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by rad88 4y ago
The litigation on that matter is ongoing. What you said is not true right now. If you try to fight an order for your password, you'll wind up in court and probably lose, and then have to chose whether to act in contempt.
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by rad88 4y ago
Yeah, well what I want is a (physical, literal) membership card like I have at the gym or library. I think "regular" people can learn to use USB tokens, and that they might make more intuitive sense than passwords. These places do
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by rad88 4y ago
The possibility of Higgs appearing at LHC, but not any supersymetry partners, has a name among physicists: the nightmare scenario. The Higgs discovery (measuring its mass) wasn't unexpected, there were known symmetries and energy boun
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by rad88 4y ago
Adding more because I've read her book (not to quibble). I wouldn't say the point is that new physics is out of reach until we build more expensive accelerators. She herself is a theoretical physicist, has theories she'd like
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by rad88 4y ago
They all register and file disclosures though. A private fund of this size concealing its existence, its structure, and its objectives, is immoral and bad for the stock.
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by rad88 4y ago
Allow edits to the post, or allow the author to append short updates to it, or something else, but I think the rate limit is an interesting thing and worth sticking with at this stage. It's a principle that once you break would be hard
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by rad88 4y ago
If doing it above board wouldn't make sense anyway, that means the idea is to do something illegal. You'd know who controls the board, how many shares the person currently buying it has secured, which way votes are going to go bef
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by rad88 4y ago
No, "I'll vote as part of your bloc just pay me $50M" is obviously not an incidental agreement.
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by rad88 4y ago
You're right that my pom-pom action was serious, but it sounds like you're imaging a different kind of dilemma than I was. You're referring to walking away from an unproductive conversation, while I was responding to a cynica
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by rad88 4y ago
You can't control the outcome of a conversation, and cynicism goes hand in hand with bad faith. Communication is still the most awesome thing that humans do, or will ever be able to do!
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by rad88 5y ago
What are the kind of boot/init processes that require the RNG? Is it only a requirement on some systems, or does basically every gameboy, laptop, soda machine etc have init processes that would need the RNG? The issue that triggered th
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by rad88 5y ago
The point of this survey is to improve the deepfakes. They aren't very difficult to spot when you've been primed and are paying attention, but the purpose here isn't to show off how good the fakes are or even challenge you to
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by rad88 7y ago
This is a general purpose excuse for any rambling theory posted online.
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by rad88 7y ago
The wealth difference is not as great as it seems, it's just the interest on the mortgage minus tax incentives and the opportunity cost of paying it off.
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by rad88 7y ago
Have you looked at Project Vesta? It's a proposal to create olivine beaches around the tropics to boost sequestration due to rock weathering. I think it's somewhat disputed because rock weathering in a surf happens at a different
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by rad88 8y ago
The other way of looking at that is that it would only take a few hundred thousand years for a technologically advanced civilization to permeate the galaxy. But the galaxy is billions of years old and that has not happened. The other thin
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by rad88 8y ago
"Hetero privilege" is proved by the discrimination and stigma against gay relationships, families, the violence against them, rejection by their families, their churches, institutions like blood banks, etc. I think if someone can&
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by rad88 8y ago
Your premise is a civilization with values that are some extension my own, which considers the environmental recklessness that preceded it as either amusing or necessary. That doesn't sound plausible. I really believe that, but I don&#
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by rad88 8y ago
Death really is around the corner for chicks in an egg though. Even professional hatcheries supposedly can't manage more than a ~90% hatch rate. The thing that is silly about the chicken's worry (apart from the anthropomorphism) i
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by rad88 8y ago
You argued that on one hand we could save individuals with cancer, and on the other we could save all of humanity. Only that doesn't include the individual with cancer, or anybody else on Earth! I knew exactly what you meant which is
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by rad88 8y ago
It could not save "all of humanity". Humanity would be down there on Earth dying. In the end who you would save would again be individuals -- a few people on the moon. The question is could you save more people in space in a hypot
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by rad88 8y ago
So are planetary risks. They give the name to "astronomically unlikely". But while cancer might not kill everyone at once, it's going to kill billions of us.
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by rad88 8y ago
But nothing at all is really known about "length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space". It's somewhere between a few decades or so and 10 billion years?
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by rad88 8y ago
Rights are expectations that you have from a just society. There's no real division into positive and negative rights. Due process, for instance, could be phrased either way but it is the same right nonetheless. One phrasing would em
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by rad88 9y ago
If he'd tested it beforehand the comment might instead be "this destroyed my laptop". You have a responsibility to test before releasing to production, yes. But the amount of fucked up your program has to be for `sudo ___ --h
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by rad88 9y ago
It's banana-pants crazy to run npm at all. Even given all the wisdom about running as sudo, best practices etc., this team released an update where `sudo npm --help` breaks the operating system. The recklessness and confusion of ideas
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by rad88 9y ago
Science isn't driven by principles like that. Nothing is built from the ground up, and data that isn't formally understood or modeled is relied upon often. Though we think of it as a dead end today, the experiments and thinking of
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by rad88 9y ago
Human nature is exactly what we make of it and nothing more. Evolutionary forces tending our nations towards oligarchy, or more recently representative government, would be group selection which is largely debunked. In fact it's a much
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by rad88 9y ago
Your question is about people who have already become employed software developers. Obviously those women don't far outnumber men in any respect. What I'm saying is the candidate pool of women is much larger than is assumed here (
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by rad88 9y ago
20% would be a lower bound. I majored in a hard science, not CS. Two great programmers I know, in senior positions, don't even have a degree. At my last company there was a decent Rails engineer who studied communication in college and

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