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Watch Moxie's "New threats to privacy" from BlackHat 2010 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qzldtKV1PY Essentially, the problem is that these voluntary relationships become not-so-vo…

That's a reasonable concern, but at this meta level there are two things going in cryonics' favor: there's a good chance you're overconfident about its non-utility[1], and there's …

This is a false dichotomy. You can strive to achieve as much as possible today, as well as attempt a second chance at life through cryonics.

Anyone remotely interested in cryonics should go read about it on LessWrong[1], instead of reading the same ol' ambivalent/pro-death comments. The only good reasons (that I can thi…

Please consider my comment retracted (I can't delete it); Andrew did a much better job than I remembered.

http://ifile.it/mdk43ht - this link will probably be dead in a week or two (BTW, if you save everything you find interesting, you realize just how much disappears from the Internet…

It's been a while since I've watched it, but I didn't get the impression that Blank lost it. As I remember, Andrew just made a big deal out of his minor misstep and focused on the …

He also replaced 'iLike' with 'the "competitor"' and 'Sean Parker and Mark Zuckerberg' with 'senior Facebook executives'

If you don't trust Apple's FDE solution to not have a backdoor, you probably shouldn't use their operating system at all, as it has access to all of your data.

Would there be any reason to use it over Lion's full disk encryption?

There's no way your probability is close to 0.1%. Exhibit A: http://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/pdf/Death_by_Age_2007-a.pd... Exhibit B: life insurance companies collect a lot of da…

http://www.alcor.org/cryomyths.html#myth2 (Also, just in case any young people on HN think they have no chance of dying, add up a decade of 'Death probability' on http://www.ssa.go…

Ping measures the round-trip time, so it would really be twice that.

Paste http://sh-blog.at.webry.info/rss/index.rdf into Google Reader's 'Add a Subscription'; it has all the posts since Jan 7. Or this link to the feed in Reader might work: https:/…

CPR brings people back from the dead; before the 60s, they generally stayed dead.

Well, as long as we're considering all sorts of hypothetical scenarios, consider this one: 1. You die in a year or two from terminal illness or an accident. 2. You purchased a life…

Computers get stolen, but they're usually already off, or turned off during the theft. But let me get this straight: you're worried about an attacker reading out everything on your…

If the attacker has enough physical access to pull out your memory, I doubt they'll be very disappointed by AES-in-CPU-only protection. They're still getting 8-32GB of other privat…

Reposting piguy314's [dead] reply: It's instructive that we've already engineered ways of preventing the problems TEPCO is experiencing at their Fukushima. Many newer reactor desig…

Ah, right. I made a very stupid mistake in thinking they teach students for ~7 hours/day. I was also biased by my (probably) above-average experiences with teachers.

Teachers do not work less than 40 hours per week. A ton of time is spent on grading, prep, helping slow students, school meetings, complying with NCLB requirements, etc.

The information that the smooth touchy people deduced automatically: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edh2GQHZmtI (in case this link dies, it's Lance Mason's "How To Kino")