxpr 9y ago|0 comments
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Australian convict pirates in Japan: evidence of 1830 voyage unearthed(theguardian.com)
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In US, Belief in Creationist View of Humans at New Low – Gallup(gallup.com)
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
> Part of the problem is that in each of these categories, a single vendor often holds over 50% market share. As soon as a bug in one of those allow a RCE, that means millions of users at risk. ... > Species avoid extinction from viru
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SSH man-in-the-middle tool(github.com)
3 points by jwfxpr 9y ago|0 comments
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by jwfxpr 9y ago
France has removed those restrictions, since 2004. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography_law#France
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Apricity OS is now officially dead(news.softpedia.com)
1 points by jwfxpr 9y ago|1 comments
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This is essentially the case right now with TSA key designs available with little trouble online. https://www.wired.com/2015/09/lockpickers-3-d-print-tsa-lugg...
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by jwfxpr 10y ago
I can't take the credit, I'm merely a finder, not the author :)
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William Gibson reads Neuromancer, from tape to mp3(bearcave.com)
5 points by jwfxpr 10y ago|3 comments
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Π is wrong: The τ Manifesto(tauday.com)
2 points by jwfxpr 10y ago|0 comments
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A Cyberpunk Manifesto – Revised(neondystopia.com)
84 points by jwfxpr 10y ago|47 comments

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