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by seven4 6y ago
From the article referencing the Wikileaks taskforce - "The CIA acknowledged its security processes were so “woefully lax” that the agency probably would never have known about the data theft had Wikileaks not published the stolen doc
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by seven4 6y ago
LibriVox recordings are Public Domain in the USA. If you are not in the USA, please verify the copyright status of these works in your own country before downloading, otherwise you may be violating copyright laws. Is there any easy-access
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by seven4 6y ago
I've not come across the concept of a webring before - but this is cool. I feel like adding a link back to the ring (or at least next page) should be mandatory - else it feels a bit broken (I know the frameset version is there but feel
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by seven4 6y ago
Unprecedented levels of stimulus around the whole world. If that isn't the precursor for some airpockets/bubbles of mispricing to emerge.. I don't know what is. I was reading Sapiens by Yuval Harari today and he had an explan
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by seven4 6y ago
From the article - "The ability to amplify the individual’s intent through digital proxies depends on aptly capturing...experience in the physical world" The Self, The self in private contexts and the self in public contexts. Wh
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by seven4 6y ago
Echos of the anti-trust post that went to frontpage earlier today. Seems to be building to some sort of crecendo. Linking as i think the comments apply peripherally https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23548674
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by seven4 6y ago
Facebook wants to be seen to address its perceived interference in politics. Particularly ahead of the upcoming election cycle. It wants to do this without hamstringing its ad-revenue. Let's look at what the measures are - -an opt-out
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by seven4 6y ago
The trouble is that as a tech company - first you want to build a moat around your success and barriers to competitors usurping your hard-won position/user-base. IF you do this very well you become a "tech giant" - then you w
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by seven4 6y ago
From the article - it's impossible to draw definitive conclusions about what's causing the skew toward topless pictures. One explanation could be simply that other users are engaging with these pictures more, prompting the algori
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by seven4 6y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. What - if any costs are involved for you?
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by seven4 6y ago
I often wonder what incentives drive people to run TOR exit nodes; the risk even if remote of getting raided is enough to stop most I'd imagine. Got me thinking on the legal implications and interestingly TOR doesn't recommend run
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by seven4 6y ago
This was fun. I wonder if the code/algo behind this tends towards a certain type of painting or "average". Reminds me of this video that shows what the youtube codec tends towards over a 1000 reuploads https://www.
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by seven4 6y ago
“For me, understanding the brain has always been a computational problem,” says Papadimitriou, who became fascinated by the brain five years ago. “Because if it isn't, I don't know where to start.” Interesting - we do tend to appr
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by seven4 6y ago
As someone who has worked in finance and specifically a trading floor - i can confirm that it is widely read by traders/market-makers/risk-takers in those spaces. It's not that those people are inherently bearish or expect th
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by seven4 6y ago
One unintended consequence of Covid19 related lockdown/work from home has been less commute and more hours to sleep. This is the most regular/high quality sleep i've had in years and I'm only now seeing how badly my norm
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by seven4 6y ago
Well said - and any attempts to "mimic the hallways" feels contrived in the context of the internet/online. It is difficult to translate the multitude of social cues/contexts/interactions that real life offers. Neve
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by seven4 6y ago
This was fun to play around with. Would love to see a plain-english explainer of how this works behind the screen, either on the page or an "about" link.
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by seven4 6y ago
I think given the firestorm that would erupt from the right side of the aisle if Trump's posts were deleted - there probably is a slightly specialised handling for his account (and other high profile accounts) vs the general populous f
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by seven4 6y ago
Well that chart speaks for itself - Perceptions about who contributed to the victory have clearly changed. With an almost direct attribution transfer from USSR to USA; while UK remains static. I can't help but feel this has in part to
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by seven4 6y ago
As someone who hasn't played Animal Crossing - this is kind of surreal. Sounds like a glitch in the way game mechanics allowed users to hyper-inflate the primary currency (by manually changing the time on their system) - and saw the ec
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by seven4 6y ago
modern "civil dialogue" seems to suffer from the notion that context is optional