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userbinator 2 days ago [–] The comment is inflammatory and over-the-top, but I can definitely relate to the sentiment and comparison with fascism. For the software industry, "memory safety" is the new form of authoritarianism in disguise. No more jailbreaking, rooting, or running what you want on hardware you rightfully "bought". All in the name of "safety and security". They want to proclaim everything else to be "unsafe" to further their goals of total control. As the infamous quote says, "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither."
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fisting by many posted:few days ago and same Yes, I imagine their brain process goes: - Computers are programmable. i can easily get a square on the screen and make it do stuff when i was learning. programming gives me miraculous power over the machine - Genetics is like machine code but for humans!!!!! humans are machines - Therefore, geneticists can have unimpeded miraculous power over the human body!!
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Plorkyeran posted:userbinator 2 days ago [–] sigh i guess i am learning Rust just to distance myself from these fuckets
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That post took a real left turn in my brain when they first mentioned memory safety
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The phrasing is very HN-ish, but the idea that it's bad for companies to do things to close security vulnerabilities because it prevents you from jailbreaking sounds more like a dumb take you would have seen on slashdot during its heyday.
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an admitted sexual predator has posted to hn a 'i got cancelled' post and the hackers are eating it up LegitShady 14 minutes ago [–] I asked you what that means to you, not what it means to him. I don't think hitting on woman or convincing them to have sex is sexual predation. 'pressuring woman for sex' can mean many things. People under attack by a mob do many stupid things, including thinking that 'admitting and apologizing' will somehow stop that abuse. You accused him of being a sexual predator. What does that mean to you? how do you know what happened meets any definition of that word to you? Don't take these pressured confessions of wrongdoing as credible - they're people desperate to save their life. They may say anything to do so. reply
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removed this post because it seemed less funny and plainly dispiriting
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One idea I have is to use a ML recommendation model that would use theological preferences as inputs. The trick would be how to personalize that model for a given user before knowing what content they want or would be put off by. Perhaps that could be part of the onboarding process though.
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Syzygies 6 hours ago [–] Dunno what I said the last time a call violated the do-not-call list and woke me. They actually called back later to tell me how shook up they were, and that they'd been discussing my response with their lawyers. I don't see a difference between kidnapping one person for a week, and taking ten seconds away from 56,874 people. I'd support similar penalties. [...] (my note: yeah, i removed the remainder but it was kind of irrelevant; the first part alone is enough to warrant posting here)
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epitaph posted:Syzygies 6 hours ago [–] yikes
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epitaph posted:Syzygies 6 hours ago [–] consider that most kidnappings are perpetrated by loved ones and you can easily see why hackernews aren’t worried about being involved in one
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xwolfi 5 hours ago [–] This cancel culture thing where a few negative cancels all the good you could have done is really weird. Voltaire is racist, Washington had slaves, this or that twiteroo said 10 years ago some kind of sorry thing, McAfee killed and frauded. Look it's all kinda true and all kinda irrelevant. People are more than the 10% of the time they sinned. I sure have sinned, and I sure hope you'll still find me valuable as a human.
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Qwertycoatl posted:xwolfi 5 hours ago [–] extremely suspicious when someone says they have sinned when they previously explicitly include "murder" in the sin department
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sure Hans Reiser killed his wife but that’s just 10% of his life’s work, history should judge him on the merits of his bad file system
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Just a little slavery, no more than my alloted Sin Quota.
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Qwertycoatl posted:xwolfi 5 hours ago [–] Yes, we shouldn't ignore McAfee's good contributions to the world, such as.. lovely antivirus software, doing all the cocaine, and grooming a new generation of cryptocurrency marks.
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mrmcd posted:Yes, we shouldn't ignore McAfee's good contributions to the world, such as.. lovely antivirus software, doing all the cocaine, and grooming a new generation of cryptocurrency marks. https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/1078845703340867584
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Re: police quitting in record numbers over the past year: tryingtogetback 24 minutes ago [–] Maybe it's finally the time for private sector to step in? Privately funded regional and/or local (HOA-funded) police departments that are immune to political games with funding that's independent from political trends. Private security startups must be working in this area, right? Just take a look what amazon is doing to shipping industry, how well researched and optimized their deliveries are. Policing is no different (infinite potential for optimizations and innovations) given that private entities (not government) are managing it and (most importantly) are accountable for it. reply still upvoted as of my posting this 
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hate it when people let voltaire's racism and connections to slavery get in the way of his good work on... the fundamental human right to freedom?!
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kitten smoothie posted:sure Hans Reiser killed his wife but that’s just 10% of his life’s work, history should judge him on the merits of his bad file system ReiserFS is the only filesystem that has ever caused data loss for me, that wasn't due to a dying disk. It just decided to completely irreparably gently caress itself one day. So par for the course, really.
