mjreacher

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by mjreacher 5y ago
Was there ever a time when espionage and cyber warfare weren't fair game? To me the only difference seems to have been where a nation state did have the capability and where they didn't.
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I always see this is trotted out as to say that Iraq did not possess WMDs, however technically it is wrong, as WMDs (chemical weapons in this case) were found after the invasion, (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq
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Landing on the moon once didn't sound very realistic either, doesn't mean we should stop trying. At the current moment there is plenty of public pressure on Israel so if it could be directed at something like this that would be a
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Why not both? Western governments should (theoretically) be promoting democratic causes not allowing companies to sell to governments that target those that protect democratic values such as activists and journalists.
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At what point are western governments going to crack down on companies such as NSO Group?
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Hmmm, looking around for a bit I assume you are talking about this study here https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/s... which notes the 2.2 million as a worst case scenario where nothing
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by mjreacher 5y ago
>2 million, in the USA, will die by summer 2020 even with lockdowns Which scientific paper/organisation even made this claim?
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I am sure plenty of people could claim that cannabis and other drugs found in nature have been used just as long if not longer than alcohol by various tribes and groups around the world.
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While this article didn't say so, if you read the original article by CNBC[0] this is likely due to regulatory action by the Federal Reserve in 2018 rather than any purely economic concerns based on the current state of the economy. [0
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Old.reddit.com Isn't Working(old.reddit.com)
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I know several Russians who do trust their government and to a lesser extent their politicians. All claims are met with 'western propaganda' and 'it is the same in the west'. They even deny Soviet atrocities, claiming ei
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I assume this must have been in discussion in academic circles even before the 1958 date given in the article, John von Neumann wrote this in 1955, and he wasn't even a proper climate scientist. > "Carbon dioxide released into
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Science journal editor says he quit over China boycott article(theguardian.com)
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Is there any opportunity for interested undergrads to learn about this more (since I doubt we could contribute)?
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KaleidoPaint – Create colorful symmetrical paintings based on tiling patterns(geometrygames.org)
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Global banking regulators call for toughest rules for cryptocurrencies(theguardian.com)
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China blocks cryptocurrency Weibo accounts in ‘judgment day’ for Bitcoin(theguardian.com)
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Biden administration mulls cyberattacks against Russian hackers(nbcnews.com)
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>My point is that, as far as I know, there is zero new evidence available today to support the reasonableness of said hypothesis versus a year ago. The only difference is that Trump is no longer in the White House. The major difference I
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U.S. to give ransomware hacks similar priority as terrorism, official says(reuters.com)
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I believe this is due to historical reasons, in particular due to the Bourbaki and the French school of mathematics where abstraction was heavily prized. On the contrary mathematics in the Soviet Union had more of a focus on intuition and g
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In my opinion one of the great contributions of Von Neumann was the fact his "First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC" report was spread so quickly in academic circles. When Eckert and Mauchly attempted to apply to patent their ideas
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by mjreacher 5y ago
I've always been a bit suspicious of this idea of unrealized potential. You can take anyone and put them in the perfect situation with motivation and there's a good chance they'll succeed. Just as much as a poor child could h
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by mjreacher 6y ago
There's a difference between a report that is overly alarmist and near fabricating things and a report that points out things are worse now than they were in previous years, which seems to be the case here. While intelligence agencies
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Microsoft urges US and EU to follow Australian digital news code(theguardian.com)
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I am reminded of a quote attributed to the German mathematician Leopold Kronecker, "God made the integers, all else is the work of man".