PhilosAccnting

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by PhilosAccnting 4y ago
I like to think that most of the valuable information is generally unnoticed. Most of the things I make are very valuable to the people who want it, but any one of those things are pretty useless to the majority of people who would find i
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by PhilosAccnting 5y ago
Whenever I hear "algorithm" anymore, I see it as the "statistics" of the past. This entire thing is a product of math washing[1]. [1] https://www.mathwashing.com/
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A Roblox gamer got White House Press Corps access with fake Twitter accounts(politico.com)
4 points by PhilosAccnting 5y ago|0 comments
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by PhilosAccnting 5y ago
I'm still trying to differentiate the difference between Western and American culture. As a general rule, the content that floats here about the rest of the world is either extremely stereotyped or with a severe agenda attached. To the
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by PhilosAccnting 5y ago
I'm absolutely convinced that censorship takes one of two forms: 1. Cut out things, overstepping and taking some of the best that humanity has to offer. 2. Avoid cutting out things, leaving many people offended for a wide variety of po
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Show HN: Everything Necessary for Adequacy(adequate.life)
2 points by PhilosAccnting 6y ago|1 comments
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
I'm comforted by history. Shopped photos don't mean we distrust photos entirely, but we're now generally "herd immune" to silly things in a photo because we all know that it came from somebody's edits. This w
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
As a trend-resistant individual, this entire discussion is ridiculous. While I'm white as the plowed snow, my wife is distinctly black. Whatever injustices that happened have, for the most part, been committed by long-dead people. The
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Ekioh is making a new browser designed for parallel processing(ekioh.com)
2 points by PhilosAccnting 6y ago|0 comments
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
Why so much fatalism? From what I understand, this seems like a one-off situation, and could swing back into full restoration once the urchins die off from starvation. If nature is anything, it's most certainly resilient! Mt. Saint Hel
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
A huge part of this depends on your philosophical axioms about the inherent morality of individuals. Are people default-good or default-bad? Frankly, this view is the major divide between conservative and liberal. And, it'll directly a
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
Totally okay, though I added the PDFs/videos to gitignore. I'm mildly paranoid about IPs[1]! [1] https://gainedin.site/ip/
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
I love this! It really embodies the concept of "emergent order". From our birth onward, we perceive the environment around us, observe patterns, then build them, and the entire thing is absolutely stunning even with the most ridic
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Ask HN: How small can a social network get?
2 points by PhilosAccnting 6y ago|0 comments
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
I have a massive learning project[1], and I think 2/3 of my "to get through as soon as sensible" content is news.ycombinator links. Needless to say, this site is my own personal StackOverflow, and I think there's somethi
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
I entirely agree, but HN is filled with ASD savants, so what would you expect? It's not precisely correct, and affirmations about known facts are largely a neurotypical thing. NOTE: I'm ASD, so please don't call it my &qu
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
One thing that tends to offend most tech people I come across: Data is not the basis of existence. Math itself is nothing but a derived value construct our minds play tricks with. 3 apples is a value system in the mind as we see it, not inn
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
I'm still hashing out the details, but essentially cybersecurity has one major flaw: nothing is immaculate. At least the way I see it, good CySec is creating a chain of dependent constraints (e.g., password-protect a file, which uses a
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
I would love for someone more well-versed to correct me on this, but I remember reading a decade ago about how the Roman priesthood (the calendar-keepers) would fudge with the dates to conform to their political desires, ranging from 200-50
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
I'm probably speaking _way_ out of my league here, but I imagine it's somehow spoofable, kinda like how you can generate fake MACs or IPs, so why not? One terrifying/beautiful element of tech is that where there's a will
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
Even if this was shopped, the illusion was correct, meaning the sailors' tall tales from a few hundred years ago weren't quite so tall. I mean, mermaids ≡ dolphins, so ghost ship ≡ floating ship.
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
It doesn't help that game dev (IMO) is literally the most difficult software development possible: - massive front-end visual dev, both static and animation, that often require logistics and endless fiddling to get it just right - heft
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one who noticed the trend from that graph. We seem to be floating steady at ~50% now. I don't mean to be cynical, but what do you think would bump the current trend into overdrive? My only estimation
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
Yes, but self-made NAS is always an option, and in this case I'd almost say an ideal for when the balance of trust leans away from unnamed organizations holding your information.
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
While that's true, I tend to imagine it like a horde of mosquitoes, a bit like Paul Graham's idea[1], but applicable to social trends. I wrote a whole essay on trend movement that leads me to believe the pendulum is close to swing
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Lawsuit about Controlled Digital Lending scheduled around November 2021(teleread.org)
1 points by PhilosAccnting 6y ago|0 comments
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China's spyware copy-pasted the NSA's spyware from 2017(reuters.com)
19 points by PhilosAccnting 6y ago|0 comments
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
Thank you. It's probably a stupid question. I've been hearing about it a bit, and if it's fashionable it must be good, right? ;)
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Ask HN: Are You Familiar with SPACs?
10 points by PhilosAccnting 6y ago|4 comments
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by PhilosAccnting 6y ago
I'm sure most of you have observed this, but there's a game theory answer to the question of trust: https://ncase.me/trust/ In practice, distrusting is a matter of worrying about the minority. If you lock any

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