wybiral

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by wybiral 9y ago
And anyone who keeps up with congressional hearings and discussions or even watches C-SPAN from time-to-time knows that there are multiple sides to any decision that gets made. We have a democracy made up of various representatives, and par
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How so?
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I've never encountered a situation in Go where I'm passing file handles around like this. In practice you'd probably have one goroutine manage the resource and its lifespan then other code would communicate with that goroutin
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by wybiral 9y ago
Most articles riding on the "x considered harmful" meme are clickbait without much content.
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It would be signed by the journalists or news agencies verifying their report. Individual sources can still be anonymous.
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Yes but then there will be an auditable trail of signatures that would allow someone to tell who originally approved of the fake content.
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Not without losing the signature. But if you take a clip from a larger video you can (and should) refer back to the source.
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For news we can assume that it's signed by the journalists and news agencies who created the content. Or who researched the origin and are willing to put their credibility on the line. Edit: To clarify, this doesn't prove if somet
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Weaponized Mandela Effect?
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But it outweighs the benefits if the noise level is so high that the one or two sane comments don't even get seen.
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by wybiral 9y ago
You have the freedom to go on Twitter and write mean things about someone's favorite politician. And news sites have the freedom to remove unwanted noise and divisive trolling from their articles.
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A voice of reason can quickly be overshadowed by a wave of ignorance. The comments sections on most of the news articles I've seen, when they're up, are usually divisive noisy trolls.
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Maybe we're statistical anomalies but I agree. The recommendations are always crap so I find new content from humans recommending it to me, not machines. And I've never seen an ad for something that actually inspired me to click i
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Usually the "Up next" queue where it supposedly suggests related videos. I don't pay much attention to the recommendations on the main page or anything. And some have been ads. One that sticks out was selling some crazy deep
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> My feed often randomly recommends "SJW owned compilation" and "feminism fails". I had the same videos queue up in mine and nothing I watch seems even remotely related to that. My YouTube usage is pretty "family
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> I see it less like a "anti-western intelligence/military bias", but rather a anti-Hillary/US government bias. I can't disagree with that. Then there are things like the Vault7 leaks, which were stoked by teaser
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by wybiral 9y ago
It's impossible to eliminate bias. Even if it's not political bias some people just naturally agree more with one side of an issue or are more interested in certain subjects. But that doesn't mean that bias is irrelevant. In
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How do you convert non-bitcoin currency into bitcoin without a trusted entity? If masses are expected to do so then there will likely be a sort of centralized "trusted few".
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But it's still important to be aware of the bias in a source. Supposed I'm biased against you and I report that you hacked into Bob's computer and I have evidence to prove it. I paint that to make you look like some kind of c
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by wybiral 9y ago
You just need integrity hashes and public key signatures, not a blockchain.
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Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions is also a vocal opponent (unless you consider him "far right").
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I haven't looked into the protocol in any depth yet but it does seem like it supports end-to-end encrypted updates. What data are you talking about that can easily be crawled without any permissions? If it is that simple then maybe Scu
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by wybiral 9y ago
You would encrypt the data before giving it to a rogue server using a key that reflects the access you want to permit. So if you want your friends to be able to use it then you'll need a shared key with your friends. But only the clien
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by wybiral 9y ago
Your concern about APIs in distributed systems seems to neglect the fact that cryptography can be used to ensure that only the right people have access to the data. Although I do agree on the fake news point you make. Edit: It seems that sc
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> But the other Renaissance magnate, Bob Mercer, as his own media hobby funded Breitbart News. And was one of the major sources of funds behind Cambridge Analytica.
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> The BrainFuck computer is an attractive solution for servicing high throughput BrainFuck cloud services, both in terms of performance and cost. BrainFuck as a Service?
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Absolutely. We need less polarization and more nuanced debate. It's one of those issues where it appears that party lines have been drawn around it and both sides seem to be drifting more and more extreme. I don't think that the a
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I'm not arguing against populism, more so the nationalist aspect of the "nationalist populism". Particularly the idea that "diversity is the root of our problems" and "immigration is inherently bad". These
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Yes it makes propaganda easier, but so did the printing press and I still believe that it had a positive net effect on the world. By coincidence I am a Texan and I've had some really interesting conversations on the internet and have b
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It goes counter to the idea of a globally connected internet though. Without a degree of oppression of free speech you can't stop the flow of culture and ideas no matter how big of a wall you build.

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