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by roarcher 3y ago
Ah I see it, looks like you're right: > DIA currently provides funding to another agency that purchases commercially available geolocation metadata aggregated from smartphones. The data DIA receives is global in scope and is not ide
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by roarcher 3y ago
Are you sure about that? See Section 2.2 of the report, "Examples of CAI Contracts" that says "The IC currently acquires a large amount of CAI" and goes on to list specific data brokers contracted by specific government
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by roarcher 3y ago
I'm aware of the distinction. I guess I wasn't clear in my original comment because this keeps coming up: My point is merely that there is absolutely no doubt that once acquired, the data gives the government this capability. The
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by roarcher 3y ago
In the J6 case they used a subpoena, yes. The OP article says that they're now going around the legal process by simply buying the data. But my point is that the article implies that there's some uncertainty as to whether this dat
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by roarcher 3y ago
It's irrelevant because my entire and only point is that the government has this capability, no "may" about it. Whether my choice of words implied the level of ideological purity that you wished to see has nothing to do with
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by roarcher 3y ago
I posted the source in another comment but I'll put it here as well: https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-is-mapping-cell-phone-lo... The data came from Google and included GPS data. Either way, I don't think that
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by roarcher 3y ago
https://www.businessinsider.com/doj-is-mapping-cell-phone-lo...
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by roarcher 3y ago
You're free to describe them however you like, it's irrelevant to my point.
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> Such data may be useful, it says, to “identify every person who attended a protest or rally based on their smartphone location or ad-tracking records.” "May"? This is exactly how the January 6th protestors were identified.
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> It's a saying that people in the military are well aware of (OEF Veteran here). Same. That's where I heard it. > The Taliban were able to do this with ease. The Taliban weren't doing what we were doing. They generally
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by roarcher 3y ago
No, they were overrun after taking a shot, which compromised their position. The incident you're talking about happened much earlier, in Iraq. I believe this article is referencing it: https://www.dvidshub.net/news&#x2F
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by roarcher 3y ago
Although I was tangentially involved in the aforementioned incident, I'm not sure what level the change came from or what the process is but it was an extremely broad order--at least Marine Corps-wide, and possibly for all units in the
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The military took many lessons from Vietnam that didn't work in the Middle East. As one example, at the start of the war in Afghanistan, Marine scout snipers would operate in two-man teams. This was a Vietnam-era SOP that favored steal
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by roarcher 3y ago
Just wait until you own a cat that goes into heat and sexually harasses you for two weeks straight. I can never un-know what a degenerate little pervert my cat is.
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Allow me to introduce you to the concept of a "lateral move". Plenty of tech-adjacent people like QAs (and tech writers) are self-teaching or going to school for CS. After a year or two they move into junior development jobs at th
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by roarcher 3y ago
> I don’t see any scandal beyond a bruised ego. This guy calls himself "The PhD". I suspect a bruised ego is a recurring affliction of his.
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It probably will get killed off, but this kid will have a nice fat wallet by then. Good for him!
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by roarcher 3y ago
"Dressing up Snarky Blog Posts as Academic Papers" Considered Harmful
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by roarcher 3y ago
If they're ever in a position to replace me with AI, they'll do it regardless of where I'm working from. Might as well enjoy WFH while I can.
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Why would this be a risk? The data is already on your machine. It would be much easier for a hacker to target that data directly, as they do today, than to try to extract some impossibly obfuscated form of it from an LLM.
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by roarcher 3y ago
What's the correct word to command your archers to release a volley?
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by roarcher 3y ago
Going to such great lengths to shoehorn a dig at Americans into a random conversation is a very strange hobby. Consider finding a new one.
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by roarcher 3y ago
> Would it have killed them to do any research at all on this article instead of just rephrasing a tiktok? This is the latest in low-effort content milling. Whenever I open a new Chrome tab on my phone, I see an endless stream of these p
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by roarcher 3y ago
"Now that I've condescended to you, I expect you to let that be the last word." I'm not religious, but your comment ought to be engraved on a monument to pomposity.
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> This isn't "sloppy language", it's just wrong. Yes, no less than four people before you have explained what's wrong with my comment. I made the "sloppy language" edit before I fully understood them. &
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I think I still don't understand 100%, but that's probably my lack of formal knowledge about this stuff. I appreciate the explanation.
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I meant it in the sense that I assume GP meant it, i.e., the index of an element in an ordered set is an integer corresponding to its position in that set, starting at 0 or 1 for the first element (depending on your indexing scheme of choic
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by roarcher 3y ago
I don't see how your point about countability invalidates what I said. Irrationals are uncountable, but there are fewer of them between 0 and 1 than reals between 0 and 1, by virtue of the fact that all irrationals are reals but not al
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by roarcher 3y ago
Not all infinities can be indexed. Take all the real numbers between 0 and 1, for example. If you pick one and call it N, there's an infinite quantity of real numbers between 0 and N and between N and 1. Therefore it's impossible
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by roarcher 3y ago
I didn't say "only". I'm responding to GP's assertion that these were "otherwise peaceful protests" if not for "bad actors from eastern Oregon". They're the one claiming it was only the othe

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