Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-13 Thread glen ☣
On 04/13/2017 03:06 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: > > Not just because I want to predict their behaviour, I might want to adopt > that part of their memome into my own? Ugh! Thanks for reminding me why I hate the idea of memes. The problem me and Robert argued about extensively awhile ago is

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2017-04-13 Thread Steven A Smith
Marcus - "Simulating a sequential process with multiple parallel processes is hard." The Donald does it all the time. You just have to relax the coherency requirement. Well said. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets

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2017-04-13 Thread Marcus Daniels
"Simulating a sequential process with multiple parallel processes is hard." The Donald does it all the time. You just have to relax the coherency requirement. Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at

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2017-04-13 Thread glen ☣
So, all the effort I've put into programming my GEPRBots is not wasted. Yay! I need to make sure they're not leaving traces from, say, Budapest at the same time I'm leaving traces from home. Simulating a sequential process with multiple parallel processes is hard. On 04/13/2017 12:23 PM,

Re: [FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-13 Thread glen ☣
On 04/13/2017 12:36 PM, Steven A Smith wrote: > *I* DO care why someone voted for Trump. If that someone is someone I know, > I am interested in how that factoid (voting for Trump) effects my other > dealings with them. Many anti-Trump folks will virtually excommunicate a > friend or

[FRIAM] the arc of socioeconomics, personal and public: was VPN server

2017-04-13 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen - Walking back up a few branches, Vladimyr made a comment about (I think) flocking, mob rules, tribalism, etc. My response was that the _essentialist_ concepts he (many of us, actually) would _like_ to see governing people's behavior don't really exist. What does exist is the trace, the

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2017-04-13 Thread Marcus Daniels
" I suspect 99% of the targeted ads can be avoided with a slow (yearly?, quarterly?) cycle of temporary VPNs running in the cloud (ephemeral IP addresses). Perhaps 90% of it can be avoided just by using HTTPS-Everywhere. " The problem with ongoing privacy measures is that it means going from

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2017-04-13 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen - I've been following (loosely) this thread and find it fascinating. On 4/13/17 10:56 AM, glen ☣ wrote: On 04/13/2017 09:43 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: If you posit there does exist this humanity as distinct from the organization (but this not clear to me in general), then it is

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2017-04-13 Thread glen ☣
On 04/13/2017 10:44 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > That I'm a likely person to pay two bucks to watch episode-by-episode of > Expanse?Or to want a Tesla? Not sure who "we" is? Maybe I'm too dense to grok the subtle criticism. Walking back up a few branches, Vladimyr made a comment about (I

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2017-04-13 Thread Marcus Daniels
"My claim was that it tells us everything we _need_ to know about you." That I'm a likely person to pay two bucks to watch episode-by-episode of Expanse?Or to want a Tesla? Not sure who "we" is? Marcus FRIAM Applied Complexity

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2017-04-13 Thread glen ☣
On 04/13/2017 09:43 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > If you posit there does exist this humanity as distinct from the organization > (but this not clear to me in general), then it is reasonable to think there > exists personal information that is not really available at all (not only >

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2017-04-13 Thread Marcus Daniels
"A profile of an employee deep in the throes of their professional work will tend to capture their profession, not their humanity." If you posit there does exist this humanity as distinct from the organization (but this not clear to me in general), then it is reasonable to think there exists

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2017-04-13 Thread glen ☣
On 04/12/2017 05:22 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Hmm, well, there are millions of employees of corporations or the government > that never reveal anything significant with regard to their non-disclosure > agreements. I suspect that information will be (mostly) about the corporation, not the

Re: [FRIAM] Good Friday

2017-04-13 Thread Frank Wimberly
I will call when the coffee shop opens at 8:00 to see if they'll be open tomorrow, Friday. Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On Apr 13, 2017 7:09 AM, "Prof David West" wrote: > Tradition suggests we do not ask this question until Friday, circa 8:45 > AM; but, will we

[FRIAM] Good Friday

2017-04-13 Thread Prof David West
Tradition suggests we do not ask this question until Friday, circa 8:45 AM; but, will we meet at St. John's tomorrow, or elsewhere? davew FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to