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by theoh 8y ago
From the article: "When the communicating parties have common secret key, deniable encryption can be simple. For instance, the one-time pad (OTP) scheme is perfectly deniable: having sent c = k ⊕ m, the parties can claim that they sent
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The idea of "bideniability" is defined early in the paper as meaning that there is no way for an adversary to distinguish between real and fake (key, randomness, message) sets, even when they receive one of those from both the se
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It goes without saying that you can't provide a key in advance that will result in convincing "fake" plaintexts for every encrypted message you send. The content of the fake plaintexts has to be fully encoded in the key+any &
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Modern architecture wasn't a monolithic movement (and it has changed a lot in the last 100 or so years. It is generally explained and contextualized badly (I spent years in architecture school) partly because architecture is a very ant
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I don't have much experience with Lisp, so I'm definitely trying to convey the impression of a typography enthusiast rather than a coder. I'm familiar with the kind of claims you are making for Lisp, but I'm also conscio
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I'd guess that most people who value typographic nuance and clarity find Lisp's lack of concessions to syntax makes reading code an extremely clunky experience. I think Lisp's (lack of) syntax adds up to a set of tradeoffs th
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by theoh 8y ago
Explanations based on evolutionary psychology tend to neglect the social or psychological adaptations that are responsible for complex society. The validity of the claim that we would be happier as hunter gatherers, for example, is really d
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Designing something on an architectural level really isn't always a data structures and algorithms problem. Take the web, for example. REST isn't complicated, but it does the job and it opened up more possibilities than any other
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That depends on what is meant by software architecture. If you mean the structuring of a system to achieve good or (particularly) consistent worst-case performance, maybe you are right. But if architecture is used to mean the design of a sy
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Images of the landscape of intensive cattle farming: https://mishkahenner.com/Feedlots
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I assume that the decoy router is the active router. So you'll know you've turned it off by e.g. the absence of the Netflix service you were planning to enjoy while staying in the AirBnB apartment. How do you know that one of th
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It could be very inconvenient to unplug the router. The real issue is what level of threat you hope to counter. An unexpected extra clock or an extra coffee machine in the room, as mentioned in the article, would not represent a very high-l
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How do you know you're not unplugging a decoy router, with the secure surveillance router concealed somewhere you wouldn't think to look?
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I don't know what you mean by "middle points" but I think you are too quick to dismiss this as unbuildable. To my eye, it's buildable if you don't consider every joint as a pin that digs into the paper. It's pr
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It sounds like the kind of thing the London-based Space Syntax folks do. I don't recognize the specific video you describe, but that is the kind of thinking they're keen on. (It might have been Anna Rose.) That research originally
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by theoh 8y ago
Here's an example that comes to mind: A programmer writing a function refers to a local variable, "status", but thinks they are referring to a global variable. The code works by chance because the variables happen to have the
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I don't get this either. Almost any existing consumer drone over 0.55 pounds could possibly fall straight down onto someone's head and kill them, in an unlucky scenario. Maybe the requirement is trying to encourage (or allow) the
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The Areo article starts with "This essay, although hopefully accessible to everyone, is the most thorough breakdown of the study". Those words "the study" clearly seek to frame the hoax as part of a research project or &
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Here's the situation as described in a good and fairly neutral (I think!) nymag article: "Crucially, it does not matter that the hoaxsters didn’t attempt to publish their final results in a peer-reviewed journal. “Publishing in a
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I don't know how familiar you are with research in the social sciences, but as wgerard's comment observes, this isn't a trumped-up charge. They could have done this without claiming that it was part of their university-affili
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The Definition deliberately enforces non-discrimination. The point of that is to make sure that licensors don't "color" the tool by putting restrictions in their license (thus excluding some potential licensees). Surely you c
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“Epistemological Pluralism and the Revaluation of the Concrete” (1990)(papert.org)
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by theoh 8y ago
This comment reads like a very partisan, overstated puff piece in defence of the book. The Scheme aspect of SICP, and other decisions made by the authors, matter a lot because, contrary to what you seem to be claiming, there are many differ
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This article covers some of the history of this discussion: http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2008/Februa...
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Francis Bacon's work is not about beauty (conceptual or painterly). It's one thing to dislike the work linked to the original post, but something else altogether to indulge yourself by wheeling out a bogus, trivial and pretentious
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The article actually claims that "One of the most common extramission beliefs is that people can “feel” someone else’s gaze as a pressure or heat on the skin." so I don't think your original point (that people were more likel
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The history of theories of vision contains repeated cases of "extramission" hypotheses, even if you don't believe that 50% of adults now subscribe to a folk "emission" theory of vision. https://en.wikiped
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He definitely uses mist/fog in the 3D rendering process for some of the images. Follow him on Twitter to verify that.
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What about artistic value? You know, actual 'art'?
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You shouldn't be worrying about future possible criticism. Claiming that, as parents, you are persecuted is not a good look, because parents aren't exactly an oppressed minority. Also this: https://www.buzzfeednews.com&

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