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by rcoveson 6y ago
Maybe some other news outlet named him first and they updated their own article to include that tidbit as well, so as not to be outdone?
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I hope what you mean to say is that the autopsy itself does not contain _conclusive_ evidence of homicide. Mere evidence of homicide abounds. Of note in particular is the presence of a knee on the deceased's neck in the moments leading
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> The official autopsy literally labels George Floyd's death a homicide Are we reading the same report? The link in GP doesn't contain the word "homicide". In fact I can't find anything in it stating a cause of d
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by rcoveson 6y ago
I'm curious, why do you use Sophocles as your name? He doesn't hold up well by modern moral standards.
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by rcoveson 6y ago
No one with an ounce of self-worth should work long-term for companies that expect them to do exactly what their title implies they should and not a thing more. You're basically being arbitrarily restricted to learning and enjoying exa
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by rcoveson 6y ago
That's an irresponsible use of the word "theoretically". What actual theory would have them do that? You're describing a coordination problem of absurd proportions and you haven't even proposed a shared motive. It l
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by rcoveson 6y ago
The question was posed, "What bad does someone expect to happen as a result of this[?]". So I'm putting on my least-charitable-to-Google hat. I'm not trying to make the most accurate predictions. > They specifically c
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> What bad does someone expect to happen as a result of this. Google is enriched when it can associate consumer IPs with DNS queries. Collecting that sort of information and compiling it into a advertising profile is part of Google'
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> The right comparison is how easy it is to get around the US using private transit like Uber. In my experience (Santa Ana, El Salvador), it's still not even close. The bus routes are smart and frequent, the city is eminently walk-a
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Great fun. Love the shareable URLs. https://music-grid.surge.sh/#1-1282-1-1280-2056-1044-2056-10...
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> At least you get to feel good about your purity when you're posting comments on HN, secure in the knowledge that you don't have a teenager or a parent that might die as a result. What's this ad hominem crap doing here? I
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by rcoveson 6y ago
Low-er? High and low are relative adjectives almost everywhere they're used. C is a low level programming language relative to most other programming languages; it has fewer layers of abstraction than say, Java. In a conversation discu
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> Everything is political! Everything. I think what you might be saying is something like, "politics is a fundamental part of human behavior, so all things human must at least be scrutinized through a political lens". Which is
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by rcoveson 6y ago
> ...but is pure noise for people of average or above-average intelligence. Maybe not pure noise. He pointed out in many paragraphs that further to the right of the distribution you would find "nerds", salarymen, and other sort
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by rcoveson 7y ago
> Supporting the government in lawful operations is not evil. No, it often is. I don't think I need to cite examples. I'm not advocating for anarchy, and I haven't given up faith in the justice system as a whole. However,
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by rcoveson 7y ago
That's not what I'm saying at all. Most people who argue that open source is equally or more secure than close source software do not argue that access to source code provides zero benefit to attackers. Instead, they argue that th
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by rcoveson 7y ago
The NSA does a lot of things. A lot of them are good. Some of them are bad. When the NSA asks you to help them do bad things, you say no. If you feel inspired to give them a cheesecake discount because of the good things they do, that is fi
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Gun to my head, would I still do the right thing? Of course I'll say yes, and I hope it's true. Thankfully, I probably won't ever have to find out. But if it does come to that, and I choose wrong, I know I won't write a
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by rcoveson 7y ago
If I ran an neighborhood ISP, and the cops asked me to spy on a neighbor (for reasons they wouldn't even provide), then I'd shut down first. If they just wanted to search _my_ stuff, sure. But if the only reason that I'm even
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by rcoveson 7y ago
That may well be true. But still, this story influences my _guess at the likelihood_ that this author would do so in the direction of "more likely." Likelihood that the authors/owners of software are willing to cooperate, and
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Source availability helps in crafting successful exploits in the real world. Providing the source of a closed source project to an adversary so that they can break your software is nefarious. If the author's justification was... "
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by rcoveson 7y ago
> Your security should never depend upon security of your source code. For sure. I don't think it's about that, though. Even if the application in question were open source, if the project lead is willing to cooperate in any wa
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by rcoveson 7y ago
> This is a terrible example... ...and then you go on to describe the reason it's a great example. I'm contending with the belief that somethings "worth" is determined by the effects it has, specifically the effects o
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Right, and there are many things in between. Maintaining an object, improving an object, combining objects to make complex object, etc. If you’re in the business of creating useful objects out of basically nothing, you don’t even need a com
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by rcoveson 7y ago
So if a crippled person needs somebody to go to the bank and withdraw $1,000 for them, and they figure they can hire somebody trustworthy for $50 to do the errand, is that person not being paid what they’re worth, because they added $1,000
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Just what do you think the word “worth” means?
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by rcoveson 7y ago
As you have implied in your example, humans cannot make observations about the present and reason about the near future. As a result, they must learn the consequences of any action by experiencing it. So the situation is really much worse t
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by rcoveson 7y ago
You could subtract the value of '\n' from each byte, bitwise-or the result with its negated value, right shift the sign bit into the least significant position, and push that into an accumulator. Basically, it is possible to reduc
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by rcoveson 7y ago
Access to communications with a warrant is fine; they already have that right. That doesn't solve the encryption problem. How do you propose solving it? This problem has only one real solution. All communications must be unencrypted or
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by rcoveson 7y ago
If law enforcement should have a monopoly on encrypted communication, why not a monopoly on guns? Cartels with guns are far scarier than cartels with encryption. If we actually had the power to take either away, we would choose guns, right?

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