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- Comment on The city is so lively 2 days ago:
I could be convinced that there is a part of Paris that is like that. It doesn’t look like a part of Paris anyone would want to spend much time in though.
- Comment on Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series 1 week ago:
The wheel of time turns and ages come and pass. There is no end to the turning of the wheel of time but this is an end.
- Comment on Saint > Pope 4 weeks ago:
I saw a quote in the newspaper this morning:
We were losing hundreds of billions of dollars with China now we’re essentially not doing business with China. Therefore, we’re saving hundreds of billions of dollars. Very simple.
It’s just so incredibly wrong and stupid.
- Comment on Do it 1 month ago:
Smells like nirvana in my ass.
(Weird Al)
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
Killing time are you being intentionally obtuse just to kill time?
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
How is real estate wealth not consequential?Real estate wealth is real wealth, it’s why it’s literally in the name.
Personal income tax is not a wealth tax, and there are myriad ways to avoid it without evading it.
- Comment on Owing your home today is nearly impossible, but even if you did the ever increasing property taxes will bury you 2 months ago:
It’s a wealth tax on wealth that’s very difficult to hide.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 2 months ago:
So how does generating a one time pad from mutually accessible data fit into this scheme. Is the pad the cipher or the key?
If two people agreed that the pad would be the output of a particular pRNG given the 3rd paragraph of the second article on the third page of that day’s newspaper as a seed.
The attack vector would be shortcomings in the pRNG I guess? Which could result in the possibility of some sort of statistical language attack?
Or the attacker could guess the newspaper text & algorithm.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 2 months ago:
Neat, yeah Wikipedia says steam cipher approximate one time pads but can also be completely insecure.
I think it would take one hell of an effort to crack, it would be like 3MB encryption right? Or if they guessed the scheme they could try all mp3s ever torrented XOR’ed in every possible combination.
Idk I think there’s something workable there but I only having a casual knowledge
Also I think OP wanted pen and paper so maybe use a book instead digital files.
- Comment on Is it possible to design a (pen and paper) cipher that is secure against government cryptanalysis for at least 10 years? 2 months ago:
I’m certainly not an expert.
But could you generate pads from mutually accessible data sources?
Like use hit_me_baby_one_more_time_not_a_virus.mp3 appended with a password, as a seed in a pseudo random number generating algorithm, then do the same thing with another data source, repeat however many times, then XOR the generated numbers together, and use the result as a pad?
- Comment on TSA now offers you a choice 2 months ago:
I always go pat down. I prefer to understand the scope of the privacy violation way also I think it’s good to have a physical reminder of the ways our privacy is invaded.
- Comment on Anon introduces himself 3 months ago:
At least Removed Richard keeps it as an adjective instead of making it a verb.
- Comment on Would you do Onlyfans if needed the money? 4 months ago:
Ahh yes sexual harassment for hire. Great idea. Maybe we should have an MMA experience we can order for our foes too.
- Comment on Return to monke 5 months ago:
“I must destroy all evidence of this”
- Comment on Performative Perp Walk 5 months ago:
I mean both really
- Comment on When leftists say "landlord are parasites" or similar dislike of landlords, do they also mean the people that own like a couple of houses as an investment, or only the big landlords? 5 months ago:
I reckon if you’re doing the work involved in managing a rental property yourself, you’re doing work and providing a service.
If you expect an employee/contractor to do all that for you, but to still collect profits: what would you say you do here?
- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 5 months ago:
I support robust enforcement of anti hate speech laws. In fact I’ve reported hate speech/ hatecrime to the police before.
We’re not talking about laws, we’re talking about social media platform policies.
Social media platforms connect people from regions with different hatespeech laws so " enforcing hatespeech laws" is impossible to do consistently.
If users engage in crimes using the platform they are subject to the laws that they are subject to.
I don’t care that it’s legal to advocate for genocide where a preacher is located, or at the corporation’s preferred jurisdiction, I don’t want my son reading it.
The question was is: there a way a platform can be totally free speech and stop hate speech. I think the answer is “kinda”
- Comment on Is it possible to have a "free speech" platform that simultaneously stops "hate speech"? 5 months ago:
I think it may be possible if you understand a difference between the right to speak and the right to be heard.
