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> Read the Abelson report (which has been discussed ad nauseam in past HN threads). MIT did not want Swartz prosecuted, and told the prosecutor that. from the Abelson report (pg 53…

Other way around. 10% profit 5% withdrawal.

I read the entirety of his AmA and did not once see him "advocate for slavery". Could you directly link to where he does and quote him? for reference: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA…

The complaint is available here: https://www.scribd.com/doc/285422882/Amazon-Complaint

> Third, we have already accepted that our design is vulnerable to end-to-end timing attacks https://blog.torproject.org/blog/one-cell-enough They are not talking about the same ki…

> This is the wrong funding model. It's only the wrong funding model if there is a superior alternative. It's a non-ideal funding model, but as is the main point of the article, th…

They absolutely do not use the same language. Where did you see that? >Notice that it didn't say, "Academics disregard the chemical balance explanation because it lacks evidentiary…

I didn't say it wasn't an oversimplification, I said oversimplification isn't the problem. You seemed to misunderstand the complaint of the first post you replied to.

I assume when you say SSRE you are talking about tianeptine? Its affinity for SERT is low and its primary target is believed to be elsewhere.

The problem wasn't that 'medications help to balance out those chemicals' is an oversimplification, it's that the theory doesn't have a lot of support. The evidence for the monoami…

> That Mozilla is and remains a place where any employee can express their views on political issues, even if they know they're contrary to the CEO's. And that destroys any argumen…

Agreed. It would be entirely uncharacteristic of the supreme court to make such a broad ruling.

Much appreciated =). I looked for references after reading the parent discussions and xnyhps's blog post but was unsuccessful.

> The current state of the art puts the precomputation step at complexity L_n(1/3, 1.923)§, and additional individual discrete logs at L_n(1/3, 1.232). Could you cite that? Not ske…

> So I'll start by playing Devil's Advocate very briefly. It's interesting how facts can be shaped with different language ("his only brush with the law"): it appears the restraini…

The javascript miner was not deployed anywhere. At no point was anyone in New Jersey knowingly or unknowningly served Tidbit's bitcoin mining code.

I saw two policies cited on her talk page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:PAY http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ADMINACCT

As explained by the director of the Media Lab: "Apparently a grand jury is meeting to render an indictment on Wednesday and there is really only one more day to provide any input i…

> straw man argument In what way is it a straw man argument? > copying software is not zero sum. This doesn't seem to contradict the parent post, nor affect its argument.

>they're literally paying people to like their product I don't think this statement is reasonable. Are you suggesting that they gave the 100k reward out because they wanted the rec…

I understand that you care about Telegram and want to defend it when it is attacked, but comments like this are inappropriate and will damage Telegram's reputation. It is unfair to…

Vulnerability to passive attacks is worse than vulnerability to active attacks. I'm not downplaying the severity of a MITM vulnerability, but certainly there could exist more serio…

With absolutely no specifics this article is useless.

For those of you in the Cambridge area, he will instead be giving a talk at MIT tomorrow. 'DISSECTION: A NEW PARADIGM FOR SOLVING BICOMPOSITE SEARCH PROBLEMS' https://calendar.csai…

I don't think this is what did him in. Posting advertisements for silk road [1] and then posting his personal email address [2] from accounts with the same name seems the more like…