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by powrtoch 16y ago
Someone (possibly me, depending on what I end up doing tonight) should run a test. Tell Person A (preferably the gullible type), using lots of really convincing-sounding technobabble like "attenuated with the dopamine IDT frequency in human
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Quantum cryptography(en.wikipedia.org)
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by powrtoch 16y ago
"Why is this? Is it because people are not rational actors? No." Yes, it is. This article is just one example after another of human irrationality being derailed by evolutionary hacks.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
What facebook enemies need is a headline. "Little girl brutally murdered after FB's privacy controls reveal her to a crazy stalker" People just don't respond to rational argument, data, and talk the way they do to fear. Obviously for the li
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Sure, they'd do it. But when 85% of your friend network wasn't at this party, and they start complaining about you not being on, and you stop getting invited to things (because people assume their FB friends list really is their entire frie
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Do I get bonus METs if my legs never, ever, ever stop bouncing the entire time I'm at my desk?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Casual, colleague-like 'sounding board' services. I would love to see this monetized. Not because I'd use it, I'd just get a kick out of it.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
"Information is meant to be consumed. It's meant to be free. It's meant to reach as many people as humanly possible, shared, and discussed." Let's be fair. Different information is "meant" for different things. My email password is not mean
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Seconded. I think the move towards not having a new login at every site is a good one, but FB connect doesn't seem like the way to go. I'd like to see something like OpenID, but at the very least there should (always!) be a simple userid or
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by powrtoch 16y ago
It's about to enter public beta... release is probably at least a year out.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Precisely. Ultimately, no one is going to use a language where there's no way to output a date in a form that will be sometimes ambiguous. And how often do you really even find yourself printing totally unambiguous time stamps? For my part
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I'll take that over this comment: "The other possible explanation is that it was not chance. The movie 'Signs' makes a good discussion of this point."
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Let's not forget conditional comments. The overhead for other browsers could be completely negligible.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, this is targeted at webmasters who want to use these features in their websites. I haven't downloaded/installed, but my guess is that it provides a workaround component that your page can link to. Similar to the existin
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Maybe by HNers. I think a solid percentage of the general public at least vaguely knows about it, but most of my non-techie friends probably don't, or if they do they heard once and then forgot about it. It's certainly a screw up on Apple's
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Does this even have the necessary buttons to be an up-to-spec android device?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Don't forget the frames.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Really though. If you wanted to claim that it was just for research, why give it such an inflammatory name? Compare: 1) WebReader is monitoring internet data. 2) Perfect Citizen is monitoring internet data. Which one do you expect to be a r
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I've been reading the entire archive of sequences on LessWrong. I'm paid by the hour and it's been slow.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Prepare for the Papyrus-storm.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
If this is true, and if the more intelligent people were really much more intelligent, then they would just start waking up earlier.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Buy a lamp?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Indeed. Why does HN suddenly want to make me a lifeguard?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Rendering the bullets redundant, no?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Re: most of these comments: I'd be okay with it as long as it only popped this up the first time it went to background mode. Arguably it'd even be a good feature since a lot of users might not know about the tradeoff involved in backgroundi
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by powrtoch 16y ago
So... how awesome is it that the founders of this money-handling system are "Rich" and "Bill"?
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by powrtoch 16y ago
Plenty of patterns can survive in some degree of static. One of the rules is "Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation." Therefore, a spaceship cell that normally had two neighbors could run into an
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by powrtoch 16y ago
What I would really like is a "What you can do to help calm the hysteria" post. If you understand what cybercrime attacks really are, you know that it's ludicrous to suggest that we're "losing a war". But most people don't, and those people
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by powrtoch 16y ago
I don't think they're expecting it to be cracked, per se, just guessed. I don't have to have defeated the SHA-256 algorithm to find your hashed password in a rainbow table.
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by powrtoch 16y ago
What CWIZO said. But I wish to emphasize that this is a great example of just how nice it would be in a world without ie6/7. I got excited reading about this technique, but the maintenance work associated with including ie hacks makes the t

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