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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Its possible to design internet connected systems that are secure and reliable. But usually "internet connected" means "dependent on continuous connectivity to some external service that needs to be actively maintained by a t
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
IMO Facebook has an even better solution: simply don't let people send you unsolicited private messages unless they're a friend or a friend of a friend. Lots of email spam gets through my spam filters, but I've never been spa
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
I'd argue Google doesn't owe you "discoverability". You're absolutely free to sell your app to users with no involvement from Google. If you want Google to help you advertise and distribute your app then I see nothi
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
That was my first thought; what about hybrid work? Did they account for that? I can't check as I don't have access to the article. But an hour long commute is a lot more palatable if you only have to do it twice a week instead of
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by Ajedi32 2y ago
Yeah personally that's what I love most about F-Droid. There's not a very wide selection of applications there, but if you can find an app that does what you want you're almost guaranteed that it'll be open source and
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
The rich getting richer is not "trickle down economics", it's just the natural consequence of evenly distributed economic growth. If Bob makes $5000 a month and Steve makes $10,000 a month, then the income disparity between t
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
> A lot of Tesla marketing over the years has been super deceptive to the point that a lot of people assume the car is capable of fully self driving itself The thing is, it's not just marketing that's contributing to these mi
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
It seems to me like we're mostly in agreement. I agree regulations can have compounding negative effects, though whether that's enough to account for a potential 2x improvement in overall economic output is something I would still
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
Sure, if you can somehow find a way to double the efficiency of labor then you can either double your standard of living or half your number of hours. We've already done that multiple times since the industrial revolution. That's
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
Perhaps you could link to some information on this "long history of thought on this subject" because to me everything you just wrote sounds like nonsense. The idea that we can just double people's compensation and thereby dou
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
> The conditions for a society of leisure have theoretically existed for some time now. Not if everyone wants to maintain their current standard of living. Imagine working 50% less hours, but also having to live off 50% of your current t
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
Is a kilogram 1,000 grams, or 12^3 grams? Is a cubic centimeter 1 ml, or 12^-3 liters? But yes, having a standard everyone agrees on is way more important than how well thought out the standard is.
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
Yeah, it's kind of nuts how big a deal some commenters here are making over a 7-day pause in deliveries (apparently) due to a difficult to foresee but trivially fixed safety issue with the cover plate on the gas petal, that has so far
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
It sounds like you like the idea of EVs but not the reality. I'm in the same boat; it's a cool technology, just not currently very practical for my situation. Maybe future technology and infrastructure improvements will change t
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
> If you can't trust the developer's signed tarball you can't trust their git repo either The public git repo has a lot more eyes on it. You don't necessarily have to trust the developer if 1) you trust at least one o
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
Not "questionable" in the sense that it might be malicious; the author acknowledges the changes are benign. But it's still questionable that the tarball made available to distros differs significantly from what's in the
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
> They can patch their own systems "Their own systems" will necessarily include lots of civilian infrastructure. Hard to make sure all that gets patched without issuing a CVE, let alone without anyone in the general public ev
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
So many commenters seem to be missing the point of this article. None of this is about "preserving the environment". Its about how to allocate the moon's scarce natural resources, such as sites with cold temperatures necessar
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
To be clear, I'm not trying to suggest an ulterior motive on the part of DeSantis or the Florida legislature. But effectively requiring a government ID to exercise free speech on the internet damages individual liberty (again, of adul
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
The issue here has absolutely nothing to do with how it affects kids, it has to do with how it affects adults. Again: "States are basically requiring identification to speak or criticize government in the town square." The fact
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
For the web it should be an HTTP header, integrated into the existing parental control systems on the device.
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
The fact that alternate browser engines were banned on iOS was indeed a huge problem, but I think the current legislation goes too far. As the GP said, many users won't care. I think trying to force them to care by presenting a rando
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
Why do you need a whole PKI for that, rather than just, say, a link to the news outlet's website where the content is hosted? People have already been doing that pretty much since the web was created.
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
There have been people unwittingly involved in money laundering schemes like that. https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ask-cfpb/what-is-a-money-mul... Not a lawyer, but as far as I know its only criminal if you know or a
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
18 U.S. Code § 1960 isn't about money laundering though, it's about "unlicensed money transmitting businesses".
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
I saw that and initially I thought it was pretty damning too until I noticed there doesn't appear to be any evidence anyone actually read the message they sent prior to the "illegal" transaction taking place.
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
Is there any evidence Bitcoin Fog was marketing their service specifically to criminals? The affidavit[1] another user linked elsewhere in this thread says: > BITCOIN FOG was publicly advertised on Internet forums and well-known web page
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, but yeah it certainly does seem that way based on how the law is worded. I wonder if Sterlingov's lawyers tried that argument in court.
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
How would Bitcoin Fog know the transactions were coming from those marketplaces? Bitcoin addresses are just strings of random numbers. Maybe if they were performing a careful inspection of the source and destination of each transaction they
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by Ajedi32 3y ago
There's a separate U.S. code for that which is not related to money laundering. The affidavit[1] another user linked accused the defendant of violating 18 U.S. Code § 1960[2], and D.C. Code § 26-1023[3] in addition to the money launder

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