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by sellyme 6y ago
I was willing to at least consider anything Sanger had to offer, given his CV. But generally I fast fail [...] any media critic leading with "liberal bias". Especially when one of the main criticisms is "It's biased to
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by sellyme 6y ago
> information asymmetry where the spam artists don't know what signals you are looking for (which rules out open source). Machine learning mitigates this somewhat - doesn't really matter if the code's open source if even t
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by sellyme 6y ago
> [email] remains arguably one of the largest social networks in the world. What percentage of email traffic do you think is social in nature (and not just notifications from an actual, separate social network)? I'm guessing <0.1
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by sellyme 6y ago
I'm all in for banning smoking, but unfortunately drug addicts tend to become violent if they're cut off. It's much less damaging to society to do that one slowly over time.
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by sellyme 6y ago
As mentioned on Improbable Research's website: > We collect improbable research. Real research, about anything and everything, from everywhere. Research that’s maybe good or bad, important or trivial, valuable or worthless. There&#x
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by sellyme 6y ago
How about this one: http://tom7.org/chess/cve.pdf Sarcastic PDFs never stop being amusing to me.
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by sellyme 6y ago
The top solution on this Code Golf question is possibly the most comical example of Mathematica's scope that I've ever seen: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/71631/upgoat-or...
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by sellyme 6y ago
When a (former) head of Government is calling your personal phone number I think you're entitled to want more than 280 characters to tell the story of how the hell that happened.
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by sellyme 6y ago
The contact form on Abbott's website 403ing is impressively on-brand.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Also even if it wasn't fine print, it's still comically illegal. Imagine someone saying "Our cereal cures cancer! Where cancer is defined as 'hunger'."
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I don't think you really grasp just how much having children robs you of your "self" and your down time. Most adults without children grasp this perfectly fine, and it's one of the primary reasons why they have chos
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by sellyme 6y ago
> the employee should quit Because the job market is looking so fantastic right now? Yes, you're describing a hostile workplace, but right now is the worst time in over a decade to be giving up a reliable income.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Exactly the same story here for me and everyone I went to school with, and I have absolutely no recollection of where it came from. Presumably the same package that contained instructions on how to draw the Cool S.
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by sellyme 6y ago
That's illegal where I live, the primary connection speed figure used in advertisements must be the average speed users in the real world experience. Turns out that consumer protection laws are pretty useful.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Surely we've had enough examples of governments blatantly disregarding copyright law in election advertisements to establish that this is one of those "rules for thee but not for me" situations.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Puzzle 1 contains a great example in knowing your audience: > The problem confronting the FBI interrogation team is to separate the people into these two classes, so that all the managers can be locked up and all the engineers can be fre
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by sellyme 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not sure the old $5 wrench approach to "hacking" is likely to get you any rewards from megacorps.
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by sellyme 6y ago
I was using "maliciously exploit" here to describe what would basically be the worst case scenario of such a bug (instructing every Tesla to deliberately crash at high speed). I don't think it's in any way a stretch to c
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by sellyme 6y ago
It was $50,000: > He didn’t end up getting a new Tesla, but the automaker awarded him a special $50,000 bug report reward — several times higher than the max official bug reward limit: You're looking at the $5,000 bounty awarded for
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by sellyme 6y ago
> If this hack had been exploited But that's the point. Who's out there that would exploit this because they thought $50,000 wasn't worth it, but would change their minds for $1,000,000? Realistically there's only two
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by sellyme 6y ago
I think it's reasonable to expect people to intuit that "A malicious hacker gained control over the entire Tesla fleet" would be a much bigger deal than a couple hundred points on HN. No cars currently being located in my liv
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by sellyme 6y ago
Honestly, sometimes the "junk" lists are fairly useful. They contain absolutely minimal content (because that would require work), but hit all of the necessary keywords for the subject matter. This turns out to allow extremely eff
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by sellyme 6y ago
> after reading contents of the file In the same way I'm reading your mail if I look at it to see whether it's my mail, and then put it back down when I see your name. That is to say, not at all.
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by sellyme 6y ago
This discounts the long-term benefits of learning to derive pleasure from the progression of your own skills and abilities.
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by sellyme 6y ago
I find that the most common usage is for someone describing what they think is a small, very specific fact, but is in fact just a repetition of an old wives' tale with no veracity whatsoever. So maybe the original definition isn't
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I guarantee YouTubers making money are making way more money than I am. You would be incorrect. The overwhelming majority of video uploaders on YouTube have never made a single cent.
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by sellyme 12y ago
I remember playing the original Lightbot on Kongregate back in 2008, and still remember thoroughly enjoying completing it. I've always had a soft spot for well-made puzzle games and for some reason I've never really connected that