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I've always considered this bit of writing from 2006 to be Assange's (and Wikileaks') central thesis: ---- "The non linear effects of leaks on unjust systems of governance [...] Th…

Someone replied with and then unfortunately deleted an extremely good suggestion. Instead of each operation taking a variable number of numbers and then either returning a value or…

Most of the code by volume in this post's final product (and most of the ugliness you're probably seeing in it) comes from dealing separately with the arity of different operations…

You don't need to control the server But you can still control access to the content, distributing the password by other channels. A plausible use case for this (... like basically…

Yeah. This was pretty upsetting to discover. I had been blindly using my reddit upvote history as a supplementary personal log of sorts, for many years. And most of that's now just…

At least Google and Twitter have data takeout. I recently discovered that, on Reddit, anything beyond your more recent 1000 posts/comments/upvotes is totally irrecoverable to you, …

> Please make a noise as loud as you want the volume to be I'm not sure this is a bad idea...

That was exactly Julian Assange's original thesis: ---- "The non linear effects of leaks on unjust systems of governance [...] The more secretive or unjust an organization is, the …

Sorry: there is not an will never be a general answer to that question.

> nudging the dry casks sunward [Note: I realize you might already get this. But for the sake of having the discussion in public, where this is a very common misunderstanding of sp…

The upside-down part: ---- Before your trip: • Reduce the data you carry. Consider using temporary devices, deleting data from your regular devices, or shifting data to the cloud. …

Their second citation[2] is actually all about this (... I realized as I was 25 minutes into writing my own version). "nudging the dry casks sunward" is still a really bad choice o…

> jellybean part ... > In the electronics industry, a "jelly bean" component is one which is widely available, used generically in many applications, and has no very unusual charac…

Softer entry to the whole concept of lvalues/rvalues in general: http://eli.thegreenplace.net/2011/12/15/understanding-lvalue...

This is a relatively fresh reinstall, and I've only been adding gestures as they come up [0] -- so this should be pretty representative of my top usage (slightly reordered for orga…