nyolfen

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by nyolfen 6y ago
he was stuck in the moscow airport (for over a month) after his passport was cancelled en route to equador and was eventually granted asylum
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by nyolfen 6y ago
what might he do? write another book? he doesn't have any power besides moral authority and he cannot travel internationally
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i really love this. i wish the entire internet was like it.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
and yet we find ourselves in this situation despite this proven strategy. do you think this theft began in 2016? the american manufacturing base and a great deal of its skilled labor pool has been gutted and hung out to dry for the last 40
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> In practice, grammatical gender exhibits a systematic structural bias that has made masculine forms the default for generic, non-gender-specific contexts. many instances of this are simply an artifact of 'man' previously bein
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by nyolfen 6y ago
good thing centralized authority and official truthmaking organs have no such track record i suppose
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by nyolfen 6y ago
microcommunities and web of trust. the things you mentioned are not eliminable but i trust my peers more than a multinational with conflicting values.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
there is a pretty big difference between having to hack a local key for every user and a real data breach
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by nyolfen 6y ago
an anonymously sourced yet scandalous bloomberg tech piece, you say
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by nyolfen 6y ago
LSD use is actually higher than it has ever been in the US. i apologize for lacking a source, but this was something i saw about a week ago, in the context of highlighting its relative popularity with young, college-educated americans. that
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by nyolfen 6y ago
people said this kind of thing about computers, the web, etc at some point; blockchains solve previously intractable coordination problems, we ain’t seen nothin yet
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by nyolfen 6y ago
strange that it needs to be said, but you can admire someone even if they’re successful, and even wish them future success
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by nyolfen 6y ago
scott wasn’t an unnamed source; from the sound of it this was in large part an article about him, eg the journo was going around and asking questions about him specifically. i guess we’ll see if those sources are named.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i don't think it is a contradiction; "a very small fraction of smokers contract covid or end up in the hospital due to it; those that do are more likely to die"
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by nyolfen 6y ago
incorrect; smokers are shown to be substantially less susceptible to both catching covid and developing severe symptoms, a finding that has been demonstrated independently in (at least) france, china, and the USA: > Conclusions and relev
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by nyolfen 6y ago
receiving bitcoin on a wallet advertised on hacked accounts does not seem like a very effective mode of money laundering, imho
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by nyolfen 6y ago
isn't the plan to have ~10k satellites eventually? i'd imagine the pace of launches would pick up as they have more success
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by nyolfen 6y ago
hence 'if you have one'; you can also run it on your pc. internet connections are not free either but a basic vps is substantially cheaper. i am not any kind of specialist and i run a couple for hobby projects; one of them is $15&
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by nyolfen 6y ago
run it on a vps if you have one
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by nyolfen 6y ago
it's possible they're trying to avoid a monoculture of web servers that serve tor sites in order to avoid many sites becoming insecure in the event of a bug disclosure for a software package they have no control over
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i'm sure this is what the 'america first' crowd told themselves in the 30s. china sees us as rivals and has designs on our allies and global institutions. ignoring them is at our own peril. america has deep problems, like any
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by nyolfen 6y ago
>I think the problem with DRM and ebooks is not the readers. It's the availability of books without DRM... Basically the "GOG" of eBook stores. Even if you have an open eBook reader, where are you going to get the books fr
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by nyolfen 6y ago
this was my immediate suspicion as well; feds surely have cell tower records at the very least
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by nyolfen 6y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/12/historians... > The letter refers to “matters of verifiable fact” that “cannot be described as interpretation or ‘framing’” and says the project refle
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by nyolfen 6y ago
he does have many genuinely good and interesting takes; he is definitely purposefully inflammatory and i can’t really evaluate his philosophy writing as someone who doesn’t pay attention to any, but his blog has some excellent and well arg
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the author plays a game on twitter that many people do, which is ‘find an apparent contradiction in the prevailing morality and make a reprehensible/funny argument with it’; robin hanson for example is the master of this game. this may
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i saw someone on twitter suggest that public keys should be called 'padlocks'; definitely a more intuitive way to think of them
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by nyolfen 6y ago
if a country does not do this, it is only because they lack the strength
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by nyolfen 6y ago
that particular fact has probably been printed in more than one place with more than one phrasing; is there a reason you think it was drawn from that one in particular?
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i use search keywords for everything, but i have the following custom keyword for google image search (this is firefox, though i believe it works for chrome too if you create one and manually edit it): https://www.google.com&#x2F

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