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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
>We've known (or have assumed to know) for years that CPUs produced by AMD, Intel, and Apple have backdoors. What's the evidence for this? >Obviously we have to assume that these are all backdoored as well, but that shouldn&
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
>What data is encrypted on the router? VPNs, for one. What sort of VPN are we talking about?
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
Hm, I wonder what other examples of high-ROI math are?
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
If you were a major shareholder in a company, would you favor a CEO who ran it into the ground?
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
As I stated elsewhere, America's median income, adjusted for cost of living, is one of the world's highest. Americans benefit from cheap goods from other countries. It might be socially acceptable to put the domestic economy fi
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
If you toggle the year to 2021, you'll see that US data on that page ends in 2019. No cherry-picking, I just chose 10 most recent years which had US data easily available. House prices in the US are high, but not remarkably so. (E.g.
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
>As GGP mentioned, the necessity of keeping stock prices (and property values, and anything else securitized) high so as to not impoverish pension funds, 401Ks, IRAs, etc., is real. I'm confused about how your model of the economy w
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
The stats I linked are adjusted for cost of living. As stated on the "Chart" tab: "This data is adjusted for inflation and for differences in the cost of living between countries." People who earn the median income are
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
>A tax on financial transactions. This is sometimes called a "Tobin tax". The US financial services sector has doubled in size as a fraction of the economy. It's currently around 12%. That's an overhead cost, and a bi
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
The US economic model has been quite successful recently as well. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income?tab=t... As of ~2019, the US had the world's 4th highest median income, even adjusted for co
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
An important point is that the recent wave of globalization has been very good for poor people in developing countries outside of the US. From the perspective of US workers, outsourcing looks greedy. From the perspective of foreign worker
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
That doesn't follow. If I'm a chemist, and I write an algorithm to do something related to chemistry, that algorithm does not "automatically" know everything I know about chemistry. Bias works the same way.
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
The algorithm described in this article seems very bad. But I would argue that ML risk scores can, in principle, be better than human judgment. Humans seem more subject to bias than algorithms are. Algorithms only look at data, but humans
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
>The inability to sue to identify the problem or correct it is a real loss of autonomy and freedom. It's unclear if "inability to sue" applies in this case. For example: >Discriminating against people based on their ge
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
>I think it is morally justifiable as a residency requirement, but not justifiable to let people live there without being able to receive government support. Given the choice between accepting a small number of immigrants with governme
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
Why trust Github? The GetSymbol tool has 215 stars there. Looks perfectly legit unless you check the issues. https://github.com/dbgsymbol/getsymbol
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 3y ago
I notice that the getsymbol tool on Github has 214 stars, and no banner to indicate that the tool is malicious. There is a recently filed issue with a link to the Google blog post, but that's it. If anyone from Github is reading this
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by 0xDEAFBEAD 5y ago
>How do we even mitigate against these types of supply-chain attacks I know HN is usually skeptical of anything cryptocurrency/blockchain related, and I am too. But as weird as it sounds, I think blockchain might actually be the so