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by stadia42 2y ago
The non-paywalled start of the article reads like a ChatGPT answer to a high school essay question (i.e., no new insight beyond things anyone knows).
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by stadia42 2y ago
BTW, why is the article now flagged? Is it because it's paywalled?
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by stadia42 2y ago
None, and that's exactly how many blog articles I wrote on this topic.
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by stadia42 2y ago
This is not an ad hominem attack. It's fair to ask about an author's credentials when they write a public article. (I do believe he lacks the credentials, but happy to hear a counter-argument.)
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by stadia42 2y ago
To remark - none. To be taken seriously -- probably some, otherwise the noise of millions of bloggers is too much to handle. Which credentials, I'm not sure, hence my question. FWIW, the author has university education and is currently
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by stadia42 2y ago
Of course you don't. I thought, however, that you may need some credentials to be upvoted by an audience of highly technical readers.
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by stadia42 2y ago
Can someone explain to me if the article in The Information on this topic is completely dumb, or whether I'm dumb for misunderstanding it: https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-unbundles-... . (You don&
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by stadia42 4y ago
"repulsive to the general public because regular people, on some level, understand that everyone has an unconditional right to the safety and dignity" I want to point out a couple errors in your statement. 1. The correct verb to u
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by stadia42 4y ago
Yes, a regular occurrence for the social issues that are either uncontroversial (e.g., reducing poverty, improving education, dealing with pandemics) or only lightly controversial (e.g., climate change, misinformation in the media, etc.). F
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by stadia42 4y ago
No, I didn't mean that I cheat, and therefore everyone else cheats. I meant that the one time he got to see what's going on, he found that nearly everyone cheats. Unless he has some evidence to the contrary, a reasonable conclusio
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by stadia42 4y ago
The professor surely knows that cheating is near universal because the incentive structure of modern life makes cheating optimal in expectation. Nothing he can do will change this fundamental fact. So why bother?
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by stadia42 4y ago
The answers to this question provide at least some intuition: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/15656/volumes-of-n-... .
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by stadia42 4y ago
You argue that most murders are criminals killing each other. Suppose you're right. So let's look at robberies instead. Those are primarily directed towards random people not towards other criminals. The safest US city in that res
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by stadia42 5y ago
See https://www.pnas.org/content/117/41/25237 So IMHO, the dumb one isn't the "pen test" from the Japanese TV, but rather the clickbaity YouTube video that makes fun of it. That said, the Japan
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by stadia42 6y ago
Yup, I think you got it (especially how comments are an afterthought, and cost/benefit is therefore completely different).
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by stadia42 6y ago
Presumably because the comments are mostly spam or other noise? If they cleaned that up, more people would read the comments, maybe?
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by stadia42 6y ago
Instead of disabling comments, why wouldn't they use one of the techniques that successful discussion forums employ to filter out spam, extremism, and other noise? HN being an obvious example, but there are plenty of others, each with
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Lantau project: silver bullet for HK housing woes or costly white elephant?(scmp.com)
1 points by stadia42 6y ago|0 comments
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by stadia42 6y ago
Note: I do not know if this argument against nuclear energy is valid. I'm submitting it in the hope that HN comments will help evaluate it.
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An argument that nuclear power makes the climate crisis worse(m.dw.com)
92 points by stadia42 6y ago|239 comments
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by stadia42 6y ago
Ah thanks! I incorrectly assumed that if so much effort is spent on this, it must be because it helps protect something valuable (directly by preventing bank or credit hacking, or indirectly by helping secure trade secrets behind encryption
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by stadia42 6y ago
I didn't fully understand the implications. Why is there so much focus on privacy protection? Isn't by far the biggest application of this technology in security? (Presumably, ensuring that no one steals money out of my bank accou
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by stadia42 6y ago
Yes, dang is super nice, he responded to my message and confirmed that everything is working as intended!
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by stadia42 6y ago
Thank you! I did contact dang, and everything is fine :) No evil botnets are involved!
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by stadia42 6y ago
This news brings hope to people who want to see Mr. Trump reelected in 2024.
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by stadia42 6y ago
That makes sense. I guess shadow banning may also expire over time?
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by stadia42 6y ago
Great! I'm glad no evil botnets are involved :) And thanks for the explanation!
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by stadia42 6y ago
So this automatic hiding by HN are indistinguishable to the regular users from the "dead" comments caused by downvoting? And the regular users can revive such automatically "hidden" comments in exactly the same way as th
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by stadia42 6y ago
Thanks! That at least explains how the comment became undead.
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by stadia42 6y ago
25 minutes later, the comment no longer shows as "dead", it's just a normal comment. Maybe people upvoted it? But how? I thought dead comments have no upvote button? Or maybe there are no botnets, and I simply don't unde

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