causalscience

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by causalscience 8mo ago
If they're actually self-driving they should be able to drive around the obstacles just as well or better than human.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
That's because those people are all brainwashed. They were told: buy guns because freedom, and they repeat "we buy guns because freedom". Then they were told: never mind freedom, lets shoot this unarmed person, and they repea
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by causalscience 8mo ago
The distinction between promotion and spam is solely that the promotion side can be entertaining enough that the users will willingly chase it.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
So what? Whether this matters depends on your threat model, but you present this as a universal concern. Yes, we know, and we use it appropriately.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
It's not a sock puppet in the usual sense. Every time I log in I create a new account, and it lasts until I get logged out for whatever reason. But I'm not having conversations between multiple accounts that I control, if that&#x2
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by causalscience 8mo ago
The fact that you leave unsaved work overnight is the actual crazy part.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
"You have to use it correctly" is true for everything. Stop parroting garbage you read and exercise some critical thinking.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
I'd be curious as well, though I completely understand if they don't want to talk. Someone should write a book just listing the usual mistakes.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
> it'd be extremely non trivial Extremely non trivial. What I'm hearing is "security by obfuscation".
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Sorry, I don't pay attention to anyone who disses PGP. I don't care if it's easy to misuse. I focus on using it well instead of bitching about misusing it. If there's one thing we learned from Snowden is that the NSA can
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Is that good? According to the wikipedia page it seems last stable release was 9 years ago. Is anyone using that? Last time I had a look at XMPP everybody was using OMEMO.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Your point is correct but irrelevant to this conversation. The question here is NOT "if Signal didn't leak your phone number could you still get screwed?" Of course you could, no one is disputing that. The question is "i
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by causalscience 8mo ago
I have no idea if that was true 20 years ago, but it's not true now. XMPP doesn't have this problem; your host instance knows your IP but you can connect via Tor.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Worse, I often wondered how some people collaborated. Now I know that many people would rather have a chunk of the population rounded up and killed than lose their job.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
This throwaway account wasn't created specifically for posting trolling comments, this is just my personality :-(
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by causalscience 8mo ago
I've been hearing for years people say "Signal requires phone number therefore I don't use it", and I've been hearing them mocked for years. Turns out they were right.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Why am I a fanatic exactly? Do you not see people everywhere going around like zombies on their phones? I think that someone who sees that but still wants to do nothing because of a vague principle that someone talked him into, is the fanat
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Happy to see mastodon.xyz score 100%. Mastodon is pretty cool and proof that we can make federation work.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
> Then, going through their code, they make excuses about their code not meeting the same standards they demand. Yes!! Exactly. When it comes to my PRs, he once made this snarky comment about him having high expectations in terms of code
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by causalscience 8mo ago
I mean.. Tor isn't gonna help you if there's no computers. We already got smartphones banned from schools. Work in progress.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Ok, so an airport is a private business and it chose to put "hot water" labels on the taps, and therefore does not and could not by definition support calling the country in which it occured a "nanny state".
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Exactly. That's why you see so many people say it works great. And the rest of us are like "am I the crazy one?" No, you just don't build CRUD apps.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Yeah or worse like my boss. We don't have a style guide. But he always wants style changes in every PR, and those style changes are some times contradictory across different PRs. Eventually I've told him "if your comment does
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by causalscience 8mo ago
He probably did the calculation that 707 - 200 = 507 and 200/507 = 0.39 which is different from 0.46.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
You're not crazy, I'm also always disappointed. My theory is that the people who are impressed are trying to build CRUD apps or something like that.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Yo, I'm all for banning all of these companies from my country. That would be ideal. But then you'll have HN: NOOOO it's not effective, people will just use VPNs nanny state! Oppression! Freedom of speech!
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Well, we've tried your thing of letting these companies call the shots. Now we'll try my thing for a bit :-) What's more hacker than experimenting to get the results you want?
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by causalscience 8mo ago
If caring that people might burn themselves with hot water is nanny state, then caring that people might burn themselves with macdonalds coffee is also nanny state.
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by causalscience 8mo ago
I'm in the UK and I've been involved in advocating for this. I find it utterly frustrating to read the "think of the children" mockery here on HN. I argue that this is good. There's many reasons why children having
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by causalscience 8mo ago
Stop being reasonable!

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