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by mikedilger 5y ago
If you don't have a google-enabled android device (as I don't), and you've registered your Yubikey with google (as I have), they won't use the Yubikey they will SMS you instead. Seems like they prefer google prompt, then
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by mikedilger 5y ago
I'm disappointed this didn't start from "sand", quantum mechanics, silicon doping, electromagnetism, electronics, transistors, gates and latches, etc. Also, Computer Science is a much broader field than what this website
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I still use this hack without thinking about it in case the variable on the left is empty. But I suppose I should actually be quoting. [ $X == "hello" ] When X is empty, it gives: example.sh: line 5: [: ==: unary opera
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by mikedilger 6y ago
If it's doomed, why bother? If it's at risk, I can still be motivated to do something to save it.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
The report sites a lot of papers, many of which by one report author Hoegh-Guldberg who has been studying reefs and claiming they are at risk since at least 1999. One of the latest of those papers puts it like this (ideas which the article
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Article has no link. Here is the report: https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/science-policy...
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Interesting. I briefly checked into one of his retorts and it appears just as poorly sourced. Take this one: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has stated that, “Insufficient sleep is a public health epidemic.” If you follow the l
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Maybe there could be a fork called SQLITE, an acronym for SQLite Including Type Enforcement
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by mikedilger 6y ago
And all phones have a modem, a closed source chip that likely provides numerous ways to get into your phone. Ira Hunt (CIA chief technology officer) said in 2014 something like "we like the fitbit because it doesn't have a ... it
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by mikedilger 6y ago
> assuming that a breach is inevitable or has already occurred Sometimes I get the vibe that all our systems are already breached by multiple state actors, and I imagine them having their little digital wars inside obscure chips on our m
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by mikedilger 6y ago
post hoc distinction
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I'm glad you said storage and not "batteries". Batteries are not even in the ballpark for this kind of usage. The reasonable means of storage are hydroelectric (via water) and offsetting usage of fuels (coal/natural gas&
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by mikedilger 6y ago
> Section 230 doesn't give blanket immunity to publishing illegal content: it only protects against civil violations, not criminal. Of course you are correct, but that doesn't make me factually wrong. You are talking about publ
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by mikedilger 6y ago
> I'm interested in knowing how you think a real "free speech" platform can actually work, however. Let me give this a shot. There are two types of content that need to be removed: (1) spammy content that readers themselve
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by mikedilger 6y ago
It's more visible in the Southern Hemisphere. I see it clearly, and I'm only 10km from Palmerston North which puts out a lot of light. I've seen it from remote ocean, and more remote parts of NZ, and it never looks like those
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I'm unsure whether it would be ruled libel, but I lean towards yes it would. There are two ways of seeing it: 1) It is a false statement by google themselves (so no §230 protection) that caused material damage and is thus libelous 2)
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Well there are a lot of possibilites: 1) The story is true but not meant for our eyes, 2) The story is true and meant for our eyes, but they can't officially say so or haven't yet prepared their statement, 3) The story is false an
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I just checked fbi.gov and there is no press release announcing this. If this is truly information from the FBI, why do they not communicate it through official trusted channels?
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by mikedilger 6y ago
> But political affiliation is not a protected class. Just FYI, some countries have made it a protected class, e.g.: https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1993/0082/latest/... (see 21(1)(j)
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I just finished reading the paper. I took a few hours. It is indeed a well reasoned argument. I will have to read it a few more times to make sure I've understood well enough. I'm not moved in my position (which aligns strongly wi
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Yeah, but I used less words.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Excellent. I agree. 'Every' was wrong. I didn't think of that when I wrote the statement. If my FALSEHOOD had been censored, I would still be walking around with a dumb idea in my head.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Great! Please expound on that.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Every idea which moves society forward starts out as an idea first believed to be false. If we censor what we believe to be false, we stop right here - progress halts.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I agree with all of that in spirit, but I don't think the "under your reasonsing" part accurately reflected my reasoning (maybe it reflected a inference or a poorly chosen word). Incitement intends the act to occur while ille
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by mikedilger 6y ago
We must be able to discuss and even support things that are currently illegal, including discussion of acts of violence (but not carrying them out, just talking about them), to explore whether or not existing laws might need changes. So thi
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Wow, those purple suited AI-driven Robots sure do look human! Impressive.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Depression may also prevent suicide because you lack the drive to take those steps. There is a pattern of people committing suicide a few weeks after starting on an anti-depressant (including one of my cousins and a late friend of mine), so
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I don't think blame is all on one side. But neither do I think things are in balance or in some kind of imaginary mirror image of each other. I wrote my comment imaging a progressive audience. If I wanted to speak to a conservative aud
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Few conservatives are questioning whether science as a methodology is good or bad. Some extreme Christians might doubt science itself, but I sense they are quite a small group. There is also a small group on the left which has rejected scie

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