tmuir

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by tmuir 9y ago
If it is your goal to prevent your enemies from learning about your activities, and then someone stumbles upon those activities in the course of their normal work, but doesn't realize who is responsible for said activities, then your h
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I don't understand it from this angle, but to me, the general description of what they employ sounds very analogous to how noise cancelling headphones work for pilots. The noise generated by the engines, which normally would drown out
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One of the lessons many engineers who pass the PE exam learn is, "not with that attitude you can't".
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This is all happy-path talk. We'll do everything right forever in all cases no matter what, talk. I'm concerned about what their plan is for if and when they find out that the hypothesis that is their most prominent, and most mar
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by tmuir 9y ago
I think your optimism has a fighting chance of being mirrored in reality at some point in the future. I don't object to the idea of Promise. I object to absolutist statements claiming that companies who plan to do great good by carry
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by tmuir 9y ago
My point is not the veracity of any of the underlying legal principles. My point is the underhandedness of how we are entered into these agreements. FOSS has in fact, printed their stance it on a T shirt, and subsequently told the world ab
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But to the extent that any one of those metrics may show that your methodology has a negative or even negligible impact, what mechanisms exist to ensure your fidelity to these metrics, instead of leaning on public relations and marketing th
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by tmuir 9y ago
Consider the Lucas Critique [1]. To paraphrase, the general idea is that it is natural for organizations to seek to optimize their ability to navigate any regulation, or any impediment to maximizing their profits, or otherwise maximally se
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by tmuir 9y ago
I guess I've become hardened by the general principle underlying this tactic of debate. There are plenty of people who employ it as their singular or at least favored tactic to nearly every debate, and don't for one second convinc
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by tmuir 9y ago
Call it hyperbole, but in light of the last few days Facebook revelations, these terms of service contracts are suddenly quite interesting. On one hand, this one at least, is written in marketing speech and legalese, switching narrative vo
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by tmuir 9y ago
You bring up a very interesting thought experiment. We may very soon see a software developer expounding on all of these "clean code" principles before congress as their defense. How conventional wisdom, and industry wide best pr
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by tmuir 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism Claiming that Obama's campaigns were the true microtargeters, and that if we are angry at the actions of generic people, we must then be angry at Obama, because he did th
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by tmuir 9y ago
Ah yes, that old classic, whataboutism. You'd have us believe Cambridge Analytica was some vendor the Trump Campaign used sparingly, had very loose connections with, and saw limited success with. Yet Cambridge Analytica is a Robert Mer
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by tmuir 9y ago
I do in fact have a horse in this race as an Embedded developer, but I don't really ascribe worthiness of exclusive use of the term to any particular side. Theyre all just using a term that predates all of their industries, so this isn
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Correct me if I am wrong, but adding terms to the query can have two distinct effects: Either this would add jobs that hit "software" or "developer" in isolation,(see original problem) or it would filter out "Embedd
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by tmuir 9y ago
Searching for embedded development jobs by the keyword "embedded" is already an exercise in manually filtering out phlebotomist jobs, teaching positions, histotechnologists, all sorts of people who think they're differentiati
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wow. I wonder what falls out of that.
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I'll admit that this theory is pretty out there, and I'm not going to continue to expound about it here. I'll also admit that I can easily get pretty worked up, and veer into the partisan, hair on fire rhetoric that is the v
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by tmuir 9y ago
I misread gp as saying "flat Earth", and not "young Earth". My apologies. I would agree that even if we can point to things like nylonase or the speed of light coupled with known distances to stars, those are deduced f
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by tmuir 9y ago
Let's not pretend you're not attempting to gaslight me. I _returned_ name calling, as my interlocutor decided the easiest way to dismiss my claim was to frame it as chicken little proclaiming that the sky is falling. Then I debat
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by tmuir 9y ago
@Karunamon: I'm not sure why, but I have no reply link under your latest post, so I'm posting as close to it as I can. I don't think its controversial at all to say that both Facebook and Reddit are brainwashing people. Not
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by tmuir 9y ago
The flaw in your argument is that the obedience must be demanded at gunpoint. In actuality, the obedience can be gained through a combination of continuously putting people under stress, and framing yourself as the only viable solution to
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by tmuir 9y ago
Most of your explanations amount to spreading the trees out far enough and saying, "see, there's no forest here". You agree that all of the underlying mechanisms perform their component tasks, but disagree that there are cum
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by tmuir 9y ago
"There's no words that can make robots out of people" How do you explain cults? How do you explain the effects of advertising? How do you explain the uniform levels of discipline achieved by basic training? How do you expl
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by tmuir 9y ago
If you don't believe there are massive psychological exercises successfully influencing, and arguably radicalizing people, occurring on the internet, specifically on Reddit, you're being willfully ignorant. Or a Trump supporter,
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Well, luckily for all observers, the Bundy's erased any doubt that they were making political statements with their other armed standoff with federal authorities. You refer to the elder Bundy's grazing fees dispute, which played
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by tmuir 9y ago
I guess this has been longer ago, but the Malhuer National Wildlife Refuge takeover by the Bundys was essentially a militia challenging the government to armed conflict. I'm well aware that the case against these people ended in a mis
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I'll whole heartedly agree that there is no smoking gun to any of my theories. I don't equate this speech with violence. My point is just that situations that result in mob violence can deteriorate at a rate far faster than rati
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I don't disagree that just about any regulation of these groups will be interpreted as more conspiracy. I guess the crux of my argument is that these people are the victims of psychological warfare. I'm not throwing out the word
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I mean preparing for violent insurrection that they believe is about to be started by someone else. I don't think they are planning to start it. So many of the posts are alluding to events that are imminent. My fear is not that the

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