throwawayukcyb

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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
> To do I/O in FP you have to deal with monads No. > The common ground is functional-ish and mostly-stateless programming ("const" etc). C# is actually becoming very good at this, and you can always cross into F# if
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
> That's a distortion of what I meant. It's really not. GP (or whatever) was saying that perhaps there's a reasonable difference of opinion. You responded by stating the author was wrong becuase "there [is] one best
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
Side-note: your observation may be valid for this case, but not in the case of backdoored encryption. Backdoored encryption is exactly a pre-emptive action. Relevant b/c I think the real worry in this case is that the FBI is laying the
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
> Isn't there one best way to serve the people? No. Not unless you are omniscient and all-powerful. And even then, still no, because different people are different and want different things. No one is claiming that the FBI is with
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
> I can't imagine programming without the knowledge of how things work at assembly level. The author's point is that recursion is a pervasive concept that is essential to understand even how modern computer hardware works:
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
> The physical device may not be owned by Apple, but the firmware installed upon it certainly is This is an interesting observation, actually. It suggests that there is a (legal) price to be paid for retaining tight control over firmwa
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
> Do you think with that sort of OPSSEC that they slip up and use a work phone? Doubtful. After 5 minutes of search I cannot find the story. But there was a super interesting story (in The Atlantic maybe?) about an investigation into a
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
What you're saying makes perfect sense, but law is weird. I would probably talk to a lawyer before assuming that something technically obvious is actually interpreted correctly by existing law. Sure, if we were all flush companies then
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
> "Her dramatic eye movements are self-stimulating her brain hemispheres, a technique called bi-lateral stimulation. By panning her eyes back and forth she is unknowingly using this technique to synthesize her brain hemisphere&#x27
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
> If you believe that content creators have a right to earn money there are two ways that can happen: 1) directly - you pay directly for the content that you want to consume or 2) indirectly - you see ads or sell your data in some way.
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
I can't speak for chemistry or physics, but that must be an incredibly poor mathematics program? I can't remember seeing anything past calc on yahoo answers and those answers were almost always wrong, or correct but with wrong exp
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
social sciences and natural sciences have pretty much always had vastly different standards for what is acceptable. Getting 5 sigmas in many sorts of psychological studies would be pretty much impossible. I very much doubt there was ever a
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
"It is bundled with other software and its presence is not disclosed."
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
ceteris paribus i.e. unicorns and rainbows. You're essentially just responding to every response to your posts with "yeah but more assumptions make it true!"
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
I think you've misinterpreted me. The problem is not that security work isn't interesting. The problem is that the sorts of security-related things a teacher/parent is most likely to point their children to (most likely the s
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by throwawayukcyb 11y ago
Children committing crimes using computers is a real problem and should not be disregarded. See the last portion of "Reflections on Trusting Trust". That said, this webpage is dangerous and misleading for a lot of reasons, but I&#