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If you could sit with the authors of this paper and let them know this valuable insight, what do you think they would change about their paper and its conclusion?

The school is tax-payer funded, but I don't get to know why every teacher called out sick.

Government employees, contractors, etc. don't owe your curiousity satiety. We are buying their service, not their soul.


"Corporate welfare recipients that got free money to build data centers, testing the water on asking for more free money to hire employees."

The cycle repeats: send jobs somewhere else, hold those jobs hostage until the government pays you to bring them home. It will take the form of tax holiday on bringing foreign cash home, etc.


If you can have a nom de plume to speak truth to power, why can't one have a visage de plume as well?

I want future generations to have the power of anonymity, that some use that anonmyity for something I disagree with is precisely why I think it might be worth preserving.


There is a difference between hiding your identity for the purpose of privacy and for the purpose of deception.

There’s a difference between writing anonymously and assuming a false identity.


>assuming a false identity

Whose identity is being faked?

I always grew up with the assumption that everything on the internet is most likely fake.

That girl you're talking to? Probably a dude. The Nigerian prince asking for money. Probably a scammer.

Unless it's a government website with secure ID login, every account you see online is probably fake.


If you invent a person and assume their identity, that's still a false identity.

> I always grew up with the assumption that everything on the internet is most likely fake.

How you interact with the internet is not really relevant to the discussion. The average person does not interact with the internet in the same way that people on this forum do, so that should not be the yardstick by which we judge this.


>assuming a false identity

Is vertigo22 a real identity or a fake one?

>The average person does not interact with the internet in the same way that people on this forum do

How other "average" people (am I not average too?) choose to use the internet is irelevant to everyone needing to doxx themselves online from now on.


Because it takes power to do massive AI influence operations.

It's not enabling speaking truth to power. It's letting the already powerful dictate the perception of truth.


Whose the one deciding what the truth is?


Not a green account on HN, that's for sure.


But what about ones with malicious comments breaking HN rules like yours?


Definitely not foreign influence operators.


You're beating it around the bush not answering the question.


I think a commission of experts, put into place (but not supervised) by the democratically elected government, with judicial review as check & balance seems like a good first draft, but governance isn't my expertise.

Tbh the details don't really matter, what matters is that we ban this propaganda before it destroys us.


It is incredibly trivial to stick a knife into human flesh.

Triviality is not a dimension of ethics as far as I have come to understand it.


Good point

My point is that since it is so incredibly easy to cheat (despite countermeasures that are essentially theater), returning to in person exams is probably a good thing.


It's a dimension of neglect. If I run a service advertising itself as preventing people from harming themselves or each other (e.g. a mental health institution), then it would be criminally negligent of me to not limit people's access to sharp knives.


That is an excellent point. My recent coursework at Penn State, there were guardrails around cheating using Honor Lock, I am guessing a motivated student could find ways around it, but the system was better than trusting students to do the right thing.


The point you're making has nothing to do with anything the person you're responding to said, or with the OP. It's just a gratuitous description of sadism as a virtue-signalling imitation of seriousness.

You should find somebody who said cheating is fun and good to do, and explain your violent fantasies to them.


For years we were told trans-oceanic communication was best done with messages in bottles and suddenly even those are being intercepted.

Finally time to switch to protonmail.


Depends on your thread model:

Swiss police can see your proton mail if they get a court to allow viewing it. But the Swiss do not have a submarine, so underwater bottle passing is safe against them.

Combine both, and you are safe! Offline mails in a bottle should be a april fool's RFC any time now.


Secure Anycast IP Over Tidal Transport


I learned something cool about cron filtering and a nice api I didn't know existed - date.nager.at


I was offended and then I defined "exceptionally stupid" a few ways and all the statistics support this claim.

I'm still offended though.

Fucking a lot of smart people in Mass., Vermont, Conn., New York, Maryland, DC.


I’m pretty sure anywhere there’s a lot of people (the northeast of the US for example) you’re going to find a lot of smart people.


People with advanced degrees accumulate in those specific states, despite not significantly different rates of HS graduation from other states.

Smart people, as measured by educational attainment, live in the NE coastal states and exceptionally stupid people (by the same metric) live in the South and Midwest. As a guy from Iowa, I was offended, but humbled by the reality of the numbers.


All things considered, I don't think advanced degrees necessarily correlate with intelligence. It's often just a marker of socioeconomic privilege.

A Carnegie Mellon study found that people with PhDs were more likely than any other educational attainment level to be against the Covid-19 vaccine: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v... (page 17)

Gallup polls during the Vietnam War found that higher-educated Americans were more likely to be pro-war while the most anti-war group were those with only a grade school education: https://afterthewarproject.org/files/original/3e5e5a47a15203... (page 19 of the PDF, page 38 of the document)


I need to know the rates in the general driving population before I can assume driving high is dangerous.


Don't do anything until you are an expert is excellent gatekeeping, fortunately this is hacker news so we can ignore the gatekeepers!

I suggest people fuck around and find out, just limit your exposure. Spin up a VPS with nothing important, have fun, and delete it.

At some point we are all unqualified to use the internet and we used it anyway.

No one is going to die because your toy project got hacked and you are out $5 in credits, you probably learned a ton in the process.


Absolutely. Thank you.


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