zipwitch

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Psychedelic stickers that interfere with AI image recognition(techcrunch.com)
113 points by zipwitch 9y ago|36 comments
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by zipwitch 9y ago
So, this is a question best resolved by invoking Newton's Lightsaber, at least for now?
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by zipwitch 9y ago
I'm not familiar with the intricacies of CPU design. What are the odds the NSA somehow arranged for these vulnerabilities to exist?
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by zipwitch 9y ago
I seem to recall another popular science-fiction author who had a very strong answer. He called it the Butlerian Jihad. Whether or not it's a good answer is another question entirely.
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by zipwitch 9y ago
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/world-hunger-is-i...
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by zipwitch 9y ago
We treat them almost exactly the same. As the province of starry-eyed dreamers to whom we pay lip service while only allowing them a pittance in comparison to what we spend on wars, enriching the few at the expense of the many, and indulgin
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by zipwitch 9y ago
And they then use that leverage to attack the readers/viewers. Speaking for myself, I will see the internet wither and die before I'll accept that as a valid model for anything .
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by zipwitch 9y ago
Are you implying this would be a bad thing? While I think the internet provides amazing and revolutionary communications options to the human race, Facebook is quite clearly not among them.
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by zipwitch 9y ago
Why would they want to block a service that will do a ton of intelligence gathering for them, for free?
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by zipwitch 9y ago
This would appear to be consistent with what I've personally observed of Uber's approach to, well, pretty much everything.
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by zipwitch 9y ago
Their trade with North Korea has been cut in half since last year, and they've repeatedly supported increased sanctions, including yesterday . Here in the United States it's popular to isolate nations on the far side of the plane
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by zipwitch 9y ago
No. At the risk of speaking for someone else, he appears to believe that we live in a society where it is far too easy for individuals with malign motivations to blur the line between managing someone's money and stealing it.
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by zipwitch 9y ago
America is much better about this sort of thing. Aside from a few obvious holdover examples like the Pledge of Allegiance and the national anthem, the US doesn't bother with such ham-handed, last century techniques. It's much easi
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by zipwitch 9y ago
I also live in the US. I think your feeling is just that. Two of my neighbors have internet-connected surveillance cameras around their homes. There are cameras at most street lights. The police have cameras in their cars, including ones th
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by zipwitch 9y ago
I had something along these lines happen to me years ago. It was sound-related, but didn't turn out to be electronic. I was renting in a century-old house that had been converted into apartments. Every night, around midnight, this very
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by zipwitch 9y ago
I would pay the same that I would pay to avoid being robbed on public roads: a small but reasonable amount in taxes to support law enforcement and safety, or as much as neccessary to leave and move somewhere with safe roads and the fundamen
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by zipwitch 9y ago
The line that has always stuck with me: μνάσασθαί τινά φαιμι †καὶ ἕτερον† ἀμμέων "I think men will remember us even hereafter." There are other translations, but the core idea, that this woman writing ~2600 years ago grokked that
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by zipwitch 9y ago
And then lie about their ability to fill it.
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by zipwitch 9y ago
Maybe they could both appeal to the Corporate Court on Zurich-Orbital?
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by zipwitch 9y ago
One driver for American internment camps for Japanese citizens appears to have been the actions of several Americans of Japanese descent immediately after Pearl Harbor - the Niihau incident: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by zipwitch 9y ago
This is (as someone who hasn't played around with bitcoin much) something I've been curious about. How easy is it to get significant amounts of bitcoin turned into cash? This is particularly applicable at a moment like the present
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by zipwitch 9y ago
Bitcoin mania appears to be well underway. Yes, bitcoin has uses. (Including some cool, elegant and potentially very significant ones.) But despite the troubled state of the world, it does not appear to me that anything has happened that wo
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by zipwitch 9y ago
Don't bother. It's just a decoy. What we really need to do is start combing the databases for anomalous X-ray flares so we can find any nearby Oasa emitters.
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by zipwitch 9y ago
What's the half-life of unused flash memory?
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by zipwitch 9y ago
To my utterly unscientic perception, these exponentials scream "Crash Imminent". Is it possible to acquire reasonably reliable short options on bitcoin 2 years out?
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by zipwitch 9y ago
I'm not sure that avoiding (some of) the panopticon by aiding and abetting wealth concentration via child slave labor is such "an obvious answer".
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by zipwitch 9y ago
Wait- SpaceX is planning to tunnel on Mars? That means the Boring Company... Is everything Musk does part of his not-secret secret plan to retire on Mars?
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by zipwitch 9y ago
Something that seems to be forgotten in this day and age is that corporations exist at the pleasure of the citizens (aka taxpayers) because said corporations offer them things that are deemed to be net public goods. Why should you be allowe
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by zipwitch 9y ago
Well-connected banks and major corporations who make bad decisions and financially crash get bailouts. Citizens who make similar mistakes when they're young get their lives destroyed. Makes it pretty clear who "our" governmen
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by zipwitch 9y ago
This is an aspect of the proposed narrative I don't understand. How on Earth is turning the country into an absolute dictatorship, with the rule of law utterly disregarded, supposed to help Saudi Arabia move forward? The last things I

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