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by drtillberg 6y ago
That doesn't work. Now and always an independent investigator of truth will be a lone voice in a wilderness targeted by all warring dogmatic factions. Witness NYT seeking to draw HN to the fray with Saturday's piece about SSC.
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Unfortunately, sophisticated threat actors are still very hard to defend against in aviation like in software.
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Maybe the NYT is jealous that Scott is so obviously a better and more thoughtful writer?
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by drtillberg 6y ago
This. Slippery slope to denying credit based on a consumer's decision to avoid using Facebook or to search using DuckDuckGo.
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Eh, not sure how the word "Russian" ended up in that comment. It was an American design before it was a Russian one.[1] Plus, there was an added feature in some American plans I've read about (but can't immediately loc
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by drtillberg 6y ago
WSB is a game ppl lose simply by playing, IMO. When I read these stories I think of Jesse Livermore-- arguably the greatest trader of all times -- who went bankrupt 3 times on the way (including the end)[1]. The only way to win is not to
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Strange the study might have used a placebo group of people infected with parasites. I guess they needed to test if their process actually was effective in generating hookworm infections?
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by drtillberg 6y ago
So when does censorship of or manipulating user ratings make an app store responsible to its users for failing to prevent harm to them (or wasted time) from bad apps, mismanaged services, scams and frauds? Ppl see the 4 stars, download the
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Alexey Navalny’s Fearless Return to Russia(newyorker.com)
18 points by drtillberg 6y ago|2 comments
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by drtillberg 6y ago
At first read it sounded like cold temps below 40C were problematic, but then the author recommends keeping the SSDs at temps below 40C. So then, if you leave the SSD powered off in an environment above 40C (104F), what then?
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by drtillberg 6y ago
The extent to which my browser configuration breaks the websites on your list is my yardstick for success .
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Perhaps there is a new profile.
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by drtillberg 6y ago
> Remember that some people thought that government borrowing ... facilitated by quantitative easing (Fed bond-buying) ... was going to lead to substantial inflation. But it didn’t. Every time someone says "but where's the infl
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by drtillberg 6y ago
>The real satoshi is probably Paul Le Roux, and currently in federal prison. That conjecture makes a huge amount of sense based on circumstantial factors but most importantly, business purpose. The gentleman you identified was (when BTC
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by drtillberg 6y ago
>It's a tech prototype that enabled large-scale gambling. Worse than that. But there is a dimension hinted at in the article that makes this not a good asset either. That is, the fact that a dozen or two large syndicates have depl
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The Dream Job That Wasn’t(newrepublic.com)
58 points by drtillberg 6y ago|58 comments
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by drtillberg 6y ago
>Trees are crucial to our long-term survival, as they absorb and store the carbon dioxide emissions that cause global heating. I stopped reading when I encountered this statement. In fact, the connection between trees in the desert and c
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by drtillberg 6y ago
I wouldn't count on military commanders employing "human nuance" within 30 seconds of receiving a direct presidential order. On the contrary, it's pretty amazing that with 2, 3, 4 or more nations on a nuclear hair trigg
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Riversflow, the reference to the replenishment of the "tree of liberty" is unhelpful. It's cliche and generates far more heat than light. The real reason it can be dangerous to ban speech connected with "terrorism"
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Civilized (and sometimes boorish) people today go to the Internet to communicate. That's what we're doing right now. Maybe if you (or I) were banned from HN, no big deal, find some other corner of the Internet to shout from. FB
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by drtillberg 6y ago
There was no "network effect" deterring me from dropping the NYT. These social media platforms, and the internet in general-- which are entirely "private"-- are the new public square. Twitter, Facebook, et al just exclu
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The Privacy Sandbox and a Pre-Emptive Breakup of Google?(adexchanger.com)
2 points by drtillberg 6y ago|0 comments
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Let me simplify it. The bitcoin ecosystem is a cesspool of ransomware payoffs, international money laundering and speculation. Eliminate 2 of those use cases via financial surveillance and I will be happily surprised if the 3d survives, or
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by drtillberg 6y ago
The main real-world uses for bitcoin are (1) evasion of currency controls and (2) facilitation of extortion and fraud. That's all illegal, btw. The surprise is FinCEN didn't act until now to align its surveillance of bitcoin
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by drtillberg 6y ago
I read the earlier comment as making aggressive, common-sense inteferences from 'facts' sprinkled through the original posting-- FB ended direct engagement with shared.com a long time ago, the shared.com ads were placed through 3d
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by drtillberg 6y ago
It's never the original problem, it's always the cover-up. Seems like an interesting project for an ambitious Assistant U.S. Attorney.
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by drtillberg 6y ago
It's just super interesting that the granular record is persistent and can be replayed years later. Pretty non-obvious to me, and something I usually pay attention to!
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Storing keystrokes used to make a document reminds of a comparison between personal data and toxic asbestos. Storing and indexing keystrokes is unique, and it might even be useful, yes. However, this does not at all seem safe to store with
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Local TV News managed to interview a neighbor from directly across the street where the explosion occurred[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iag6cTWpgq8
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by drtillberg 6y ago
Upon seeing the reports of the location of this specific real-world incident I researched to try to find an article I know exists describing how indestructible those windowless telecommunications hub buildings are. Isn't there an arti

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