math_and_stuff

há 4 anosdiscuss

The censorship was of the Microsoft and Google portions of the report. Removing 100 pages of a 150 page report for political reasons is for sure still censorship.

And if an organization funded a report, it is unethical to hide that information. It is absolutely standard to attach notices of non-endorsement after funding disclosures.

math_and_stuff

há 5 anosdiscuss

I went through every 990 from the Sergey Brin Family Foundation and see no donations to the EFF in any of them (from 2014-2019).

Happen to know of a source for Yasha's claim?

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/472...

math_and_stuff

há 5 anosdiscuss

All of the figures from said article add up to EFF receiving a total of $478K from Facebook and Google over four calendar years (2015 through 2018).

Of course I agree that these orgs shouldn't accept money from tech giants, but any critique should be done accurately with citations.

math_and_stuff

há 5 anosdiscuss

This is an irresponsible claim if not backed up with a citation.

Further, I happen to monitor corporate funding to nonprofits (including the EFF) and public reporting suggests EFF only received $7500 from Google in 2018 and $25K from Facebook.

Whereas Center for Democracy and Technology, which was founded by the former Executive Director of the EFF in 1994, received $430K and $500K, respectively.

See https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/face...

math_and_stuff

há 5 anosdiscuss

The article was published Nov. 4, days before the infrastructure bill passed. Not yesterday. You can easily find this in the header of the article.

math_and_stuff

há 6 anosdiscuss

Sounds a lot like the Defense Innovation Board and National Security Commission on AI.

math_and_stuff

há 6 anosdiscuss

Upgrade this from a linear system solve to a (perhaps Mixed Integer) Linear Program solution and then we're talking!

math_and_stuff

há 6 anosdiscuss

Is there prior art before alleged sabotage leading to pipeline explosion in 1982? [1]

Zetter's Countdown to Zero Day points to that with skepticism and also talks about Kosovo as one of earliest cases, as does Sandworm.

Do you think this is roughly correct?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At_the_Abyss

math_and_stuff

há 7 anosdiscuss

Wikipedia on Shaw's admiration of Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin:

""" Shaw's admiration for Mussolini and Stalin demonstrated his growing belief that dictatorship was the only viable political arrangement. When the Nazi Party came to power in Germany in January 1933, Shaw described Hitler as "a very remarkable man, a very able man",[1] and professed himself proud to be the only writer in England who was "scrupulously polite and just to Hitler".[2] His principal admiration was for Stalin, whose regime he championed uncritically throughout the decade.[3] Shaw saw the 1939 Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact as a triumph for Stalin who, he said, now had Hitler under his thumb.[4] """

[1] https://www.jstor.org/stable/40682385 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw#CITEREFHol... [3] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance... [4] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/theatre-and-performance...

math_and_stuff

há 7 anosdiscuss

The entries of a matrix are eigenvalues of 1x1 minors, and clearly eigenvectors are a function of the entries.

That the result is a function of (n-1) minors is first-order information and would help clarify the default assumption that the result computes eigenvectors from the full Hermitian matrix's eigenvalues.

math_and_stuff

há 7 anosdiscuss

Aggressively normalize US companies conceding to Chinese Communist Party censorship and surveillance demands.

math_and_stuff

há 7 anosdiscuss

Turkey's drone program was also led by an MIT graduate.

https://theintercept.com/2019/05/14/turkey-second-drone-age/

math_and_stuff

há 7 anosdiscuss

Why say 'align with western values' instead of 'respect human rights'? Freedom of speech and assembly are encoded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

math_and_stuff

há 7 anosdiscuss

The bill explicitly prevents that behavior.

  "The 'opt-in' nature...would set it apart from other
  state internet privacy laws...
  
  the proposed Maine law also would prohibit any [ISP] from
  making the sale of customer data part of its mandatory
  [TOS]. It also could not charge higher fees to customers
  who refuse to opt in"

https://www.pressherald.com/2019/05/29/maine-on-track-to-pas...

comments