njharman

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by njharman 8y ago
The psychological industry inventing new disorders and diagnosing normal human behaviors as a disorder, something that needs to be fixed. https://www.ted.com/talks/jon_ronson_strange_answers_to_the_...
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by njharman 8y ago
London is the most surveilled public space on the planet with full access for law enforcement. Somehow crime still happens there. Technology is not a magic bullet. It also is also neutral and does not choose sides. Crime will exist for as l
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by njharman 8y ago
It's more than a reasonable amount of money. But Carmack is not a reasonable amount of developer. For the guy who popularized an entire genre of video games, no.
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by njharman 8y ago
PS3 is made of plastic that doesn't make a purchaser oil company's customer. Same with the chips in it. Sony was nvidia's customer.
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by njharman 8y ago
I bet there are more Alexa customers than nvidia ones. And way more than direct AMD ones.
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by njharman 8y ago
Has any official identification been made?has the USA retaliated on Cuba, or even accuse them of anything? Do not confuse reporting and internet forum theories with official action.
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by njharman 8y ago
It, obviously, would not be Cubans. It would be someone wanting US Cuban tensions to increase. Tons of actors want that.
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by njharman 8y ago
That is low. Really!? I would think his net worth was a lot more than that.
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by njharman 8y ago
It's good if you've shorted TSLA. Otherwise not so much.
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by njharman 8y ago
The information is owned by AT&T. They can be forced to hand it over to government warrant/subpoena. Or, they can choose to freely offer it (more likely sell it) to the government. We can pass laws (and have such as with medical re
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by njharman 8y ago
You need to read more history if you believe knights were not thugs and warlords. And the crusaders were the top thugs in no small part due to church giving them licence to slaughter non Christians. and specifically set them selves as warl
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by njharman 8y ago
No one is claiming that. They are claiming that if you want an OS that doesn’t spy on you, is secure, and open to inspection then learn to use Linux. Or, to move even further towards security, openBSD.
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by njharman 8y ago
Yeah, it’s called “installer for another OS”
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by njharman 8y ago
Twitter is a completely shit medium for in depth article like this.
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by njharman 8y ago
People regularly confuse "security through obscurity" with "obscuring your security". The first is bad, the second is powerful. Even before I read about the hacksaw (long ago) I knew clubs by themselves were bad cause t
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by njharman 8y ago
You are missing "having read the article". #1 MFA, IT computers never left unattended/accessible, even IT accounts had minimal permissions, "IT like" behavior on non-IT computer caused alert (so even if they got pa
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by njharman 8y ago
I thought that was gonna be a trap/honeypot. They detected weird behavior so set that up to see if anyone would take bait.
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by njharman 8y ago
Never having to use Oracle Database is a good result.
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by njharman 8y ago
> isn’t going to break anything Boaty McBoatface would disagree.
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by njharman 8y ago
It's not that you don't have to work hard if you have talent. It's that if you don't have the talent, no amount of hard work is going to make up for it. There are so many people in the world, so much competition. That t
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by njharman 8y ago
"job preferences" is not the same as job aptitude. In a free market system people are going to be pushed into the jobs for which they have the most aptitude (or out of the workforce if their aptitude is too low/lower than mac
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by njharman 8y ago
Python 3.7.0 (default, Jul 23 2018, 20:22:55) >>> bool("This sentence is true, but cannot be proven true by any human nor any human-crafted device.") True
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by njharman 8y ago
That is how people are. We are not identical, interchangeable cogs. Most people can be trained to do simple things in most any field. But brilliance is innate. Its not learnt and can't be made through hard work. Some people have anal
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by njharman 8y ago
As an example. Having the internet searchable is useful, us convienent. But it reduces security because of its convienence. This breach would not have happened without that convienence. UX could have made it easier to remember to robots fil
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by njharman 8y ago
UX can't provide security. It can only provide better UX. Security is a spectrum from convienent/useful to secure. They are mutually exclusive characteristics. Perfect UX won't remove inconvience of having to preaarange deli
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by njharman 8y ago
Its cute you think US congress/government is democratic.
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by njharman 8y ago
Write AI that better curates news items.
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by njharman 8y ago
That was mostly about forgetting people. Not about forgetting their names. Very different. I rarely forget someone. I also rarely remember their name, even after being told it multiple times. When I meet people I totally tune out when they
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by njharman 8y ago
No longer? Read some history, start with yellow journalism and muckraking. Learning history will teach you more about things today than any news source.
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by njharman 8y ago
Yeah, The problem is so many normal activities are criminalized in our puritanical society. Recreational drugs, recreational sex. So many "criminals" don't need rehabilitation cause they haven't done anything wrong, anyt

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