opaque

8 ms·

31.
UK rights advocate co-owns firm whose spyware is 'used to target dissidents'(theguardian.com)
5 points by opaque 7y ago|0 comments
32.
by opaque 7y ago
> But giant geographically, economically, ethnically diverse polities like the US have a much harder time. I've heard this refrain from a number of otherwise sensible people and it always makes me shiver. Not only does it imagine al
33.
by opaque 7y ago
Sounds like you have both organisational and architecture problems here. A data team of ten and you're the only permanent employee? There's no data engineer or infrastructure team you can liaise with? I would discuss this with man
34.
by opaque 8y ago
> - the Everett interpretation - is the most popular with physicists Source? On the contrary, this survey of physicists https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.00676.pdf (Fig 13.) indicates Copenhagen is dominant, followed by n
35.
by opaque 8y ago
I'm reading the three body problem right now and I find the declarative (Tell) nature of characters emotional states and descriptions ("beautiful young girl") to be a real weakness. In reality both are a highly nuanced and su
36.
When America Stared into the Abyss(theatlantic.com)
2 points by opaque 8y ago|0 comments
37.
The Screen of Enamoration: Love in the Age of Google(theparisreview.org)
16 points by opaque 8y ago|1 comments
38.
by opaque 8y ago
Perhaps I'm inclined to read it that way from working in physics, which is divided into theory and experiment. He also refers to 'experimentalists' in the preceding sentence, which adds to the effect. Also if you take the ful
39.
by opaque 8y ago
> So pure theory is not for everyone. But if you love theory, philosophy is the top of the heap of all the disciplines. I think calling philosophy "theory" is a bit of a reach. Theories (Relativity, Quantum, Evolution) draw on,
40.
by opaque 8y ago
MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson[1], wrote a tell-all autobiography in which he described an HR relationship between the city banks and MI6 whereby officers were 'retired' into city jobs with few questions about the gaps in their CVs
41.
by opaque 8y ago
Perhaps I was unduly harsh, but I disagree that I was shallow. I pointed out exactly where the problems lay; poor use of language and people operating outside of their domain of expertise.
42.
by opaque 8y ago
Selected quotes > The role of self-learning algorithms would seem to be very significant in this context, since – like capitalism – they also hinge upon movement > If the systematization of the possible is somehow reconfigured by sel
43.
by opaque 8y ago
> Remove Sweden and UK from the the European list and you have needles in a haystack. Remove California and New York from the US list and ...
44.
The Chappaquiddick Incident(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by opaque 8y ago|0 comments
45.
Russia’s secret plan to help Julian Assange escape from UK(theguardian.com)
3 points by opaque 8y ago|0 comments
46.
by opaque 8y ago
The fact that a third party can benefit from flaws is somewhat unique to smart contracts. However, if you or your company are party to an "unprofitable" contract, it's both legal and sensible to ask a lawyer if it can be brok
47.
by opaque 8y ago
> then it may become profitable (and legal) to employ talented hackers to go around cracking contracts. Replace 'hackers' with 'lawyers' or 'accountants' and that's already true in our present system.
48.
by opaque 8y ago
Pretty strong selection bias here. Hackers that have showed up at an IRL conference are probably not on the more paranoid end of the spectrum. Meanwhile pseudonym hacking continues (e.g. Phineas Fisher) and interesting data dumps make their
49.
by opaque 8y ago
There was also an "atheist church" in London https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21319945 I wonder if they were aware the concept has quite a history.
50.
by opaque 8y ago
It wasn't covered in any detail by my school curriculum, so I've been catching up. I had no idea they "reformed" so many aspects of civci life, including the calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr
51.
The Cult of Reason(en.wikipedia.org)
56 points by opaque 8y ago|25 comments
52.
How video games are fuelling the rise of the far right(theguardian.com)
1 points by opaque 9y ago|0 comments
53.
Russian Fancy Bear hackers' UK link revealed(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by opaque 9y ago|1 comments
54.
Forthcoming book seeks to visualise, locate and expose many numbers stations(vice.com)
65 points by opaque 9y ago|42 comments
55.
by opaque 9y ago
I haven't checked the markup, but if you try and hit a linkedin profile page you just get forwarded to a login page. Perhaps if you don't follow the forwarding? Not sure how this complies with google's requirements, I suspect
56.
by opaque 9y ago
Does anyone know how they do this scraping from a technical standpoint. The articles allude to it being the same as data Google/Bing spiders, which can clearly access more data that average internet IP for making their result summaries
57.
by opaque 9y ago
Well if you explain that (very reasonable argument) to the jury at your trial I'm sure they'll be understanding. In practice it would be interesting to know how many suspects are formally interviewed before a lawyer is present. An
58.
by opaque 9y ago
"it may harm your defence if you do not mention when questioned something which you later rely on in court" "In every other country (UK), it’s up to the trial judge to decide whether police misconduct has risen to the level o
59.
by opaque 9y ago
> He has the unqualified right to remain silent and to a jury trial in which illegally gathered evidence is excluded, neither of which he would have in the UK. Er... go easy on the patriotism, mate. We have those. https://en.w
60.
by opaque 9y ago
> working with what I still think is one of, if not the, best language ever. Really? Mathematica is amazing and uncontested for symbolic algebra, but writing anything more than a notebook/paper is a nightmare. In built stuff is good

More ›