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by nzp 10y ago
Oh but not just any kind of “untrusworthyness”, from what I gathered from Twitter at the time, he did it after the Appelbaum affair broke out to provide a “non-SJW” fork of Tor Browser. And If I'm not mistaken, he initially forked the
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by nzp 10y ago
> When OWS takes this work on they're giving a tacit Moxie stamp of approval to the implementation Which is completely irrelevant for any mainstream messaging app OWS has collaborated with. No “normal” person on this planet that us
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by nzp 10y ago
I wouldn't know, but from what one can hear from prominent Apple pundits and podcasters, Apple is not doing great at all in this regard, to put it mildly, compared to Google (and other data vacuumers). Examples: Google Photos is runni
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by nzp 10y ago
It's not true that machine learning and AI needs a lot of data to do what it does with Google's services? I guess you know something their engineers don't, so I'm looking forward to Sylos' Dataless AI & Co. I
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by nzp 10y ago
Even if they weren't (mainly) an advertising company, even if they charged for all the free things, they'd still need all the data they suck in to provide services they provide.
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by nzp 10y ago
Actually, I'd say a random HN commenter is extremely likely to be targeted for surveillance and exploitation compared to general population at least. Not because they personally are important, but because of their jobs. So many adm
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by nzp 10y ago
Good, since LE employees are actually providing value to the world.
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by nzp 10y ago
This remark of yours is truly an ideological minefield! I completely agree that the debate on income inequality and the resulting sorting of people is irrelevant. Income inequality itself is irrelevant, it's just an ideological misdir
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by nzp 10y ago
Giving these individual examples, anecdotes really, is even more simplistic in a sense. Within just about any social phenomenon, you can find examples of practices/effects that are incongruent, or even opposite, to the “main gist” of
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by nzp 10y ago
FreeBSD has been using it too for a few years now. https://reviews.freebsd.org
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by nzp 10y ago
I think the meaning of “elite” is clear from context here (i.e. C. Wright Mills' economic, government, and military elites). He certainly didn't mean elite academic mathematicians, etc.
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by nzp 10y ago
I'm all for privacy and tinfoiling, but I have to say they already can do only what we allow. And oh boy do we allow. It's very simple, if you do not want to allow, then don't use service X. To expect some kind of personali
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by nzp 10y ago
CPUs, networking, and storage are not Evernote's money makers. And I'm fairly sure Google's machine learning is a lot better than what Evenote can do. Anyway, infrastructure in cases like these is really like a public utilit
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by nzp 10y ago
Yes, actually, there are at least a couple (one especially) there I would not think twice buying if I had any financial justification (a business to attach it to or even just expendable money). He gets this particular design style perfect
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by nzp 10y ago
For her specifically, I'm afraid short of a mass popular movement to free her, not much. EDIT: Although, making her situation as public as possible might help ease the most blatant abuse she's suffering. Sometimes the state car
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by nzp 10y ago
Those 3000 words are not random in natural language. If they were your calculation would be correct, but they aren't so the actual entropy of the system is likely nowhere near 138 bits. In other words, song title or not, if the sente
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The dangers of non-empirical confirmation(arxiv.org)
1 points by nzp 10y ago|0 comments
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Porn Sites Feel Exposed by Flash, Get It on with HTML5(motherboard.vice.com)
2 points by nzp 10y ago|1 comments
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by nzp 10y ago
From the Roosians, who else! They're always on to rob us of our precious bodily fluids.
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by nzp 10y ago
Nope. There are people (I'm one of them) who have sometimes extreme difficulty doing basic arithmetic manually and in the head. In my case it's not the full-blown dyscalculia[1] but to this day I haven't been able to learn
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by nzp 10y ago
You're just proving their point. None of the things you talk about are even remotely obvious or “natural” to people we're talking about. You want them to ”choose axioms”? Axiom-a-whaaa? 1+1=2 does not need Peano axioms because
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by nzp 10y ago
Not to mention ed is the standard editor!
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by nzp 10y ago
Not trying to force either of those on you or anything like that, but just a quick remark: both Vim (although not vi) and Emacs have fully functional GUI “modes” (in fact, I think overwhelming majority of Vim/Emacs users use it in GUI
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by nzp 10y ago
Where did I say anything about the protocol itself? But feel free to read in whatever you like...
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The Frog Is No Longer Boiling, It's Dead(commondreams.org)
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by nzp 10y ago
Nothing ironic about that. To paraphrase Hal Abelson, computer science is as much about computers as biology is about microscopes.
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by nzp 10y ago
Of course, the economy doesn't depend on masses having solid mathematical education (and knowledge), but the world would be a much, much better place if all kinds of “advanced” math was common knowledge and skill (and not just math).
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by nzp 10y ago
Alcohol is completely irrelevant in relation to this issue. You don't not fix things just to stay superficially consistent. What you're proposing would be like refusing to fix a particular bug because there's another bug re
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by nzp 10y ago
It's both funny and sad. I just ignored the existence of the Chrome app, and am trying my best to ignore the fact that they thought it was such a great idea in the first place. To be fair, in that comment he wrote “browser” won the d
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by nzp 10y ago
That code X should be clearly commented to explain the state you describe. That's the proper, most ergonomic, solution to the problem. Sure, it might not be documented and archaeology might be needed, but it shouldn't be consider

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