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by mirimir 7y ago
Someone could consider revenge to be moral, no?
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by mirimir 7y ago
Effectiveness and morality are independent, I think.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Generally, torture is portrayed as working against villains, but not against heroes or anti-heroes.
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by mirimir 7y ago
I've worked as a canvasser, and organized door-to-door campaigns. One of the key CA products was an app for canvassers, telling them about each home on their route. So they knew which homes to ignore, and what message to deliver for th
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by mirimir 7y ago
Yes, exactly. This is a book review. But also propaganda. Almost a hit piece.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Maybe just add noise. For example, there are lots of apps that mix faces. So mix your face with a bunch of other faces, or even faces from https://thispersondoesnotexist.com and upload the results wherever.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Here we'd call them sanders or salters. It was an even bet for me between that and maintenance of oiled gravel roads. It's basically a lower cost version of asphalt. Every few years, they sprinkle some gravel, and spray with heavy
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by mirimir 7y ago
It can be extremely profitable too. If you happen to identify fraud against state or federal government, and it gets successfully prosecuted, you can earn 30% of imposed penalties.
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by mirimir 7y ago
The linked website says that some peanut oil is OK for most people to eat. But not cold-pressed etc oil. That's a crucial distinction. And for commercially prepared food, even if you're lucky enough to know that it contains pean
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by mirimir 7y ago
I suspect that there are exemptions from licensing restrictions for military applications. But I'm having no luck finding anything except re driving.
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by mirimir 7y ago
> And if the US isn’t in position to bail out equity owners, then it has bigger problems and you should be investing in your network, food and water supplies, and guns. Sadly enough, it comes down to network and guns. Because both can ge
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by mirimir 7y ago
In Echopraxia , Peter Watts argued that group minds invariably become psychotic, if inter-node latency is too great. Which makes sense to me. So arguably no. And yeah, TFA does considerable bullshit in order to display text. I mean, what i
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by mirimir 7y ago
Huh, maybe that's why it didn't work for me. I allow third-party cookies, but only from sites that I've visited during the current browser session. And all cookies are deleted when I close Firefox.
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by mirimir 7y ago
There's lots of apparently sloppy editing. For example: > Despite having a sound theoretical basis, the question remains as to whether or not meteors larger than a grain of dust enter Earth's atmosphere at sub-relativistic or r
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by mirimir 7y ago
Been there, done that, for over 40 years. And like I said, I'm tired of it.
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by mirimir 7y ago
I watched someone almost die from eating Chinese food fried in peanut oil. Maybe some peanut oil is pure enough, but there's no guarantee. The link is pretty clear about that, but your paraphrase is dangerous misinformation.
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by mirimir 7y ago
What if you were allergic to peanuts, and only stuff fried in peanut oil was available?
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by mirimir 7y ago
I've been a US citizen for over 40 years. And there has never been a presidential candidate that I could enthusiastically support. Except maybe Sanders. But more and more, I've just become sick and tired of voting for people who s
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by mirimir 7y ago
OK, so the Blumberg campaign arguably erred by being so open about this effort. Unless, as others note, it was just consciousness raising. Or getting Twitter blamed, or whatever. But what's interesting is what this portends for the com
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by mirimir 7y ago
> Fraud isn't a huge regulatory framework. The main reason for that is that you need intent to defraud, which can be ambiguous around the edges but it's pretty damn hard to do it by accident. The analogous thing for privacy wou
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by mirimir 7y ago
> The most common way of analysing metabolite content is gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. This technique sorts molecules by their weight, producing a pattern of peaks that correspond to different substances. But the same weight can
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by mirimir 7y ago
VPN services, Tor and I2P do a pretty good job at blocking "molecular wakes". But even that will fail, as the devices that people use incorporate GC (and eventually, GC-MS) sensors. As I am wont to say, privacy in meatspace is dea
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by mirimir 7y ago
You can't. Any more than you can prevent people from insulting you in meatspace. What you can do is ignore them, and all of the child commentary.
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by mirimir 7y ago
They could share infrastructure, as electricity providers do.
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by mirimir 7y ago
I concede that privacy is less clear cut than fraud. But even fraud can be ambiguous. As in the recent thread about Amazon. Anyway, it's my impression that ISPs already log some traffic metadata, given that I read about requests from p
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by mirimir 7y ago
Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22386065 Also, I wasn't just talking about ISPs and Internet firms. How is it OK for banks to sell data about their customers?
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by mirimir 7y ago
Lack of competition certainly limits customer options if there's no statutory privacy protection. However, I don't get how privacy protection is so distinguishable from statutory protection against fraud, for example. Also, if com
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by mirimir 7y ago
Although I am not at all sympathetic to these ISPs, I do agree that privacy protections ought to apply uniformly to all sellers and service providers.
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by mirimir 7y ago
Belated edit: It was thoughtless to say this: > And if they were careless, that would be great. It's difficult to say anything general, given how widely standards vary. I was originally going to say that the system would guarantee a
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by mirimir 7y ago
Huh, I was going to reply here, but then I replied there: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22380069 Here seemed too hard, I guess. But ... > More sophisticated, nuanced, and pro-speech filtering work that doesn'

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