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by sennight 5y ago
It depends on the vocabulary used, there are some words that immediately betray what you spend your time thinking about. The jig is definitely up if you use the words "colonialize" and "future oriented thinking" in the s
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> Rochester police had also refused his multiple requests for them to test his hands and clothing for gunshot residue. GSR tests are total crap and in my experience lean very hard toward the false positive side of things, unsurprisingly
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> This terminology says all I need to know about you - enough said comrade. Some unsolicited advice: if you find yourself explaining at what point you thought ad-hominem justified switching your brain off - you've made an accidental
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> It might work once or twice but not over and over again. Except for when it does: there are a bunch of people who have repeatedly jackpotted state lotteries, they're usually described as 'reclusive mathematicians'. But t
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I learned a long time ago that the most effective way to correct a vice is to play it against another vice, sloth being an easy goto. But in this case... I'm not a drug dealer, so I don't need to launder large amounts of small bil
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I've wondered about the feasibility of using state run lotteries for laundering in a cash based criminal enterprise. The known odds of low cost/return scratch-offs and the need to only account for claimed winnings would make it te
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by sennight 5y ago
Do a quick search of the terms: Linus Torvalds security. Pick any one of the results. While some of his points with regard to utility vs security seem to have merit... when you switch out "secure" with "correct" the prob
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by sennight 5y ago
heh, like I said - the military doesn't want them afterwards. Bill Hicks had a bit about the military's esprit de corps, and how nonsensical it seemed to him - an organization tasked with killing people and breaking things so fixa
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by sennight 5y ago
Spies have historically been unhappy people with personality problems or emotional issues that put them at odds with their own countrymen. Almost 20 years ago I had to go through a bunch of background investigations in the military, and aft
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The problem with that redefinition is that you spontaneously transform into an engineer when working on your own personal library, but as soon as you pull in a single dependency, or manually punch in some old school approximation algorithm
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Well feeding an HVDC line with something that doesn't already naturally generate AC (like a wind turbine) would be a better fit. But it would be a little strange to not fully exploit the other thing that distinguished the DC system fro
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Directly coupling the two processes like that would certainly have some interesting failure modes with regard to potential and phase. If this results in DC power distribution... elephants everywhere will rejoice as Westinghouse's reign
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Huh, I guess we are truly screwed if that blog post seemed in any way reasonable to you. It makes me think of that time in the late 90s when there was a serious push to make "hacking tools" like disassemblers illegal... dunno if t
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by sennight 5y ago
heh, did anyone else have a flashback to Mary Ann Davidson, the CSO at Oracle, railing against customers who independently audit the security of products they purchase? Fun times. https://web.archive.org/web/20150811052
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by sennight 5y ago
It is basically about using the wrong tool for the job, and continuing to do so even after you (and everyone else) is fully aware of just how wrong you are. Personifying the tool would just distract from the root cause. "I was using a
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by sennight 5y ago
> We have tons of direct evidence for 'Natural Origin' Tons, huh? So if that is the case then why is the WHO backpedaling [0] on the premature zoonotic classification, after ignoring everyone pointing out the fact that it was p
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by sennight 5y ago
By that standard the 'Natural Origin Theory' is conjecture. Unless you believe the third or fourth official Chinese explanation: a bat urinated in a researcher's mouth... while he was totally not in a lab funded by the US for
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by sennight 5y ago
Wow, that is some very tortured logic. As to the specifics of Weinstein, I don't share your fixation - so I can't address your complaints about him. > ...there is tons of examples of 'misinformation' in the PDF ... It
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lol, not very comprehensive is it - after all the scary hard figures provided in the executive summary... screencaps. It reminds me of the good old Internet blood sport days when unemployed Germans would creep on youtubers for months, colle
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by sennight 5y ago
Unsurprisingly the CCDH pdf, the source of this story, doesn't bother getting into what "misinformation" is. From what I can tell, it is a social network analysis of people who aren't onboard with the current popular opi
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> Morality is more like language than it is like physics. Not as you've described it, as a real objective thing that is a social construct. I agree that it is a social construct, and I agree that it is "like language", bec
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> I don't see it as a retreat... You can add the use of "retreat" in the context of a value judgement to the list of disagreements, but the reframe into a legal argument makes our exchange largely pointless. > ...unless
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by sennight 5y ago
huh, guess I'll have to break it down Barny style: you are effectively trying to wave a bloody shirt with the "think of the creators" bit. If your system of morals allows you to deny Youtube advertisement revenue on the basis
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Kinda makes the inevitable conclusion obvious: non-fashion&beauty channels need not apply - non-legacy media will not be permitted much aside from topics that both have: 1) No possibility of generating an objection from the most sensiti
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> They are an unethical use of the data produced by Youtube creators, who miss out on ad revenue which they worked hard to earn. Substitute "creators" with "collaborators" and maybe it'll be more obvious to you w
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> No offense: but spoken like someone who has made enough money from something they enjoy to imply they'd do it without money. You'd have a point if he said he loved working minimum wage jobs that weren't programming, but
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> What if we need systematic memetic engineering, to make lower energy consumption actually feel desirable? lol, there has been an unrelenting campaign to do so, going all the way back to the 70s - when global cooling and population cont
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What a relief, this article is about the EU - I instantly assumed it was about Biden's latest SMS "Fact checking" idea...
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I don't think people hate it nearly as much as they should. Just look at the way newly generated "money" is injected into the economy - through interest free federal loans to investment bankers. A totally hidden transfer of p
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Oof, as somebody who has studied the AI winter - that article hurt, suggesting that an unsupervised NN-centric approach is going to lead somewhere other than tool-assist... its the 1970s all over again. > I would Well you're going t

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