putsteadywere

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by putsteadywere 9y ago
Switch to Texas in particular and check out the map by metro area. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=now%207-d&geo=...
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Arkema backtracks, refuses to provide chemical inventory to the public(chron.com)
1 points by putsteadywere 9y ago|0 comments
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
Obligatory xkcd: https://www.xkcd.com/936/ Prepare to never forget the phrase CORRECT HORSE BATTERY STAPLE!
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
What surprised me most about this article is that as far as I'm aware, Russia is so far behind the forefront on machine learning research that hearing Putin speak on this subject is like hearing the president of Portugal say it. I&#x27
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
I would bet money that North Korea will not first-strike, and the US military will not fulfill a first-strike if directed. My premises are that North Korea is a rational actor, and their overwhelming priority is preservation of their regime
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'Whoever leads in AI will rule the world': Putin to Russian children(rt.com)
4 points by putsteadywere 9y ago|3 comments
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
I still trust Google over anybody, including the federal government.
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
I thought the author's idea that it is prohibitively difficult to create exploits in a vacuum, and need to know the specific configuration of your adversary's systems in order to be able to attack or counter-attack was interesting
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
"Operation “Nitro Zeus” illustrates this thinking. As Buchanan explains, in the early stages of the Obama Administration, U.S. hackers went on an expansive hunt for “zero-day” vulnerabilities in Iran’s strategic infrastructures. The ra
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The Security Dilemma of Cyberspace: Ancient Logic, New Problems(lawfareblog.com)
1 points by putsteadywere 9y ago|2 comments
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
Data analyst for a health insurer
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Bran Stark and the Problem of Omniscience(theatlantic.com)
2 points by putsteadywere 9y ago|0 comments
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
And if we solve this problem, then maybe we'll still have a technological civilization in 100,000 years to solve that one.
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Web hosting company ordered to turn over information on anti-Trump website(politico.com)
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
If I had a level 5 autonomous car that was compromised by someone who wanted to kill me, they probably could. Or they could just push me down a flight of stairs. Ultimately, I am alive because nobody cares enough to murder me. https:/
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
Worse yet - due to the Dunning-Kruger effect, the average driver is confident that they are much better than average.
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
I saw it the other day when the eclipse came to Oregon, and the population suddenly increased by 25% for a few days. I'm guessing that if the number of electric cars surged by 25% for a few days, it would be much less of a problem. [0]
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
The Justice Department is fighting for information on all of the visitors to the website disruptj20.org, as well as log files on when and from where the visitors logged onto the site, what they looked at, and emails related to the site. The
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Justice Department Fights Web Hosting Company for Trump Protester Information(lawfareblog.com)
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
The Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, subsequently entered into an interesting interchange with a reporter. When asked by Mark DiStefano, a reporter from ZDNET, “Won’t the laws of mathematics trump the laws of Australia? And t
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The Encryption Debate Revisited: The Laws of Mathematics and the Laws of Nations(lawfareblog.com)
2 points by putsteadywere 9y ago|1 comments
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
"in 2010, Assange vowed to publish documents on any institution that resisted oversight... “We don’t have targets,” Assange said at the time." But by 2016, WikiLeaks had switched course, focusing almost exclusively on Clinton and
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WikiLeaks Turned Down Leaks on Russian Government During US Pres. Campaign(foreignpolicy.com)
5 points by putsteadywere 9y ago|1 comments
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
I don't think comparing the adoption rate of Nazi ideology in nations where it was historically successful to nations where it was historically unsuccessful is appropriate. A more equivalent comparison is Nazi ideology in Germany/
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
I'm fine with that! [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Body_II:_Dark_Forest [1]: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Space/stephen-hawking-alien...
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
Some really shocking lines in here: …[based upon self-evaluation,] 21 percent of lawyers qualify as problem drinkers, while 28 percent struggle with … serious depression. Only [25% of] lawyers answered questions about drug use… “It’s left t
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
For a second, I thought this was a post about immigration.
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
That was impressive, and surprising!
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
I really liked this: 'I have seen lots of parents do terrible things because they failed to "put their own oxygen mask on first."' Thanks for writing that!
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by putsteadywere 9y ago
I googled this, because I did find it hard to believe, and I think you're correct. According to the below source, for example, heating a home in Atlanta, Georgia throughout the winter months costs about twice as much as air conditionin

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