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   by taylorfinley 7y ago

   I agree with your sentiment, I do see some nuance here though. This phenotype is very valuable in how it could reduce inputs across industrial agriculture--and industrial agriculture is an extremely competitive and well-developed market. En
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   by taylorfinley 7y ago

   Not the stochastic swine, but their mistake was saying GPS signals would be logged while inside a Faraday bag. GPS signals are RF, thus blocked by any proper Faraday cage.
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   by taylorfinley 7y ago

   I have, I'm interested in memes as Dawkins defined them then. I've also read many translations of Nag Hamadi scrolls, so your example sparked my curiosity. Perhaps I need to re-read The Selfish Gene, it's been more than a dec
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   by taylorfinley 7y ago

   Can you elaborate on your examples?
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   by taylorfinley 7y ago

   "Native swipe-to-type keyboard functionality [...] downloads available in safari, native USB file management [...] You can even save video files now." As someone who hasn't used iOS in years I couldn't immediately tell i
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   by taylorfinley 7y ago

   That seemed to be the general consensus a few months ago at an informal event I attended with a bunch of astronomers from Mauna Kea. Edit: as discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19201582
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   by taylorfinley 7y ago

   Open Source is used here in the same sense as in "OSINT," Open Source intelligence, which is gathering publicly available data to infer information that your targets likely wouldn't volunteer directly.
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   by taylorfinley 7y ago

   My dream vehicle is the Bollinger B-1, an electric off-road utilitarian truck/suv. You can open the front and back tailgates and stab lumber or a telephone pole right through the whole vehicle. Wish I had the funds.
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   by taylorfinley 8y ago

   Some that appeal to my interests: Truly cardless: Jackpotting an ATM using auxiliary devices. https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2018/Fahrplan/events... Attacking end-to-end email encryption https:&#x2F
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    by taylorfinley 8y ago

    I'm not sure what the parent was referencing, but at the very least the Polynesian cultures record a story[1] of man learning to make fire from birds. It's possible this oral tradition has its foundations in an actual event from p
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    by taylorfinley 8y ago

    At the risk of derailing things and spiraling into off-topic chatter... is anyone else really bothered by the background music on the Freakonomics podcast? They seem to use the same tracks every episode. Ten years ago that wasn't parti
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    by taylorfinley 8y ago

    I think we all agree rolling your own crypto is dangerous, but what siliconunit described is just a one time pad. Assuming your key data is truly random and unknown to your attacker, isn't this kind of the gold standard for uncrackable
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    by taylorfinley 8y ago

    At a family dinner I once jokingly described my gluten-free girlfriend as "glutarded," which was our inside joke way to refer to her dietary restrictions. I forgot that my aunt's husband, who has some congenital language issu
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    by taylorfinley 8y ago

    There's an excellent chrome extension called Skip Redirect that does this universally. Whitelisting is really simple too if it causes any problems. It decodes urls like " https://out.reddit.com/t3_747gsgju?url=https
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    by taylorfinley 8y ago

    This is really a weak argument. Is running code from a jupyter notebook harder than: I installed QBasic on my son’s 11” HP Stream today, having to hack a DOSBox manual installation. Is pressing the run button harder than pressing the
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    by taylorfinley 8y ago

    I too remember QBASIC with a lot of nostalgia, but surely Python is a better choice for introducing kids to programming today. name = input("what's your name?") if name == "Noah": print "you're
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    by taylorfinley 9y ago

    Hey, not the poster you responded to, but I am an off-gridder in Puna who codes and actually was classmates with Luke Evslin (super good guy back then, sounds like he still is). I would love for a group of big island Hacker News reading off
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    by taylorfinley 9y ago

    I am totally into this field as a bystander. When many people would watch late night TV or listen to music or a podcast, I'll scour YouTube for defcon and CCC talks I haven't seen yet. I am good with python, Javascript, web and gr
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    by taylorfinley 9y ago

    We do count the piles manually twice weekly
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    by taylorfinley 9y ago

    I work for a botanical garden and spend a lot of my time working in the gift shop. We have a huge pile of t-shirts, dozens of designs each in several sizes. Most of the employees spend at least an hour going through the whole pile to figure
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    by taylorfinley 10y ago

    >Trump's rhetoric seems entirely targeted at people who have entered or stayed in the country illegally This is factually incorrect. The recent executive order bans the return of legal residents with green cards (from Muslim majorit
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    by taylorfinley 11y ago

    Are these identifications rigorously confirmed via other evidence? It would be too easy to abuse this "superpower" to make false identifications in order to round up undesirables. This reminds me of how drug sniffing dogs can be c
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    by taylorfinley 11y ago

    Some would argue there are no human minds outside of math (Max Tegmark, for example)