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by rotrux 7y ago
> "Also people want to be themselves - and want others to be themselves..." No, but nice try. Maybe in some circumstances, maybe even several, but this isn't THE concern online. Anonymity is not always bad. Anyhow my main
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by rotrux 7y ago
It's an anecdote. Overzealous policing has happened in lots of democracies for centuries.
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by rotrux 7y ago
Unless research in this area is policed, outlawing the practice will drive it underground or to another country with less qualms. One problem with trying to ban incorporeal things like genetic sequencing algorithms is that you can't co
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by rotrux 7y ago
This thread is frustrating. First off, there's a typo in the quote. The word "who" is missing: "..someone who went hunting?" Second off, even if the missing word was "we": "...someone we went hunting.
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by rotrux 7y ago
Here's an interesting passage: > "The strategy reveals that quantum measurement is not about the physical perturbation induced by the probe but about what you know (and what you leave unknown) as a result. “Absence of an event
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by rotrux 7y ago
At first I'm sure you would be.
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by rotrux 7y ago
Yep. Capitalism-induced feedback loop. That said, more people are going to pay attention to a newscast about terrorism than one about, say, how the yellow dye used in legal pads is poisonous. If you think about it, I'm actually more li
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Breakthrough in Combating Drug Resistant Bacteria(usnews.com)
2 points by rotrux 7y ago|0 comments
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by rotrux 7y ago
No. It reflects what we are worried about dying from. Instead of <likelihood of thing being in the news> = f(<probability of dying from thing>) It's more like: <likelihood of thing being in the news> = f(<probabi
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by rotrux 7y ago
This platitude paints a very shallow picture of human decisionmaking. Tecnically, eating oranges "can help you make better decisions" because getting scurvy is distressing. Looking at yourself like an alien is not a catchall whic
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by rotrux 7y ago
> Become? Become?! You stole my comment! No but in all seriousness, this is a long-standing issue. The A) requirement of making BT-enabled devices backwards compatible, B) the monstrous stack of protocols involved in like every use-case,
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by rotrux 7y ago
> There isn't a depth limit. Well looks like you're right, but the nonetheless the reply button wasn't there. Did I sufficiently address your question?
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by rotrux 7y ago
@stupidcar we've reached the depth-limit, so I'm responding here. > In the case of "trust but verify", how does this trust manifest in a provable way? Good point. "provable" is the problem here since we don&
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by rotrux 7y ago
There are different kinds and levels of trust. "Trust but verify" doesn't mean you should give strangers your SSN. I agree that this nuance is lost within the turn-of-phrase, but omitting the trust part doesn't seem to m
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by rotrux 7y ago
How do we enforce this? We want the federal government to start investigating factories & banning imports of electronic devices with X sensor and Y connectivity capabilities? Do we sue Best Buy unless it changes all its suppliers immedi
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by rotrux 7y ago
No I was and am completely serious. This is how I go through life.
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by rotrux 7y ago
This is absurd. First of all, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.06340.pdf which opens with the intimidating quote: "Spicing up selfies by inserting virtual hats, sunglasses or toys has become easy to do with mobile augme
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by rotrux 7y ago
The "rule of internet sarcasm" doesn't exist, because that implies there is a single rule as opposed to several or none. Excuse you.
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Ask HN: Are there any sites that divulge Chinese or Russian leaks?
7 points by rotrux 8y ago|1 comments
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by rotrux 8y ago
> "Forms of ILP have been around much longer than 2006" You're absolutely right, but what I'm trying to get across is that the CPU design problem has largely shifted from being capacity-based to being efficiency-based
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by rotrux 8y ago
Probably not out of the box. It just seems like a more promising approach than a browser API.
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by rotrux 8y ago
I don't really understand how we've all been shocked by this. From https://www.maketecheasier.com/why-cpu-clock-speed-isnt-incr... : > "Thanks to the limitations of physics and the current transistor materi
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by rotrux 8y ago
http://sikulix.com/
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by rotrux 8y ago
Opinion: Yes. Just less of a malignant one.
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by rotrux 8y ago
I promise to try ^__^
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by rotrux 8y ago
Wow I upset some people. Sorry, I won't talk smack about the moon anymore.
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by rotrux 8y ago
Anyone else not super impressed? Water is important for carbon-based life, but so is a bunch of other stuff like air, carbohydrates, aaaaaaaaaaaaaand also life...or at very least a very serious mix of reactive chemicals...From a causation p
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by rotrux 8y ago
I mean, that's a decent point, but for the sake of my argument: let's pretend we're talking about a nuclear missile silo instead of a bank. The point is just that collateral damage can happen when people run their mouths ab
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by rotrux 8y ago
I wouldn't call this sophistry, but I do disagree with your logic here: > Jill cannot post the exploit before Bo'M has a chance to protect their customers, because Bo'M already had a chance to do so. Software has bugs.
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by rotrux 8y ago
Ok so I do appreciate the EFF's zeal in preemptively quashing a bug-hunter-hunt, but here's a scenario that throws their thesis into question: Bank of 'MURICA (Bo'M) gets a phone call from some random guy (Jack) who iden

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