StuffedParrot (u/StuffedParrot)

StuffedParrot commented on Remote iPhone exploitation part 2: a remote ASLR bypass googleprojectzero.blogspo... · Posted by u/weinzierl

jnwatson · 6 years ago

What do you think the CIA and CyberCom do for a living?

Buying vulns/exploits is just a little government outsourcing.

StuffedParrot · 6 years ago

Ethically, comparing to the CIA is about lowest bar possible.

StuffedParrot commented on Why are some things darker when wet? aryankashyap.com/why-are-... · Posted by u/aryankashyap

keithnz · 6 years ago

no, what dan said is better, it might annoy you, but physics is such that wording is important. Even then, nearly all wording is losing information and in some cases changes it from the reality. You are asking a question which you want an answer but the question itself has a troubling fit with reality as you try to relate to things in terms that seem familiar.

StuffedParrot · 6 years ago

No, physics is such that semantics are important. What’s the observable difference between absorption/emission and reflection? If the latter doesn’t happen at all the distinction is meaningless.

StuffedParrot commented on The MTA is going after an Etsy artist over a New York subway map it didn’t make vice.com/en_us/article/qj... · Posted by u/danso

itcrowd · 6 years ago

> Can I just point out the insanity of 3D models being subject to trademark and copyright?

Not sure if I agree. If a song is included in a game without license, it wouldn't fly either. Designs can be copyrighted and may not be copied by others without permission. If (game) designers want to use a mailbox in a game, why not make one themselves? Why use others' work without permission?

StuffedParrot · 6 years ago

I thought the poster was implying that the USPS was enforcing ownership even though they didn’t create or provide the content, so making your own mailbox wouldn’t help at all.

StuffedParrot commented on Abandoned stores, empty homes: why San Francisco's boom looks like a crisis theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/gpresot

1stcity3rdcoast · 6 years ago

Society already makes an effort by using their money to vote on whether they like that particular pizza place.

StuffedParrot · 6 years ago

Yes that’s exactly the practice that I am pointing out you can replace.

StuffedParrot commented on Abandoned stores, empty homes: why San Francisco's boom looks like a crisis theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/gpresot

rayiner · 6 years ago

Why should they make an effort to keep an overpriced pizza place when people prefer Mexican food now?

StuffedParrot · 6 years ago

You’d have to ask them.

StuffedParrot commented on Abandoned stores, empty homes: why San Francisco's boom looks like a crisis theguardian.com/commentis... · Posted by u/gpresot

waisbrot · 6 years ago

Poor little small businesses will always get crushed and it's just a matter of who by. I often see this kind of what-about argument trotted out against regulation (if we ban polluting cars, what about the poor folks who can't afford to get their old car serviced?). But if we're so worried about the pizza joint, are we going to protect them if a chain restaurant offers cheaper pizza? What if the neighborhood changes and now people don't like pizza as much? I think the answers to all these questions are the same.

StuffedParrot · 6 years ago

Not if the society makes an effort to keep the pizza place.

StuffedParrot commented on US emissions fell 2.1% in 2019 rhg.com/research/prelimin... · Posted by u/lxm

scarmig · 6 years ago

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Natural gas is roughly half as bad as coal, and it's an easy win, compared to the alternatives. It's also better in terms of particulates.

If we sit around waiting for reduction of energy use and increase in renewables to save us, we are screwed. Gotta take what we can get for now, and continue fighting for even better solutions.

StuffedParrot · 6 years ago

> Natural gas is roughly half as bad as coal

Not if you enter a feedback cycle of greenhouse gas emissions. That is DEFINITELY the enemy of good.

StuffedParrot commented on Earth-sized exoplanet ‘habitable zone’ nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/pseudolus

vorticalbox · 6 years ago

Artificial outside? If the ship, for lack of a better term, were big enough its conceivable that you could have a larger open area with grass and trees which would feel much like a park.

Could even paint the roof blue.

StuffedParrot · 6 years ago

I’m open to it, but I suspect it would be difficult to figure out all the things we’d miss even on a biological level. You don’t think people would read about planets and realize what they’re missing? I think they would curse their ancestors for ever leaving. This feeling of leaving some paradise and forgetting what we’ve even lost is a core theme of genesis, it’s as human as anything in civilization, and it’s only going to get stronger if we explicitly abandon where we came from (I mean this metaphorically, I imagine we’d be happy on earthlike planets, even if we do miss earth’s sun or whatever at first).

StuffedParrot commented on Earth-sized exoplanet ‘habitable zone’ nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/pseudolus

ppeetteerr · 6 years ago

I've been pondering this for a while: once we have artificial gravity in space (from rotation, for instance), would we ever want to shackle ourselves to the gravity of a foreign planet? It would be so much easier just to create the ideal environment in a large, rotating cylinder instead of having adjust a planet's environment to our needs.

Take this new discovery for instance. Imagine that this planet is 400m years younger than earth. Would it have the necessary composition in its atmosphere to make it breathable? Does it share our gravity? Does it deflect enough stellar radiation?

I doubt we'll find earth 2, but we can recreate a comfortable environment in our own solar system. We just have to let go of the notion that we will colonize another planet for more than just curiosity-sake

To give some idea of what I mean by rotating cylinder, check out the O'Neill Cylinder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Neill_cylinder

StuffedParrot · 6 years ago

> It would be so much easier just to create the ideal environment in a large, rotating cylinder instead of having adjust a planet's environment to our needs.

Yea but people want to go outside.

StuffedParrot commented on Disinformation for hire: how a new breed of PR firms is selling lies online buzzfeednews.com/article/... · Posted by u/edward

exolymph · 6 years ago

Common sense? Does it seem likely that politicians concluded being able to manipulate people better = improvement to democracy?

Hmm, actually, you may have a point.

StuffedParrot · 6 years ago

I am not entirely convinced myself (I doubt there was a conspiracy so much as shared incentives) but the documentary is quite compelling, I recommend it.