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by shasta 13y ago
Thanks, that's very interesting. Whether it's a fish brain or frog larva brain or something more, though, my point is that it's not yet intrinsically worth protecting as human life. Its worth is all potential. Consider: ho
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by shasta 13y ago
Failure to think critically about how to value life results in harmful abortion and euthanasia laws and is contributing to the high cost/benefit ratios of our healthcare system. We have quite enough people thinking only emotionally ab
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by shasta 13y ago
Did you really think my argument was that anything that is a lump of cells that has never had a coherent thought has no value? I can understand a sense of loss in losing an infant at birth. You make plans for the child and are excited to m
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by shasta 13y ago
I don't really understand how anyone can lump a real child with whom you have years of shared experiences, who you've loved and taught and who has a personality of its own in with a lump of cells that's yet to have a coherent
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by shasta 13y ago
I agree with your parent and thus don't want you in charge of "running the medical system," either. But we don't have to have one or the other. You buy your insurance policy that covers whatever it takes to save your f
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by shasta 13y ago
This explains how I kept losing to the hobo with the robotic hand set up on a table outside that nightclub in Tokyo.
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by shasta 13y ago
Technically, a unicycle has fewer degrees of freedom that a bicycle.
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by shasta 13y ago
Really? How many non-specific people are there in the country?
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by shasta 13y ago
Fall back down to the ground and blow back into sealed houses, though? I think obviously wrong applies to the scenario he wants you to have in mind. Maybe the research has some specific conditions.
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by shasta 13y ago
Polls should always include a honeypot for trolls. Especially ones that only seek response from a small percentage of the community.
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by shasta 13y ago
Does iMessage do this?
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by shasta 13y ago
FYI it's not just increased typing time. It's increased pauses with no typing.
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by shasta 13y ago
(Replying to your new message) Yes, it would be something you'd have to know to look for. The good thing is that under suitable conditions it would let you know that you weren't being MITMed. A more practical system would probably
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by shasta 13y ago
You have a session key that encrypts the entire channel. A MITM attack would require negotiating two session keys: one for you and one for your human chat parter. Next you have a message key for each message that is used to encrypt and sen
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by shasta 13y ago
Forget the salt. I thought you were possibly concerned with encrypting one character being a weakness. As a recipient of my message you receive my message encrypted one character at a time. When I press enter you receive the key to decrypt
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by shasta 13y ago
I don't understand the first flaw you found. You can encrypt single characters + salt. You are correct that the MITM could wait until it's seen the whole block and pretend your partner hasn't started typing, but that results
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by shasta 13y ago
You can arrange a chat protocol, I think, where MITM isn't possible without being easily detectable in a low latency environment. The idea would be that when you see the "..." of the other person typing, you're receivin
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by shasta 13y ago
So this is how we should treat suspected drug dealers?
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by shasta 13y ago
Fiat currencies (which bitcoin is in one sense) are largely rooted in psychology. Recall this story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2010/10/04/130329523/how-fake...
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by shasta 13y ago
"To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries." So "useful arts" doesn't refer to writin
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by shasta 13y ago
Agreed. The latency on the android devices I've tried prevents them from feeling real.
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by shasta 13y ago
And by the symmetry of that clause in the constitution, I assume you believe copyright was included to get writers to divulge their writing.
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by shasta 13y ago
They're not asking for any particular information that lavabit has now. If they were, shutting down wouldn't be a solution to not handing it over. They are asking for additional access going forward.
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by shasta 13y ago
This sounds like a good problem to have! Your compiler must be blazing fast. Does it remain so fast with full optimizations turned on? Thanks for the answers.
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by shasta 13y ago
I'm just having a hard time understanding how you could be having complaints about the compile times if you have a fast lexer and that lexer is a significant percentage of the total time. Can't your lexer handle a million lines of
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by shasta 13y ago
Walter, could you explain why lexing was a bottleneck? That's very surprising to me. You don't re-lex template instantiations do you?
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by shasta 13y ago
So large companies should occasionally do a mark and sweep collection to account for bugs in the standard reference counting implementation. Particularly useful if the org chart allows cycles.
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by shasta 13y ago
Except the order wasn't to build a filter, full stop. It was to build a filter if isohunt wants to continue operating in the US.
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by shasta 13y ago
The cost of reading this book isn't $25. It's $25 plus the opportunity cost of however many hours it takes to read it.
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by shasta 13y ago
Sewn into pants...

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