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Would someone please submit this poll?
6 points by leot 13y ago|1 comments
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by leot 13y ago
For heaven's sake: there's a compromise to be reached between sending postcards and using a Brink's truck.
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by leot 13y ago
The idea that the biggest reason to have PGP is to protect ourselves from some nefarious gov't entity is silly, though in the longer-run it can definitely help make this happen. PGP/PKI affords incredible technological advantages.
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by leot 13y ago
Sent this letter to Conor Friedersdorf (article author): The trouble with the idea of "terrorism" is it doesn't distinguish between Boston Bombings and a 500k+ casualty attack from a nuclear device. The former can and should
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by leot 13y ago
I don't understand why everyone seems to think this is an issue. It's as though the only alternative to the status quo is local host browser-level crypto. The implementation I'm referring to doesn't preclude Gmail from r
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by leot 13y ago
I'm not talking about deploying/using PGP to be secure from gov't (or Gmail) monitoring. I'm talking its use in the context of 99% of normal interactions online. Yes, we wouldn't have tinfoil-hat-level security if i
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by leot 13y ago
I'm talking about the non-extreme-security case of where the online email provider stores your private keys.
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by leot 13y ago
We learn all the time how to do complicated things on the internet. Facebook isn't instantly trivial to use (though it seems that way now that we know how to use it). Neither is Google+. The whole problem with PGP is that it's not
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by leot 13y ago
Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft could all make the vast majority of email vastly more secure by implementing PGP-by-default. Send: You enter an email address, a little key appears beside it if it's recognized as having an associated publi
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by leot 13y ago
I think, perhaps, that the problem with terrorism is that the distribution of terrorism event impacts is likely heavy-tailed -- i.e., the probability of one "black swan" event (nuclear, biological, chemical) is higher than a norma
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by leot 13y ago
Oh for heaven's sake, [locate individual high contrast pixel] != [ability to distinguish individual pixels] Vision and visual acuity is not this simple. See, e.g., http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/lum_hyperacuity/ I don't actually know, but p
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by leot 13y ago
Most people wouldn't consider (extra virgin) olive oil or quinoa to be high calorie/low nutrient -- what percentile would you put nutrients/calorie ratio of, e.g., quinoa? That said, it's easy to reduce the caloric content of the above reci
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by leot 13y ago
Do guns absolutely need to be lethal? If so, why? Would you (assuming you own a gun) forego all your lethal guns if someone gave you one with comparable stopping power, but which was much less lethal?
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by leot 13y ago
That wasn't a very helpful criticism. The basic principle of pre-cooking quinoa, beans, and sweet-potatoes is a good one for many people who want ease of preparation, tastiness, "real food", and something much healthier than what they're cu
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by leot 13y ago
I want to see something like this but at the consumer level, for chickens, and with an integrated compost. Inconvenience is the biggest obstacle keeping people from turning their food waste into eggs.
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by leot 13y ago
I have a soylent-like thing that I've started eating, and I've personally found the impact to be wonderful. It's arguably easier, and it's potentially healthier. It is extremely inexpensive, delicious, vegetarian/vegan-if-eggs-are-omitted,
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by leot 13y ago
What harm is there in banning advertisement directed at children? Perhaps they may become less well equipped to deal with advertising as adults (but this seems an easy enough problem to solve). Conversely, the benefits of banning children-
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by leot 13y ago
That's not the point. The point is that commercial advertising isn't full-blooded speech (and thus may be subject to regulation for the same reason that fraudulent speech is subject to regulation).
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by leot 13y ago
One thing to do is to take a picture/video of the guy doing it and post it publicly. Fight fire with fire, as it were.
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by leot 13y ago
> and instead is a leadership and reporting position. You're absolutely right in that the specific technical skills associated with having a PhD in, say, physics, or math, or even (heck) engineering have little to no bearing whatsoever
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by leot 13y ago
Given how many people's lives would be saved, why do you suppose that we don't have more research into less lethal handguns? Phasers, perhaps not. But there are many other options.
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by leot 13y ago
Oh for heaven's sake. The NRCC is run by a non-academic oil engineer raised in Edmonton. They could have chosen almost anyone -- a university president, e.g., or even, god forbid, someone -- anyone -- with a PhD. But they didn't. It's a c
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by leot 13y ago
Some governments, certainly, are fickle and small-minded. Others decidedly less so. The Harper government, e.g., has chosen a chiropractor as its science and technology minister.
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Yes, that's indeed how it is. (github.com)
25 points by leot 13y ago|3 comments
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Ujson doesn't handle floating point numbers properly(github.com)
1 points by leot 13y ago|0 comments
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by leot 13y ago
So you're saying that if handguns could stop without killing, then it would be ok to ban handguns that killed?
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by leot 13y ago
Do guns need to be lethal? If so, why?
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by leot 13y ago
Hardly. The words "nonsense" and "gibberish" are being bandied about -- anyone who uses those words for an article that's been reviewed and published in a good journal needs to have strong justification for such derision. No such justificat
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by leot 13y ago
Google (or some other search engine) needs to write something that makes it easy for anyone to "find the original" of some bunch of data (image, long-enough-string, music sample, etc.). Such a tool would ideally also be able to find derivat
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by leot 13y ago
I'm not assuming that. In fact, I assumed the opposite and it was after I read most of the comments that it became evident that most people here weren't engaging with the article in any kind of substantive or even remotely sympathetic way (

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