MikeCapone

Maybe. Or maybe it'll backfire and they'll lose a lot of money.

If it was that easy, it's all that everybody would do. But it's harder than that (just ask the Hunt brothers), I believe.

People need to realize that if you hoard something, you might be reducing supply now, but if you want to make money you have to eventually sell and that increases supply at some later point.

There's no cure for high prices like high prices, and vice versa.

> the most serious charge against the 25-year-old Army Private, one that carries a term of life in prison: "aiding and abetting the enemy". The government's theory is that because the documents Manning leaked were interesting to Osama bin Laden, he aided the enemy by disclosing them. Harvard Law Professor Yochai Benkler explained in the New Republic in March why this theory poses such a profound threat to basic press freedoms as it essentially converts all leaks, no matter the intent, into a form of treason.

That this is considered his main crime for which he could spend his life in jail should be extremely scary to all of us.

I agree. I was just referring to the title of the link which mentions encryption, something I didn't find on the site linked.

I only looked quickly, but I didn't see anything about encryption on the site. Are you sure it's encrypted out of the box?

> you take those vitamins because someone, somewhere at some time was pushing them as an amazing cure. A couple studies were done, data was likely cherry picked, and now you pay money to some company to give it to you. That company makes very sure that beneficial studies are done as often as possible.

I didn't state my reasons for taking them and you have no idea what they are. This is a strawman.

I remember reading that about half of people in Miami were deficient in vitamin D. It makes some intuitive sense if you consider that our bodies evolved in conditions that made us exposed to sun quite a bit more than even people living in sunny places, in good part because we spend so much time inside buildings (A/C helps) and with clothes on.

There's also a difference between not being deficient in vitamin D, and having the optimal amount of vitamin D available. People tend to confuse the two, as if as soon as you aren't deficient you can't possibly improve on that.

Vitamin D is well absorbed if you take it in gelcap form, as it's fat soluble. Many people take it from "dry" tablets and that's why it's not well absorbed.

This can be verified with blood tests.

The article at first seems to be talking abou "vitamins" in general but then goes into great detail about megadosing on vitamin C and trials with vitamin E.

Doesn't seem like that's quite the same thing.

Personally, I take omega 3, vitamin D (gelcaps, it's fat-soluble), and kelp (for iodine) daily. That article doesn't say much about those.

Sometimes I wonder if the intelligence community doesn't have people who's sole job is to write comments on websites/forums to help shape public opinion. It would be something fairly trivial for them to do and help further their interests...

Thanks.

One suggestion I would make: Once your things are set up, you shouldn't have to go to the settings screen to log in. Maybe there could be an 'account' button on the main screen or on the buddy list and from there you could sign in and out directly. I think that would make it more friendly to non-techies.

Anyone who knows this stuff can provide additional feedback on apps like ChatSecure and Gibberbot? Are they considered to be good crypto implementations?

Update: I installed ChatSecure on my iPad and it's very easy to set up. So easy in fact that I'm thinking there must be something wrong with it, because otherwise it would probably be recommended more often in these types of threads...

One of the things that seems problematic is that the background session expires after a few minutes, so if someone tries to just randomly message you, chances are you won't be logged in, so this can't be a replacement for IM.

Hmm, interesting point about the Google DNS servers. I'm not too familiar with DNS servers; anyone can give more details on how they could be used to track people? Does a DNS request contain enough information to allow for the kind of thing?

1) No writer can please everybody, so it's fine if he's not your style.

2) Have you read only a few things that he wrote about, for example, the better known cognitive biases and such, or have you also read some of the more advanced sequences?

Because if you're reading the advanced essays and feel you already know all that stuff, you are a very rare breed -- good for you! I hope you're working on some hard problem in an un-sexy field and not building another photo-sharing app :)

To quote Dr. Aubrey de Grey:

>It has always appalled me that really bright scientists almost all work in the most competitive fields, the ones in which they are making the least difference. In other words, if they were hit by a truck, the same discovery would be made by somebody else about 10 minutes later.

