StevenRayOrr

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by StevenRayOrr 3y ago
> An inquiry was organized by the Swedish Privy Council to find those responsible for the disaster, but in the end no one was punished.[1] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasa_(ship)
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by StevenRayOrr 4y ago
Developing into what?
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by StevenRayOrr 5y ago
> We are beginning to see that all these years we thought it was our constitutional right to free speech that was the major thing. Yes, it would be and will be if the government takes a turn for the worst, but really what we're seei
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by StevenRayOrr 5y ago
I'm more comfortable with Apple's decisions than some on Hackers News, so take this with a grain of salt... but the difference between what Google/Facebook does and Apple does is a difference. It may not be as vast a differ
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by StevenRayOrr 5y ago
I just finished _Reamde_ and was, overall, fairly satisfied with the way the story built towards the conclusion. It moves in unexpected directions, but I enjoyed the entire ride.
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by StevenRayOrr 5y ago
I started having a similar issue with Spotify a couple years ago. Eventually I discovered that someone else was using my (free) account to listen to bunch of Spanish-language music that I'd never heard of. I don't think my Spotify
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by StevenRayOrr 5y ago
> it’s repugnant to characterize entire groups of people with the same brush. No, it's not. This isn't about whatever imagined prejudice or discrimination you're talking about. As the synopsis makes clear, the piece is mar
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by StevenRayOrr 5y ago
We don't have to go any further than the tweet that started this thread: McAfee claimed to be "getting subtle messages" from officials in the American government threatening to kill him. He was a clearly unhinged individual.
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by StevenRayOrr 5y ago
> his past statements still need to be taken seriously, and extra care and doubt need to be applied to the reported story. Why? The fact that he had a paranoid fantasy of being murdered by the US government doesn't make it so. I don
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by StevenRayOrr 6y ago
Not that it undermines your overall point, but it might prove to disincentivize attacking smaller companies that aren't in as strong a position to use proxies -- which I would still count as a win.
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by StevenRayOrr 6y ago
> Success is more random than we'd like to believe, and there is a risk when failure leads to victim blaming. An excellent sentiment, if less common these days than it should be. Reminds me of a quotation from Chapter XXV[0] of Mach
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by StevenRayOrr 6y ago
Given that we're just talking HTML, I don't see how you could meaningfully prevent bad actors, absent storing screenshots of the original text -- and even then (see any number of fake tweets that circulate). Hypothetically, instea
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by StevenRayOrr 6y ago
If you're looking for a crash course on him as a political thinker, you could check out the selections that seem of interest to you from his Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary [0]. If you want a more specific list (and a reasonabl
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by StevenRayOrr 7y ago
The initial page just shows the art, but after a couple seconds it pops up with an explicit credit to Michael Friesen and a link to his twitter: > Imagined by a GAN (generative adversarial network) StyleGAN2 (Dec 2019) - Karras et al. an
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by StevenRayOrr 7y ago
> We just need to know that, even armed with all that knowledge, he still made the decision he did, and that we should not expect others with less knowledge of how software works to be any less human. This is maybe one of the most import
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by StevenRayOrr 7y ago
When doing my own writing, I try to remember a quotation from Kenneth Hudson's The Jargon of the Professions: > The best minds in any profession are never guilty of jargon, expect when they are very tired. Pedestrian minds are dra
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by StevenRayOrr 7y ago
When you say "implementation details", do you mean things like their Safari Privacy White Paper[0], their Photos Tech Brief[1], their Location Services White Paper[2], or their Apple Sign On White Paper[3]? [0]: https:/&#x2F
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by StevenRayOrr 7y ago
Lots of democracies have legal definitions for what counts as political advertising. Obviously Twitter doesn't have to use those definitions, but there are fairly clear guidelines in a number of jurisdictions. And it doesn't have
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The Way of Improvisation – TEDx Talk(youtube.com)
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by StevenRayOrr 7y ago
On the topic of everyday life and improv, you might be interested a TEDx talk called, appropriately, The Way of Improvisation .[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUO-pWJ0riQ
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by StevenRayOrr 8y ago
> I apologize that you found my text length was too long but I thought the extra background was necessary to get state why deep reading is often a waste of time. I read @EGreg as poking a bit of fun, rather than raising a legitimate co
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by StevenRayOrr 8y ago
You should have seen my camera roll on my phone while playing through some areas. It was an incredibly helpful tool for getting through the game.
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by StevenRayOrr 8y ago
You might be interested in reading about the history of the Australian ballot[0] to get a sense of we vote the way with do ("we" being fairly loose in this case, as many places outside the US use the Australian ballot -- and some
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by StevenRayOrr 8y ago
I find Origins can be a shaky entry point for folks trying Arendt for the first time. Especially for someone coming from Zarathustra . My vote here would be to try out Eichmann in Jerusalem as a good bridge into Arendt's thought,
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by StevenRayOrr 8y ago
> So I don't think that most of them are purposely intellectually dishonest but just lack awareness. Some days I feel this charitable. Others not. Usually I suspect they're too intelligent for a lack of awareness to be a good e
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by StevenRayOrr 8y ago
The struggle here, not that this contradicts anything you've said, is how easily this turns into a fetishization of unhappiness or suffering: Lincoln's depression as a cost for his genius (or Beethoven's, as the article talks
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by StevenRayOrr 8y ago
Your first sentence isn't supported by your second and third. It is incredibly common to track not just interest but level of interest -- and lots of companies find it a valuable metric for marshalling their resources. Is this perhaps
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by StevenRayOrr 9y ago
Settings -> General -> Accessibility Shortcut -> Color Filter.
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by StevenRayOrr 9y ago
Not your misunderstanding. My misphrasing. That's what I was trying to say.
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by StevenRayOrr 9y ago
"Health data can be stored in iCloud. When configured for iCloud storage, Health data is synced between devices and secured by encryption that protects the data both in transit and at rest. Health data is only included in encrypted iTu

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