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by sho 7y ago
Oh, I don't think I'm wrong. And neither do you, since your second sentence basically agrees with me. Hit a nerve? And yeah, most of the ML industry is in precisely the same category. A bunch of frauds.
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by sho 7y ago
You misunderstand. "Infosec" is a shopping list item on govt requirements. "We need this, this, this, and it needs to be secure!" They assume security is just this additional ingredient that can be purchased, mixed in, a
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by sho 7y ago
The entire "infosec industry" is fraudulent, in my estimation. A bunch of assholes selling powerpoints and not a whole lot else. I've seen it a lot. None of them know what they're talking about. Source: my direct experie
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by sho 7y ago
Don't trust obviously incentivized players like Sophos, karma-chasing security wannabes, or anyone else in this category around this kind of topic. German media is very good. Spiegel is an excellent paper. Trust your instincts, look f
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by sho 7y ago
Your first three examples are speculative edge cases, to say the least. But your last is interesting - and touches on something I was going to type but didn't. Yeah, evolution might be happening there, and not in a good way. There&#x27
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by sho 7y ago
Ah, fair enough, I didn't think of that. It's still a moot point however. There is no meaningful human evolution anymore in terms of adaptation to anything in nature. Human biological fitness these days, outside hunter gather soci
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by sho 7y ago
So your solution is just that the whole population must die younger than necessary, then? Is that really the best we can do? I don't know, maybe we could put a hard limit on academic positions of 50 years or so. We could figure somethi
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by sho 7y ago
I've found this to work beautifully: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
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by sho 7y ago
That is absolutely not how evolution works at all. Mutation, such as it is, occurs at the moment of conception. It's not a very helpful word - "random and imperfect mix of two data sets" is a better way of thinking about it.
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by sho 7y ago
I find an interesting parallel with the current discussion around American business being unduly influenced by China's massive buying power, where even though it's perfectly legal, businesses are so scared of being locked out of C
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by sho 7y ago
> You can literally say anything you want and just say that it's a thought experiment My fucking post started with "Imagine you are...." > clearly biased against Hong Kong and trying to sway the opinion in China's
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by sho 7y ago
For fuck's sake I don't need to provide evidence for my thought experiment !
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by sho 7y ago
I know it wasn't a good analogy; I couldn't think of a better one. Puerto Rico is not a better analogy. It's never been America proper and it's not even connected to the mainland. HK was China, it was occupied by force f
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by sho 7y ago
No-where near as much as they vary country to country.
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by sho 7y ago
Obviously I can't provide evidence supporting my understandings gained from personal relationships and private conversations. No, I haven't conducted some large-scale peer-reviewed survey. Of course they don't exist. I don&#x
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by sho 7y ago
> is VERY significant and representative of what statehood represents in the US Not really. It's frigging pot. It's been de-facto legal for decades. Show me a state doing something serious, like banning guns, reversing roe v wa
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by sho 7y ago
Look man - I am not a philosopher. Ask yourself. I'm just some guy who has, or think I have, a little more access to "chinese thought" than I commonly see around here. I thought it would be useful or at least interesting to
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by sho 7y ago
I didn't really want to bash on the US too hard but yeah. America has over five hundred overseas military bases. To say no other country even comes close is an understatement. I'm not even saying the US overseas forces are bad.
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by sho 7y ago
No, just the majority, as I understand it, and as I believe their actions demonstrate. Of course I can't know the inner secrets of a billion minds, but it's my genuine belief that what I wrote is at least mostly in the right direc
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by sho 7y ago
> American exceptionalism isn't the same thing as manifest destiny Sorry, you're probably right. I confess I'm not really aware of the exact difference. I meant the general feeling of "America is the best", which
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by sho 7y ago
Please understand I wasn't trying to make it seem more sympathetic, just trying to shed light. I basically agree that they should grow a thicker skin and just let HK be HK. None of which changes the facts that China owns and shares a l
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by sho 7y ago
Pot? That's your argument? Show me the state where you can show full penetrative sex on public TV at 9pm, like you can in europe, and I'll agree they're independent. EDIT: OK, that was a dumb example. Substitute banning guns,
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by sho 7y ago
Oh come on I was trying to illustrate a feeling, not make a watertight legal argument. If you want to talk about precedent - how about polygamy in Utah? There was a long precedent of that. Substitute that if you like. I was trying to convey
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by sho 7y ago
Here we go again... Let me explain how Chinese people think about HK, since none of them ever seem to explain it on a site like this. Imagine you are a middle class American. Maybe you are but if not, just imagine, tech city on the east or
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by sho 7y ago
For 9 out of 10 articles like this - "We rewrote our old code in tired old language FOO with hot new language BAR and it's SO MUCH BETTER!" - I suspect they could have simply rewritten with the same language, engineered it be
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by sho 7y ago
What a great domain name!
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by sho 7y ago
Yes, because what idiot would want to reduce America's world-beating 40,000 gun deaths per year? HK's homicide rate is almost 20 times lower than the USA's. To catch up with the US murder rate, adjusted for population, the HK
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by sho 7y ago
> There is not a lot of support for oppressive governments that commit genocide against religious minorities and put people in prison for political dissidence. That's funny, I thought Saudi Arabia was America's close ally. Yuuu
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by sho 7y ago
It can be used in that way, but the neutral usage is valid too. I'd even argue the "evil" undertones of the usage you describe borders on archaic. "Enormousness" isn't a word in common usage that I'm aware
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by sho 7y ago
> I already said the process was initiated for political reasons. That is absolutely not the tone of your first response to me. You are moving the goalposts. My whole point was that all these actions - Canada's, China's - were

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