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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Even though many people scoff at the idea of government regulations, the economic incentives in IoT security are really all messed up and it's not really clear that the market will fix itself because so much of the damage can be extern
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Is there a good Vimperator replacement for the new webextension addon system?
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
A sufficient number of people seem to enjoy the games in the end. I guess mission successful for EA?
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Any reason Intel doesn't just offer IME-free CPUs too? There's obviously interest considering the lengths organisations like Google go to to disable it and Intel supposedly already has such offers for governments.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
> In addition, if Bitcoin disrupts the banking industry and a portion of wall street, we'd have to subtract their energy consumption. Do you seriously think that? The cost of stuff like VISA's server farms or office buildings (
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
People are always quick to point out that this is just what it takes to build a trustless and decentralized currency, which is probably correct, but it's not clear whether such an extreme level of trustlessness is even necessary (if yo
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I wonder in what form they store what the article calls a hash. Certainly no simple file hash - I guess it's some kind of feature extraction that lets them match the image against others? Facebook probably is even just reusing the same
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I imagine if it ever comes to that, society is likely to stagnate intellectually. People grow more conservative and reactionary as they grow older (I don't just mean that in the political sense), what would happen if all there is are i
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
The user experience really is just so good. Put in a paywalled link to a paper and out pops the PDF. I think the ease of use really contributes to its popularity a lot.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Although I don't like the thought of my body rotting somewhere, I do think it's probably just fair if my available biomass is turned after something useful after I'm dead, considering how much I will have consumed during my l
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I find it is a hard balance to strike, because on the one hand I think you certainly need input, inspiration or feedback from other people and people smarter or more accomplished than you, but on the other hand you it's not good to get
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I don't disagree, but I suppose on a technical side it's possible to allow inflation in a cryptocurrency. The rate could possibly also be determined via some distributed consensus approach, though this again would likely not be pa
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Sometimes I wish Spotify added a bit more 'noise' to their recommendations, so to speak. If I don't listen to much music except Discover Weekly for a few weeks, I (subjectively) find that what's recommended to me more or
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I thought this superficial kind of learning was more due to the necessity of being brief than the conviction that it's the best way to learn about a topic. We really don't have enough time in our lives to acquire an in-depth under
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Stuff like that is a bit at odds with the pro-privacy marketing that Apple has been pushing recently. Guess it shows how important certain high-profile apps are for smartphone ecosystems when Uber even got Apple to give them access to featu
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I can second this. It's a book written by capable people who do some research in the area too and they don't unecessarily hype the technology like so many resources you find about cryptocurrencies.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Pre-registration of studies is an interesting concept in that regard (also briefly mentioned in the article), where researchers can submit their study design and goals to a journal before conducting the study. It will then be accepted or re
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
The morning paper had a post about it the other day[1], but I'm not sure if the solution is acceptable to the usual cryptocurrency crowd because it depends on running the useful code on a secure enclave (like Intel's SGX) to ensur
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Very interesting, thanks for the answer. I'll read the papers you linked.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Why are distributed filesystems like IPFS so popular again these days ? Freenet has been around (and super niche) for close to 20 years soon. Is it because the Bitcoin hype has reinvigorated crypto-anarchists?
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Someone has to have replicated the file though, else it can be lost. Yeah, you still have the hash, but if no one is left that stored the file, what are you gonna do - brute-force search for a preimage of the hash to get your content? As lo
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Government could probably just block any DNS requests that want to resolve the ipfs.io domain. Though Spain probably does not have the censorship infrastructure deployed for that the way a country like China has.
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Well, America had something going for it, especially when reports came back from the early explorers that it's lush and habitable (in many areas at least). On the other hand, people know what to expect from the rock that is Mars. If Ma
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Maybe you're right, but I'm thinking more along the lines of "autonomous life outside of earth is impossible in the foreseeable future, so optimizing for existential crises that threaten life on earth is pointless". The
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Yeah, I'm aware of that. That's why I mentioned in the end that Musk is of course free to pursue his ambitions - in the grand scheme of things money is spent on much more pointless things, so him investing in science and space exp
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Making life multiplanetary seems like one of the least important issues of our times to me: either we figure out how to make life on earth sustainable in the medium term (next 50-100 years) or we do not have enough time to become multiplane
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Cool idea. When I read the title I thought that maybe they have discovered a practical private information retrieval method or some oblivious transfer-based method after all since their 2014 blog post (well, they kinda do something like tha
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
I'd also be interested in someone knowledgeable weighing in on the quality of those books. My first world problem with somewhat random information dumps like that is usually that I don't really find that it's a lack of resour
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
The article mentions that, as in years before, the Chinese tighten censorship when important party meetings or other events of political significance come up. But does anyone know if the longer term trend is toward more isolation of the Chi
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by Asdfbla 9y ago
Really interesting paper. When I first heard about what WebAssembly was trying to achieve, I naively wondered why people didn't just slap some existing interpreter for bytecode into browsers (JVM, .NET, maybe even adapt LLVM?) and go w

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