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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> their alleged enemies for The word "alleged" caught my eye. Alleged in that they're not enemies but competitors for power over Western citizens who have the advantage of not requiring democratic assent? Is that what you
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> Pfft. - Not really your field, is it? You got me. I know nothing about this and you would definitely be better off asking someone else.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> If someone cannot control a meeting There's more to it. Indeed, it's about letting go of control in ways that are safe and enhance function. Emotional intelligence plus the courage and sense of legitimacy to deploy it is powe
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Very well indeed I think. AFAIK Dragonfire is fully within the optical spectrum. However, there's a similar project we've been working on over here that's a beamforming MASER - that travels right through the housing and fries
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
That was a good experiment. Glad you gave it a go. Reminds of the days when the internet was still fun, and not a combat zone. I think these kinds of things are important and revealing. One lesson perhaps is that HN is not the most intera
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> the same kind of track and target platforms Speed of light is the game changer
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> A million rounds a minute Dragonfire is quicker, cheaper per kill, and safer in urban places then spray and pray kinetic weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonfire_(weapon)
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Flickering shadows delight damp walls Snuff it out! Let sleep come again. Beyond the cave, morning calls.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Having a single person to identify with an idea via a quote or famous formula is a very human kind of shorthand we love. People still say "Edison invented the light bulb", even though we know that's not strictly true at all.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Was pretty common as I grew up. We had a maths teacher who used to shout "Eat your greens" as we did problems, much like the teacher in Pink Floyd's Wall [0]; "If you don't eat your meat, you can't have any pu
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
A group with superpowers is one that can spontaneously and optimally reconfigure structure. Including dissolving and spontaneously re-emerging. Group dynamic arrangements grow quickly, combinations for without rank, permutations for ordered
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Local-only memory (say readable only from a certain CPU security ring and securely erasable in an atomic operation) is a useful tool for methods such as you describe. What I'm shooting at is private memory under cryptographic control o
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
A trillion dollar marketing industry condemns enquiry and threatens mild inconvenience as the terrible fate awaiting anyone who errs from the path of simplicity. The word "just" has a lot to answer for. "Just do it". &qu
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> academics might imagine themselves to be these insanely powerful people It long ago escaped academia. Everyone wants to imagine themselves "insanely powerful people" now. It's part of the sell. But based on experience
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
I believe you're right. Edwin Black's "IBM and the Holocaust" and Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" both played their part in revising my naive ideas about simple narratives of WW2. But look at thi
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> a way to actually improve personal security, I'm not sure this is true. I've studied trust models in some depth now and I think that cryptographic enclaves are at best an analgesic and sedative. Don't fall for any myth
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> unfortunately this can't last as those who go hard on progress and tear down everything and rebuilding again A notion of "bare progress" is the elephant in the room. Progress is a vector. It has magnitude and direction
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Fantastic read! Love that you did this. I am surprised Yamaha ever created the DX9 given the manufacturing economics. Did they even save a few pennies here and there to create an inferior instrument? I guess even in the early 80s product di
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Let it go Paul. It's like the word "hacker". We ain't getting it back. It's sad the popular perception of a fundamental computer science concept, the great progeny of Al-Khwarizmi Musa, the
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> voters are not individual agents but rather a mob subject to manipulation by propaganda? That is true, yet it's not incompatible with democracy. In the US Horace Mann established the foundational link between education and democ
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Other ways [0] to think about "grey zone" conflict: cold-war (not an obsolete term) ambient non-linear conflict cyberwar business [0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/after-war/
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Ghosts in the machine is a bit of a culture thing. We covered it a bit last Halloween [0]. There are haunted BBC Micros and parallel quantum universes. Maybe it's smart of game developers to create a spook story this way. There's
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
As a serious computer user getting on for 25 years using text based search tools I've long made various "single-site" tools. A big inspiration way back was Surfraw [1], originally created by Julian Assange. Reality is, most o
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
It is funny. And it is true. But is not really helping.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
> This only works if everyone or the vast majority join unions. This is a common objection but I think it's wrong. Putting aside the huge differences between US (at will) and global employment law, the idea of a fluid, frictionless
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
The pressures that men face to be "successful" are immense and corrosive. From birth, they get all the wrong signals. I'm sad to see the Guardian run such an unabashed straight-up mocking character assassination, It's n
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Yes I don't understand the "5 Years" part at all. Either it's illegal or it isn't. No judge ever says "I ban you from burgling houses for 5 years!", like after 5 years it would be okay again.
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
Ick. That turned my stomach. Sure it's bad for end users that corporate mobile app development is a swamp. In this case it only affects the vendor who lost out on users and reputation. But cavalier, reckless engineering equally causes
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
There's an intrinsic and uresolvable tension between all digital technology and human agency. What it seems to give, it also takes away. Powerful weapons of war made us weaker. Communication supposed to "bring us together" le
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by nonrandomstring 2y ago
As well as soundtracks, Lynch is a huge figure in sound design generally. He is a pioneer and master of several techniques that have entered the standard repertoire now, like foreshadowing, looming, use of rhythmic leitmotifs. A very creati

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