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by tedks 13y ago
I think you're reading too much into the words "right approach." In this case, "right approach" (I think) means something like "understanding that death is bad and trying to fight it."
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by tedks 13y ago
The author makes a good point and seemingly provides good data to support their thesis, but it doesn't overcome the bias I have against several argument templates which are almost always wrong: * Idealization of "hunter-gatherer&q
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by tedks 13y ago
Great, I'm sure they'll have a lot in common with their peers and a wide familiarity with their generation's culture when it comes time for them to interact with people whose lives you don't control. As someone who also
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by tedks 13y ago
I think the problem with your phrasing is that most humans will interpret it to mean "oh, I can just find something that looks good on any one of these metrics, and then it'll be ethical." This is why animal welfare-ists exis
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by tedks 13y ago
Hal uses this as the textbook for his undergrad machine learning course. Having recently taken that course (in the spring 2013 semester), I feel justified saying that this book needs a lot of work before it's usable as a textbook or
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by tedks 13y ago
Do you think a species as a unit has preferences? It seems like your friends are conflating genetics and utilitarian ethics. There's a way of explaining genetics in terms of preferences, but genes don't really have preferences. Sp
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by tedks 13y ago
...so it's safe to assume all animal products are unethical. According to that statement, the ethical value of any animal product is a function of some huge number of variables, and the upper bound on that value is the minimum of that
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by tedks 13y ago
Well, the insight I was going for here is that a walled garden is only as safe as the gardener, and whatever trust we as humans could have in that gardener should be totally shattered in the post-NSA leak world. If you think that isn't
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by tedks 13y ago
They refuse to endorse organizations that do things contrary to their mission. That's entirely unsurprising.
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by tedks 13y ago
" The fact that rms does not use a cell phone in 2013 is telling." - gfodor, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6364214
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by tedks 13y ago
A single walled garden is easily subverted by HUMINT. That is a valid counterstatement to the statement "Walled gardens make users more safe." I can't see how that was obtuse. What part did you not understand?
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by tedks 13y ago
Neither. The people that are right are the people that apply the same reasonable standards to any demagogue. They're rare among humans, but they are the least wrong. In particular, you are wrong, since you're incapable of separati
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by tedks 13y ago
I suppose so, but the NSA budget would have to be awfully big to fund me. It's high-cost, and low-gain. In contrast, owning Apple would be a massive win. But you're free to treat everything I say and do as an attempt to spy on me.
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by tedks 13y ago
This says nothing of NSA sleeper agents sneaking backdoors into Apple products, which seems pretty likely given the recent disclosures. The more centralized you build a system, the easier it is to completely own. Also, there's a massiv
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by tedks 13y ago
If it were anyone else but RMS who did that, HN would laud it as the pinnacle of hacker excellence. I could see this in a lovingly-upvoted bio of Dear Leader^w^wpg: > Though the YC portfolio is typically on the bleeding edge of tech tren
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by tedks 13y ago
>I'm just surprised that people would argue with the premise that people are more risk averse now. I'm very clearly not arguing with that, but there's a difference between the TSA existing and wearing bike helmets. I'
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by tedks 13y ago
>As it is when swimming, hiking, driving, swallowing food, shaving, etc. Everything that's worth doing carries risk. I don't think I could die if anyone made a momentary lapse of judgment on hacker news; and yet here we both ar
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by tedks 13y ago
The problem with both of those plans is that they involve attacking humans, in crowded places where heavily armed forces will rapidly respond and probably kill you as an attacker. Terrorism now is focused more on systems disruption. Buy a $
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by tedks 13y ago
Almost none of those are good ideas. Walking alone is an exception; it's very easy for one momentary lapse to cause death or permanent damage in any of the others. One of mother's best friends died riding in the back of a pickup
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by tedks 13y ago
If the only way humans could learn was through directly physical stimuli, we'd be scratching dirt and running down antelope still.
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by tedks 13y ago
It's beyond hilarious that blog posts about app developers doing annoying things to make money are totally welcome on HN, and typically spark comments rabble-rousing towards the goal of making a "Developer's Professional Ethi
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by tedks 13y ago
These are Tor (not TOR) clients, not relays.
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by tedks 13y ago
RMS emails in restaurants, cars, trains, etc., in Europe and the United States but also frequently in SE Asia and South America. There are pictures of him responding to email in the mountains in Nepal. It's easy to get Internet access
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by tedks 13y ago
* RMS reads the web via email because he's traveling virtually all the time and rarely has Internet access. A batch-based system makes more sense for him. This isn't an ethical stance, and the fact you include it hits your credibi
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by tedks 13y ago
>As is only using the FSF's definition of free software (where it matters less that the software itself is free, but that the software doesn't point out to you any nonfree addons. You're conflating the FSF's definitio
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by tedks 13y ago
You should join my startup as chief growth hacker. We'll pay you less than you're currently making, but you'll change the way people are changing the world.
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by tedks 13y ago
Wikileaks is using him for their own goals, which appear to be to snub the united states. Lately, the US has been very obviously attacking Wikileaks, but they've been around since long before the Collateral Murder videos, and they&#x
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by tedks 13y ago
Doesn't 'tar xf' work for practically everything? I just checked and it works for lzma, bz2, and gz.
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by tedks 13y ago
You're quite welcome. I'm glad you liked the description. The title of the article is indeed misleading; a better one would be "PRISM-proof." With a total record of the entire Internet (global passive adversary), you cou
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by tedks 13y ago
No. As I understand it, the "deniable" in "deniable encryption" is that after the first handshake, there's no cryptographic proof that the messages sent originated from you. This is flimsy legal evidence, because th

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