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by BlackFly 6y ago
This comment is doing exactly the thing it accuses others of doing: not understanding and painting with too wide a brush. Of course on a forum you are simultaneously going to find large swathes of people that take on seemingly contradicting
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by BlackFly 6y ago
Secure enclaves as a second factor break the assumptions of 2FA threat models. If I compromise a single factor (your device) then I can gain both your password and your second factor. The best second factors are separate devices with their
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by BlackFly 6y ago
I agree they need to fix their laws, but this is censorship. Punishing people for their speech with the intention of suppressing other people from speaking is censorship and the people that do it are would-be censors. That is what the state
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by BlackFly 6y ago
You've missed the point. The biggest chilling factor to speech in the USA is that your employer will fire you because a mob decides you said something wrong. This cannot happen in the country I live. That I could make my employment gri
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by BlackFly 6y ago
There are directly legal and historical bases for forcing companies to give someone a "platform" to speak, as I have already stated: telephones, mail, and public forums. The debate is about how much social media resembles those co
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by BlackFly 6y ago
> Free Speech is, in most societies considered to be a concept that applies to the government's ability to censor people's speech. While this is mostly technically true, unique aspects of the law in the US compared to other cou
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by BlackFly 6y ago
You're only seeing a straw man version of the view opposing yours. Claiming to have a right to use a telephone isn't a demand to be heard, it is a demand to let a person talk to people that want to hear them. People blocking a num
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by BlackFly 6y ago
I personally consider automatic logouts to be in the same category as periodic password rotations: a defense in depth idea that so badly impedes accessibility that it isn't worth it. It is common to type 1-2 passwors into a computer to
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by BlackFly 6y ago
Yes, that is a lot more meaningful than an ordinary signature. Notaries often do a lot more to attest a person's identity as well.
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by BlackFly 6y ago
I see it more like a legal talisman. A pseudo legal thing that people think is necessary to make a contract real. It can be helpful for proving that a contract existed, but there are alternatives.
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by BlackFly 6y ago
In this day and age? Just send an email. Your service provider is almost certainly providing a DKIM signature and implicitly with it an attestation that you were authenticated. Desiring any more than that would require a witness able to con
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by BlackFly 6y ago
This argument naturally leads to the conclusion that you should basically never use UTC. So you use a singularity free coordinate for machine storage of times, TAI, but most users will want those displayed in their local times and nobody is
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by BlackFly 6y ago
I guess it all comes down to how one interprets norms regarding discrimination. Paying someone less money for the same work based on their living area fits this dictionary definition of discrimination: "the act, practice, or an instanc
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by BlackFly 6y ago
The ability to communicate is a separate skill from the ability to comprehend something. Once you separate the two skills you get 4 classes of people (with gradations): 1. don't understand it, cannot explain it. 2. do understand it, ca
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by BlackFly 6y ago
The rationale is the same as that for an abstract data type. You don't need to know how a class structures its properties and directly coupling to a representation can burden future maintenance. This very rarely comes up, but when it d
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by BlackFly 6y ago
When you post an article, what sort of discussion are you hoping people will hold? If you are hoping that people will discuss the novel aspects of the coronavirus's impact on the immune system then you might choose an article that focu
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by BlackFly 6y ago
I am not talking about geo-blocking in general, but rather why the EU allows this break down of the vision of a single market. It would be absolutely preposterous to not be able to use your Berlin Netflix account when you are on a business
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by BlackFly 6y ago
There is either Personally Identifiable Information, or there is not. If there is then identity can be confirmed and the account deleted. If there is not then there is nothing that needs to be deleted.
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by BlackFly 6y ago
This is still being litigated in Europe, but at the last decision I can find reference to (in France, Sept 2019) it was ruled that what steam does is sell a licensed copy. Therefore you can resell the copy you get from Steam and they cannot
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by BlackFly 6y ago
This happened to me as well. You don't even have to move, if you go on a business trip the content becomes unavailable as well. The EU had a public comments period in relation to this a few years back, but I haven't heard much sin
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by BlackFly 6y ago
Well each snapshot is a sort of short story emphasizing the humanity of criminals in a situation where their humanity is shown as being forgotten. It leads up to the final story where the author is indicating he has moved on to be a public
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by BlackFly 6y ago
It is a feedback cycle that has a negative effect on all consumers, not just the consumers that would use a different search engibne. The feedback works like this: 1. Google is dominant and can outbid competitors. 2. Many (most?) users wil
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by BlackFly 6y ago
Yeah, I always found the assumption that QM was more correct than GR to be a bit odd. One of the outcomes of the geometric approach to gravity is the total lack of anti-gravity: there is simply no such thing as an anti-geodesic. The lesson
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by BlackFly 6y ago
No, it is a straw man. The idea that crazygringo highlighted was simply the notion that maybe the best ideas don't win in a free marketplace of ideas. The straw man presented was that you wouldn't be able to discuss this at all if
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by BlackFly 6y ago
Thanks for digging this up. I was curious about exactly this.
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You're going to validate your results anyways, aren't you? Non-cryptographic random number generators are not guaranteed to introduce bias, a given implementation of a monte carlo simulation might introduce bias via a bug or a poo
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by BlackFly 6y ago
"You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle." Sometimes, it is better to have something that solves the 10% of the problem you are facing than something that solves 9 other problems
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by BlackFly 6y ago
I'm not sure if I have ever encountered such an extreme definition of descriptivism. I am a descriptivist, but I still believe that you can sensibly state that some otherwise intelligent native speakers are "wrong" in their u
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by BlackFly 6y ago
Anonymity is not free speech, but anonymity is absolutely required for some free speech. Consider the case of free elections, most people consider it an absolute given that these need to be anonymous. The potential for reprisal in expressin
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by BlackFly 6y ago
To figure out how far a distance you traveled to get to my house, I need to know which path you took. To figure out how long a time you traveled to get to my house, I need to know which path you took. Our ordinary intuition is instead, &quo

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