tynpeddler

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by tynpeddler 10y ago
The content of facebook messages isn't the only valuable thing. The social graph can be very powerful as well. If you know you need to influence person X, knowing who their closest friends are gives you a way in.
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What counts as proof? Will a jury understand what doesn't count as proof? If a very official and nice looking prosecutor stands up and makes an argument that is slightly too complicated for the average juror to understand, claiming t
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by tynpeddler 10y ago
But if you write your library to use those sorts of tools, then you now have a dependency, which the article is arguing against doing.
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by tynpeddler 10y ago
I like this approach, but one problem with plain javascript that I haven't heard many people address is testability. A module I am using with angular has lots of calls to setTimeout, but these timed out functions are sometimes not inv
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by tynpeddler 10y ago
I think people fault her because the server was setup, maintained and used on her authority. Since she created the unsafe situation, she's responsible.
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by tynpeddler 10y ago
I think the most practical approach would be to build something like a buuthandi from schlock mercenary. Of course, even that would contain a staggering amount of matter.
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by tynpeddler 10y ago
I'm not sure if the trolley problem applies here. The trolley problem relies on one of the choices being passive. In the case of cars however, both choices require active effort. Either we actively build cars that cause X deaths eve
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by tynpeddler 10y ago
I guess we would have to read the emails to know if she had the authority to reclassify them. Otherwise “This authority(...) did not extend to information generated by other agencies, such as CIA.”
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by tynpeddler 10y ago
But nobody was insolvent. That quote sounds like it's more suited to catastrophes than to run of the mill equities acquisitions.
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by tynpeddler 10y ago
You have to understand that for many scientists, work like this is darn near akin to climate change denial. You can only repeat yourself so many times debunking this garbage before you start trying to be creative. And you can only be so c
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by tynpeddler 10y ago
Funnily enough, one of the reasons the terminator gene was created was because anti-gmo activist wanted assurances that artificially created genes wouldn't escape into the wild. In addition, farmers who rotate crops also want terminato
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Doesn't SF have significant earthquake hazards? That would explain the extremely heavy structural design.
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The concern is that you may be equating the conservative position to flat earthers bases on biased information. It's the classic epistomological dilemma, how do you know what you know? Maybe reality doesn't have a liberal bias.
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Have you considered if your instinctive discomfort with group identities might make it difficult to understand the genuine differences in mindsets and worldviews that arise between different groups of people? I ask because it seems that pe