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by rmrfstar 6y ago
There are historical DNS data vendors, as there are historical WHOIS data vendors. Also, Google would almost certainly respond to a journalistic inquiry about a cryptographic signature. Follow-up of this kind is what we should expect from
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> Any analysis we do is always on anonymized and aggregated information and never traceable back to an individual or clinic. Google says your records are "anonymized" when they drop the last octet of your IP address. What do y
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Both are relevant, and both are concerning.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Robert Graham [1] pointed out that if the emails are authentic, they can be trivially verified via DKIM. That the email metadata was not released implies the emails are either inauthentic, or that the post did not contact someone with basic
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I think most people agree with you. The problem is lock-in. I want to have some agility wrt the central nodes I use. Why cant you migrate your social graph off of Facebook, or route messages from your preferred node to someone who uses Fac
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Is it propaganda if I repeat propaganda that managed to convince me? Does propaganda depend on the subjective intent of the speaker? If not, then any information system with a few powerful broadcast nodes is indistinguishable from a propag
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
That's kind of a problem, right? [1] How is the US going to "beat China in 5G" if people doing DSP research have to worry about stepping on legal landmines like this. [1] https://moxie.org/2013/06/12
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
[1] is a little concerning. Is there really no safe harbor for low-power educational applications? [1] https://pysdr.org/content/pluto_advanced.html#transmitting-o...
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
My model is a hashmap that contains my training data. Missing keys are forecast uniformly randomly. It perfectly matches 100% of my training data.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
People use the phrase "TV programming" without a hint of irony.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
I think you're being a little naive about how these laws are used. At the end of the day they do a smell test to see if there is a sufficient "foreign nexus". And there always is. 99.9% of the surveillance they do is poli
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Take a look at the US per-capita incarceration rate over time [1]. Since the war on drugs began, it has grown 5x over what appears to have been a long-term steady state. The war on drugs is a make-work jobs program for people who can't
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
VC's won't fund anything in Big Tech's "kill zone", and bootstrapped projects need profits to sustain themselves. It is very difficult to turn a profit while facing a competitor that can run perpetual losses. I fin
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Look into the phrase "dumping". Uber and Lyft are allowed to run permanent losses because they have privileged access to cheap capital. If you have a better platform but you actually need to turn a profit, your ship is sunk befor
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Fair enough, people seem to prefer stores to flea markets where haggling is permitted. But stores bear product liability for dangerous products, vicarious liability for employee misconduct, and are bound by employment/labor law. You ca
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Blacklight even turns up trackers on ftc.gov. Think about that. If you go to ftc.gov to file a complaint about Google, Google will have a log of that interaction. I trust that Google is honorable and does not abuse this privileged position
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
That makes a lot of sense: allow the market to do its thing and efficiently allocate scarce resources. But it raises the question: why doesn't Uber operate like a normal marketplace where buyers/sellers submit bids/offers at
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Do you mean that financial shocks propagate because a leveraged investor may have to sell assets in market A to fund margin calls in the primary impacted market B, or that economic shocks propagate because supply chains are deep and bri
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Prescription history is 58 days back. Others are farther back. This stuff is common knowledge, and documented extensively in the press. Your own comment history includes a number of instances where you either minimize or deny the seriousn
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
FUD is an effective tactic. There are documented examples of each in my comment history.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Not sure what's up with your insistence on this. Maybe you want to spread uncertainty so that some fraction of people continue believing these capabilities aren't out there (and extremely common among the moneyed classes)? Maybe y
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
There are documented cases of each in the press.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
What?! This team was an absolute joke. Read the criminal complaint, then imagine they had any (or all) of the following, which are all for sale: * Real-time location from your cell provider * Real-time AirBnB booking * Real-time purchases
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
These networks seem to have abandoned whatever sense of decency they had in the early years of the Georgetown set. We haven't had anything like a Marshall Plan or a Berlin Airlift for some time now.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Yeah, good point. There are similarly jingoistic contemporary Asian powers that pretend everything offends them. It's dangerous.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
There is a lot of morally repugnant commentary on this website. But I think this is the worst comment I've seen yet.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
The US has a common law system, like the UK. However, arbitration panels cannot set precedent and do not issue opinions. That means the law is perpetually frozen in place. So, we really have a civil law system with none of the mechanisms
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Do we have the industrial base and skilled workforce to actually get to Mars? Doing something we've done before is one way to ramp that capacity before taking the next step.
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
> which probably made getting pulled into that war inevitable As Japan saw it, the US oil embargo forced Japan to choose between war or a humiliating capitulation to US demands. [1] The major takeaway is: never force a near-peer to choos
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by rmrfstar 6y ago
Why? The question of America's apparent desire for official censorship is orthogonal to the question of monopoly. And even if it wasn't, people would be a lot more likely to get their preferred brand of censorship from whichever

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