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by kragen 11mo ago
They may not be consciously aware of it, but that makes them more likely to be influenced by it, not less. Having unexamined opinions generally means having self-contradictory opinions, which makes you easy to manipulate. Moreover, the Dep
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by kragen 11mo ago
Of course tradition has no real merit on its own, but studying the same linguistic tradition is what enables two people to communicate by using language. Unless you manage to complete John Wilkins's project, perhaps, and eliminate the
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by kragen 11mo ago
Word meanings are determined purely by tradition. There isn't an objective reality about what words do or don't mean apart from how people use them. If you make up your own definitions for words instead of using the traditional
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by kragen 11mo ago
> Are we talking about using classes at all? Using classes hasn't been a part of the definition of OOP since the Treaty of Orlando. Pre-ECMAScript-2015 JS is a mainstream OOP language that doesn't have classes, just prototyp
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by kragen 11mo ago
You could make up a new category and call it by the same name as the old category, if what you wanted was to confuse people and make clear thinking more difficult. If you want to define a category without historical baggage, I would prefer
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by kragen 11mo ago
Edited into parent.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Right, the great advantage of the 3270-style block-mode model was that your 0.5-MIPS mainframe didn't have to handle an interrupt for every keystroke, so it could serve, I don't know, 100 terminals. Same as HTML <form> and
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by kragen 11mo ago
Without the 13th-century POV in question, the distinction becomes meaningless.
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by kragen 11mo ago
The professions are traditionally divinity ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divinity_(academic_discipline) ), medicine, and law, so I don't see how you could remove divinity from the list. When you argue for includi
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by kragen 11mo ago
Negligence is generally not sufficient for conspiracy statutes, and Flock wouldn't have to be knowing or even negligent. Indeed, there is no possible way they could prevent their services from being used by violent insurgencies except
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by kragen 11mo ago
Implementations do not have to have vulnerabilities, no.
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by kragen 11mo ago
In what sense? Terrorism, if successful, overturns the court system.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Oh, I was on cypherpunks in 01992, so I know about the Clipper Chip. But in this case you don't need to keep any secrets from the owner of the vehicle; they're free to attach a debugging connector to their own transceiver and rea
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by kragen 11mo ago
It isn't a straw man; paramilitary insurgent groups will just look like normal customers to Flock et al. , except when they're stealing their entire database, which will indeed happen routinely.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Didn't you read the page? "A venture capital company's fan club. Finance-obsessed man-children making the world worse." A previous version said, "A DDoS made of finance-obsessed man-children and brogrammers.&quot
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by kragen 11mo ago
I think that if most of the things in the vacuum chamber are at room temperature, while the lava filament is at 700°, that won't substantially reduce the radiative heat loss. If almost everything inside the vacuum chamber that isn&#x2
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by kragen 11mo ago
If non-evildoers kill people with their cars, they will make extreme efforts to make amends, not flee the scene.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Interesting, thanks! That page doesn't say anything that even suggests that.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Yes. It's potentially a privacy win because (1) it can't be read by random people, only law enforcement, and (2) it can't be read without notifying you.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Do you happen to have any references?
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by kragen 11mo ago
$ gforth Gforth 0.7.3, Copyright (C) 1995-2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Gforth comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `license' Type `bye' to exit s" rabbithole" .s" forth&q
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by kragen 11mo ago
Maybe he's been suffering a cognitive decline that makes coding much less rewarding.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Well, that's upsetting. Microsoft: not even once.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Those are applications, not operating systems. With occasional exceptions, you can run any application on any operating system.
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by kragen 11mo ago
That's also where John Lions taught.
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by kragen 11mo ago
As I said in another subthread, it would be surprising if the solution were not worse in some way than the status quo ante; after all, we're looking for a solution to the new problem of mass surveillance, not taking advantage of a new
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by kragen 11mo ago
It's possible that you could learn to recognize every individual car from things like the pattern of scratches on their hoods, yes, but this ability has not been demonstrated and may prove more difficult than you think.
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by kragen 11mo ago
You'd need to have some causal pathway from it pinging too often through people getting irritated to removing the scanners that were doing the excessive tracking. Police forces are not the only ones who can use this information. Forei
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by kragen 11mo ago
It would be surprising if the solution were not worse in some way than the status quo ante; after all, we're looking for a solution to the new problem of mass surveillance, not taking advantage of a new opportunity.
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by kragen 11mo ago
Are you also going to require a warrant for paramilitary insurgent groups to poll these databases? Maybe you intended to propose for them to be abolished entirely.

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