Ajedi32

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by Ajedi32 2y ago
~90% of people who are presented with a password input field are not and never will be "password manager users". 100% of people presented with a passkey prompt are, because the very nature of passkeys is that they're stored i
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
> randomly generated passwords from a password manager are impossible to enforce. If you present users with password field, a sizable percentage of them will just manually type in the same weak, compromised password that they've use
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Almost all of these "cars bad" arguments fall for the trap of focusing solely on the disadvantages of cars while completely ignoring the huge upsides that make them by far most popular form of transport in rich countries in the
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
What other incentive is there? There might be some willing to go deep into debt in medical school so they can work for free out of the goodness of their hearts, but that's a vanishingly small number of people.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
> In some countries if you don't give care to someone who is in danger of dying you are yourself responsible for murder. So everyone in said countries is guilty of murder because they're not donating 100% of their time and ener
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
When you remove profit from the equation, you also remove the incentive to increase supply. That's fundamentally what profit is : a reward for fulfilling the needs of consumers. If you can fulfill those needs better or more efficientl
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
I think a better analogy to my point would be if making insurance claims for oil changes was considered a normal and accepted practice. But you're right, that's part of the reason we end up with things like copays. My 3rd point ab
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yes, insurance is effectively a form of voluntary socialism implemented on top of the free market. That's why it sucks so much in the first place. (Which isn't to say a purely market based system would be better; people buy insura
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Facebook Messenger is E2E encrypted now (though obviously that's not going to prevent the developer from blocking links unless the client is also open source).
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
People in the US "don't tend to" take hostages and threaten to shoot them either. "Don't tend to" isn't the same as "it never happens".
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
What if in the call they claim the suspect is armed and threatening to start shooting hostages if the police show up? Do they still just knock on the door?
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yeah, it seems like they take the seriousness of the threat into account when determining the response, but not the plausibility of the threat. If there's a 1% chance that the house contains a deranged gunman threatening to shoot his f
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Of judges being targeted for character assassination after making objectively correct interpretations of the constitution that politicians don't like? I completely agree.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Maybe. But even if that's true, then why did the people "inclined to report on it" only find out about it right after Dobbs? You could say it was just coincidence, but this isn't the only story making accusations against
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
> In early July 2008 Ask yourself this: why are you only hearing about this 13 years later? This wasn't a big deal when the allegedly problematic ruling on the hedge fund came down, only when the ruling on Roe v. Wade did. I won&#x2
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yes, in most cases coercion isn't as obvious as someone literally pointing a gun to your head (though in some cases it could be, there's nothing to prevent it). Typically it'll be something more subtle, like the "vote br
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Don't "prescribed burns" fall under the category of firefighting? That's the whole reason you do controlled burns in the first place, right? To prevent a larger fire later?
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Not really that different from other forms of illegal content coming from countries without an extradition treaty. (Piracy, scam calls, CP, etc.) Trying to stop it by imposing onerous restrictions on your own citizens isn't likely to b
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
I'll note that the way we have typically enforced restrictions on the behavior of general intelligences in the past (before AI) is to pass laws and enforce punishments if the laws are broken. Not to try to somehow take away people&#x27
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
I agree for the most part that 2 is what most people find unacceptable, not 1. The problem is that, like any general intelligence (e.g. humans), any sufficiently generalized model capable of 1 will also necessarily be capable of 2, regardle
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Actually yes. If you've never been falsely accused of cheating in an online game by people who can't tell the difference between that and getting outplayed, chances are you haven't played any multiplayer games long enough to
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Getting rid of tipping is not politically or culturally viable. What might work instead would be making a 20% tip mandatory, followed a bit later by including the cost of that mandatory tip in the upfront price.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yeah, there are advantages to the "just do it" approach to standardization vs design by committee. A lot of web technologies started out that way (arguably most of them actually). Both approaches are valid.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Interesting. So rather than have newspapers that pretend to be neutral, we could instead have explicitly Republican newspapers and explicitly Democratic newspapers? I guess things have sort of been trending in that direction the last few ye
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Which seems like an even stronger reason for newspapers (or other purportedly unbiased organizations) to not to endorse candidates, no? It seems like it would create (or reinforce) an internal culture inclined to favor one particular side.
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Because allowing the "people with actual expertise" to decide for themselves how much power they have over the lives of others is a blatantly obvious conflict of interest?
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
So in case anyone cares, I re-watched the podcast and I'm leaning towards something getting lost in translation (or, more uncharitably, Ben being misleading about what he was describing in order to make the company look better than it
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yeah that looks pretty bad. I'm trying to figure out if something got lost in translation or if Reflect Orbital is just running an outright scam. It's pretty clear a 10m X 10m square can't transmit 200W/sqm to a 3km area
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yeah, I've always looked at the extreme reaction authorities have to threats of violence as a pretty significant DOS risk. I'm surprised this isn't more common.

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