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> If you're under enough surveillance that your adversary will follow you on holiday and track all your supermarket purchases, you have bigger problems. Problem with modern surveil…

Thankfully, Deep Throat wasn't aware of that.

I'm not comparing anything, merely reacting against any attempts to trivialize the very real need for a platform for anonymous dissent. From the lives of the people involved to the…

Remember the thousands of people arrested for "insulting officials" on social media in Turkey? [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-turkey-arrests-1656-social...

Probably, but doing it correctly would require a whole different type of opsec expertise that should not realistically be expected from someone who is getting their security tips f…

This addresses shop cameras, not street-level government surveillance that would be accessible for 10+ years and is trivially addressable by the time and location of the transactio…

It would be very irresponsible to recommend buying a burner phone to people trying to stay anonymous. At the very least, it would give away your location even if you somehow manage…

What about the laws of thermodynamics, pretty oppressive if you ask me. Better oppose that too.

> I hate admitting it but democracy works pretty well in Turkey. Majoritarianism should not be confused with democracy.

Take a minute and reflect on the fact that you're arguing Turing had nothing to do with mathematical logic. His doctoral advisor was Church, his work based on Gödel, his thesis nam…

Sadly, Turing wasn't aware of this at the time -- think of the real world impact he could have had.

"They say 'there are no atheists in foxholes.' Perhaps, then, there are also no libertarians in crises." [1] [1] https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/jfrankel/CatoRespCrisesJun07+...

Funny how things turned out. I still remember this post[1], it was profoundly disappointing to see Guido's way of thinking. Much of the damage was reversed but it still left an ind…

It should also be added that most of this work is being done publicly and is open to new contributors. You can check Voevodsky's github page[1], and most of the other HoTT collabor…

Next keynote by Carmack might be on accidentally solving the Fermi paradox.