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hgsgm··on Canvas hack: company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data
Yet again, our government ignores the national security threat from foreign terrorists. The State serves only itself.

"Company pays" means "customers (taxpayers) pay", since Canvas is effectively an monopoly

Paying terrorists must be made illegal. Senior Managers must be held liable for damages to customers.

18 lawsuits filed already: https://www.pcmag.com/news/canvas-developer-apologizes-for-b...

hgsgm··on Canvas hack: company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data
The government pays farms to burn crops. It's not the destruction that matters; it's the promise not to distribute that matters. For uniquely identifiable data and objects, a reputable extortion business will honor their promises to earn new customers
hgsgm··on Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus
It doesn't matter whether NSO are genius hackers or their freelancers are. They are still outsmarting Apple all day long.
hgsgm··on Rubber hose animation
Much better article that actually explains the form

https://blog.displate.com/rubber-hose-animation/

hgsgm··on How large is that number in the Law of Large Numbers?
You can't simply ignore the base rate, even if you don't know it.

In a purely random world, 5% of experiments are false positives, at p=0.05. None are true positives.

In a well ordered world with brilliant hypotheses, there are no false positives.

If more than 5% of experiments show positive results at p=0.05, some of them are probably true, so you can try to replicate them with lower p.

p=0.05 is a filter for "worth trying to replicate" (but even that is modulated by cost of replication vs value of result).

The crisis in science is largely that people confuse "publishable" with "probably true". Anything "probably better then random guessing" is publishable to help other researchers, but that doesn't mean it's probably true.

hgsgm··on How large is that number in the Law of Large Numbers?
What's a reasonable number of categories? 10?
hgsgm··on Gmail and Instagram are training AI, and there’s little you can do about it
On Android, the Learn More links aren't present, so the privacy invasion is not disclosed at all, beyond the deceptive first-page "summary".
hgsgm··on ‘Friends’ and ‘Seinfeld’ knew the cure for loneliness
Sounds like regular parks in my city.
hgsgm··on Why not punish families? A challenge for consequentialists
Hmm? If "we feel a need to do it" makes it morally praiseworthy, then mirder, rape and thievery are morally praiseworthy.
hgsgm··on Florida’s “Nub City,” Where Residents Cut Off Their Own Appendages for Insurance
Strange that people are so strongly opposed to accurate facts.
hgsgm··on Florida’s “Nub City,” Where Residents Cut Off Their Own Appendages for Insurance
50 of the town's 700 residents.
hgsgm··on Florida’s “Nub City,” Where Residents Cut Off Their Own Appendages for Insurance
At least $4M was cancelled (due to false income statement on the application). I suspect more was cancelled.

https://www.nydailynews.com/2012/06/15/judge-cancels-4m-life...

hgsgm··on The Mind-Bending Math Behind Spot It (2018)
Parent didn't say "Euclidean"

It's finite.

The same "point at infinity" also exists on circles (like a clock) and spheres (like the Earth) and toruses (like a bagel).

hgsgm··on The Mind-Bending Math Behind Spot It (2018)
https://www.google.com/search?q=set+game
hgsgm··on Leaked Google Pay Data Unfolds an Ugly Truth
There's no way that's true. It may be "reported" as a typo or troll in the document.
hgsgm··on Leaked Google Pay Data Unfolds an Ugly Truth
> The leaked salary data from Google reveals that employees with longer tenure with the company and who held higher-level positions tended to have higher salaries.

And Women and Black people are underrepresented in higher level roles.

Saved you a click on barely English articles.

hgsgm··on Leaked Google Pay Data Unfolds an Ugly Truth
No, the article headline and body incorrectly capitalize Pay
hgsgm··on Every software project is a startup that will probably fail
Even a gym subscription is a startup that will probably fail.

Almost everything new is hard.

hgsgm··on The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes
The sponsors already paid.
hgsgm··on The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes
RT is an industry shill site, fine.

Worse is that Web Search Engines promote it as authoritative gospel.

hgsgm··on The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes
FTC.
hgsgm··on Report says PR firm has been paying Rotten Tomatoes critics for positive reviews
What gives you that feeling? Educate us.
hgsgm··on Proofs based on diagonalization help reveal the limits of algorithms
Sure, if you create a larger object it can contain two smaller objects.

But that construction is so general that it contains all proofs of the from "There exists X that does not have not property Y" that proceed by constructing something that lacks the property, and stuffs the proof into the diagram.

hgsgm··on Proofs based on diagonalization help reveal the limits of algorithms
No, it's not like that at all. It's just an algorithm that contradicts itself, like Russell's Paradox.
hgsgm··on Proofs based on diagonalization help reveal the limits of algorithms
I tried to comment that on the article. But they use Disqus which is hostile to people making comments.
hgsgm··on Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?
It's a real world problem, but one constrained by toy objects.
hgsgm··on Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?
How is that different from the solution on the page?
hgsgm··on How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?
I don't think that matches. In your version, "before" implies that something happened that affected the goodbye-saying.

In the song, "before" is an adverb referring to the current time in the story, which does not impact the goodbye-saying.

I can only make yours scan if I interpret it as "She said goodbye too many times before... I stopped taking her back.

hgsgm··on How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?
That's what the question is trying to figure out

Actual native speakers are all dead. It's poetry, not conversational. The answers looked to poets.

hgsgm··on How would you say “She said goodbye too many times before.” in Latin?
How very postmodern.
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