Beldin

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by Beldin 2y ago
As someone who studied privacy in voting, it's horrific that we have a word for this. Cat was out of the bag when the then-minister (of the interior) started pushing this. Somehow, despite the "how are you, fellow kids" vibe,
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by Beldin 2y ago
> The idea that critical communication infrastructure must be (directly or indirectly) supported by advertising interests is certainly not obvious I think the problem is more that the trend over the last 5-7 decades has been to privati
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by Beldin 2y ago
Another hypothesis: being extravert means getting energised by interactions with others; being introvert means that costs energy. (Most people will have experienced both, at different times.) This is why I don't think that being introv
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by Beldin 2y ago
I think the main issue is that regular post has addrrss info of the recipient. So the whole logistics chain is geared towards that. If you remove the need for address info for a (small) subset, you'd have to have two logistics chains s
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by Beldin 2y ago
> What global players does Russia have any significant influence over? China, N. Korea, probably Vietnam, India'll listen to them, possibly more in s.e. Asia, and they're expanding their influence in Africa (by supplying mercen
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by Beldin 2y ago
I mostly agree worth you, except to nuance that it is not about "information that is classified in the US", but about classified US-documents.
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by Beldin 2y ago
Assange is alleged to have released unredacted info that exposed informants in warzones. This while running a service - not an infrastructure, a service - for exposing information. Arguing that he hasn't personally killed anyone is not
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by Beldin 2y ago
And you don't think that what happened to some folks that said/did stuff that displeased the US and UK rulers might have a similar effect on their population? Like, for example, what happened to Julian Assange?
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by Beldin 2y ago
Isn't that the definition of a jury trial? That the opinion of the jury decides whether or not the defendant is convicted?
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by Beldin 2y ago
The allegations I've seen floating around is that he deliberately withheld certain types of leaks. Thereby making Wikileaks no longer neutral, but politically-motivated. > Is it not enough that one state committed a crime and he re
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by Beldin 2y ago
> Box plots [...] assume that your data follows a bell/gaussian shape. Not sure how to square that with this statement on Wikipedia's page on box plots: Box plots are non-parametric: they display variation in samples of a stat
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by Beldin 2y ago
> every talk is a job talk Absolutely. A subset of the people in the audience are tenured or tenure-track academics. These folks get grants for postdocs. Moreover, they may be on a hiring committee. Even better: if you leave a favorab
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by Beldin 2y ago
To the best of our knowledge, for any of asteroid belt, Kuiper belt and Van Oort cloud, the trick is hitting, not missing. Space is vast; matter is (relatively) sparse. Moreover, matter tends to clump together, concentrating what little the
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by Beldin 2y ago
> HN tends to be highly skeptical of “if you don’t have anything to hide, you wouldn’t mind the lack of privacy” arguments. Well, those arguments flip the narrative. No one has to justify their privacy; invasion of privacy needs to be
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by Beldin 2y ago
> As long as the coverage and convenience are so lopsided, Two ways to fix that (in general): improve one side, or worsen the other. Some measures do both simultaneously, eg. bus lanes take away asphalt for cars and improve bus infrast
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by Beldin 2y ago
That's a vast oversimplification. Try flipping it to anything outside your personal scope of skills and knowledge to see how wrong this position is. Example: tap water quality (assuming you live where tap water is safe to drink). Do yo
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by Beldin 2y ago
Home batteries are a terrible idea. As a municipality -- or a neighbour -- you don't want 30 houses with 35 different batteries, installed by some nephew who's handy with DIY-stuff. To just timeshift from daylight to evening/
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by Beldin 2y ago
And if you commision an artist to draw a black-leather tight-fit clad red-head superspy in an ad for tour product, it need not look like Black Widow from the MCU. But if it does look very much like her, it doesn't really matter whether
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by Beldin 2y ago
The point isn't the time line of hiring the voice actor. The question is whether OpenAI was deliberately trying to make the voice sound like Johansson. Suppose someone asked Dall-e for an image of Black Widow like in the first Avengers
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by Beldin 2y ago
Hmmms. While I definitely can see SO's arguments concerning deletion, that letter seems to blatantly contradict GDPR's right to be forgotten, which Wikipedia describes as a more limited "right to data erasure" [1]. To co
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by Beldin 2y ago
> Something like 3% of all astronauts have died 'on the job' making it likely the single most dangerous profession in existence. Wait till you hear about a truly deadly job: president of the USA. 8 of the 46 presidents have d
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by Beldin 2y ago
> none of the Geneva Conventions should apply to them. The Geneva Convention is (currently) humanity's best attempt at codifying ethical aspects of war. Unfortunately, it is not some lofty goal to aspire to. Oh no. It is the resul
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by Beldin 2y ago
While i won't aim to provide a full and perfect definition: a phone is a computing device with a generic interface and the goal of being a platform for a wide variety of software aimed at many different goals: 1-on-1 communication (ca
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by Beldin 2y ago
I dunno. I've been using Thunderbird for years with exchange - first onprem and now O365. I might've missed it in the article or misremember the difficulty of setting it up (low), but errrrr.... it just works?
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by Beldin 2y ago
This is a very good reminder that we don't know for various problems whether there is an efficient algorithm. For problems studied for decades (eg travelling salesman) we feel fairly confident that there is no polynomial-time algorithm
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by Beldin 2y ago
Interesting! Similarly, I remember an employee at water facilities telling us (~30ish years ago) that they could tell breaks in soccer games of the national team due to increased water consumption (everyone having a loo break).
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by Beldin 2y ago
> How it's different... "They" use software to create many slightly tweaked copies under seemingly different author names. So the low effort of one cobbled together book takes the space of 20 or 30 books. I.e. anyone not
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by Beldin 2y ago
If you can get a copy of "100 money-saving tax tips" for $1.99, and the preview already sounds promising, wouldn't you? Even one good tip would easily save you the price of the book. (Also: to me, blaming demand is a bit vict
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by Beldin 2y ago
Nevertheless, spam ebooks do deserve a separate category. There is an actual industry around spam ebooks that offers aspiring fraudsters the tools to quickly cobble together junk with enough stolen content that readers are getting their $0.
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by Beldin 2y ago
Alternatively, his attention being elsewhere has removed the reality-distortion field around Tesla and they are now being treated as other companies would.

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