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by pryce 9y ago
> Happy to have a technical discussion, but not sure you are really interested. Criticism of AMP certainly includes technical aspects, but most objections I encounter are ethical rather than technical. Did Google explicitly consider ethi
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This hypothesis of "what's in it for google" bends over backwards ascribe altruistic motive, and also relies on the (deeply alarming!) idea that AMP use leads to better search rankings. It's worth noting that since your
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It's not simply 'net' harm, as we would regard surgeons as breaking this principle, if they were to murder a homeless man and distribute his organs to 5 otherwise terminal patients. Medical ethics is its own field precisely b
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> have quite literally heard people talking about these things as "the way we'll close the gender participation gap", as in, they'll burn men's careers until things equal out. How does your quote imply your inte
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Thank you; this was largely what I was referring to. I find it deeply troubling that Assange appears to conveniently misunderstand the implications made at him: that he is acting as a willing tool of the Putin administration - not an accusa
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Manning and Snowden, sure. Assange has quite obviously become a stooge for Putin, hardly a people's champion against government overreach.
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I notice that Microsoft is claiming the exploit is in SMBv1 in their patch description [1]. [1] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012598/title
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I would suggest anyone with a history of seizures consider not viewing this link. For anyone else, it is fascinating.
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Of course not. But if (as in this case) we're trying to mitigate, broadly, against a threat with the resources[1] of the CIA, SHA1 should be considered completely inappropriate now, even though the recent SHA1 announcement was with res
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Don't use SHA1..
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Support for point #3 was from the letter shown in this tweet: https://twitter.com/badtom/status/826664655892279296 Support for point #4 was from this letter: https://twitter.com/badtom/status&
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It was 700k USD, not 700m., just to be clear. This is the price of a single suburban house in auckland.
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For one, because the citizens of NZ are concerned about the precedent it sets, and because it's explicitly against our immigration policies, and because the documents show a troubling standard. 1. Thiel arranged application through not
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I'd say consulting the book Peter Thiel wrote in which he describes multiculturalism as existing "to destroy Western Culture" might be a reasonable way of gaining insight into his intentions.
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Just from a cultural perspective, I feel like worldwide we are again celebrating that "my team at all costs!" mentality that was so prominent during the 1980s. This is not to say that the opinion landscape in other decades didn&#x
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I believe Australia used a very similar plan to this.
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I didn't actually claim that Thiels book states the line in question, the claim was actually made by an earlier commenter, presumably based either (a) directly from the book itself or (b) from the phrase in this bloomberg article [1] t
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by pryce 10y ago
I'm aware of that - but if we have to look over 50 years in the past to try to back up the claim that "the left and right are equally bigotted", then we should really just admit that claim doesn't have a factual basis at
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by pryce 10y ago
Call me when your American Left Wing creates a system where Christians, Republicans and Libertarians are forbidden to dine in restaurants because of their identity, or are prevented from using restrooms, or are afraid to call the police sho
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You're entitled to your personal preferences in where/how you like to live, but none of that changes the facts that: 1. Peter Thiel indeed wrote a book called 'the Diversity Myth' and 2. that book claims that multicultu
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Several sources such as [1] are reporting that the 16gb RAM limit was chosen "to preserve battery life". I lend little credence to that idea, given that what people are asking for is at most an optional upgrade for some minority f
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Apple might have made some missteps lately, but they're not stupid. The point of the "magic" toolbar is to help desktop users finally leverage the useful things you can do with contextually aware keys/controls, which is
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I read the slack channel; I didn't see anything to indicate that the channel is where the decision was made, or represents their reasoning.
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> Crockford is a leading Javascript expert, How is this relevant? This idea that we should apply different standards to "leading Javascript experts" than other people is far more troubling than the idea that a speaker might be
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by pryce 10y ago
No, I did not mean literal jail, just as I was not referring to a literal card. I hate to disappoint you, but no one was arguing that Dawkins should go to jail; they were more interested in whether he did something wrong. Crucially, we&#x2
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Parody should presumably not be a get-out-of-jail free card that that allows people to rinse off and rekindle bloodstained racist tropes about people of different skin color and/or foreigners representing a sexual threat to women. If t
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Nodevember is offering refunds, so it's very hard to see how this could be a scam, and difficult to imagine how Nodevember would stand to make anything but a large loss by removing Crockford as a speaker. They chose to proceed with th
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Suppose Microsoft wanted to analyze some pretty interesting parameters of typing - - frequency of different keystrokes - frequency of keystrokes as a function of the preceeding 1, 2 or 3 keystrokes - mean delay between any set of keystroke