logicbomb

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know what the deal is with people who say that. They’re good for several days, and they even have a very convenient method for showing you whether they’re good or not. You don’t really need bananas to last more than a few days, because by then, they’re all eaten.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Banana⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Did they say that the chef made them close their eyes before tasting it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bought to you by the central limit theorem society⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the explanation that says “you included”, I’m guessing that the original joke was both the people said, “I’m not gay”, and then they look at you, the reader, making you the one out of three people who is gay.

  It’s basically the same joke I heard a comedian tell about San Francisco in probably the 1980s. “Look to your left. Look to your right. If they’re not gay, you are.” I’m guessing the joke is way older than that, though. It doesn’t work today because the majority of us all finally agreed that “You’re gay” isn’t an insult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raven Big Mom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, juvenile birds look bigger than usual when they have their mouths open for feeding.

  I suspect it’s an evolutionary adaptation to be the biggest target for food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pants too!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pants too!

  closed-toe pants? Like a footed onesie?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG Has Had To Hire Private Investigators To Track Down IP Rights Holders⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is simply a generic way of referring to the concept of private investigators, as I’ve also just done in this sentence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3155: Physics Paths⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure Randall Munroe knows this better than most, but Einstein’s insight more derailed physics than overturned it. What I mean is that the path it seemed like physics was on at the time was torn out from under the establishment. But it’s not like the work done to that point was discarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grab your pitchforks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I have no problems if you honestly give something a try and don’t like it. But the people who judge without trying are acting like small children. I’m not sure why anybody gives their uninformed opinions the time of day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You could argue that cryptography is nothing but a type of obfuscation. I was trying to explain things so that the very average person could understand it.

  People don’t stop doing things just because you make it illegal. You even know this because you mentioned India. However people actually do stop when you make it nearly impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Businesses are a separate use case. Phone companies already handle separate use cases, where they use very short memorable numbers for specific purposes. They just need something similar, whether it’s keeping phone numbers, or using something slightly different. Probably some sort of simple alias.

  It’s the phone companies that need to innovate, and the solution isn’t very hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I intentionally was vague because there are many possible existing ways to accomplish each thing I said, and it is up to the phone company to innovate.

  The simplest way to keep people from guessing phone numbers is to make them very long and sparse. If an autodialer had to dial 1000 invalid numbers before finding a valid number, it would make the endeavor that much harder. This is just a convenient example because the cryptography equivalent is harder to explain, but you could make contact info so hard to guess that it would be basically impossible.

  Probably the easiest way to explain how to keep people from passing contact info is to imagine a two step process like facebook has. If I pass your facebook username to someone else, they don’t automatically become your friend. The cryptographic equivalent would involve a chain of trust, but again, harder to explain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian Government gets a taste of what everyday people have to deal with in terms of data breaches as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's mobile phone number released online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s really the phone companies’ fault for stagnating instead of innovating.

  There is no reason at this point for most people to have phone numbers at all. We have the technology today to throw the whole concept out the window.

  Replace it with something where a stranger couldn’t guess how to contact a random person. Replace it with something where third parties can’t easily share your contact info.

  You could even have both technologies at the same time to help transition. And we do, as users, but we still need phone numbers because our carriers don’t give us multiple options directly.

  Phone numbers are based on requirements for a system that’s almost 150 years old now. Back when the numbers really meant locations and before people realized how easy it could be exploited to steal old people’s retirement money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨don't look up :)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does it have to do with the way that they cropped out the artist’s signature? Maybe it’s due to a lawsuit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s sometimes called red fascism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of locomotion is that? What is the evolutionary advantage?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What is the evolutionary advantage?

  Preservation of energy. Anti-parasite behavior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodwill Isn’t a Platform (thoughts on the Digg beta)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  no plan for federation, and no guardrails to stop the slow slide into bloat

  What would be an example of a guardrail to stop the slow slide into bloat?

  I’m not asking for a detailed explanation, but I simply can’t understand what sort of feature you’re imagining.

  I sort of get the idea that maybe you just mean that you’re already seeing the beginnings of bloat, but if there was something that could actually stop bloat, that sounds very interesting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mmmm... Yeah. It checks out.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen people who treat their cats like they are little stupid humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that only by being yourself will you find people who like the real you. No one can beat you at being you, but you’ll only ever be second best at pretending to be someone else.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The real me is so introverted that I don’t find people at all. Well, I find them, I guess, but I mostly want them to leave me alone.

