txmachinery

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by txmachinery 6y ago
So, we are left to wonder why YT suddenly cares so very much about foreign countries being accused of meddling in the US election.
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by txmachinery 6y ago
I wouldn't regard those downvotes as valid. There is a large and vocal group on this thread with no apparent regard for HN's culture. They appear to be from "out of town".
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Not an article, but a large amount of well-organised evidence (not great on mobile): https://hereistheevidence.com CodeMonkeyZ on Twitter is biased, but links to interesting material nonetheless, such as excerpts from Dominion s
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Or the commentary is largely coming from those normally absent from HN.
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Where is the evidence? Https://hereistheevidence.com
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by txmachinery 6y ago
As I explained, most of the research indicating positive results is old (meaning before the 70's). Though there were some in the 90's (eg, William Rea et al. https://eloverkanslig.org/wp-content/uploads/2
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Possibly relevant (Baghdad Battery): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baghdad_Battery
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Shantaram is incredible, I can only think of the original Dune novels by Frank Herbert as comparable in depth, scope and revelation of what it is to be human. Shantaram's author claims use of artistic license in names, character descri
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by txmachinery 6y ago
In principle it leaks information, so is always worse practice than not leaking. For example, one could imagine an edge-case where given a set of average-colour password images collected over time, for a password field that has a dynamic in
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Or they do, are rare, and haven't yet been reliably identified: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31640707/ The fact that the "new name" (IEI) seems to ignore/discredit the primary claims of the suffe
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by txmachinery 6y ago
I can well understand this being true. Without discounting it, I've also had roughly equivalent, but opposite experiences, with flight mode and sleep.
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Yes, I would generally agree. But I think it's fine, and justified to investigate the (many) claims of EMF sensitivity. People having a seizure because they walked past someone eating peanuts may have seemed insane when it first came a
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Yes, and do you know the difference between science and conjecture? Practice and theory? Done any research into people who are medically hyper-sensitive, sometimes at the milliwatt level, to RF energy? Is it possible that the cumulative e
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Maybe the commenter simply believes that it might not be crazy to exhibit concern for something that's known to be dangerous enough weaponise, is invisible, silent and being deployed in concentration all over the world including throug
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by txmachinery 6y ago
How bizarre, I'd been led to believe wireless energy was completely harmless; safe to use in the home, upon ones person daily and even distribute randomly in concentrated areas en masse without coordination. And further, I thought I wa
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by txmachinery 6y ago
"Maybe we shouldn't want" is a strange statement. It simultaneously appears to acknowledge widespread desire for something, along with an apparent minority view that wanting that thing is bad. In the context of a democracy, t
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Yes, I would use it every booking.
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Ah, that's great. Thanks!
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Thank you. The power bank may work as a hardware solution sometimes, though even in a pocket, any battery can fail if the outside temps are low enough (as they often are in winter at higher latitudes). I essentially was wondering if the hea
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Ask HN: Could a phone at sub-zero (C), heated by load, result in net inc. usage?
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by txmachinery 6y ago
And when you're done playing Flappy Bird, there's always Flappy Bird Within Flappy Bird: https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=29323
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by txmachinery 6y ago
I appreciate your good-natured discussion, but disagree: my statements were factual, and it's not strange to present hubris as an indicator of untrustworthiness.
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by txmachinery 6y ago
You could indeed see yourself as being "fact-checked". But this doesn't mean the person attempting to persuade you of their point of view thinks of themselves as a "fact-checker", or popularises themselves as a sour
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by txmachinery 6y ago
I read it as: self-annointed arbiters of truth demean themselves by their own definition as such. Trustworthy sources of information accept the limits of their knowledge and recognise their own ability to make mistakes. Who fact-checks the
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Possibly qualifying - a game called Everything: https://store.steampowered.com/app/582270/Everything/
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by txmachinery 6y ago
Agreed. If some kind of Proof of Personhood, optionally anonymized, combined with a permanent publicly verifiable and immutable record (blockchain?), elections may be conducted securely, verifiably and efficiently. https://wikipe
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by txmachinery 6y ago
This was certainly the weakest point in the article for me. Not explained nor backed up, and not easy to verify (unlike other points). I did find a PEW Research article [1] that stated Hispanics made up 13% of democratic voters circa 2019,
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by txmachinery 6y ago
"Targeted surveillance" as a concept, is mainly a relic from a bygone era. If you exist, everything you do is surveilled, both by the state and private interests.
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by txmachinery 6y ago
> Macs will never be a mass market product, unless Apple slashes prices. But that is not going to happen. They just have. The M1 range are $3000-$4000 worth of computer starting at around $1000.
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by txmachinery 6y ago
"The media" and "social media" may not be controlled by a single actor, but it's common knowledge that large enough chunks of both can be and often are. For example, the conspiracy theory that Russia rigged the 2016

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