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by md_ 10y ago
At a short read, I still don't understand what the source code of an agent looks like. Do you have an example?
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by md_ 10y ago
OK, I have to walk back my (lightly jerkish) snark, I think. ;) Do you mean "someone" as in the author of the template? Or as in the template itself? What are the specific limitations of agents? What can they do? How are they writ
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by md_ 10y ago
Holy fuck, that reads like something written by TimeCube Guy. I guess the real example is this one: "For example, the compare::bytesequence::lesser agent, when contracted, will design the code that will compare two strings. At first gl
724.
by md_ 10y ago
As I said above, most corporations advise employees to raise legal concerns to lawyers. This makes those concerns privileged and ensures the concerns go to people who can, you know, professionally evaluate them. So I don't think you
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by md_ 10y ago
Typically, the advice given in such contexts is to disclose concerns to your lawyer in the context of seeking legal advice. In the US (though this differs in some other countries) this makes it "attorney-client privileged" and thu
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by md_ 10y ago
(I read a lot of history. I do find the suggestion to "read some history," absent any actual historical argument being made, to be condescending and sort of useless, but I may be misunderstanding your intent here.) I completely ag
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by md_ 10y ago
Assuming you're serious: Is there any evidence for the accusation? On its face, the whole claim appears to be entirely baseless and without merit, and its defenders appear to argue that it's hard to disprove so it deserves credenc
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by md_ 10y ago
The equivalence you draw is terrifying (and, I think, false, but mostly terrifying). Yes, in a sense I think it's true that the "traditional media" is probably mostly staffed by people who tend to oppose the Trump presidency.
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by md_ 10y ago
Also, regarding immigration, I get the impression many anti-immigration advocates are also opposed to increased skilled immigration--expanded H1Bs, allowing graduates to convert student visas to work visas, etc. Yet the economic argument th
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by md_ 10y ago
To be clear, Trump has publicly come out both against gay marriage and against anti-discrimination laws. Sure, that's fairly mainstream as of ten years ago, but it's hardly "pro LGBT." It's weird to me to characteri
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by md_ 10y ago
Thanks for explaining, as always. Specifically regarding how immigration relates to LGBT rights: Is there any statistical link between anti-LGBT hate-crime and immigration from Muslim countries? Perhaps more to the point, if LGBT activists
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by md_ 10y ago
Thanks to both of you. I really do appreciate the thoughtful replies. I've been very disturbed by how polarized US politics are, so being able to talk things through like rational human beings makes me feel a bit better. :) At a high l
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by md_ 10y ago
Hmm. My starting question in most cases has been, "What are the top reasons you think Trump is a good choice to be President, preferably without making it a negative argument about the opposition?"
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by md_ 10y ago
I think more obvious examples of Trumpian bigotry are things like the claim that "thousands of Muslims" celebrated 9/11 in New Jersey. That has little to do with how many generations you've had to live in the US before y
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by md_ 10y ago
Thanks. Really good points. One striking observation to me is the lack of ideological purity in Trump's economic plan. You (correctly) describe it as socialist. Similarly, Hitler's economic views were inconsistent or incoherent. H
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by md_ 10y ago
I actually did spend a lot of time passively reading r/the_donald, but as you say, it seemed more into the other side (email leaks, etc) than into Trump's policy proposals or similar. I don't watch CNN. Not a big fan of TV ne
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by md_ 10y ago
Sorry, good point. What I meant initially was, "I thought the promise of social media was to drive down polarization." I think I'm not the only one who doesn't know anyone with the alternative view. Did I read any pro-Br
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by md_ 10y ago
Yeah, I'm happy to chat, actually, but...PM? Er, is there a PM function I didn't notice?
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by md_ 10y ago
Hmm. I don't think I said it was racism or misogyny, but since we're talking about it: I do think there was quite a lot of bigotry. In particular, I think the campaign repeatedly conflated Muslims with terrorists (to the point tha
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by md_ 10y ago
I don't even use Facebook! But I primarily read mainstream (i.e. "liberal") newspapers like the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Yorker, and similar. And none of them have any opinion writers making a case for Trump! So
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by md_ 10y ago
And all the other stuff--the bigotry, the misogyny, etc--is simply not a deal breaker? I find some of that quite surprising.
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by md_ 10y ago
One hopes. But people did vote for whom he appeared to be. Even if it was an act, that is, to me, a scary thought.
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by md_ 10y ago
It's tough. I've been trying to find a pen pal who can give me some reasonable arguments for Donald Trump for the last few weeks, to no avail. Not living in the US, I don't really meet people who support Donald Trump. I'
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by md_ 10y ago
My point was that there's no real merit to the complaint that Signal requires Play Services if you're going to use an OS with Play Services installed anyway. One can reasonably argue that Signal should work on non-Play Androids, b
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by md_ 10y ago
What confuses me about the post is that the author does not make it clear if he recommends that journalists run CopperheadOS. It sounds like he does not recommend this, but rather opposes Signal's dependency on Play on general princi
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by md_ 10y ago
What's the threat? An attacker who can observe only traffic on the wire (e.g. an ISP) probably gains nothing from observing GCM, since a) it's probably hard to distinguish different types of GCM messages and b) the attacker can ju
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by md_ 10y ago
In addition to Moxie's comment about using Java, you're more broadly confused, I think. Pnacl provides sandboxing, but it doesn't seem to provide any protection against buffer overflows. Android apps are also sandboxed, so I&
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by md_ 10y ago
I wasn't aware of that, but of course the destination is still leaked via RCPT. If the server is going to provision keys (and presumably thus escrow them), this is strictly less private than using server-to-server encryption.
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by md_ 10y ago
Huh? Reka is fiat. It's just that the fiat is Reka's, not that of the SNB. ;)
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by md_ 10y ago
To make sure I fully understand the proposal, it is to: 1. Generate public/private key pairs for all mailboxes at a given domain 2. Publish the public key in a DNS record at the mailbox domain 3. Encrypt message bodies with that public

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