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- Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 2 weeks ago:
Ithink you could be more charitable in your reply. Transistors were developed to replace tubes in telephone systems… Okay but the tubes had been developed to where they were because of their usefulness in radio.
And while computers don’t inherently rely on radio, it’s radio communication that’s taken computers from one in every office to one in everyone’s pocket. Right? The main thrust of the previous commenter is true.
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 2 weeks ago:
I think the irreducible complexity debate is over. Creationist scientists will continue to publish “but maybe” arguments because defending creationism is part of their identity, but its just a “but maybe this gap in human knowledge proves XYZ”. They are starting with a conclusion and looking for arguments that it isn’t impossible.
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 2 weeks ago:
In the video where he’s shooting antique guns (or something) with his son, his son always calls him “sir”. Is that a regional thing? It seemed super weird to me.
- Comment on I Tried To Make Something In America (The Smarter Scrubber Experiment) - Smarter Every Day 308 2 weeks ago:
I’m a different person weighing in here:
When you said:
The T3SS is one of the most complex bacterial molecular machines, incorporating one to over a hundred copies of more than 15 different proteins into a multi-MDa transmembrane complex (Table 1). The system, especially the flagellum, has, therefore often been quoted as an example for “irreducible complexity,” based on the argument that the evolution of such a complex system with no beneficial intermediates would be exceedingly unlikely. However, it is now clear that, far from having evolved as independent entities, many secretion systems share components between each other and with other cellular machineries (Egelman, 2010; Pallen and Gophna, 2007).
I ofc am just a layman reading this, I agree it seems better understood that how I interpreted what he was saying, but it also doesn’t seem nearly as well understood as you’re saying.
IMO it’s a problem with the article. The article says that T3SS is cited as an example as something that’s “irreducibly complex”. I suppose that it’s true that it is cited as that. But the second part of the paragraph explains why it isn’t true that it’s “irreducibly complex”. The paragraph isn’t explicit enough because the paragraph has probably evolved to be something that’s true and equally dissatisfying to both sides.
- Comment on The city is so lively 4 weeks 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 5 weeks 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 3 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 3 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 3 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? 3 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? 3 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? 3 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 3 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 4 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? 5 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 6 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? 6 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"? 6 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"? 6 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 7 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? 7 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 7 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 7 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 7 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 8 months ago:
At least there are no centrists in here claiming it’s 3.5