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by schoen 3y ago
> I don't give a solitary care about the spying a foreign government does. Why should I? They don't have jurisdiction over me. I care about what it does with that intel, but that is completely separate, which gets us to your Re
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by schoen 3y ago
> Strawman. I never said spying should be "stopped wholesale". Never anything even remotely close to that, in fact. I'm not responsible for defending a position you completely fabricated. I think this is more in response t
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by schoen 3y ago
I think this is all fair, but it's really so hard to know. Even this idealized scenario about the terrorism-detector and taking action based on it... well, it's one that came up a lot around the post-9/11 environment (with se
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by schoen 3y ago
Do you think it's bad if the U.S. prosecutes Brazilian spies who spy on U.S. organizations? Shouldn't we care whether the things that the justice system is punishing people for are things that are actually good or bad? (I mean, I
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by schoen 3y ago
They have legal rights under the jurisdictions where they're established, and presumably the people working for them also retain their individual human rights.
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by schoen 3y ago
> There's no way to use this logic to ever argue that you shouldn't spy on someone. This reminds me of a talk by Halvor Flake in which he says that people in intelligence agencies are incentivized to try to know everything, i
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by schoen 3y ago
> sorry to break it to you, but the answer was too succumb to a full blow 60s style coup which remove the president who autored the Reuters article above. I know lots of people in Brazil who wrote publicly all the time about how they did
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by schoen 3y ago
Huh, I have a radically different intuition from you. :-) I think "personal ethics" applies to everything and everyone in the world. The people who do things are moral agents. > On what grounds does Petrobras have any right to
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by schoen 3y ago
I'm surprised that they didn't bring up their agreement with Snowden in this context. Maybe the interviewer somehow didn't ask them about that aspect?
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by schoen 3y ago
Yeah, if journalists simply bypassed the agreement, a future source might say "OK, I want to expose this bad thing that a government agency is doing, but if I do, the journalists will probably be careless about it and people will get k
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by schoen 3y ago
> which is very hard to justify on national security grounds I think the people doing this have a completely different notion of national security than the general public, one that includes a supposed right to know about surprises in ge
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by schoen 3y ago
I think pomegranate juice is historically popular in Iran, so maybe also in Azerbaijan. There's a pomegranate juice brand that's relatively common in U.S. supermarkets, but not in restaurants: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by schoen 3y ago
Those are both interesting answers, and I didn't really know anything about the Amiga's architecture (other than to have imagined wrongly that it might have had 16-bit addresses). Thanks.
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by schoen 3y ago
I think it was an imaginary scenario that Chesterton invented to illustrate a point. There are some preparedness-paradox stories in the book A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear where people who weren't used to living near bears pooh-pooh
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by schoen 3y ago
> An Amiga with 2GB of RAM Huh, what did the Amiga's memory model look like? Could you construct a pointer to 2 GB different locations? Did it have segments like the 8086 or something?
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by schoen 3y ago
I see a particular irony in the proliferation of spurious claims about everything in every language coming from Sanskrit. And that is that Sanskrit is , in a sense, the origin of rational scientific linguistic study, with Panini. (Yes, thi
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by schoen 3y ago
I should follow up and say that I learned that this unit has already been referred to under the name "tierce", although it's not at all common. It could also be useful for measuring latency of Internet connections, although t
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by schoen 3y ago
They're both named after the animal "crab" in Latin (a constellation that people thought looked like a crab, and a disease that people thought looked like a crab).
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by schoen 3y ago
I think the real answer is "Because the parentheses are mathematics notation for function application". (Grabs Cajori's History of Mathematical Notations .) Apparently the use of parentheses to indicate function application
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by schoen 3y ago
Regular expressions (in the original computer science sense) can be matched by finite-state automata!
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by schoen 3y ago
Yes, although he was also reported to have translated from Russian to Portuguese. But now I'm more confused because apparently these words do differ in Russian, by a single vowel <а>: граната granata for the weapon and гранат
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by schoen 3y ago
> experiencing this "micro-structure" is also a mind-expanding experience: The sky is no longer a set of random point sources. Its an organic "thing" enclosing other "things". Galileo was immediately astonis
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by schoen 3y ago
A frustrating thing is that the process node name has decoupled from the feature size: > Later each new generation process became known as a technology node or process node, designated by the process' minimum feature size in nanomet
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by schoen 3y ago
Yeah. The original source is the Correio da Manhã at https://www.cmjornal.pt/portugal/detalhe/troca-de-roma-por-g... which is mostly behind a paywall. I'm sure there are some idiom confusions possible betwe
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by schoen 3y ago
That's a minefield (so to speak), since the word grenade immediately derives from the word pomegranate (in French). And it seems that in most European languages that use it for either, the same word refers to both: https:/&#x
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by schoen 3y ago
A "third minute" (of 1/60 second) could be useful in talking about human reaction times. We could say that people commonly have a reaction time of 7 to 15 thirds, and that alcohol consumption may slow that reaction time by a
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by schoen 3y ago
> I would love to see a LetsEncrypt style service for OSS but I assume it's against the core interests of Microsoft / Apple to allow something like this as it would start to drive people away from the walled gardens of the app
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by schoen 3y ago
Right, I also don't see one but it seems like the comments were immediately plentiful.
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(2011)
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by schoen 3y ago
Oh, I think I misunderstood the proposal there. I thought the language model was meant to be producing (only) code, not proofs. If it manages to produce successful proofs of pre-existing property specifications, then that's great!

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