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by tedks 12y ago
I would say that it's typically assumed that there are confounding factors in any experiment. An experimenter has to try to minimize that, but you're still not going to be able to replicate a full experiment. If you have more than
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by tedks 12y ago
He is a scientist; unless you're also a domain expert in his field with at least as much expertise as him, or a newcomer with radically impressive work, you can't just not call him a scientist because he disagrees with you. If a d
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...well, quite a lot actually, because 20 year olds are more like other humans than different. Humans don't have life stages. We don't wrap ourselves in cocoons and change from grubs into butterflies from ages 16-20. For most of h
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A positive psychologist might use behaviorist techniques, cognitive techniques, or even psychoanalytical techniques if they think it will contribute to their patient becoming less incongruent. Positive psychology is a preference of goal sta
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by tedks 12y ago
> Remember, Amazon/Bezos are ruthless - they could not care at all what is fair - but they are going to use every tool in their kit to win at this negotiation. Does any company of that size care what's "fair"?
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>The entire spirit of this app is about infringing on intellectual property rights. How is this true in any sense? Adding a frame around a YouTube channel is basically an RSS reader. The value is that you now have an icon on your home sc
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But not an irrelevant one, in this discussion, surely. Which is the point the comment parent was attempting to make, and you, probably because you dislike Christopher Hitchens (which I do as well, but anyway) you refused to acknowledge. I&#
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Knowing someone's name doesn't necessarily mean they're a good person.
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Yeah, the tor blog is linked elsewhere in this thread. It had been patched for a while when it came out, and there was a push to upgrade any older relays.
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At a school like CMU it's hard for me to believe they'd cancel a researcher's talk because it wasn't properly disclosed. It'd create a headache for the IP team, but they wouldn't cancel the talk. That just make
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I would imagine the researchers broke quite a few laws verifying this attack on the public Tor network, if they indeed did so. And since Tor is incredibly hard to simulate at that level, it's likely that they did. Even if they develope
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...no, I think what the comment parent is saying is that ATMs:Bank tellers :: Uber : Taxi drivers is not a valid analogy.
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...but you do need to look like an idiot by talking to your phone. And then you're in an environment where there's, you know, any amount of ambient noise and Siri will helpfully say "Okay, texting Slow to John Doe" or so
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What makes Instagram better than emailing pictures to people?
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Texing "yo" to someone sucks. Texting "yo" to my co-workers sucks. You really want me to go and make some group MMS crap so I can send yo? Yo is way faster and more streamlined than all of those things. That's like
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Andrea Dworkin is one of the foremost feminist thinkers of the 20th century. If you're dismissing her offhand you are not a feminist.
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I've been using Yo since I first heard about it on Hacker News and it's actually really useful. Get to someone's house and want them to let you in? Send a yo. Getting to be lunchtime? Yo your coworkers (Yo widgets on Android
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As Mao said, political power flows from the barrel of a gun. American autocrats aren't much different.
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What makes you think that legalization will offer any of that? It's a little absurd how when it comes to things like taxis or hotels or the Internet infrastructure regulation is a horrible thing that does nothing but cause pain, but wh
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Yes, this is a critical issue at the core of feminist struggle. Read some Dworkin.
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The world's oldest profession is farming. While harm reduction is a great thing, legalizing prostitution would have a hugely detrimental effect on the fight against human trafficking and the status of women in general. The idea that wo
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The DEA wants to warrantlessly search all packages going through private carriers. They've done this with UPS, but FedEx was rightfully telling them to fuck off and this is the price they pay. This has been building for a while: http:
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by tedks 12y ago
XKCD references don't add to the discussion. Especially since XKCD is itself mostly just references to things technical people often know, a lot of people have the courtesy to keep HN clean of its cheap humor-by-association. Note that
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But this is hacker news, where homeless people just need to learn how to write apps and bootstrap themselves out of abject poverty. Part of accepting capitalism to such an extent as HN is a brutal lack of empathy.
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>It would have been better to work on merging databases or exporting them into a structured site, something like Freebase. Why is this not appropriate for Wikidata?
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>Humor is humor, nothing more. What an utterly false, utterly stupid thing to say. If you think humor is removed at all from misogyny and racism you are willfully blind.
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Maybe I'm just too white but I use rap genius primarily for slang translations. I listen to a lot of UK grime and rap genius is like a translate.google.com for grime. There's no way I'd be able to decode most of the stuff Ske
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by tedks 12y ago
Ocaml has a bytecode compiler and a native code compiler; any library written in OCaml can be compiled to run-anywhere bytecode, though I'm not sure how many libraries are really just wrappers around native GNU/Linux libraries.
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I mean, you'll notice my strategy is to never torify anything where I'd have to actually wait for it. Except IM, which is small enough that it doesn't matter, anything I've torified is downloaded in the background anyway
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It'd be pretty impossible to port-scan a .onion... I can't imagine one circuit lasting as long as you'd need to find some random SSH listener. It's much harder to find than an IP on the Internet; I've never seen bru

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