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by tedks 12y ago
This is news to me, and certainly disappointing.
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by tedks 12y ago
Attempt to traffic narcotics across state lines? Seems certainly enough for an unfightable civil forfeiture case. It doesn't really matter if you're committing a crime. The police will trash your life anyway if you look at them fu
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by tedks 12y ago
That is precisely the topic of the article. For a more in-depth view, you can read this tor-talk mailing list thread: http://archives.seul.org/or/dev/Sep-2014/msg00091.html (This is the original source for th
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by tedks 12y ago
It would be so great if Mozilla integrated Tor. Beyond the curse of success mentioned in the article, it would really lower the burden on the Tor developers, who have had to support a lot of patches from Firefox that Mozilla have been slo
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by tedks 12y ago
>Unauthorized intruders, whether or not they have a piece of paper signed by a guy that wears a robe to work, are not welcome in my phone. In saying this, you are literally placing yourself above any law. Above democracy itself, and in d
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by tedks 12y ago
"Incredible complexity" is a handwave. If you can't give a specific reason then you have none at all. You can use "incredible complexity" on literally anything. Everything is complex. Humans manage.
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by tedks 12y ago
On the eve of the second American invasion in Iraq, the world's largest nonviolent demonstration occurred (to date) in New York City protesting the war. The war went ahead as scheduled. Protest is totally irrelevant in the modern world
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by tedks 12y ago
We live in such a cyberpunk novel. Governmental conspiracies, global dystopia (overt or covert), and slick-named surveillance-tech megacorps. Except, in this world, the balance is too weighted in favor of the powerful. There will be no Pant
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by tedks 12y ago
>Snowden did it, and look what happened. Nothing. Sad truth is, the majority don't care. If they did, then it would be reflected in voting, and things would change. But no. Mean while, Snowden is a wanted man in exile. Publicly, tha
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by tedks 12y ago
Besides naturally-sourced pharmaceuticals, what objective benefits do biodiversity offer humans?
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by tedks 12y ago
The community does not decide what is good or bad. Paul Graham has already decided that. There is no democracy.
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by tedks 12y ago
Algae processes more CO2 than trees. You could convert the forests into logging land and just set up massive platforms on the ocean that manage algae. Maybe not even that.
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It seems simple why historians would object to speculative fictional counterfactionals. Historians are concerned with the real effects of real events. People do very badly separating fictional evidence from true evidence (bring up AI and se
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by tedks 12y ago
>I'm confused. Comments have up/down voting, and posts have up voting and flagging. The voting system exists so that the community can raise productive comments, and lower unproductive comments. It's impossible for Paul Gr
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by tedks 12y ago
There's no way to tell; that said, someone with a strong delusional disorder will probably have very few thoughts unaffected by the disorder, and if you're adequately empathetic, you can be charitable and give your fellow humans t
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by tedks 12y ago
The reason why hacker news is good is because it remains serious. It's important to remember that Hacker News is not a democracy. There isn't a voting system so people can democratically decide what content is good or bad. Rathe
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by tedks 12y ago
You don't seem to have a lot of empathy, or understanding of delusional disorders. A delusion is a non-real thought that you perceive as true. Things like "I am Napoleon" or "The people on the roof across the street are
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by tedks 12y ago
HURD is pretty actively maintained, I don't think it's rotting. Microkernel research just keeps outpacing their ability to implement so they've switched base kernels like 4 times now.
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by tedks 12y ago
Off topic: lately, I've noticed a lot of dead HN comments and entire shadowbanned accounts that seem totally reasonable and on-topic. I really wish there was a way to flag dead comments that were auto-flagged as false positives, becaus
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by tedks 12y ago
I think the maintainer has said that God forbids networking. This seemed irrational to everyone, and then the NSA scandal happened, so I'm inclined to side with Terry on this one.
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by tedks 12y ago
>I wish there was an easy way to avoid feeling guilty when you see other people's achievements. The easiest thing is to be able to look at the achievements you have, and say truthfully, "maybe if I put my mind to it I could bik
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by tedks 12y ago
Yeah, "acid flashbacks" is a rumor originally started by L. Ron Hubbard.
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by tedks 12y ago
>The notion advertising sells anything is absurd. The notion that not advertising costs you sales is very real. So in other words, advertising gains sales. Half-full vs. half-empty.
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by tedks 12y ago
>Many men (or gender-fluid people) are raped/molested too. Why is your focus so intensely on women when talking about something that should be common all rape-survivors? Because women are excluded from tech communities more than men
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by tedks 12y ago
No. I'm not going to hold your hand and feed you links. You'll go off and get another link and think that your link is as good as my links. I mentioned two books in my first comment. Read them. They summarize about a half century
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>The reason is that much more research is needed to determine whether or not VR headsets are safe for developing eyes and brains. When you are using a VR headset, you are continually focused on infinity, which is not natural. It's n
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by tedks 12y ago
I'm glad you linked to that; I think it's a great study. Personally, I think there are probably goals more suitable for using social pressure for, and goals more suitable to keep secret. But I've still kept most of my goals s
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by tedks 12y ago
>How do you know? The "science of persuasion" sounds like something I will read about tomorrow in an article about problems with replicating its results. How can you know anything, spindritf ? Indeed. Attaining any absolute pr
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> So how come this doesn't work for me? I am not influenced by advertising in the least. I find it all equally annoying. Like all knowledge, this is probabilistic. Variance exists and a mechanism that will reliably cause an effect w
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>When people decide they want to be seen as a certain kind of person, they want to remain consistent with that. That's why if you want to reach a goal, you should tell as many of your friends and family about it as possible so you r

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