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filmfacton Ribbon filter: Practically smaller than Bloom and Xor

I skimmed the paper expecting to find a comparison to HyperLogLog, but didn’t find one - am I missing something?

filmfacton Bay Area cities want to end single-family home zoning

The 300k in the article is the size of the loan, not the cost of a typical house.

filmfacton To protect against weaponized drones, we must understand their key strengths

Exactly - mortars predictable trajectory against a background free of ground clutter make them easy to predict the future location of.

A drone optimally randomly dodging at treetop height is a much more difficult target.

filmfacton Vulnerability allows cross-browser tracking in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Tor

I think the implication is that this is far fewer bits of entropy than the authors indicate. Four bits (in isolation), are not a meaningful identifer.

filmfacton Multitasking hurts performance and may even damage the brain (2018)

But by focusing the on just one - SpaceX might be on Mars, and Tesla might have a real self-driving car.

Unfortunately it’s difficult to test that hypothesis. And it’s survivor bias to pick Elon Musk.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Lifestyle choice then ?

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

For a state this seems somewhat inevitable, however pretty much all state entities have a duty to use as little violence as possible to get the job done. See European human rights act, Geneva convention etc.

At the end of the day - Violet Gibson wasn’t an employee or representative of any government. She was just someone with mental health issues and a revolver.

Again we come back to Thomas Mair, if your principle is that political violence is fine (again - that’s facism), then the only thing you should find objectionable about him is his politics. He was, after all, following your rules.

Personally I try to follow the “do unto others...” golden rule.

“Kill all others” seems to be the guiding principle of too many people.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

So, people die of starvation in civilized countries - that doesn’t make it right - but we also don’t put up plaques celebrating it.

And that really is the problem - in the one hand we have laws (set by governments) in a civil society that says violence is wrong, political violence doubly so, but at the same time they are putting up a plaque celebrating political violence.

It’s like “violence is bad... (wink)”

So if you were going to put up a plaque to Tony Blair celebrating his involvement in the Good Friday Agreement, I wouldn’t have an issue with it. I loathe the man personally and dislike much of his politics- but you are highlighting a positive thing he did.

Celebrating someone who is literally only thought of today because they failed to murder someone on the street sends a crazy message: “Murder is wrong... (wink)”

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

To be clear: Violet Gibson was in no way Italian or connected in any meaningful way to Italy.

One might also observe that the violent attack in a foreign country might almost be ‘Imperialist’.

And if the attack was politically motivated (I personally think she was a few sandwiches short of a picnic), then she’s down for some political violence.

In that case she’s a bit more facist than anti-facist.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

But you regard violence as legitimate and positive political tactic in some circumstances. So did Thomas Mair. I think that belief is problematic, and should not be encouraged. By making the connection between apparently acceptable-for-plaques political violence and the national-day-of-morning kind, I hope to draw attention to the fact that it’s fundamentally problematic.

Everyone believes they are the hero of their own story - including people who hold different political beliefs to our own. They are surely only following the moral code you outline when they stand up for their convictions and reach for the revolver or knife or suicide bomb vest?

The irony here is that acceptable political violence is a facist belief. Perhaps you should investigate facism further: you might find it agreeable. I hear they have the best T-shirts.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

I’m going to leave you with a quote from wikipedias page on Fascism: “Fascism rejects the assertion that violence is automatically negative in nature and views imperialism, political violence and war as means that can achieve national rejuvenation”

Congratulations.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Cool - so Thomas Mair plaque kickstarter supporter then?

Because as I pointed out - you only cited examples whose politics you agree with.

Take the mental leap.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

You could also abide by the law while voting for a party that supported whatever minority viewpoint you held.

Of course if you voiced unpopular opinions publicly you might get shot by someone who cites Violet Gibson or Thomas Mair as an inspiration.

Or you know - we could not put up plaques to attempted murderers.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

I fundamentally disagree. On such a basis a white supremisist could justify murder against the ‘violent’ state in the absence of the possibilty of being elected.

Presumably on that basis you see the killing of Jo Cox as justified?

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Because she wanted to make a point by killing someone. I don’t think that’s plaque worthy

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

The same reason Thomas Mair killed Jo Cox.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Because the ‘authorities’ are not a single person, factions within organizations often pull in different directions.

Will you at least concede the point that she’d been in Italy for less than 2 years?

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Words placed into the mouth of a crazy woman (implicating an enemy of the people asking the questions) who was determined to kill -somebody- it’s mentioned elsewhere that she may have wanted to target the Pope.

Not home grown.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Murder was the agenda

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do?articleId=a10139

Says 1924, and that she was already toying with the idea of martyrdom.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Hardly home grown, also I’m 99% sure she had been in Italy for less than 2 years before her attack (November 1924 - April 1926).

By that measure 9-11 was home grown!

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

I reject putting up plaques to praise attempted murderers for the reason that it sets a bad example.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Only the kind that hurts people whose politics you don’t agree with is justified?

Cool

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Cool. So rather than vote - shoot?

Thomas Mair didn’t like the Jo Coxs politics so he took a shot too.

I guess you’ll be setting up a kickstarter for a plaque for him too?

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Perhaps HN is of the opinion that you shouldn’t mix politics and violence?

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

I didn’t realize Violet Gibson was Italian.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Personally I think putting up a plaque celebrating someone with mental health problems and a revolver, who attempted to murder someone doesn’t make any sense.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

But at the time she pulled the trigger, he was neither a dictator or genocidal.

Perhaps violence is the right way to address all people who have politics we don’t agree with?

Thomas Mair agrees with you.

filmfacton The Irish Woman Who Shot Mussolini

Compare and contrast: Violet Gibson and Thomas Mair. Different politics, same agenda.

filmfacton Megastructures Superweapons and Global Architectures in Sci-Fi Computer Games

If you like Megastructures and video games, you should check out “Dyson Sphere Project”. It’s an early access game, but very playable.