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by uv-depression 9mo ago
> A lot of people who have never had issues with immigration policy before have become very anti Indian immigration as a result. So we just let racists determine national policy now? I wonder how that's working out in the US.
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by uv-depression 9mo ago
Leaving aside the fact that this is a single picture of a chart with no source provided (or sample size, or methodology)... that's eighth on that chart, not fifth, and just says "immigration" with no further detail.
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by uv-depression 9mo ago
> collectively our greatest fear Citation very much needed. This sounds like _your_ concern that you're trying to launder through projecting onto the rest of the country.
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by uv-depression 1y ago
Yeah, and all of that's already true right now because messages are stored on those users' devices already. You'll be heartbroken to hear that those users can also take a screenshot of your disappearing messages and send it t
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by uv-depression 1y ago
Do you also think it's "strange" that they're introducing that (optional!) feature while also storing all the messages on your device? The cloud backup is strictly more secure than that on-device database. Their blog pos
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by uv-depression 1y ago
That backup system presumably uses symmetric encryption, which is not nearly as vulnerable to quantum-accelerated attacks.
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by uv-depression 1y ago
That character is actually the en dash (properly used in ranges, e.g. 5–10). The em dash is [shift][option][-]. I would also include triple hyphen in that list; for those of us used to TeX a double hyphen (--) is an en dash and a triple (--
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by uv-depression 1y ago
GP was incorrect that it doesn't increase supply, but correct on pricing. Besides, if I can't afford $3000/mo rent, it doesn't matter to me how many rental units are available at $4000/mo. With massive pricing collu
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by uv-depression 1y ago
> the cat is out of the bag Someone, if we stretch that metaphor, intentionally opened the bag for profit. We can and should hold them accountable. > the people involved with that have to deal with that Yep, and they should hold the p
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by uv-depression 1y ago
Launching tens of thousands of satellites is better than municipal internet, which would serve the same purpose, be cheaper, and not interfere with critical scientific research? This solution is better only for the private internet oligopol
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by uv-depression 1y ago
Ah, the techbro defence. "We already started doing it, so I guess you're just going to have to let us". > Whether they like it or not, A swarm of LEO satellites because in the current political climate it's easier to
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by uv-depression 1y ago
Did you read the link? That idea is covered there.
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by uv-depression 1y ago
Not the person you were replying to, but the Cass review was quite clearly bunk. Its main thrust is essentially: "there are no double blind studies on the effects of affirming care for minors, so we should stop prescribing it immediate
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by uv-depression 1y ago
That's very funny, because I think it's the opposite. There's a ton of interactions, but those (in my view) are to encourage group tactics. Individual characters can definitely be built wrong, but so long as you have at least
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by uv-depression 2y ago
But you absolutely are implying that, because you're implying that you're acting without ideological commitment. You're obviously not saying it, but the implication is that I'm ideologically committed (and therefore myop
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by uv-depression 2y ago
This is a very late reply, but I think it's quite revealing that you seem to be implying that having an ideological stance is (a) optional, and (b) value-neutral. Why yes, people who are opposed politically don't think the other i
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by uv-depression 2y ago
You're surprised? In any vaguely political thread HN is pretty much just a more well-spoken 4chan. Moderation here is entirely based on tone, not content, which along with its techno-libertarian origins makes it the perfect breeding gr
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by uv-depression 2y ago
It really does seem like there's some old-guard who are utterly determined to now allow this to happen. That's not to say that Rust is inevitable in the kernel, but they're refusing to even allow the attempt. The amount of ba
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by uv-depression 2y ago
Starting with my undergrad but fully committing to it by grad school, I (and several of my friends who went through similar programs in math/cs) have a strategy that uses this. If, for example, I had a new problem set in a math course,
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by uv-depression 3y ago
Symmetric algorithms are largely safe-ish; the best known attack is Grover's algorithm, which reduces the effective bits by half (runs in O(sqrt(N)) evaluations). Shor's algorithm is a polynomial-time solution to the discrete loga
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by uv-depression 3y ago
Saying that the total number of deaths decreased does not mean that children are safer interacting with roads. It could mean that children interact significantly less with roads in the first place. The statistic you gave is not enough to dr
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by uv-depression 3y ago
Does the US interstate pay for itself? > Isn’t this the communist/socialist philosophy No. This is about changing how something is paid for under capitalism, and is a very normal way of paying for things under this system. > If a
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by uv-depression 3y ago
Private companies abusing works shared in good faith for free in order to profit is like communism? I'm sorry, that's just absurd "anything I don't like is communism"-level thinking. These are organizations operatin
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by uv-depression 3y ago
I don't think there are generally agreed upon definitions of strong vs. weak, but I think a useful definition is about changing the type _while referring to the same data_ as weakness. In your Python example there, I think we can say i
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by uv-depression 3y ago
Oh my god you are being so dramatic. Someone says something you disagree with about whether a term is gender-neutral and you're suddenly talking about "speech totalitarians" and authoritarians and gulags. Get a grip.
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by uv-depression 3y ago
HackerNews overall seems to lean deeply reactionary, to the point where apparently "don't be a jerk if you want to participate in this project" is read as a threat. I'm not sure why all of these people think the situatio
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by uv-depression 3y ago
Have you considered that the Dunning–Kruger effect might be in play here? You're making lots of big claims and insisting everyone who disagrees with you doesn't understand physics. I have a degree in astrophysics and I've wor
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by uv-depression 3y ago
> Secondly, think about this thought experiment: a layer of pure CO2 gas covers the lowest layer of air near the surface. By how much would that get warmer compared to air? The answer is there won't be any difference. That's be