Ie the right to say something doesn’t create an obligation in others to hear it, nor to hear you in the future.
If I stand up on a milk crate in the middle of a city park to preach the glory of closed source operating systems, it doesn’t infringe my right to free speech if someone posts a sign that says “Microsoft shill ahead” and offers earplugs at the park entrance. People can choose to believe the sign or not.
A social media platform could automate the signs and earplugs. By allowing users to set thresholds of the discourse acceptable to them on different topics, and the platform could evaluate (through data analysis or crowd sourced feedback) whether comments and/or commenters met that threshold.
I think this would largely stop people from experiencing hatespeech, (one they had their thresholds appropriately dialed in) and disincentivize hatespeech without actually infringing anybody’s right to say whatever they want.
There would definitely be challenges though.
If a person wants to be protected from experiencing hatespeech they need to empower some-one/thing to censor media for them which is a risk.
Properly evaluating content for hatespeech/ otherwise objectionable speech is difficult. Upvotes and downvotes are an attempt to do this in a very coarse way. That/this system assumes that all users have a shared view of what content is worth seeing on a given topic and that all votes are equally credible. In a small community of people, with similar values, that aren’t trying to manipulate the system, it’s a reasonable approach. It doesn’t scale that well.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 6 months ago:
Yeah that’s a good point. Maybe I should amend my statement to say something like:
If this seems like an absurd hypothetical, consider reframing it. Multiply all the numbers by a factor of between 1,000 to 1,000,000 and make them “our soldiers”, “bystanders” and “enemy soldiers” respectively.
- Comment on The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma 6 months ago:
I think these scenarios might be easier to analyze if we made them a bit more realistic.
Like isn’t this an analogy for military intervention? If we empower our military to be proactive, we can save one “good guy” ^^Tm by killing 3 “worthless foreigners”. But if NATO’s adversaries are participating too we lose 3 of our “good guy” ^^Tm.
- Comment on Donald Trump's sentencing was postponed to after the election to avoid any assistance of election interference. Can he be sentenced while he is President Elect? 6 months ago:
Yeah I agree that can’t keep him locked up, but could they jail him, because honestly that isn’t nothing. Obviously it’s career suicide for anyone involved but you know.
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- Comment on The Divine Dick 6 months ago:
Yeah, and I’m positing that the probability he did not have a penis is at least 0.5%.
- Comment on The Divine Dick 6 months ago:
The Bible is not accurate regarding Jesus’ early life.
I don’t think it’s wrong to exercise an iota of skepticism.
Was Luke there at the circumcision? What was his source?
Wouldn’t Jesus being trans and Luke being misinformed (or actually trying to avoid outting him) explain why there isn’t really any testimony about Jesus’s life during puberty? It was an incredibly misogynistic era right? Is it inconceivable for a person without a penis to try to pass as a man in that era?
If a person can better appreciate Jesus by understanding him as a trans-man should a christian tell them they’re wrong? Does it put them in spiritual jeopardy? Is it dishonest to say “maybe”? I don’t think so.
- Comment on The Divine Dick 6 months ago:
Jesus on the other hand 100% had a dick.
Oh did they find his body?
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 7 months ago:
At least there are no centrists in here claiming it’s 3.5
- Comment on Anon lives in the midwest 7 months ago:
Right I get that, but the underlying value that the prohibitions are designed around is promoting humility and preventing vanity.
- Comment on Anon lives in the midwest 7 months ago:
I don’t think jewelry wearing is compatible with the Amish conception of propriety and modesty but I’m not going to say it wouldn’t happen.
- Comment on After a Decade, Scientists Unveil Fly Brain in Stunning Detail | Scientists have mapped out how 140,000 neurons are wired in the brain of the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. 7 months ago:
That’s amazing. I’m surprised that mouse brains have only 1000 times more neurons than a fruit fly, although I suppose the difficulty of mapping it scales exponentially (factorially?)
- Comment on Anon seeks enlightenment 8 months ago:
Can’t use 100’s in a lot of places.