wildmusings

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by wildmusings 6y ago
Note that this is not a vulnerability. You are supposed to be able to extract plaintext secrets with the Data Protection API if you are logged in as the user who the secret belongs to. That is the whole point. I’m not sure the author knows
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by wildmusings 7y ago
I have a Denon receiver. It has some nice connected features, like Spotify Connect and Airplay, but it’s also a completely functional dumb receiver that will work with equipment, input and output, from decades past and future. I buy my own
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by wildmusings 9y ago
One possibility I sometimes consider as a joke is that the people who seriously deny the existence of the hard problem might just actually be philosophical zombies, totally lacking in any conscious experience of their own. This is reinforce
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by wildmusings 9y ago
I hiked over 600 miles of the Appalachian Trail last year, and just about everyone filtered their water. Bacteria and protozoa[1] in the water can make you very ill, and even cause longer term health problems if you’re unlucky. Filtering wa
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by wildmusings 9y ago
The Supreme Court has ruled that only specific and credible threats can be prosecuted. Other threats, distasteful and disgusting as they are, are protected as free speech. It's gonna be very hard to prove that an online troll mouth
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by wildmusings 9y ago
Can you imagine if the feds prosecuted every idiot who made a death threat online? They have criteria for identifying particularly egregious cases worthy of prosecution. One of the criteria, mandated by the Supreme Court of the United State
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by wildmusings 9y ago
In Egypt, Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood was elected to power and tried to turn Egypt into an Islamist dictatorship. The military stepped back in and saved the day. So they're right back where they started, a military dictatorship th
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by wildmusings 9y ago
What a great opportunity for a lesson in fake news. Let's get to the meat of the claim in the article you link to ( https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonleopold/secret-government-repo... ): Regarding the hundreds of thous
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by wildmusings 9y ago
Sometimes you need to stop maintaining things. Towns rise and fall because the economy changes. If there's no economic activity bringing money into a town, it should eventually disappear. You need the political courage to stop wasting
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by wildmusings 9y ago
> So... not exactly great... but not world-ending either. Basically if the police question you about where you were, and you have a lawyer with you, and you say you don't remember - you can't then go to court and say, "Wel
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by wildmusings 10y ago
When you get a legally-binding order from the government of the United States of America, and exhaust your legal appeals, you either comply or go to prison. An ethics course won't do you any good.
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Reddit CEO admits to altering user comments that were critical of him(reddit.com)
668 points by wildmusings 10y ago|665 comments
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by wildmusings 10y ago
> Chavez was pushing a sort of ethnic nationalism for the mestizo majority. But his supporters just didn't have the technical skills to run an advanced economy. It has nothing to do with skills. Chavismo is a fundamentally broken a
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by wildmusings 11y ago
I think abusing animals is wrong. But human interests are always more important than any animal interests. The government must exist solely to protect human interests.
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by wildmusings 11y ago
> If you sell me food, I expect it is what you say it is. The horse is irrelevant beyond that it is cheap meat. I agree that food should be labeled honestly. People who engage in that kind of dishonesty should be punished. But the high
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by wildmusings 11y ago
I'm fascinated by how irrational people are about food. In California, it's a felony to slaughter a horse. And that isn't some old law that no one's bothered to repeal, it came about through a ballot initiative in 19
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by wildmusings 11y ago
> There's substantial evidence for both of these though, which you're not going to address. You seem very sure about what I will and won't address. Why don't we find out? What is this evidence? > And minorities
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by wildmusings 11y ago
It's not my theory, but it is an interesting framework to view politics through. Myth doesn't necessarily mean false. Even though that's the way the original poster used it, I think the framework is actually stronger with t
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by wildmusings 11y ago
The myth is easier to identify: that there's campaign of murder by police officers targeting blacks. It's part of the broader myth that minorities in the US are being kept down by the powers that be. When you see it as just part o
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by wildmusings 11y ago
Yes, but the difference is that a business's success requires continual voluntary mutually-beneficial exchanges (aka sales). And before they make a profit, they're only risking money that's theirs to risk. None of these thi
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by wildmusings 11y ago
Typically it's the critiques of liberalism and capitalism that treat life as zero-sum. The capitalist defense of inequality is that the world isn't zero-sum. Because people can do extraordinarily well for themselves by creating v