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I can’t understand what your point is. I guess fitness aficianodas are notorious for hating to recharge their phones every night or so? (One would presume that a comment like this would generalize.)

High-level feedback has already been invented, it’s called The News and most people are not helped by it.

I could use some feedback about my sleep. Other than that though it sounds like a real nag.

Exactly. I can’t work 12 straight hours on an average day, my mind wouldn’t have allowed me to.

You’re not the origianl commenter so I don’t know how you divined that.

I just want to be able to tag files and be able to move them across filesystem.

This scheme is the best I’ve found (some tagging software used it): `report[important,sales,veronica].pdf`.

That’s not what I got from the original comment.

I don’t understand. A PhD is a degree in research. If you have a PhD and are building web servers you sound misqualified.

Why would one do twice the hours that one is paid for? That makes no sense. :)

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I was employing something called sarcasm.

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But if you assume that the attacker knows the generation process then you can make a very strong case that the password is no weaker than the stated entropy[1], since the attacker would have to effectively brute force the password by generating all possible passwords using that generator.

[1] Although I guess there are caveats: what if your password _happened_ to be weak according to another generation method that you didn’t use but the attacker guessed?

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I don’t understand what is raw or no-bullshit about this, although it makes it sound very serious.

The entropy depends on how the password is generated. If I choose ten words from my own dictionary then the entropy depends on the size of the dictionary. But if I re-rolled 15 times until I got words that I liked then one would have to decrease the entropy accordingly. But someone else couldn’t distinguish those two cases if they knew nothing about me (modulo common human psychology).

The point is that entropy depends on how the agent generated the password and has nothing to do with character sets or length in itself. So sure, this could be said to be a certain approach to approximating entropy in the general case, but I see no reason to put adjectives in front of “entropy-based password validation” which somehow suggest that it’s the number one, objective way to do it.

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What money is spent on what, and where did the money come from? You seem to be in the know.

How much does it cost society when one percent of the population is incarcerated? But I digress; the US is not exactly a place which has been blessed in terms of access to natural resources so it’s an unfair comparison.

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> I think the real root issue of all of this is that the majority of people have no idea or experience in how broken to system is.

You think that the root issue is the majority of people who (according to you) have no idea how the system works, and thus are not at all involved in the system itself? How on earth does that make sense?

The will of the people is besides the point. The policy preferences of the bottom 90% of the US population are not reflected _at all_ in actual policy making (a Princeton study from some years back).

Edit: maybe this was it: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

How much of the wealth fund is spent on incarceration?

That says more about SF, but I think the author would agree.

I choose the third value, “ridiculous premise”. People love to craw about how “you are the product” because they don’t pay for some service. Well, physical newspapers have been advertiser-funded for a long time now, even though people still pay for them. Chomsky writes in Necessary Illusions that newspapers sell the eyeballs of the readers to advertisers and that that in turn deeply affects what is printed. That book was published in 1989.

As far as the media is concerned, everyone here under the age of sixty have always been the product. And it’s deeply naïve and idealistic to think that “paying for their services”—how will they do that? Oh well—will change something which is now completely fundamental to media as we know it.

At what point does it become mandatory to refer to your own age in a self-deprecating way if it happens to come up?

> won't work because knowledge can not be encoded through semantic predicates.

“Can not” means “has the possibility of not happening”. Did you mean: “cannot”?

My comment was a reference to corporate personhood, the legal notion that corporations are considered to be persons per se (i.e. not “groups of people”). Which is practiced in some countries, like e.g. the United States.

That makes no sense to me, but that’s the kind of world we live in.

So relax. Corporations don’t need your apologetics—they’re doing just fine.