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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I'm assuming the drivers you talked to were working when you talked to them. Do you think that maybe, just maybe, they might be scared to be honest with you under those circumstances?
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The part about finding a better paper is growing more important by the day. The arXiv is filling up with resume-padding garbage.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee384m/Handouts/HowtoReadPape...
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NYU Exposed Code-Breaking Computer Project (2017)(theintercept.com)
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I think the author is way off base. Back in the day, everything related to computers was cool. It was a small priesthood for the nerdiest among us. Now that Harvard MBAs are "going into tech" there is a whole lot of uncool comp
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
People would pay good money for this if you could (1) put it in a Jupyter notebook, (2) create gui bindings for matplotlib. The single biggest time-sink for me outside of research is back-and-forth with management about how results get pres
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I'm old enough to remember the US "color code" scheme after 9/11. It was super weird. Any time they would announce some deeply unpopular unconstitutional measure (surveillance, war) they would bang the "CODE RED!&q
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Not just Kafka, it's got a pretty nasty Orwellian side too. [1] [1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190216/10394141613/faceb...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Honestly? They should be assigned 12 hours of reading that covers the history of due process, what it is, and why we have it.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
There are people who are openly hostile to all of these ancient principles. It's not just people who are too green to know better. I've seen a user with a 2007 vintage account and >30k karma extol the virtue of smear campaigns.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Most desktops have a removable flash chip. For laptops, you can desolder the chip and run magnet wire outside the case. With a little work, you could attach the magnet wire to the SD cardreader contacts inside the case. There are also chip
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
When I read the Economist, I can't help but feel like I'm reading an advertisement for the center of the Anglo-American neoliberal Overton window, drafted by some recent grad who doesn't know who Allen Dulles was. To rip off
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
You've just articulated the basic economic rational for professional guilds. What inference are we supposed to draw from that, in this specific case ? That things are fine? Because "consumers" aren't getting access to
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> If the US really is producing 25,000 more lawyers per year than it can employ, that's a real problem. Drill down on that issue, and you'll see the real problem. Non-corporate litigants are majority pro-se now. That's
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Confirmed in this gem: https://web.archive.org/web/20200618030047/https://www.balti...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Saying that a nation ought to manage its industrial capacity in a deliberate way isn't necessarily a populist position.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Aren't both political parties equally culpable for the destruction? A frank discussion about industrial policy would not inure to the benefit of any established political actor. It's a story of breathtaking incompetence, callousn
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
If you started talking about deaths of despair, you'd have to start talking about de-industrialization and how the Fed lied about it to give Congress political cover [1]. Can't go there. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com&#
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
It's a great book, but that excerpt reflects a pretty shallow read of 1984. It doesn't account for this specific example, the use of outrage as an instrument of social control.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
In Orwell's Oceania, the inner and outer party made up around 10% of the population. Minitrue was a small subset of that apparatus, and developed such wonderful products as "the two minutes hate". It's not like we were
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
You're definitely correct, but its more like "scrape Facebook and Linkedin in real time". This measure is probably more about generating mystique that is useful for recruiting than it is about maintaining security.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Recruitment isn't a problem if there is a worthwhile mission. Things like the Berlin Airlift and Marshall Plan motivate people. The idea that GCHQ is doing anything other than preserving Britain's role as junior partner in an i
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
You can manage your own secure boot keys [1]. [1] https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/take-control-your-pc-ue...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> It's a form of "achievement laundering". For sure [1]. But it is actually pretty easy to distinguish these groups of people. Was the person on the Putnam team? Did the person take Math 55 (or Honors Analysis at Chicago
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Here's an accurate summary of the legal profession: "But most of all, the legal profession has failed. Democratic governance depends upon responsible individuals throughout the entire system who understand and uphold the law, not
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
That's the logic that gave us the PATRIOT Act, the full consequences of which have yet to be understood.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Do you really want to live in a world where software is politicized to the point that FOSS devs are maintaining shit-lists of undesirables barred from using basic tools? It won't end well, and the adverse effects will disproportionatel
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> The research participants are voluntarily sharing their ads with NYU. Facebook is objecting. FB gives off serious Emil Kaschub vibes with its willingness to run non-consensual psychological experiments on people.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> by a research university with an IRB Let's not forget that Facebook is a company that tormented an employee so severely he killed himself at the office [1]. [1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgn9q&#x2F
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Were the developers in the habit of signing commits, or do we just have to assume that the gitee mirror is 100% legit?

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