phantom_of_cato

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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
Not really. National Security Letters [1] are for requesting data, not censorship. And of course, they are also controversial. Many of us consider the PATRIOT act a disaster. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> companies can speak with the police and follow their wishes regardless of the first amendment because Twitter's own protected speech allows them to block any content for any reason, whether that be "it violated our content o
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> Cloudflare or any other privately owned company doesn't have an obligation to service everyone. That's mostly true legally, but also irrelevant. We also have a right to criticize them for anything. > They are not violating
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> I’m continually surprised that Facebook, Twitter, and the rest dont simply create a web interface for law enforcement that allows them to delete (or more likely make invisible) content they want to censor. In the US, we have the First
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
Paywall bypass: https://archive.ph/xwOkZ
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In a Japanese Nursing Home, Some Workers Are Babies(nytimes.com)
6 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|2 comments
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
There are, they don't do most of the flagging though.
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
The year is 2006 [1] again. [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
I think the part for extracting capsaicinoids is essentially the same with the original subjective (i.e. organoleptic) Scoville test. However, there's a difference in the method for quantifying pungency. In the original Scoville test t
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> I thought that gas chromatographs were the standard way of evaluating the amount of capsaicin in peppers The "GC" in "miniGC" probably stands for gas chromatography.
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Capsaicin in Peppers(luciditysystems.com)
27 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|8 comments
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> Encourage you when these issues arise to think of them in the rule of law context, rather than free speech That's a clever way of spinning the issue. But no amount of spinning can change the fact that you are clearly using doubles
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
Sure, but we can also criticise it on the side. Corporations aren't beyond criticism.
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> phantom_of_cato had all of his replies flagged and removed in today's thread. Flagging on HN is mostly done by the users, not by the moderators.
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> This seems like it's some 'muh free speech' post from this new account in response to Cloudflare removing KF's services... Personal attacks are clearly against HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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Turns out half the internet has a Single-Point-of-Failure called Cloudflare (2020)(easydns.com)
74 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|26 comments
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
A timely reminder for all of us that "half the internet has a single point of failure called Cloudflare". [1] [1]: https://easydns.com/blog/2020/07/20/turns-out-half-the-inter...
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> I am a free speech absolutist, but Then you are not a freedom speech absolutist (which is fine, and not completely unreasonable).
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> The policy we articulated last Wednesday remains our policy. We continue to believe that the best way to relegate cyberattacks to the dustbin of history is to give everyone the tools to prevent them. This is just doublespeak. No matter
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> 99% of science being published today has no political motivations. That's probably not true. Based on the charts here [1], it is safe to say that at least 20-30% of successful NSF grant applications have political/ideological
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
Maybe, but it would be disingenuous to pretend that they are removing the negative reviews for that reason.
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
That's probably very hard to say. But consequentialism/utilitarianism [1] isn't the only form of moral reasoning. By most forms of deontological [2] morality, saving someone's life is a good act by itself, even if the fe
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> As it is inevitable that there is an influence The current homogeneous politicization of science certainly isn't inevitable, as there are periods of rapid scientific progress in the past when this situation did not exist. > Peo
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
Sure, they killed people. But there's a second order effect: They also probably prevented the soldiers of the other side from killing more people.
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> Again, politics is part of science. But the question is: Should it be like that? Should we encourage or discourage that? > (and can give you examples if you really want to read them) Sure, I'd appreciate it. Especially if the a
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
> you might have a romantic impression about what science is and how it works. Not really. But something which is already bad can still get worse.
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An Interview with Bill Joy (2000) [pdf](static1.squarespace.com)
1 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|0 comments
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State Dept. Launches International Gender Pressure Campaign(city-journal.org)
3 points by phantom_of_cato 4y ago|0 comments
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
Sorry, I wasn't referring to the submitted article, but to the one I had linked to in my comment. There's a list of the terms above the chart in page 6 of the PDF, for example: https://cspi.substack.com/api/v1
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by phantom_of_cato 4y ago
Slightly better headline ("California Grid Warns of ‘Flex Alerts,’ Suggests Residents Not to Charge Electric Cars") and slightly better coverage: https://www.theepochtimes.com/california-grid-warns-of-flex-... ( h

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