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by leorocky 12y ago
This phone is not actually made by the NSA, it's made by Amazon. The NSA doesn't make consumer facing hardware. If you are worried about Amazon being legally obligated to hand over your private information from your phone you woul
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by leorocky 12y ago
I like what the winnower is saying, but really there's no reason that an individual place like the winnower needs to be the home for journals. You can publish journals on you own site if you wanted to. The need for centralized magazine
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by leorocky 12y ago
I'll believe this is true when I hear it from a second, accountable and reputable source.
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by leorocky 12y ago
I believe in this instance they're only secret while under negotiation, when congress votes on it, it will be open.
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by leorocky 12y ago
The term "democracy" is kind of a fuzzy and abused word but if we limit its definition to include only the governments run by civilians voted in by fair enough, regularly occurring elections you could do worse. Democracies can hav
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by leorocky 12y ago
infowars is not a reputable site. Isn't it the same site that argued the that the Boston marathon bombings were perpetrated by the US government as an excuse to search houses in Boston?
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by leorocky 12y ago
There's a lengthy, point by point response to criticism on this page: http://www.theoceancleanup.com/blog/show/item/responding-to-... I am not qualified to judge the merits of the criticism or the respon
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by leorocky 12y ago
If you allow custom HTML via an iframe and make it shareable you have to host the iframe from a different domain, otherwise it's XSS vulnerability heaven. The trick will be authentication because separate domains don't share sessi
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by leorocky 12y ago
Reading this post made it seem like muckrock is more of a ideologically driven site than a neutral data dump. Which is totally OK, but I was thinking maybe it be nice to just to have a place to get data regardless of the topic or how it fit
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by leorocky 12y ago
It would not give the NSA access to those files because those encrypted files are probably stored on a computer they don't have access to. And seriously, if the NSA wanted access to something they probably can get it anyway. They don&#
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by leorocky 12y ago
I wish it did. I'd also like file API and directoryReader support, and the web audio API. The truth of it though is I don't care anymore if someone's browser doesn't have WebRTC. If you don't have it my site won&#x2
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by leorocky 12y ago
TrueCrypt is software you download, it's not a cloud service that you have to implicitly trust to use. The source for TrueCrypt is viewable by anyone and it is being audited. What would the NSA gain by controlling software with public
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by leorocky 12y ago
Maybe you have a responsibility to your society to the same degree that society has a responsibility to take care of you. How's that fit in with your philosophy? Maybe the best way to live your life isn't what you might want for y
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by leorocky 12y ago
> And yet I don't see Arizona contributing much to the US economy, social welfare, and/or higher education. The University of Arizona (a different school) is one of the top public state universities in the country when it comes
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by leorocky 12y ago
Right, I wasn't tying it to undergraduate education. There's nothing wrong at all with vocational training, in fact, I'm pro on that. You can pick up 19th century Russian literature later in life (and you should as it's
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by leorocky 12y ago
The thing about a capitalist economy is that people need to create opportunities. If more people optimized their career better we'd have better ratio of matching opportunities with workers which will mean less unemployed people which m
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by leorocky 12y ago
Did you edit a typo or was I just blind? I searched for mudrock, not muckrock. Thanks. :D
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by leorocky 12y ago
teepee looks awesome! Thanks.
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by leorocky 12y ago
Google doesn't know what mudrock is. Do you have a URL?
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by leorocky 12y ago
Cool. Question though, can Floor serve HTTPS requests? Can it make requests to SSL protected API resources or make a TCP connection with SSL? Is that part of the API or easy to do? If so I'll give this a try. Thanks for making this. Ed
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by leorocky 12y ago
Is he allowed to post the data online? If so maybe we just need to collectively do the FOIL requests and upload the data to a community managed site where it can be made available to anyone.
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by leorocky 12y ago
If fewer people got philosophy degrees or other majors of questionable utility in the work force and instead focused on getting an education in marketable skills with job openings maybe the story might be different. This trajectory of being
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by leorocky 12y ago
Who ever developed that site has probably never heard of the engagement pyramid[1], you always have fewer contributors than non-contributing users. That kind of crowd sourced content mechanism is only hurting the site's growth. Conside
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by leorocky 12y ago
I get it now, thank you for this great explanation, and all the other explanations as well. I think it warrants its own wikipedia page.
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by leorocky 12y ago
I appreciate orbifold taking the time to reply but I couldn't understand his answer at all, even after perfectly understanding what others have said. There are 3 sentences in that paragraph the second of which is very large and difficu
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by leorocky 12y ago
I don't understand what a functor is or why an array is a functor. Can anyone please explain? I did the wikipedia article for category theory and I read some stack overflow questions and I'm not sure I understand why an array is a
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by leorocky 12y ago
This all makes sense, but if you get a modem with no wifi capabilities they can't turn your personal network into a wifi hotspot even if your ISP can update the firmware on the modem.
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by leorocky 12y ago
Wow. How could Comcast control the firmware updates for a product they didn't make? Did they hijack the update software lookup? This must have been done with Motorola's backing.
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by leorocky 12y ago
It's too bad and everyone lost out in the end. I was also angered by the donation, and disappointed in what had up until then been a personal hero of mine, but even then I still respected Brendan Eich for his many contributions to not
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by leorocky 12y ago
Sure, but it isn't in their interest to share that information, whereas with other companies that is their main business, to use your personal information to make money from you with advertisement. If you care about this sort of thing

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