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by trendia 10y ago
Intelligence services didn't have bad intent, they had bad intel. Specifically, they used an informant (Curveball[0]) who was later discredited. However, this still supports my argument that Google's "fact-checking" algo
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by trendia 10y ago
Imagine that this existed right before the Iraq war. If a news article said that Saddam Hussein had WMD's, how would Google's 'fact-check' algorithm work? 1. on the one hand, official reports suggested that Saddam did ha
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by trendia 10y ago
AMD wants to gain market share. The way to do that is to develop technology that competes with existing market leaders. If Intel were involved, then AMD would gain no strategic advantage.
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by trendia 10y ago
I believe that cross-site scripting [0] can be used to get around domain restrictions. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting [1] (This is not my area of expertise. If I'm not correct... please let
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by trendia 10y ago
Essentially: Accuracy is not precision; precision is not accuracy. (Of course, MTBI is neither accurate nor precise. It is not accurate because it does not provide us any useful information about personality. It is not precise because test
576.
by trendia 10y ago
Add to that "People receive different MBTI results even in the same week."
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by trendia 10y ago
your last 3 comments have been about Trump, despite the topic not having anything to do with politics.
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by trendia 10y ago
I just want to give a shoutout to the subreddit "Stallman was right." [0] Because if there's one thing that Stallman has consistently predicted, it's that if you give your private data to a firm, they will absolutely use
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by trendia 10y ago
Many privacy and security concerns stem from the baseband processor -- from Stingrays to completely unknowable rootkits. The only real fix is to not use a proprietary baseband processor at all, though this would mean completely rethinking t
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by trendia 10y ago
Commenting on HN just makes you better at commenting in HN.
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by trendia 10y ago
How about "data monkey"? At least then when the corporations post job ads and bring up buzzwords in their meetings, we can silently laugh at them.
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by trendia 10y ago
Not only are they mediocre in skill, but studies suggest politicians spend up to 60% of their time raising donations. That means they're developing skills in raising money, not designing legislation that benefits their constituency. Fu
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by trendia 10y ago
Hopefully the FBI will hire some adults to explain encryption to them.
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by trendia 10y ago
"Pay to Play" is referring to specific SEC legislation, not the common use of the word. no comment on the rest of the leaks, just wanted to clarify that
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by trendia 10y ago
In China and Russia, it is well known that all oligarchs are corrupt. However, not all of them will go to prison -- only those who cross the politicians will ever be tried and convicted.
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by trendia 10y ago
It is entirely possible that the Russians were behind some or all of the hacks. However, we don't have sufficient evidence to prove that. For one, Cloudstrike was referring to DC Leaks, not Guccifer 2.0 (nor Wikileaks). Further, it is
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by trendia 10y ago
You've read all the documents in the 800MB dump already? It's hardly been up for an hour.
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by trendia 10y ago
Recall who had access to these servers: * Platte River Networks -- the entire staff had access to the servers, which were unencrypted * Datto -- Platte River backed up to cloud service Datto, unencrypted. All Datto employees had access to t
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by trendia 10y ago
You've described how we were told the EU would work. But organizations have a tendency to get around restrictions on their power. As a result, the UK does not have veto power and the EU is pretty much a legislative body without the app
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by trendia 10y ago
I've been following the recent FBI Congressional hearings and to be honest, they're either very incompetent or very good at acting incompetent.
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by trendia 10y ago
Genetics plays a very large factor in fat and cholesterol metabolism, and one that I think explains the variance in success with the ketogenic diet. e.g. FTO, PPARG, APOA5, FABP2, and APOE. Essentially, not everyone processes fat the same w
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by trendia 10y ago
If there are two major topics in a test (say Topic 1 and Topic 2), then bimodality could arise simply because * some people studied both Topic 1 and Topic 2 * some people studied Topic 1 more than Topic 2 * some people studied Topic 2 more
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by trendia 10y ago
Not only that, but the TSA was created because there was a threat, and not because the TSA provided any actual defense against that threat. Major difference between intent and outcome.
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by trendia 10y ago
A major question that isn't covered in the article: The leaves may be produced in Bolivia legally but used elsewhere illegally. For instance: How many leaves are smuggled through the Bolivia / Peru border? If the plants are produc
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by trendia 10y ago
thrill is misspelled (ignore this post)
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by trendia 10y ago
Unfortunately, direct democracy would reduce the power of current legislators, so it is unlikely that our political system will change.
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by trendia 10y ago
If we had a benevolent artificial intelligence and the data were locked away from any humans, I'd be OK with that. Unfortunately, humans ruin a lot of things that would otherwise be pretty good. For instance, this kind of data would al
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by trendia 10y ago
I wonder if disabling "Location services" in Android fully disables it. There is a definite conflict of interest with Google, since they both write the operating system and rely on location data.
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by trendia 10y ago
4 dollars per 3 months: > If you happen to live in Europe, including the UK, you’re only worth one-third of a North American to Facebook, at $4.50 every three months, while the “rest of the world”, which includes most developing nations
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by trendia 10y ago
The data is not even worth that much. Estimates are that it's less than $1 / user / month. But Google does it anyway, because it costs them less than that to implement. edit: For instance, Facebook says each user is worth abo

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