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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I remember the same thing originally happened with Wile's proof of FLT. It's heartwarming to know that scholars continue to skeptically check each other's work for factual correctness.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Thank you, I will do that.
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I'm reminded of Paul the Octopus in the Sea Life Centre in Germany, who at least reportedly likes watching soccer. Crowds have taken to watching his behavior like an aquatic Punxsutawney Phil - looking for signs of Paul feeling optimis
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Thank you for asking the right questions! This should be it's own topic. Can you run an "Ask HN"? My thought would be an information system that is jointly published in by all nation states - like a broadcast Wikipedia. The i
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Interesting bits of analysis: 1. "DHS assesses that the types of systems Russian actors targeted or compromised were not involved in vote tallying." 2. "When it appeared to Moscow that Secretary Clinton was likely to win the
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
It would be interesting to hear the take from the other fourteen intelligence agencies. I thought they were going to be in the report?
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Private intelligence to help journalists disclose and report on corruption and abuse around the world.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I have met a large number of people who love their jobs and have burned out. I'm not really sure that anecdotal evidence is going to satisfy people in this thread of the conversation, so I suspect my volunteering of this is of little u
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Not only this but when the BS is an orthodox position it takes 10x the amount of energy per person who believed the bullshit. The number of conversations I've had to have with friends and family about, let's say, the "Russian
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
> If anything you say can be interpreted in a way that the hivemind can destroy you over, they will do it, even with incomplete information and little to no proof. I've found this to be true on Reddit, increasingly true on HN (if yo
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
In Mixed-Strategy Nash Equilibria, the amount of unpredictability to use in alpha-beta-like competition games to maximize expected gains assuming a similarly motivated adversary. In many cases these strategies are dominated by a fully deter
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I don't think I've ever personally clicked on a Google Ad - they appear to me to only a combination of spam ('unwanted ads') and tracking/surveillance implements. I don't own an Android Phone (any cellular phon
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
This would be so much fun to jailbreak. The solution to media content distribution looks a lot like what companies in the United States have tried again and again to do, but have failed - with perhaps the recent exception of smart phone and
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This guy is a cardio machine. Kudos to Ed for finding a passion like this in his life. I hope some film maker gets a chance to interview him, and to capture some footage of his feats.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Having seen a number of 'libre' projects disappear or radically change management (sometimes under unlitigated accusations of harassment or misconduct), I hope that important projects to the freedom of computer use continue to exi
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
It's similar to how RT is fined and banned in the UK. There's a ton of US propaganda in the New York Times. China doesn't appreciate that much.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Given that the same people circulate between them, and they work together on a regular basis, and they both are critical to the survival of the society that exists today: I hold them to the same high standard. I don't give breaks to go
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
In the US we are dealing with the problem of real news. So is China.
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This is significantly different than the Voice of America. H.R. 5181 establishes a Global Engagement Center, funds it, creates an official in charge of it who works for the Board of Broadcasting Governors and makes them immune to civil law.
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Please note here that the designers of the legislation intended for domestic propaganda protections to receive a new executive interpretation - that they argued current interpretation of domestic propaganda is taken "too literally&quot
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
Nah, the "fake news" filters make it hard to post the content, make it hard to reshare the content, make it less likely to show up in feeds, and mark it so that it is less likely to be read.
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I remember when Apple removed the App that reported on US drone strikes and civilian casualties. I remember that Reddit bans foreign news outlets from its news subreddits. I remember that Facebook censored people trying to post Snowden Docu
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by jwtadvice 10y ago
I am 100% with you and thank you very much for your well thought out comments. I did not reply earlier because of end-of-year vacationing.
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These are the sorts of forms that fill the empty spaces in my notes for work and school. Getting the shading and proportions exactly right is an exercise of both aesthetics and calculative reasoning, and so I find it's uniquely delight
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I take comments like this very seriously, having been accused of "tinfoil" when pointing to evidence of global surveillance programs (e.g. Office of Strategic Influence, Total Information Awareness, etc) before journalists broke t
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There's a serious misunderstanding by the American people that the NSA concerns itself with terrorism/counterterrorism. It does not. It's a technical agency who attempts to collect as much information as possible. It provides
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Unfortunately that's not how the state thinks. Washington knows that it has a lot of levers that it can pull to influence public opinion and narrative (just look at the poor quality and compromised character of international reporting
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His actions were perfectly consistent with his attitude toward global mass surveillance. In particular since there wasn't an individual document that stated "we are surveilling the American homeland in addition to the remainder of
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There are three times as many public relations professionals as journalists in America. Media companies are being consolidated into a few owners, many of them with tech leadership. Microsoft, for example is the MS in MSNBC (although I think
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When we hire skim the list of certifications and look for indications of experience. A list of CVEs, a blog or several years in a serious role rank much higher on our hiring queue. And when we interview, we specifically check for depth on t

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