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by wisty 11y ago
His actual statement: > Tor is having a fit of institutional pique that researchers are compromising the network's privacy guarantees by, well, looking at it. > If you write security software, and you're not praying that loy
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by wisty 11y ago
Was he really? The White Man's Burden isn't that ambiguous. Not now, and not even when it was written. It was about the Philippine-American war. 2 days after publication in America, it was read in the Senate to argue for the US to
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by wisty 11y ago
Here's the problem - NO-ONE WILL FUCKING READ THAT. (Sorry, just swearing to grab attention). Linus isn't just talking to the submitter. He knows perfectly well that his rants will be read by everyone in the community. A polite &q
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by wisty 11y ago
I think it's wrong to just categorise law enforcement as a bunch of racists. Especially in the UK ( cough Rotherham). It's also a bit strange to hear someone accusing the police of all being black and white thinkers, who like put
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by wisty 11y ago
It's not easy for low SES students to learn much from homework. Schools are designed by upper-middle-class people who care a lot about school. The problem students are from a very different background. It's nice to say that teache
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by wisty 11y ago
Because if somebody has an opinion, and they express it on Twitter, it can apparently be newsworthy. (For example, when 3 trolls created a news story about their "boycott" of Star Wars). "On Twitter" is apparently to new
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I suspect there are more people who sell and use web-ads than billboard ads here. In fact, I'm bet a few people are wondering when they can all be replaced with giant QR codes, so they can automatically be replaced by something a littl
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by wisty 11y ago
> A proper CS degree teaches you how to think Any degree that claims it teaches you how to think should ring the snake-oil alarm. > how to solve insanely hard problems, and how to do so with a team of other smart people - often with
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by wisty 11y ago
Wasn't it simply that Rome gained significant technological arbitrage (with weapons, tactics, infrastructure, etc), which allowed it to gain a huge "market share", but as the competition copied their innovations the verticall
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by wisty 11y ago
edit: Reddit really could create a code of conduct for mods - only ban people / delete posts enforce reddiquette (it's a pretty good guide). Some kind of appeals process could ensure a bit of consistency. The problem with reddit i
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by wisty 11y ago
A little poke from a baton will do more to harden a protester's stance than scare them off. And it will create massive backlash by spectators. The fact that you're pulling out a 4 year old article about it shows how counter-produc
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by wisty 11y ago
Here's the problem. Let's look at something non-controversial like Doctor Who. There's /r/doctorwho, which allows posts like "My cat pretending to be Matt Smith" and "My girlfriend made me this bow-ti
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by wisty 11y ago
Few governments can beat and arrest more than a few movement leaders (unless those movement leaders were behaving violently). Arguably, the only reason a relatively free society would want to beat (or kill) a movement leader (if they'r
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by wisty 11y ago
According to Wikipedia, many historians think the suffragettes hurt the cause of women getting votes. There were several suffragist movements, and "suffragette" was used to describe the militants (who went on hunger strikes, commi
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by wisty 11y ago
Is it possible they actually need a guy like this, because there really are an unmanageable number of cock-ups? If so, it might be a symptom of deeper organizational problems. They're hiring a head-kicker and a fire-fighter. So you can
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by wisty 11y ago
Yeah, no-one will steal your fingerprint, just like no-one will crack a reasonably strong password. But if every site has a copy ...
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It's like taxes. Set them to 0% or 100%, and society can't function.
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I suppose it depends on whether you want prescriptive or descriptive morality, or some middle ground (perhaps a combination of utilitarian ethics, and descriptions of what seems to work).
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IIRC, it's a legacy of the cold war. The game theory strategists realised that any use of nuclear weapons would either escalate, or end up in a massive defeat. You can start with a tactical nuke wiping out troops, it will escalate to l
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by wisty 11y ago
Yes, it was probably partly backlash against the way skepticism of feminism is treated by much of the media as either heresy or misogyny. And with everything that happens online, there's thousands of people on either side, throwing mud
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Reddit's worldnews?
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by wisty 11y ago
I'd imagine it's more time constrains - maybe he's still doing bespoke work. Also, Beijing and Mumbai could be quite valuable clients.
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Disclaimer, I'm not an economist, but I'll leave a brain dump anyway ... Everyone's a bit confused. Or talking at cross purposes. * Central banks create M0 (either paper currency, or electronic equivalents - original fiat mon
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It's almost the opposite of bait and switch. In the motte and bailey, the "bailey" is put front and center and only abandoned when a more defensible position when under attack ("everything is subjective"). In "
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Fukushima was caused by a Mw 9.0 earthquake / tsunami which cased over 15,000 deaths, in a 1st world country with the world's best earthquake mitigation. The meltdown was caused by an absolutely huge disaster. The contamination mi
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by wisty 11y ago
Military spending by the USSR was about 16% of GDP. US (and Russia today) is more like 3-4%, and that's very high by global standards. It's not quite "war machine" (the UK hit about 50% in WWII, North Korea sits on about
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People looking for jobs are usually far more motivated than managers looking to hire (or worse, people who aren't going to work with directly with the employee). Even the CEO, who has skin in the game, won't be entirely dependent
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You have friends. A script can check your friends, and make suggestions based on that. You won't have the full graph that Facebook does, but does that really matter? I suspect the best predictors of who your friends are would be people
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I think it's a reaction against stuff that Republicans don't like with the Republican Party.
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I suppose a camera in a fridge would be handy, so you could have a peek at whether you were out of milk. I believe there was a similar product, but you had to swipe product barcodes, to maintain a database. But I'm not the kind of pers

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