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by nzp 10y ago
The problem with this is it's begging the question: it postulates that the status quo she would preserve is at least bearable for everyone. For a lot of people in the US that is simply not the case. Trump actually broke an American p
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by nzp 10y ago
How does it make more difficult for USA to get your data if encryption is not as good? This is pure nonsense, sorry. If you think the NSA is dependent on Google to suck up your data, oh boy... Sir, would you be interested in purchasing a
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by nzp 10y ago
The fact that cats kill birds in no way legitimizes killing of birds by wind turbines no matter the ratio of deaths. The two are unrelated, and one bad thing happening doesn't mean that we should pile on more unnecessary bad things.
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The new IFTTT is here(ifttt.com)
7 points by nzp 10y ago|0 comments
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by nzp 10y ago
Great! Now that these easy, low-hanging-fruit features are taken care of, maybe we'll get some of the more involved security oriented ones, like, IDK, having an indication if I verified a contact or not so I can, you know, know whethe
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Alphabet’s Big Bets Shift to Cloud, Away from Moonshots(bloomberg.com)
1 points by nzp 10y ago|0 comments
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by nzp 10y ago
That you think this is a no true Scotsman fallacy just shows you have no idea what you're talking about and are just blindly ideologically raging. It's not a NTS fallacy, it's a words-have-non-arbitrary-meaning non-fallacy.
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by nzp 10y ago
> I have family that grew up under communism and they told me ... I guess that settles it. P.S. Your family did not grow up “under communism” unless they grew up in Ukrainian Free Territory[1] or Catalan and Aragon countryside during the
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by nzp 10y ago
Oh, there's definitely a phenomenon of widespread taste for the occult in Nazi movements. I was just trying to point out that the bulk efforts of Nazi German state and agenda weren't influenced by that in an “official” way. But
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by nzp 10y ago
> For example, his talk of Mars colonization as an escape hatch to our degradation of biodiversity / carbon emissions / etc. is just awful. What kind of idea is that? To be fair, that's not a good characterization of why h
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by nzp 10y ago
Hitler himself was very intolerant of any of this mysticism business. All these activities and societies were banned in Germany once they came to power. There was a number of people, in SS mainly, who were deeply into mysticism, and that
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by nzp 10y ago
That was a common meme about the poor repeated by the rich. It still lives, sometimes in a more sophisticated form, eg. poor people don't know how to manage spending, not buying in bulk, not taking advantage of discounts, etc., when i
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by nzp 10y ago
That would be a horrible idea from a security standpoint. Although not easy by any means for an ordinary attacker, at least one exploit scenario is obvious.
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by nzp 10y ago
Not high end EV — EV period. Why so much weight? Because it's literally the only direction left for land based vehicles to go (the puns write themselves!) in the next century at least?
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Using Undocumented CPU Behaviour to See into Kernel Mode and Break KASLR [pdf](blackhat.com)
2 points by nzp 10y ago|0 comments
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by nzp 10y ago
> Death of the universe is also inevitable, "Heat Death". This is far from settled. Heat death applies only to closed systems. Although it is not unreasonable to assume our universe is a closed system, we simply do not know t
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by nzp 10y ago
Not at all. A lot of people who gather at places like these don't seem to realise that ordinary people have much more pressing problems in life than running a phone OS they can tinker with.
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by nzp 10y ago
I wish I could share your optimism about political candidates.
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by nzp 10y ago
I'd say you're quite optimistic in thinking that not little government implies power =/= authority, and quite pessimistic in thinking that little government does not imply a civilized, functioning society. But even withou
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by nzp 10y ago
IAD recommends not upgrading to ECC in case this would incur significant costs, only to have to upgrade again once they settle on quantum resistant algos. So not because of crypto reasons, not because ECC is more vulnerable to quantum atta
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by nzp 10y ago
Hm, interesting. Well, as I said, I don't know personally (I have neither an Apple device nor Alexa), but that was my impression from what people who love Apple and also have Alexa and Google Photos say. As for Google Photos, it makes
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by nzp 10y ago
Ah, not quite so fast! If you write: “all the introductory text which follows ”, that might be construed as meaning not the part between the notice and the text which follows these words . So we have to have a terminating condition for
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by nzp 10y ago
This reminds me of an anecdote about Godel, not sure if it's true or not, but here goes. When he was taking the Constitution exam to get the US citizenship, he proceeded to explain to the judge how he has a formal proof that the US Co
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by nzp 10y ago
There's no bug there. Copyright is about distribution, not use, so the “use” part is probably unnecessary anyway. And the warranty part is not conditional upon the two conditions. The MIT license is practically the same, and the ana
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by nzp 10y ago
It's one of my favourite lists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_doublet
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by nzp 10y ago
It adds conditions which make it incompatible with GPL, and similar licenses. And in general, it adds a completely arbitrary and uncertain condition, i.e. you can't be legally sure about what you can do with such software, i.e. you ca
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by nzp 10y ago
Ah, right, thanks. But, this thread got me thinking yesterday — if TP is untrustworthy, shouldn't he have forked node code? What use is what I understand is just a Firefox with locked down security related settings and set up to proxy
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by nzp 10y ago
I think it is, but I didn't really follow. The whole story is nausea inducing. You have, apparently, a respected, turns-out creepy/selectively abusive guy (one of life's great archetypes) get called out for sexual abuse. Nu
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by nzp 10y ago
No joke. Apparently he deleted the original tweet. https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/766372347892920320 https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/768137697554731008
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by nzp 10y ago
Some years ago FreeBSD had an intrusion via one of the commiter's machine or stolen SSH key, I don't remember which any more, but I do remember that it took months for the package building infrastructure to get fully operational a

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