Genghis_Khan

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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
> If a cop sells you oregano and you think it's marijuana [...] It wasn't a cop, but I recall a case some years back when someone sold something as cocaine when it wasn't. Among other things, he went down for fraud.
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
Let's decompose "our" data just a bit: data that we ourselves intentionally create (e.g., pictures we take, documents we write) and the observations of others about our activities (e.g., server logs, transaction data). The fo
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
> You can always just claim you don't like the person for other reasons. That's true. It's also true that there are plenty of professional contexts where people have to work together regardless of their personal feelings t
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
> Step one: Identify the target and its flaws. There are always flaws. > I learned that early in life. My first hack, the local library, a vulnerable FTP server in its AS/400. A far cry from the Android zero days I'm using
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
> You can't be pro-privacy and simultaneously believe ... You gave information to LI, trusting that they wouldn't disclose it to people you wouldn't want to have it. Meanwhile, untrustworthy third parties were free to view
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
I wonder how we would regard a person who could reliably perform such a feat whenever he pleased. Would we sterilize him, lest he give rise to a bunch of cute little privacy-invading monsters?
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
We hold and use Guam for the same reason we support Ukraine against Russia: We believe these things are in our interests. The justifications we give are just words.
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
In most libraries in the US, browsing the collection--even taking books from the shelves to a table for a while to read and make notes--does not require any sort of identification whatsoever. It's only when we temporarily deprive the
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
More direct link: https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e9ec167c-750d-44cc-bdcc-3b5...
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
No lives matter.
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
> I have no business being able to do either ... Why not?
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
Are they using "third world" in its original sense of non-alignment? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_World
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
> auto-vectorizers are just not as flexible as the proper SIMD-tools What is a "proper" SIMD tool?
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by Genghis_Khan 3y ago
> The spirit of the law says that you can’t tell “fire!” in a crowded building Of course you can. Especially if there's a fire. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...
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by Genghis_Khan 4y ago
> secret API In their client-side code, they provide a worked example of how to use their API. That's hardly the way to keep a secret.
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by Genghis_Khan 4y ago
Satire. The way to fight this is with satire. Perhaps we should post this list to Github, make whatever ridiculous additions we can think of, and take pull requests from all quarters. Then we just need to find a way to broadcast it.
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by Genghis_Khan 4y ago
Negative. Only use your real name.