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arstechnica.com 6mo ago

Signal creator Moxie Marlinspike wants to do for AI what he did for messaging

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www.youtube.com 5y ago

Raycasting 3D Games in Vanilla Factorio

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www.sciencemag.org 6y ago

DNA proves Polynesians met Native Americans long before Europeans

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www.drupal.org 6y ago

Drupal Payment in Toilet Paper Module

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reallifemag.com 8y ago

Panic City – Smart Cities and Urban Complexity

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www.motherjones.com 10y ago

Four Months Undercover as a Private Prison Guard

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www.maskmagazine.com 10y ago

Ingrid Burrington on Infrastructure, Fantasy of the Cloud, and Digital Literacy

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www.maskmagazine.com 10y ago

Style Magazine Editorial: “Why You Should Care About Hackers”

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www.theverge.com 11y ago

Facebook's New 'Privacy Dinosaur'

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www.maskmagazine.com 11y ago

The Anarchists who Protest Outside Google Employees' Homes

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rt.com 12y ago

Jeremy Hammond sentenced to 10 years.

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9to5mac.com 12y ago

New Apple Manufacturing Facility Coming To Mesa Arizona

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uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com 12y ago

Incorporating Quiet Into UX Design Process

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marked2app.com 12y ago

Marked 2 — Brett Terpstra's Updated Live Markdown Preview Utility

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www.theverge.com 12y ago

iBeacons could solve indoor mapping, make shopping better

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www.donotlink.com 12y ago

Talk about websites without improving their ranking

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www.bogost.com 12y ago

2 Bullet Points on False Logic in Computationalism

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allthingsd.com 12y ago

Kevin Gibbs and Google Suggest

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www.smithsonianmag.com 12y ago

1,600 Year Old Goblet Shows Romans Used Nanotechnology.

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www.theverge.com 12y ago

Google patents 'pay-per-gaze' eye-tracking.

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www.guardian.co.uk 13y ago

DRM and HTML5: it's now or never for the Open Web

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alldis.co 13y ago

Woman Slaps Cop To Quit Smoking In Jail

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alldis.co 13y ago

A Youth Too Often Disturbed By Future — Anarchism in Popular Culture

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www.abolish.me 13y ago

A collection of quotes about Facebook Home

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www.whispersystems.org 13y ago

All The Things That Pull And Push

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Didn't see anyone mention this, but one of the main reasons for making macOS look more like iOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and watchOS is because at some point we will be able to run apps written for the other systems natively in macOS. Seems like an obvious move, why is everyone so surprised? It just means less duplicated interface code for multiplatform products.

In Minecraft, the whole world is made of cubes. Things are either cubes, or in the empty space where a cube could be. This line of theories (there have been many over the years) argue a few things.

First, our reality might also be made of similar Minecraft 'blocks' and block shaped empty space (that 'space is discrete, not continuous').

Second, that what a block does in one block shaped empty space is not necessarily going to tell us what it will do when it is in a different block shaped empty space. (This another way of saying the universal constants may change at different points in a discrete spacetime, which is ANOTHER way of saying different 'universes' exist within these points.)

Third, that the blocks and block-shaped empty space inform each others border/shape/volume and relate to one another in some way. (All of this together creates a larger structure, which they call a foam).

I think that's the basic gist. A quantum particle is like a block moving positions in this 'Minecraft grid', and as it does this it becomes subject to different universal constants.

They're stuck between a rock and a hard place. On one hand, they provide the 'objective' benchmark for the entire media industry. On the other, they have no way to actually capture the value of the data they provide, because advertisers use their data to make decisions on opaque Big Tech platforms. It's a commodity that doesn't have an equivalent exchange representation. On the surface, it might seem like a bad faith data broker. But on a deeper level, this is a canary in the programmatic ad monopoly coal mine. If we can regulate data exchange, but can't regulate data use ... we're setting a dangerous precedent.

So, essentially:

    - if instagram?
      - if on_vacation?
        - if shared_home? == false
          - if dangerous_pets? == false
            = rob_them
          - else
            // wait  
        - elsif roommates_home?
          - if dangerous_pets? == false && if security_system? == false
              = rob_them
          - elsif house_guests?
            - if house_guests_home?
              // wait
            - else
              = rob_them
          - else
            = kill_pets + rob_them
        - else
          = rob_them
      - else
        // wait
    - else
      = chill_with_friends
Seems legit.
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Guest posts on a blog during a week-long coding conference for an open-source encrypted communications project aren't different enough for you? Hard to imagine any one of these posts as something other than hacker news.

[dead] 13 years ago

Actually, I did post something yesterday. I didn't post anything today though. Just encouraging my colleagues. sheesh, don't shoot!

[dead] 13 years ago

I'm confused, aren't the SBoC blog posts all written by different people? Shouldn't we encourage new users to contribute? I checked it out, looks good to me.

[dead] 13 years ago

There are two of these. I'm confused are these two different articles, or just dupes? Anyone there? Pls help.