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Would proponents of backdoors for encryption also want access to our thoughts?(theatlantic.com)
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Reddit also allows curation; you've just used the curation tools on Facebook and have not used those on Reddit.
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How can you tell if an agent is harmless enough? In 1950, San Francisco had a population over 750,000 (see [0]). There was one death that we know of that seems likely linked to this bacteria. How would you find an agent that is more harmles
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> This argument is nearly uncounterable [...] I'm not sure I understand your objection here. Most people spend their time interacting with people who are similar to them. If anything, this is an argument that anecdotal evidence is q
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In firefox I just went View > Page Style > No Style and everything was fine
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Something I didn't realize before checking after reading this article: the Doomsday Clock[0] is currently set to 3 minutes before midnight. It was only set closer to midnight from 1953-1960, and this is tied with 1949-1953 and 1984-198
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
> Decentralization [...] requires much less skill and expense to implement and operate, etc. This isn't true because decentralization is easier, it's true because technologies which this isn't true of (require large capita
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> There seems to be a popular conception of home schooling parents as crazy religious zealots or something, which I think has little basis in reality. Knowing nothing about you other than that you read and comment on this site I would as
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To play chess is the mark of a gentleman; to play chess well is the mark of a misspent youth.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Ta-Nahesi Coates recently highlighted a number of sources. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-thi... For extending slavery beyond the borders of south, see the quotes of Edward Poll
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
When most people think of fascial tissue, they're probably recalling some medical terminology. People thinking of facial tissue may or may not think of Kleenex. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascia
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But sometime in the future, you can have China build a burger flipping robot.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
The key phrase here is sign up . I can't just send you an unsolicited text message subscribing you to Cat Facts (only $29.99/month!) unless you follow my intricate opt-out scheme.
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Off topic, but this brought to mind an amusing anecdote about Hunter S. Thompson. When he ran for Sheriff's office of Aspen, CO, he shaved his head bald and referred to the (ex-army, Republican) incumbent he was running against as &quo
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
> Publicly shaming someone on twitter isn't trying to start a witch hunt? Publicly shaming someone on twitter isn't necessarily trying to start a witch hunt. Most tweets do not start a witch hunt and it can be quite difficult t
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
To be pedantic: you were off by three orders of magnitude. An order of magnitude is a 10x multiplicative factor.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
You only need to keep the master password at bank; you can freely update/distribute the encrypted file. Some sort of secret sharing scheme [1] seems like it would work well here. You can distribute parts of a key so that any 3 of 5 peo
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
You may be interested in this article written by a couple that doesn't agree with you. Granted, they seem to be extreme outliers in many other ways, but it's evidence that it works for some people. http://messymatters.c
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
> If anything, the problem is something of the opposite [...] It is certainly possible for society to have both problems of "parents don't spend enough time with their children" and "parents are micromanaging their ch
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Pedantic grammar note: If you consider $1 million rich you almost certainly consider $1 billion to be rich. In contrast, if you consider rich to be $1 billion, you may or may not consider $1 million to be rich.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
You may want to read about the "Birthday paradox"[1]. Short version the expected time for there to be a match with you is much much larger than the expected time to find a match at all . 1: https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
Frogs try to jump out of boiling water. I understand you mean it metaphorically, but like the expression "you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar" it has no scientific basis.
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My understanding is thus: The work is published with a particular license, and that cannot be changed. However, the creators may republish the work with a new license. If this happens third parties can choose which work they want to use, th
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
I suspect the author's primary motive for writing this piece is further down the page: > This post is adapted from Kembrew McLeod's new book, Pranksters: Making Mischief in the Modern World, published by NYU Press on April 1.
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by thesteamboat 11y ago
> That's not irresponsible, just human. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
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To be fair, much of the time people don't quite rise to the sentience of humans.
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Bot_sharp has won the arimaa challenge(twitter.com)
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Likewise asteroids are doing the world a favor by reminding us that an impact event could end life as we know it.
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It is every citizen's final duty to go into the tanks and become one with all the people. -- Chairman Sheng-ji Yang, "Ethics for Tomorrow"
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I don't really know enough about physics to be able to judge, but what you say is nicely in accordance with my priors. I think we're in agreement here. I wouldn't argue that 3 was the place the argument most likely fails, mer

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