shallot_router

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by shallot_router 9y ago
About trust and confidentiality... of citizens' private data. By contrast, she leaked military/diplomatic documents and footage. Not exactly a 1-to-1 parallel.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Yes, but if you reside in the US and NSA or CIA want to get your data, they are going to get it. Even if you have the best security team and program in the world.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Surely you must have a private bedroom at least?
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by shallot_router 9y ago
My peppering of reassurances that Nazis are bad wasn't so much to protect me or my post (you would have to be very willfully uncharitable to interpret my post as pro-Nazi) but just an attempt to tailor my response to an audience which
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by shallot_router 9y ago
As objectively abhorrent as anti-semitism is, I unfortunately think the issue is not so cut-and-dry for a variety of reasons. First, just to respond to those 2 points: 1. There's a spectrum of anti-semites. On many parts of the Interne
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Apologies, I misread that you were just quoting his language.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Probably because he disagrees with his views, and surely no true professor would say something he disagrees with.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
No doubt Peterson makes a lot of political videos, but he never said or did anything remotely deserving of having his channel shut down. I mean, just as an example, you can find a lot of blatant Holocaust denial and Nazi propaganda channels
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by shallot_router 9y ago
How do you know there isn't already a separately trained group of reviews whose only role is to carefully examine videos related to war crimes/terrorism/violence? I suspect there was, and Google/YouTube's senior man
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Instinctive xenophobia is different from indoctrinated bigotry.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
The US government doesn't have a good track record with security researchers, but in this case the allegation is that he intentionally developed banking malware and knowingly sold it to people who would use it to commit fraud. This isn
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by shallot_router 9y ago
What if (purely hypothically) all consequentialists could agree on the same set of standards for what constitutes positive and negative utility?
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Yes. You can't take a bunch of money from investors and then lie to them and tell them their money's doing great when most of it's actually gone, even if you do later manage to hit it big and pay them back. Imagine the kind o
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Most people can understand it from the perspective of an end user, just as you and I can swipe a credit card without necessarily understanding all the underlying Chip & PIN and anti-fraud and bank processing technologies and processes.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
What about someone who manufactures guns and knowingly sells them to street gangs without registering them? That's closer to what Hutchins is alleged to have done.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Except neither of those cases involve making software to be sold for purposes of common theft and fraud.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
They aren't supposed to give their full investigative details; this is just a summary of the allegations they're making against him. We will likely see evidence and details in the coming months.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
On a similar token, there still isn't any good attempt at a user-friendly E2E-encrypted email solution that integrates with what people already use (minus a few PGP-based browser extensions which don't have much adoption yet).
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by shallot_router 9y ago
>XChaCha20 being a mix of ChaCha20 and XSalsa20 is IMHO dancing on the line No pun intended?
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Out of curiosity, what are the kinds of projects that IARC won't approve?
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Here's what I ran into the other day. I go to a website and click a "Pay with Bitcoin" button and am taken to a page where I have to send X BTC to Y address. Ok, easy to copy and paste them, I've done this plenty of time
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by shallot_router 9y ago
It's really interesting and awesome to see channels like Every Frame a Painting putting out videos with better production value/editing/content quality than what you'd get from most serious networks with millions in fund
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by shallot_router 9y ago
I feel like I've seen a lot more "why are we wasting huge amounts of electricity calculating *-illions of SHA256 hashes for an imaginary currency used to buy drugs and guns" type comments lately. They're almost as annoyi
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by shallot_router 9y ago
They deserve to be profitable but in a way that doesn't require bleeding dry the cancer patients themselves.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Yeah, I appreciate the net neutrality support but the lack of a front page link has made browsing very annoying today.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
@tofumatt's responses sound pragmatic but very tone-deaf given Mozilla's privacy stance. I feel like the only right answer here is to tie all of this into the telemetry opt-in and don't load GA if the user hasn't opted i
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Sure, but they probably meant "would an average person be able to differentiate TJ Rodgers Pinot Noir from another high quality winery's Pinot Noir"?
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by shallot_router 9y ago
How about "the community is better here than Reddit's default subreddits", then? Reddit has exactly the same problems as the ones you describe HN has, even in specialty subreddits populated with experts. People always think e
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by shallot_router 9y ago
Feels very Ministry of Love.
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by shallot_router 9y ago
That website would be a great portfolio example if you wanted to write for a show like Silicon Valley...

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