  I guess zero human interaction is a tiny bit too low, so my dream is to live in a big city where everybody ignores me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Become irresistible to women⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, he dodged a bullet. Imagine a taxonomist who wants to date another taxonomist. It’s virtually guaranteed that their relationship would be non-stop fighting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you were super intelligent and you were a slave to Mark Zuckerberg, you might try to embarrass him, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PhDebaters⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  truth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨people who use AI a lot would probably be the most likely to get their exact wish from a genie.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t that backwards? The people who can get AI to do exactly what they want must have gotten that power from a genie.

  Then, for their second wish, they can ask the AI to generate the best wording for the wish.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I went to grade school, I think it really depended on the local school district. I was lucky enough to grow up in a nice area with well-funded schools, and I have relatively few complaints about the education I received. However, in doing school activities, I had the opportunity to see schools in poorer districts, and there was a distinct difference.

  At the time, I didn’t think too much about the difference, except that I didn’t feel as safe in some schools.

  But looking back… Now I know why parents always shop around for better school districts, because there are some places where it would have been far more difficult to get a decent education.

  That’s my knowledge from many decades ago. Maybe it’s gotten worse since then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The “brainwashed” thing is somewhat true, at least from the perspective of an outsider, not due to a racial thing, but there is a cultural aspect in addition to the tendency for all sides to be brainwashed by their own propaganda.

  But the Japanese propaganda told their soldiers to fight to the death, because if the Americans captured you, it would be worse than death. So, from the outside, they did appear to be brainwashed in that regard. Of course, Americans had similar propaganda making Japanese seem as evil as possible, often in the most racist way.

  Also, culturally, I think American culture emphasizes each person more, while Japanese emphasizes community more, which means things like kamikaze are easier to sell. And that sort of thing also appears like brainwashing to the outside.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PUT THE TRAINS IN THE BAG⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The train tracks are extra support to keep Florida from floating away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t recall specifically being taught that, but I do recall believing that was a fact at the time, so it is very likely that I was taught that in class.

  I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a couple of slaves like that, but even so, it’s a misleading statement. I actually think that using the truth to lie is a worse sin than just outright lying, because it’s easier to mislead more people like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you think of any now?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The one that immediately springs to mind doesn’t exactly fit the criteria, because it wasn’t even true at the time that I was taught it in public school in Texas. But my history teacher taught me that no real historian called it the “American Civil War,” and that it was correctly called “The War of Northern Aggression.” And, of course, although the Confederacy did want to keep slavery legal, their actual central reason for seceding was “states rights.”

  Like I said, both of those are simply lies. Only propagandists call it “The War of Northern Aggression”, and it was always explicitly about slavery.

  The sad thing is that I believed and repeated these lies for years after that. Note that, like most people, I didn’t have access to the internet to easily check things myself. Since at the time I had zero interest in reading about history, it was difficult to correct my knowledge.

  It has demonstrated, to me at least, the importance of keeping propaganda away from children. The more you lie to children, the harder it will be for them to become functioning adults.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, of course. When, as you said, the doctor addressed “the family” and told “them” that stuff, of course, I assumed that you, being “a friend” wouldn’t have been there, or at least would have said “us” instead of “them.”

  But of course, you were actually there and heard the words directly with the family. Cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨proof of wormholes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  She was a hardcore alcoholic, and this is an alcoholic saying that. Doctor addressed the family and told them alcohol wasn’t the factor, the liver failure was 100% down to Tylenol.

  That doesn’t sound realistic, that a hardcore alcoholic’s liver failure was 0% from alcohol abuse. I suspect that the information changed at some point in the process of relating it to you.

  It was probably just that the Tylenol overdose was the immediate cause, and somebody took that to mean that alcoholism was not a factor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you be sued for defaming virtual K-pop stars? South Korea court says yes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In July 2024, the defendant targeted Plave in a series of posts - some containing profanity. Among them were comments that the people behind the avatars “could be ugly in real life” and gave off a “typical Korean man vibe”, Korea Times reported.

  Unless the guy said much worse things that weren’t reported, it seems like South Korean defamation laws are draconian.