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by s_q_b 13y ago
Both of these are spot-on. I'm just suggesting taking a closer look at some of the competitors methods, and how're they're pursuing similar avenues. I don't know if Tinder's popularity has hit critical mass outside
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Nada. Zip. Zilch. I know it's a good thing, but kinda disappointing in a way.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I'm not interested in so much finding Mr./Mrs. right. I'm interested in the business problem. The waves I see coming are: a shift from long term romantic involvement to a trend toward shorter term interactions among my genera
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Yeah, My thinking is that hook-up apps will disrupt the dating site market by slotting in below and rising up, innovator's dilemma style. Grouper, Tinder, Grindr, et al. are the model I believe will actually bring online dating forward
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I love that you built something. But let me be brutally honest, because that's what I would want. I don't see the value-add. Maybe it's 2x better than e-harmony, but it's not 10x better, like some of the new competitors
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Yes, that's a good point. I've certainly never examined the problem through the lens of a BFA conservatory-style program. If a necessary part of the skill-set a student wishes to learn is the ability to accept and process public c
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by s_q_b 13y ago
What pedagogical purpose does this serve? I'm a fan of tough love from teachers. I'd rather get a low grade and learn a great deal than a high grade and learn nothing. For some instructors, part of that is being willing to say the
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by s_q_b 13y ago
The Economist: > Does the NSA have a quantum computer in the basement of its headquarters in Maryland (pictured above)? It is theoretically possible, but pretty unlikely... A Canadian firm called D-Wave is presently selling a specialised
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Exactly. That's smart foreign policy. A limited definable goal, preservation of the norm of prohibition against the use of chemical weapons, and a way to accomplish it that respects the interests of each of the parties.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
> Dangerous for people taking the test or administering the test? Your comment seems ambivalent about the efficacy of tests. Dangerous to the organizations that rely upon the test, in that lack of the belief in the efficacy of polygraph
851.
by s_q_b 13y ago
This is exactly spot-on. My only addition would be that the rebel groups must be inspected to determine whether they have gained control of any chemical stockpiles.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
You're right. A fairly large statistical portion of domestic violence is female to male, and the stereotype of the wife-beater has certainly led to a lot of false prosecutions against men (falsely accused of being the aggressor) and si
853.
by s_q_b 13y ago
It wouldn't have occurred to me to do this a different way. Isn't this a very basic use of zip()?
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by s_q_b 13y ago
There is something theater of the absurd about forcing large numbers of people with criminal tendencies to spend long periods of time together and then releasing them into society. The line from the movie Blow comes to mind: Danbury wasn&#
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by s_q_b 13y ago
No. The Boston Globe and the New York Times ran a massive investigation of this, and the editor of the Globe was nearly fired for their publication. Personally I can tell you the uniforms, equipment, settings etc. are all wrong. "Wheth
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Just verified that these are in fact the same photos the Boston Globe ran and then retracted because they were fakes from a pornography video. @mladenkovacevic The story of those horrific events has been told many, many times in news outlet
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by s_q_b 13y ago
These photos are the same as those published by the Boston Globe and determined to be fakes from a pornography website. A mod should kill this story.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
That sounds like a terrible attorney. There are lots of ambulance chasing shills that should be disbarred, but there are also many excellent highly ethical attorneys. The problem is that those attorneys are typically reserved for the rich,
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by s_q_b 13y ago
The most dangerous element that he, and several other, anti-polygraph coaches are teaching is that the polygraph itself isn't a very effective lie detector. With proper sensors, a skilled technician, and good data analysis it's pr
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by s_q_b 13y ago
You seem to be outsourcing the trust mechanism to the users, while the page implies that you've solved the trust problem internally through the protocol. Don't get me wrong, the research is very impressive in it's own right,
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by s_q_b 13y ago
So while there are a bunch of new Tor clients running, it would seem they're not doing much. Huh, didn't notice that. Should have seen it from the network bandwidth graph. It's even more odd in some ways than the OP spike.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Relays haven't increased correspondingly, so it's not a straightforward correlation attack. Here's a list of hypotheses: 1. The recent Russian censorship crackdown. 2. Botnets using Tor to search for vulnerable systems and to
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by s_q_b 13y ago
A few hundred Tor nodes would be useless in trying to break anyone's anonymity. With ~4k relays (entry/exits) and ~2k bridges (pure relays of encrypted connections) and only a few hundred hostile relays, the odds of an OP's (
864.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Surely the sudden spike in entry and exit nodes would make the attack obvious. The central directory authority service could be modified to blacklist nodes from the master OR directory list that join within too small of a time interval. On
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by s_q_b 13y ago
If you want to see the largely-tamed press suddenly become rabidly anti-national security, go ahead guys. The press is still massively powerful in the UK, and even more so in the United States, where the First Amendment still holds relative
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by s_q_b 13y ago
These are both really excellent points. While DNS-hijacking Google.ps as a watering hole for HN seems like a bit of a long shot of a vector to get access to HN users, it would be a pretty logical vector for Palestinian Authority systems. An
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I agree with your point, but 0-day exploits aren't tossed around like candy corn. They're multi-million dollar munitions.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
You could tell physical gifts were a dud within a few weeks of their rollout. Facebook should test its ideas better before full-scale rollout. Launch a feature at a few schools, test the adoption metrics, and rebuild for scale if it gets tr
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Good points, I hadn't realized how involved the Guardian's editors had been in Greenwald's recent stories, especially since he retained sole editorial control over his publications in the past. The way my friends in the journ
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by s_q_b 13y ago
There's a complex symbiotic relationship between the government and high level journalists, especially with regard to national security issues. It's not simply that they're government shills. Rather, there's a strong app

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