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by bhitov 5y ago
> Read the Abelson report (which has been discussed ad nauseam in past HN threads). MIT did not want Swartz prosecuted, and told the prosecutor that. from the Abelson report (pg 53, https://swartz-report.mit.edu/docs&#x2F
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by bhitov 6y ago
Other way around. 10% profit 5% withdrawal.
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by bhitov 10y ago
I read the entirety of his AmA and did not once see him "advocate for slavery". Could you directly link to where he does and quote him? for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4bxf6f&#x
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by bhitov 11y ago
The complaint is available here: https://www.scribd.com/doc/285422882/Amazon-Complaint
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by bhitov 12y ago
> Third, we have already accepted that our design is vulnerable to end-to-end timing attacks https://blog.torproject.org/blog/one-cell-enough They are not talking about the same kind of timing attacks. Deanonymizati
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by bhitov 12y ago
> This is the wrong funding model. It's only the wrong funding model if there is a superior alternative. It's a non-ideal funding model, but as is the main point of the article, they are and have been actively looking for alter
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by bhitov 12y ago
They absolutely do not use the same language. Where did you see that? >Notice that it didn't say, "Academics disregard the chemical balance explanation because it lacks evidentiary support." A lack of explicit critique in
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by bhitov 12y ago
I didn't say it wasn't an oversimplification, I said oversimplification isn't the problem. You seemed to misunderstand the complaint of the first post you replied to.
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by bhitov 12y ago
I assume when you say SSRE you are talking about tianeptine? Its affinity for SERT is low and its primary target is believed to be elsewhere.
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by bhitov 12y ago
The problem wasn't that 'medications help to balance out those chemicals' is an oversimplification, it's that the theory doesn't have a lot of support. The evidence for the monoamine hypothesis is far from conclusiv
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by bhitov 12y ago
> That Mozilla is and remains a place where any employee can express their views on political issues, even if they know they're contrary to the CEO's. And that destroys any argument for Eich's role as CEO creating a confli
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by bhitov 13y ago
Agreed. It would be entirely uncharacteristic of the supreme court to make such a broad ruling.
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by bhitov 13y ago
Much appreciated =). I looked for references after reading the parent discussions and xnyhps's blog post but was unsuccessful.
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by bhitov 13y ago
> The current state of the art puts the precomputation step at complexity L_n(1/3, 1.923)§, and additional individual discrete logs at L_n(1/3, 1.232). Could you cite that? Not skeptical, just interested.
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by bhitov 13y ago
> So I'll start by playing Devil's Advocate very briefly. It's interesting how facts can be shaped with different language ("his only brush with the law"): it appears the restraining order from two years prior re
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by bhitov 13y ago
The javascript miner was not deployed anywhere. At no point was anyone in New Jersey knowingly or unknowningly served Tidbit's bitcoin mining code.
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by bhitov 13y ago
I saw two policies cited on her talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PAY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMINACCT
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by bhitov 13y ago
As explained by the director of the Media Lab: "Apparently a grand jury is meeting to render an indictment on Wednesday and there is really only one more day to provide any input into the process. Since it is a criminal case and the pr
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by bhitov 13y ago
> straw man argument In what way is it a straw man argument? > copying software is not zero sum. This doesn't seem to contradict the parent post, nor affect its argument.
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by bhitov 13y ago
>they're literally paying people to like their product I don't think this statement is reasonable. Are you suggesting that they gave the 100k reward out because they wanted the recipient to like their product? >Now they&#x27
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by bhitov 13y ago
I understand that you care about Telegram and want to defend it when it is attacked, but comments like this are inappropriate and will damage Telegram's reputation. It is unfair to imply incompetence on tptacek's part given only t
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by bhitov 13y ago
Vulnerability to passive attacks is worse than vulnerability to active attacks. I'm not downplaying the severity of a MITM vulnerability, but certainly there could exist more serious issues.
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by bhitov 13y ago
With absolutely no specifics this article is useless.
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by bhitov 13y ago
For those of you in the Cambridge area, he will instead be giving a talk at MIT tomorrow. 'DISSECTION: A NEW PARADIGM FOR SOLVING BICOMPOSITE SEARCH PROBLEMS' https://calendar.csail.mit.edu/events/116296
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by bhitov 13y ago
I don't think this is what did him in. Posting advertisements for silk road [1] and then posting his personal email address [2] from accounts with the same name seems the more likely cause. 1) http://www.shroomery.org/f
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by bhitov 13y ago
Did you consider using the ATAES instead of the ATSHA? It has onboard authenticated AES (AES-CCM).
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by bhitov 13y ago
It is hard to get tone over the internet, but I hope you understand why your example is incredibly far removed from a device that meaningfully interprets EEG data and uses that data to stimulate the motor cortex with a TMS machine. What do
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by bhitov 13y ago
That is not correct. There can exist flaws that cause loss of entropy that do not entirely compromise a cryptosystem.
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by bhitov 13y ago
You are assuming that the "feeling" of pain is inherently different from neural activity during pain. He is saying that to do so without argument is special pleading.
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by bhitov 13y ago
This article is attacking a strawman. The original article was dismissed not for merely discussing consciousness but for doing it nonsensically.

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