3) When someone says they don't like something that I like, I ask them what is it that they like. I figure maybe they've found something even better and I'd love to get my hands on it too, and it's also a good way to see if they're just signalling superiority by disliking things that many others like. So what would you recommend I read to learn more about human rationality? Anything other than the usual suspects (Jayne, Kahneman, Tversky, Schelling, Hatie & Dawes, etc)?

Thanks.

Most here are probably already aware of it, but for those who have somehow managed not to find this treasure trove:

A great place to study the art of human rationality is LessWrong.com. The 'sequences' are the place to start:

http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Sequences

This reminds me of this:

http://michaelgr.com/2008/12/29/overestimating-the-cia/

The Kryptos sculpture has been there for all to see for many years, and the man who designed it thought it would be decrypted in months.. Yet it still hasn't been fully decoded, including by the NSA and CIA (part of it publicly was, so we know that if they did they would probably tell us).

This tells me that they're probably very good at some things, but that we also shouldn't overestimate them (the hollywood effect).

Exactly. Our bodies regulate how much we eat via hunger, and some nutrients make us more hungry than others (ie. carbs).

Full transcript here: http://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/speeches-and-interview...

> Since plastics became commonly available over 50 years ago, I don't understand why everyone is suddenly concerned about plastic guns from 3D printing.

It's a zeitgeist thing, IMO. 3D printing is hot in the media, so interesting stories about it (good and bad) tend to get more attention than they would if the same thing had been done by conventional means.

While I dislike the design and am not entirely comfortable with the idea of making ad money off Google (well, Google takes its share) by just wrapping their products, this site gives you Google results but without giving Google much to identify or track you:

https://startpage.com/

"I feel like the title invites a kneejerk reaction, but its entirely possible this was the best way the State Department had to increase their accessibility."

Developing a presence on social media, sure. Buying "likes"..? I'd need to see a convincing case that this helps in any way.

To me it sounds like a way of 'juking the stats', as they would say in The Wire. A way for the people who created the social media program to report to the higher-ups that "things are working really well, see, we have millions of people liking us and using our pages!"

Jet-setting?

"In journalism, jet set was a term for an international social group of wealthy people, organizing and participating all around the world in social activities unreachable to ordinary people. The term, which replaced "café society", came from the lifestyle of traveling from one stylish or exotic place to another via jet plane."

I'm pretty sure that tern doesn't apply to Snowden, a man who said he's fleeing because he's afraid of spending the rest of his life in some "torture dungeon" off the grid.

Is there an iPad version of the app planned?

If you go into the settings, you'll see a list of sources from which they pick stories (you can customize the list).

I think they did this to have an extra thing attracting people to the app on top of pure search. People are likely to spend more time in the app because of it, and thus use DDG for more searches.

You can turn off the stories in the settings and use it as a pure search app, though.

My question for Gabriel & team would be: Is there an iPad version planned?

I just turned this on. What differentiates these comments from others? Do usernames show up in a different color or something like that?

On the non-science fiction side, The Wasp Factory is also great, as is Crow Road and Complicity (if you want something closer to a crime thriller).

Removing incentives for EVs would be fine if we could somehow retroactively remove incentives, direct and indirect, for oil and gas cars. Just military actions and bases around the world to secure oil probably runs in the hundreds of billions added to the taxpayers' bill.

It's not a few millions, temporary (incentives for EVs won't last forever), that would be at the top of my list of things to cut in a trillion dollar economy.

It's probably a bit like Apple under Steve Jobs. They have one guy at the top who gets to say "no" a lot and is a real good "customer" yardstick.

Other car companies design most cars by committee and focus group.

They give updates on all their major research projects, a great way to know how much progress is being made.

Exactly. Reminds me of this:

http://michaelgr.com/2008/10/29/duplicating-keys-from-photos...

"UC San Diego computer scientists have built a software program that can perform key duplication without having the key. Instead, the computer scientists only need a photograph of the key."