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As someone who studied privacy in voting, it's horrific that we have a word for this. Cat was out of the bag when the then-minister (of the interior) started pushing this. Somehow,…

> The idea that critical communication infrastructure must be (directly or indirectly) supported by advertising interests is certainly not obvious I think the problem is more that …

Another hypothesis: being extravert means getting energised by interactions with others; being introvert means that costs energy. (Most people will have experienced both, at differ…

I think the main issue is that regular post has addrrss info of the recipient. So the whole logistics chain is geared towards that. If you remove the need for address info for a (s…

> What global players does Russia have any significant influence over? China, N. Korea, probably Vietnam, India'll listen to them, possibly more in s.e. Asia, and they're expanding…

I mostly agree worth you, except to nuance that it is not about "information that is classified in the US", but about classified US-documents.

Assange is alleged to have released unredacted info that exposed informants in warzones. This while running a service - not an infrastructure, a service - for exposing information.…

And you don't think that what happened to some folks that said/did stuff that displeased the US and UK rulers might have a similar effect on their population? Like, for example, wh…

Isn't that the definition of a jury trial? That the opinion of the jury decides whether or not the defendant is convicted?

The allegations I've seen floating around is that he deliberately withheld certain types of leaks. Thereby making Wikileaks no longer neutral, but politically-motivated. > Is it no…

> Box plots [...] assume that your data follows a bell/gaussian shape. Not sure how to square that with this statement on Wikipedia's page on box plots: Box plots are non-parametri…

> every talk is a job talk Absolutely. A subset of the people in the audience are tenured or tenure-track academics. These folks get grants for postdocs. Moreover, they may be on a…

To the best of our knowledge, for any of asteroid belt, Kuiper belt and Van Oort cloud, the trick is hitting, not missing. Space is vast; matter is (relatively) sparse. Moreover, m…

> HN tends to be highly skeptical of “if you don’t have anything to hide, you wouldn’t mind the lack of privacy” arguments. Well, those arguments flip the narrative. No one has to …

> As long as the coverage and convenience are so lopsided, Two ways to fix that (in general): improve one side, or worsen the other. Some measures do both simultaneously, eg. bus l…

That's a vast oversimplification. Try flipping it to anything outside your personal scope of skills and knowledge to see how wrong this position is. Example: tap water quality (ass…

Home batteries are a terrible idea. As a municipality -- or a neighbour -- you don't want 30 houses with 35 different batteries, installed by some nephew who's handy with DIY-stuff…

And if you commision an artist to draw a black-leather tight-fit clad red-head superspy in an ad for tour product, it need not look like Black Widow from the MCU. But if it does lo…

The point isn't the time line of hiring the voice actor. The question is whether OpenAI was deliberately trying to make the voice sound like Johansson. Suppose someone asked Dall-e…

Hmmms. While I definitely can see SO's arguments concerning deletion, that letter seems to blatantly contradict GDPR's right to be forgotten, which Wikipedia describes as a more li…

> Something like 3% of all astronauts have died 'on the job' making it likely the single most dangerous profession in existence. Wait till you hear about a truly deadly job: presid…

> none of the Geneva Conventions should apply to them. The Geneva Convention is (currently) humanity's best attempt at codifying ethical aspects of war. Unfortunately, it is not so…

While i won't aim to provide a full and perfect definition: a phone is a computing device with a generic interface and the goal of being a platform for a wide variety of software a…

I dunno. I've been using Thunderbird for years with exchange - first onprem and now O365. I might've missed it in the article or misremember the difficulty of setting it up (low), …

This is a very good reminder that we don't know for various problems whether there is an efficient algorithm. For problems studied for decades (eg travelling salesman) we feel fair…