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Mr.Radar posted:(HOA-funded) police departments the old ladies in the neighborhood bridge club who control the HOA board can already foreclose on your house, great let’s give them guns too
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tiahura 37 minutes ago [–] “Even though these problems are societal, not really caused by the minorities themselves but rather lack of opportunities etc” That’s the line of thinking that keeps many of them in that situation. We need to be honest -African American culture is largely dysfunctional and self-destructive. 120 years ago my ancestors were dirt poor, they didn’t have “equitable” opportunities in education, housing, or employment, yet they managed to not go around shooting each other, having children out of wedlock, or abusing drugs. reply
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mrmcd posted:Yes, we shouldn't ignore McAfee's good contributions to the world, such as.. lovely antivirus software, doing all the cocaine, and grooming a new generation of cryptocurrency marks. i noticed that exactly zero of the people running to mcafee's defense actually listed what any of those good things are that we should be remembering
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he made a lot of lovely lulz and isn’t that payment enough
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something about ground penetrating radar unable to melt steel beams defaultname 4 hours ago [–] They didn't find 751 unmarked graves. Just as they didn't find 215 graves at Kamloops. These numbers are in all probability many multiples exaggerated over the reality. And the catch 22 is that any actual anthropological analysis is going to be restricted by the very group publishing the exaggerated numbers. So expect at the next location for it to be...why not 10,000? The methodology to derive these numbers borders on farcical. However we know that loads of children died at these facilities. Tragically. It has never been secret. It never had to be secret, sadly because native children were considered effectively expendable. That is the pox. The current culture of, effectively, horseshit isn't making it better.
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Jose Valasquez posted:tiahura 37 minutes ago [–] i hope someone kicks hn poster tiahura down a storm drain
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Descendent 47 will avenge him
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Pile Of Garbage posted:i hope someone kicks hn poster tiahura down a storm drain
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fallingknife 40 minutes ago [–] > but doctors can't always predict this and aren't perfect decision making machines So mass screen healthy people, collect the data, run models, and get better at it. People like you would rather not try, and this is the same reaction I get from doctors. Applying the same tech that we use to improve ad targeting to disease prediction is a no brainer to anyone whose cushy job doesn't depend on the current medieval state of medical technology.
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a/b testing giving bypass operations should turn up some interesting data
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quote:This is the law functioning as intended. Thiel's case is a one-in-100-million+ event. He may have the only Roth IRA in existence that's valued at over $5 billion. But he didn't do it by exploiting some sort of "loophole" or paying high-priced accountants to shield his assets in foreign entities offshore. He put his investments in a Roth IRA just like any of you can do. The only difference is his investments were in the top 0.0001% in terms of performance. That's generally how people get to be billionaires. quote:What is the goal here: to make revenue for the government or to punish successful investors? quote:Startup founders take a lot of risk. There is a big chance his investment could have been zero. It is strange that ProPublica does not understand this basic concept.
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a gifted investor
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I thought it was under reported when Romney had tens of millions in his Roth during the campaign, but good ole thiel makes that look reasonable.
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PCjr sidecar posted:I thought it was under reported when Romney had tens of millions in his Roth during the campaign, but good ole thiel makes that look reasonable. strapping your dog to the roof of a station wagon is a bit more sensational but yeah, the loving chutzpah of thiel here is staggering, very unsurprised to see hn stanning for it.
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undervaluing assets so you can squeeze as many as possible into a roth contribution is a pretty well-known dodge, and i think they did investigate him for it, but i guess they couldn't make it stick the basic problem with roth iras is that, even if you take the basic goal as a good thing, the way they're designed is extremely brittle against abuse. there's a bunch of restrictions that are supposed to protect against rich people using them and against protecting tons of assets in them, but if you can manage to get around those legally, there's unlimited upside. it would make a lot more sense if they just had a lifetime cap on how much gain you could shield from tax. the idea is to let people put $2000 a year away and have it collect gains tax-free, so figure out how much total gain you'd have if someone put exactly $2000 into it every year for forty years and got some really high rate of gain like 10%, and cap it at that. that would be around $900k, so let's round it up to a million. so effectively you can avoid paying something like 250k in tax. that's a really generous benefit but now it robustly protects against somebody like thiel protecting billions of dollars in gains
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Known to those who know I guess. I’ve gone all over the IRA rules and “load up on sweetheart stock deals” never occurred to me as a strategy
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beebeepka 20 minutes ago [–] What I am saying is that Manning was forced to take that path I actually have had sex, multiple times, with trans people. Careful with your assumptions. I find your response offensive reply
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I, a sex haver,
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