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by meowface 5y ago
If it's a psychoactive molecule, it's not really a placebo, in my opinion. I don't think the section you linked refutes this: >Some suggest that existing medical treatments should be used instead of placebos, to avoid havi
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by meowface 5y ago
(From a comment I wrote below) >Legitimite employment might not give them the needed liberty to do what they see fit. That's true; that's why I tried to qualify it with "generally". There certainly are some very intel
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by meowface 5y ago
Absolutely. I'm definitely not saying ability to get an infosec job implies intelligence. But what do you think is implied when someone (with a clean record) is unable to even get jobs like the ones you describe?
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by meowface 5y ago
There's definitely survivorship bias here. But I think even when accounting for that, there still likely is a correlation. Also, I'm referring to a certain subset of cybercrime. The kind associated with forums like RaidForums and
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by meowface 5y ago
You're absolutely right that there is a lot of survivorship bias here. But I think even when controlling for that, my hypothesis is still likely true.
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by meowface 5y ago
>Legitimite employment might not give them the needed liberty to do what they see fit. That's true; that's why I tried to qualify it with "generally". There certainly are some very intelligent, skilled people who are
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by meowface 5y ago
>I'm not so sure about it. Did you listen to the interview of Lex Fridman with Brett Johnson? I did. Excellent, captivating interview, but he repeatedly acknowledged he didn't know much about the tech stuff, and he said several
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by meowface 5y ago
Not to mention the following paragraph: >“In an attempt to retrieve his items, Coelho called the lead FBI case agent on or around August 2, 2018, and used the email address unrivalled@pm.me to email the agent,” the government’s affidavit
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by meowface 5y ago
Interesting counterargument from AI researcher François Chollet (creator of Keras and one of the main contributors to TensorFlow): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V-vOXLyKGw
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by meowface 5y ago
Yes, but if the issue is detection, one can detect that they're consuming alcohol long before it would incapacitate them to that degree. They can't do that for GHB. I am aware they wrote that facetiously, but the issue really is a
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by meowface 5y ago
Indeed. He has previously mentioned that he set up an alerting system to notify him when Cloudflare is mentioned on HN, as well. So it's a mix of both. His response here was perfectly adequate and beyond what the CTO of almost any othe
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by meowface 5y ago
Really cool, and I think I might use or integrate this, but I agree with: > I find this tool an interesting concept, but I couldn't get through the initial step to create a 4/4 kick loop. There's too much internal state go
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by meowface 5y ago
I'm really not trying to rag on anyone else's projects and detest it when other HN commenters do, but in this case the only honest answer I can think of would be "scrapping the site, domain, and concept and making something e
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by meowface 5y ago
The first site is useful, but the second feels parasitic and slimy to me, sorry.
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by meowface 5y ago
That's a great quote: >I remember when I was drawing the Undead Dragon, I submitted a design draft that depicted a dragon swarming with maggots and other gross things. Miyazaki handed it back to me saying "This isn't digni
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by meowface 5y ago
Yep. Dropbox is also a great safety net for when I mess something up in between commits. I've had a few times where I've deleted or changed some code that I couldn't restore just via undos. Normally I'd pretty much be sc
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by meowface 5y ago
>I also push often because I'm forever aware disks can fail. I'm not leaving a day's worth of work on my local drive and hoping it's there the next morning. I separate file backup and version control. I keep every git
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by meowface 5y ago
I'm not trying to promote their blog and am not a fan of it and won't link it, but I know of at least one Substack blog by one such actor who indeed makes their blog highly meme-based. The fact that you can insert arbitrary inline
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by meowface 5y ago
They're probably using Big Tech as a stand-in for Big Social Media Platforms (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter).
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by meowface 5y ago
Yes, I've always thought it was only a matter before this eventually happened. I completely understand why they would want to scramble to prevent that. The point made by the discord.py creator elsewhere is true: this is more likely to
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by meowface 5y ago
Sounds like synesthesia.
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by meowface 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover%27s_algorithm If it works as believed, it should effectively reduce solving SHA-256 to solving SHA-128. Which is extremely difficult, but theoretically possible.
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by meowface 5y ago
A quantum computer could potentially turn it from impossible to merely nearly impossible.
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by meowface 5y ago
Oxytocin nasal sprays may be able to temporarily induce a portion of this feeling, for some.
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by meowface 5y ago
>The second sentence of that paragraph is misplaced; "they" doesn't refer to anything, as Nokia is only mentioned later in the paragraph. This would benefit from a bit of proofreading. I was confused by what you meant unti
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by meowface 5y ago
This wasn't the case for the company I worked at. It applied to everyone of every rank. Not as a title, but just a general descriptor used in place of "employee" or "personnel".
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by meowface 5y ago
>In this case, though, why not replace the job title with "Employee"? One (non-tech) company I worked at had a pretty stringent policy of always referring to "associates" rather than "employees". I don'
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by meowface 5y ago
Maybe they will one day. We're very far off from even landing a person on Mars, let alone starting to build a city.
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by meowface 5y ago
Also, the spam is so blatant and egregious and repetitive, as pg points out. It doesn't even take an expert to recognize Twitter's doing a strangely awful job at it.
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by meowface 5y ago
Very good point. Everything is framed under the status quo. If shit hits the fan, all those assumptions immediately fly out the window. If the writ of habeas corpus is suspended, NSA instantly transforms from shady to Stasi.

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