byerley

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by byerley 11y ago
It's hard to not view this as whining about the failed gentrification of Reddit (especially with the biker bar analogy). I'm struggling to think of any successful social network sites that are heavy-handed with moderation. Certain
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by byerley 11y ago
There's probably not a good way to succinctly prove my capacity for empathy to you, but I think trying to link social grace and empathy is also incorrect in general. Assume for the sake of argument that, as you suggested, you've i
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by byerley 11y ago
Can you elaborate on why spending time and effort to find offensiveness in things makes sense to you? The concept seems so outlandish to me that I'm not sure how to word the question more politely, sorry.
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by byerley 11y ago
The arguments to keep building it were almost as stupid as the arguments to stop building it. I recall hateful accusations of "mismanagement" that boiled down to supplying liquor at a Christmas party. Drunk physicists... the horro
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by byerley 11y ago
The consistent trend going all the way back to the Payne Fund Studies is that someone somewhere thinks they can show some alarmist correlation between media and behavior. However, the trend always disappears once you've accounted for s
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by byerley 11y ago
When are we going to accept the scientific evidence that video games (and movies before them (and books before them)) don't fundamentally change a person's philosophy? Books in particular are really good at helping you explore ide
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by byerley 12y ago
I mostly meant anti-regulation. I'm not sure we need strict laws regarding parking, public drinking, loosies, ect. Let alone aggressive enforcement. I think parts of NYC are a good example of how enforcement can cause a more negative e
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by byerley 12y ago
As someone who fancies libertarianism but who's wary of its effectiveness in practice, I'm hoping we get to see this impromptu social experiment play out long enough to gather some useful statistics.
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by byerley 12y ago
The North Korea link really confuses me. How is a small country like North Korea capable of mounting such a sophisticated attack when they aren't even teaching their computer students about the Internet? - http://cnnpressro
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by byerley 12y ago
Stop buying bullshit narratives against state funded science. Rocket test stands are not limited to a single rocket model. The choice in 2010 was to spend $57m finishing a project that will undoubtedly see future use, or to abandon a $292m
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by byerley 12y ago
I sure hope the Feynman lectures from Caltech aren't next. People seem really quick to forget that fundamental science endures and political correctness is fleeting. I wonder what the next world threatening catastrophe to make people r
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by byerley 12y ago
I read it differently; "this stunt" is ambiguous in context. In any case, I think you're misunderstanding the nature of the problem. The danger of "doxxing" is that people get overwhelmed by a flood of negative atte
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by byerley 12y ago
If repeating publicly known personal information is a crime, the printers of telephone directories must have really good lawyers.
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by byerley 12y ago
If I unwittingly hurled innuendo I sincerely apologize and ask you to point it out so I can avoid doing so in the future. However, your other contentions don't make any sense to me. Everyone is entitled to their identity; rather, the c
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by byerley 12y ago
So $159k - $16k (kickstarter cut) - 738 sticker packs ($2k?) - 216 postcards ($0.2k?) - 51 DVDs ($0.2k?) - production ($6k?) That's still $135k Seems like a pretty decent chunk of change (especially considering that she's still ta
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by byerley 12y ago
Are you suggesting "rightwing talk radio and the goldbugs" don't get similar death threats? As far as I can tell they do.
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by byerley 12y ago
I don't care to conjecture about the frequency or origination of the threats because I don't think there's enough information and, frankly, it's not that important. I can tell you I'd happily endure electronic haras
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by byerley 12y ago
"If you are able to insert in a publication the name of a nonexistent author in a publication, who will guarantee that even the scientific contents have been examined with care?" Reviewers are typically asked to disregard the auth
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by byerley 12y ago
I don't think I've ever misread that style (usually the function being called makes it obvious), but it relies on short-circuit evaluation which doesn't carry over to a lot of languages - http://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by byerley 12y ago
Your downvote gripes(a quick check of my profile would show I'm not even capable) are almost as obnoxious as your willful misinterpretation of my my original comment. I never said Milgram's work was beyond reproach, just that I fo
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by byerley 12y ago
I find something deeply annoying about journalists using pop-psychology to criticize real psychology. Yes, you can probably poke some holes in his quantitative interpretation of obedience (it's hard to condense human dialogue/acti
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by byerley 12y ago
I view bug bounties as more of a conscious nod towards responsible disclosure than anything else. I sincerely doubt anyone could make a competitive living off of bug bounty programs (even accounting for the legal grey area of selling vulner
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by byerley 12y ago
I know this is a serious site for serious people, but I lost it at the "irate Joe's" explanation.
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by byerley 12y ago
No, This has been looked at pretty extensively before. Confusingly enough, a lot of the research was done by the creators of BGPmon ( http://bgpmon.netsec.colostate.edu/ - same name, concept, and primary functionality with n
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by byerley 12y ago
And, even if you use a side-channel to distribute keys between the sender and receiver (to encrypt the data safely), the header absolutely has to be plain-text. Governments and companies scraping email meta-data is already a huge problem. A
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by byerley 12y ago
Elected officials can certainly be two-faced. However, I think criticizing their decisions while everyone is still in the information gathering stages is taking vigilance way too far. Politicians are people too and you have to give them a f
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by byerley 12y ago
I can't understand this author's spin. The memo - http://coffman.house.gov/sites/coffman.house.gov/files/docum... is a request to NASA for un-redacted information about the SpaceX failures. They&#x2
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by byerley 12y ago
Actually, it does in this case. People seem to forget that in climate science (like cosmology, ect.), you can't use the normal scientific method because you can't really do meaningful experiments, just observations. What you do in
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by byerley 12y ago
Thanks for the recommendation btw, enjoyed it very much.
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by byerley 12y ago
I'm struggling to think of a scantily clad female FPS character, but it's not really my genre of choice. Can you give some examples? I always thought of it as more of a fantasy/RPG issue.

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