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by superobserver 9y ago
Absolutely, but the underlying feature of that omission is that it is _clearly_ directed by a particular party at a specific audience.
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by superobserver 9y ago
It's a whitepaper made for the establishment by the establishment. Appeal to reputation is _not an argument_.
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by superobserver 9y ago
Google has a long-standing bias that is comparable to other Silicon Valley tech companies. Their Newsstand app is like a certified stream of mainstream propaganda.
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by superobserver 9y ago
> I don't blame the article for not including it because left wing disinformation has been mostly ineffective and uninteresting though. So ineffective that a Bernie Bro shot a few congressmen? Give me a break. The rest of your comme
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by superobserver 9y ago
As would I.
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by superobserver 9y ago
A security company commenting on these matters suggests undue interest in manipulating the infosec community. I would be interested to learn who paid/funded for this slanted whitepaper. The absence of commentary on left-wing disinfo ac
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by superobserver 9y ago
Highly recommended book by Lakatos. The history and meta-mathematical aspects of proof-theoretic constructs are so often neglected that one can only imagine that there's a latent desire to attain a priestly purity to the proof-theoreti
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by superobserver 9y ago
Which is just about everyone outside of the Silicon Valley, San Fran, and establish ment bubble. Stifling free speech in this way will hopefully bring a cornucopia of anti-trust lawsuits against Google.
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by superobserver 10y ago
Ask Trump to veto it. He may oblige.
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by superobserver 10y ago
Real hacker news on HN. Love it.
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by superobserver 10y ago
FYI we're close to this with the use of acronyms and abbreviations, not just emoticons, given English's phonetic basis, etc.
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by superobserver 10y ago
To me, a proof would have to be a Turing complete procedure for verifying a theorematic result. Often times, proofs, however, only amount to convincing arguments (convincing to adepts, that is, who have not yet discovered a flaw in the proo
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by superobserver 10y ago
Now that Android Apps hit ChromeOS Dev on Asus Flip, Pixel 2015, and R11, I'm not sure what more point there is for a web-version of Skype (on Chrome and ChromeOS) - except that Android Apps will not obviously be available for older de
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by superobserver 10y ago
>some people have already had their natural driven curiosity ground out of them by sour experiences at school or poor home life prior to getting the change to try this. Somehow I find that extraordinarily unlikely, but I suppose it is po
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by superobserver 10y ago
Yes. This is one of the reasons why I wish Google implemented aliases for accounts anchored to a UID instead of requiring a persistent user account name. This is how Microsoft does it, actually. Then there might be a way to control for acco
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by superobserver 10y ago
This is really cool. It reminds me of what happened to me when I turned 15 and my family was first able to afford a computer and an internet connection. I basically started teaching myself all kinds of stuff (e.g., physics, mathematics, phi
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by superobserver 10y ago
Congrats. Love Polymer (when I get to use it). Looks good.
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by superobserver 10y ago
Schools are a way for parents to send their kids to a reliable daycare service. At a certain level, some don't really learn anything there. I did as much as I did (college) to pass among the clueless as normal but wish I had more oppor
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by superobserver 10y ago
And again here's why Google needs to force manufacturer's (and carriers) to agree to required updates to the latest Android OS on a regular and ongoing basis, insofar as their hardware is not end-of-life.
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by superobserver 10y ago
Since the money-market system is fundamentally based on debt structures, circumventing any kind of crash will be tantamount to preventing any kind of overvalued market. In other words, no amount of mathematical juggling will alter the under
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by superobserver 10y ago
Right you are, and the unfortunate reality is no one particularly cares either. Common Core (in the US) adds to this in its focus not on the problem, not on the solution, not on the method(s) to approach the problem, but rather on a seeming
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by superobserver 10y ago
An important point made in longevity research like SENS (cf., http://www.sens.org/ ) is that it should also improve youthful characteristics. This is important, because we shouldn't want to live into our 200's and
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by superobserver 10y ago
Cf. http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Ad_iram
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by superobserver 10y ago
This reminds me of how "propaganda" was euphemised as "public relations".
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by superobserver 10y ago
Mods, please flag this and remove/delete if possible. It is clearly a misguided post.
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by superobserver 10y ago
That much is obvious to anyone here, but I'm noticing an odd spate of downvotes that contradict that post. Any insights? I'm seeing at least 6 downvotes to my posts alone.
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by superobserver 10y ago
You can hate the argument all you like; although such an emotionally charged term being levelled against the argument itself is curious but probably not particularly informative. It also doesn't change the way Facebook violates norms o
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GoFile.io is not for anonymous file sharing
2 points by superobserver 10y ago|0 comments
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by superobserver 10y ago
You're only emphasising the legitimate use of "useds" by RMS. The notion, in any case, is that being a used of Facebook undermine's one's claim to privacy. Potatoes and cars don't apparently do the same thing,
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by superobserver 10y ago
But that's what Facebook users are - useds. They're targets for Facebook's platform, namely, delivering ads. You've actually made a strawman of RMS' argument by attempting to draw the false parallel between ex1 and

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