age_bronze

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by age_bronze 4y ago
Here's a real historical inconsistency: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_years_%28Jewish_calend... I dislike the framing of some inconsistencies as "conspiracy theory". Mistakes can and will happen,
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by age_bronze 5y ago
The media had ruled and controlled the western world with propaganda for the whole 20th century, from newspapers in early 1900s to TVs in late 1900s. We had a very brief period of people escaping the matrix through the internet and communic
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by age_bronze 5y ago
Why is this legal? Why is it legal for Google to completely demolish a business with no human review, no due process and no excuse at all? Why do we keep hearing this without a single developer going forward and suing the hell out of Google
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by age_bronze 7y ago
Is ransom payment even considered "stolen" in the usual sense? You have willingly paid that, nobody took that from you without permission. I wouldn't be surprised if ransom has it's own different definition. Forcing an i
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by age_bronze 7y ago
Because it would make houses an unattractive investment. Once you get rid of the cheap leverage, housing will never compete with other investments. You always need to pay for like 40% of the house to start a mortgage anyway, this will not c
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by age_bronze 7y ago
I think mortgages as a concept are bad, and do more harm than good to the people who need to take them. I think gradually banning mortgages, by increasing the minimum required percentage of house price required to start a mortgage all the w
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by age_bronze 7y ago
Nothing screams "we have microsoft keys!" harder than the fact that the only vulnerabilities reported by the NSA is a cryptographic validation bug. If I had to guess exactly what kind of vulnerabilities they do not need, this is e
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by age_bronze 7y ago
The most frequent misunderstanding of science, (and it applies to many other fields such as cyber security security, politics, etc.) is that an imperfect solution is worthless, that if a model is incomplete it's as good as no model, et
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by age_bronze 7y ago
So that's the only defining bit of personality? That you're a woman? What about your personality? Up-front / discrete? Introvert / extrovert? Mannered / rude? So many other traits? I'm pretty sure there are man
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by age_bronze 7y ago
It's not about me thinking I'm successful, because I don't. It's about not giving envious people the positive feedback they desire so much from their corrupt behavior. It's about getting them so hurt they will never
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by age_bronze 7y ago
I've gotten used to the reeking smell of envy all my life. I was always encouraged by everyone to 'still be nice to them', to try to appease them, etc. It never, ever, and will never, work. I've had enough of that and de
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by age_bronze 7y ago
Don't you think it is racist to actually care about the race of the interviewer? Would you even think about that if there wasn't a non-stop conversation about racial differences? Maybe the nonsense diversity discussion is only mak
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by age_bronze 7y ago
I find it extremely ironic that those opposing discrimination and racism are now the ones to view people as just statistics. The whole reason why racism and sexism is bad is because it doesn't look at people as individuals. Behind ever
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by age_bronze 7y ago
You can avoid it. They didn't disable it, but implemented MSR which disables it. Don't configure this MSR to disable HLE and you're good.
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by age_bronze 7y ago
They do not disable it. They only implement MSR which can allow you to disable it. If you want to stay with updated microcode and with HLE, just don't configure it as disabled.
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by age_bronze 7y ago
If regimes like Iran manage to stay alive despite all the sanctions and international isolation, while having the power to meddle in other countries despite having such a dire situation at home, I think the odds of real revolutions in moder
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by age_bronze 7y ago
I posted this on scott's blog, still awaiting moderation: "I’m trying to understand the chain of inference from Google’s leaked result of quantum supremacy to theoretical computer-science “hardness” of the computation. Computing t
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by age_bronze 7y ago
Make no mistake: these aren't rebel, this is Iran, trying to force the world to buy oil from her by terrorizing the competition.
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by age_bronze 7y ago
Let me get this straight: Israel risks pissing the U.S by spying on them, which can lead to them cutting ties with Israel, in order to make sure that US does not cut its ties with Israel. Would you risk spying on your girlfriend to make sur
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by age_bronze 7y ago
Naive would be thinking you can conduct espionage without ever getting caught. Getting caught spying a huge risk, and unless you have an even bigger risk, why would you ever do that? What can possibly justify risking getting caught spying o
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by age_bronze 7y ago
No, I think the lesson was learned. Why would you risk such a backlash again?
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by age_bronze 7y ago
Exactly, why would you ever risk that? Would hearing trump talk to whatever on the phone, worth the huge risk? You can talk to him yourself, why would you ever risk pissing the US off for just that?
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by age_bronze 7y ago
I could see a use a screen saying, I'm travelling as fast as the guy after me, so back off. It's so annoying to be after those drivers that can't seem to understand it's not your fault that you're driving so slow.
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by age_bronze 7y ago
The equations of quantum mechanics aren't random, only its interpretation, in the form of born's law. Unitary evolution means there's neither information loss nor gain, and if there was anything random you would at the very l
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by age_bronze 7y ago
No organization ever managed to land on the moon so far on the first try. My guess is that this won't be any different.
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by age_bronze 7y ago
This article is so twisted. The less search options other people have with public facebook data the better. Facebook is already privacy nightmare as it is. Probably an article by some lobbists in some company that doesn't care about wa
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by age_bronze 7y ago
There's an underlying assumption that economical growth has anything to do with physical limits. Economical growth is a lie we tell ourselves so that innovation has its incentives, while everything else that's there because it mus
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by age_bronze 7y ago
I always failed to understand what the "consciousness isn't local" can predict. I mean, come on. You either take the egocentric view that you're the only conscious being in the universe, or you realize other humans are s
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by age_bronze 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_on_the_Moon For everyone wondering how common is it, it seems like it took everyone multiple tries before figuring out how to properly land something there.
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by age_bronze 8y ago
Dunning Kruger effect going on with the author of the article. He's too ignorant of the subject he's writing about, to understand the difference between the low-level way computers works and the high level sophistication algorithm

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