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by mmaro 15y ago
http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/09/seastea...
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by mmaro 15y ago
Watch Moxie's "New threats to privacy" from BlackHat 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qzldtKV1PY Essentially, the problem is that these voluntary relationships become not-so-voluntary as the privacy-compromising tools become more nece
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by mmaro 15y ago
That's a reasonable concern, but at this meta level there are two things going in cryonics' favor: there's a good chance you're overconfident about its non-utility[1], and there's a chance that your reanimation comes much earlier than expec
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by mmaro 15y ago
This is a false dichotomy. You can strive to achieve as much as possible today, as well as attempt a second chance at life through cryonics.
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by mmaro 15y ago
Anyone remotely interested in cryonics should go read about it on LessWrong[1], instead of reading the same ol' ambivalent/pro-death comments. The only good reasons (that I can think of right now) not to sign up are if (1) you can't afford
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by mmaro 15y ago
Please consider my comment retracted (I can't delete it); Andrew did a much better job than I remembered.
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by mmaro 15y ago
http://ifile.it/mdk43ht - this link will probably be dead in a week or two (BTW, if you save everything you find interesting, you realize just how much disappears from the Internet. The half-life of the average link is about 4.5 years.)
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by mmaro 15y ago
It's been a while since I've watched it, but I didn't get the impression that Blank lost it. As I remember, Andrew just made a big deal out of his minor misstep and focused on the misstep rather than getting the interview back on track. I
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by mmaro 15y ago
He also replaced 'iLike' with 'the "competitor"' and 'Sean Parker and Mark Zuckerberg' with 'senior Facebook executives'
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by mmaro 15y ago
If you don't trust Apple's FDE solution to not have a backdoor, you probably shouldn't use their operating system at all, as it has access to all of your data.
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by mmaro 15y ago
Would there be any reason to use it over Lion's full disk encryption?
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by mmaro 15y ago
There's no way your probability is close to 0.1%. Exhibit A: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/Death_by_Age_2007-a.pd... Exhibit B: life insurance companies collect a lot of data from you, and no company will price a 21 year old anywh
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by mmaro 15y ago
http://www.alcor.org/cryomyths.html#myth2 (Also, just in case any young people on HN think they have no chance of dying, add up a decade of 'Death probability' on http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html )
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by mmaro 15y ago
Ping measures the round-trip time, so it would really be twice that.
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by mmaro 15y ago
Paste http://sh-blog.at.webry.info/rss/index.rdf into Google Reader's 'Add a Subscription'; it has all the posts since Jan 7. Or this link to the feed in Reader might work: https://www.google.com/reader/view/#stream/feed%2Fhttp%3A%2F...
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by mmaro 15y ago
CPR brings people back from the dead; before the 60s, they generally stayed dead.
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by mmaro 15y ago
Well, as long as we're considering all sorts of hypothetical scenarios, consider this one: 1. You die in a year or two from terminal illness or an accident. 2. You purchased a life insurance policy when you were healthy, so cryonics is very
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by mmaro 15y ago
Computers get stolen, but they're usually already off, or turned off during the theft. But let me get this straight: you're worried about an attacker reading out everything on your hard drive, but not worried about them reading out all the
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by mmaro 15y ago
If the attacker has enough physical access to pull out your memory, I doubt they'll be very disappointed by AES-in-CPU-only protection. They're still getting 8-32GB of other private data (passwords, everything in your page cache, etc). Th
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by mmaro 16y ago
Reposting piguy314's [dead] reply: It's instructive that we've already engineered ways of preventing the problems TEPCO is experiencing at their Fukushima. Many newer reactor designs have a passive residual heat removal system that removes
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by mmaro 16y ago
Ah, right. I made a very stupid mistake in thinking they teach students for ~7 hours/day. I was also biased by my (probably) above-average experiences with teachers.
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by mmaro 16y ago
Teachers do not work less than 40 hours per week. A ton of time is spent on grading, prep, helping slow students, school meetings, complying with NCLB requirements, etc.
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by mmaro 16y ago
The information that the smooth touchy people deduced automatically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edh2GQHZmtI (in case this link dies, it's Lance Mason's "How To Kino")
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by mmaro 16y ago
Most of these are well-justified in his essays; obviously a condensed summary will not be very convincing.
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by mmaro 16y ago
The U.S. has two main political parties: the left-wing one in perpetual power, and an incompetent left-wing one that still thinks they can get the outcomes they want through elections (they can't; progressive civil servants run the show). S
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Putin's Russia: Neo-Feudalism Explained(the-american-interest.com)
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by mmaro 16y ago
NoScript and AdBlock Plus may help with that. Even if the page is using a META refresh, NoScript has an option to kill those.
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by mmaro 16y ago
Yes. I paste long documents into Microsoft Word, adjust the line spacing, print to a laser printer, then use a mechanical staple gun (see PaperPro).
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by mmaro 16y ago
Gokhale's 8 Steps to a Pain-Free Back, via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1739607 (thanks, HN). It's not the best presentation or the best science, but it has ended my back pain and given me awareness of my body. Anyone who sits wit
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by mmaro 16y ago
They are (USCIS is part of DHS). The INS was dissolved in 2003.

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