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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Also, adding on to this Debian has built-in MITM protection. But in order to trust that MITM protection, you need to trust your Debian install, which you may have downloaded from the internet. You can only trust your Debian install if you c
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Homebrew is a package manager. Windows has its own package manager: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/package-manager/ I guess MSI isn't a panacea after all. Here is a not so savory story on how w
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I guess my point is that what Dynamic Land is doing is not compelling, so there will never be a perfect analog to compare it to, unless you compare it to another initiative that is also not compelling. Maybe Dynamic Land makes a cool demo,
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I find Tilt Five[0] to be 100x more interesting than Dynamic Land. They don't serve entirely the same purpose, but I think it illustrates the difference between clinging to the past (Dynamic Land) and embracing a digital future (Tilt F
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
This got me thinking, why are installers still necessary on Windows? Why have they never adopted a packaged solution similar to .app on macOS?
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Hands feel and manipulate things because they evolved in a physical world where that type of interaction was most efficient. The digital world opens up new possibilities that don't need physical manipulation to be controlled. It feels
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
You look at the firms track records, testimonials, results; etc., the same way you evaluate most purchases. If two firms have similar results and one is cheaper, then you choose the cheaper option.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Is google cheating when you search for something and it shows you results it scraped from a third-party source (e.g. song lyrics)? How is that different?
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
A lot of America's wealth comes from being competitive on a global scale. Google is popular not only in the U.S., but also in Europe and the rest of the Americas. Apple sells phones, computers, and service all over the world. People us
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
It's ok to point out that there isn't enough evidence for a particular argument without presenting a counter argument. We should strive to believe the truth. If the truth can't be determined, we should accept that consciously
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
> yet you think that the organizational structure of Haiti's farmland in the 19th Century is what doomed it. You're putting words into my mouth. I didn't say what caused Haiti's lack of economic growth. I was pointing
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
If a society is poorly structured for economic growth AND has debts that hamper economic growth, how do you say that the later caused the lack of economic growth but not the former? In your COVID example, had you not got COVID, you'd s
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
You're falling into the same trap the author asserts the NYT has fallen into. You're right, debt to the French didn't help Haiti's situation, but that doesn't mean that the debt to France caused Haiti's situa
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The fact that Go is still on Go 1 is a testament to how well the team has been able to introduce backwards compatible changes. Changing versions just because a lot of progress has been made doesn't make sense.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The two main points of contention are: 1) While "wall street" did want the U.S. to invade Haiti to increase profits, there were other reasons for the U.S. to invade as well. Specifically, there was a worry that Germany would invad
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Ok, so the NSA could have replaced the phone numbers we sent each other, which means that we can't be sure that the NSA isn't intercepting our file transfer later, which is the exact same issue we would face had we using HTTPS to
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
How did we exchange phone numbers? I need to know your phone number to verify the hash I receive via text message.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
Swift is very strict. Objective-C lets you get away with more. E.g. optionals in Swift are kind of annoying. if let, guard let, blah blah blah. I like Swift more than Obj-C, but Obj-C is a fine language in its own right. Definitely easier t
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The government debt doesn't really matter because the Fed can always increase the money supply by buying treasuries. For instance, the total U.S. debt is almost 30T, but 9T of that is owed to the Fed. The Fed can do this regardless of
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I don't know about Zoom, but I run a video platform and you can definitely have 1000 people on a call. The caveat is that you can't consume everyone's video and audio, so consuming a new person's audio and video takes a
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
So because the government can potentially decrypt your traffic, you don't care if anyone can? Do you use online banking? Do you care if you transmit your password to your bank account in plaintext? What if you need to call your bank? W
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I guess we're really talking about the first derivative of PRODUCTIVITY_GROWTH in the formula GDP/CAP(t) = GDP/CAP(t-1) * (1 + PRODUCTIVITY_GROWTH(t)).
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
You need HTTPS to even begin trusting remote code. For instance, you download uMatrix to setup a whitelist. Where did uMatrix come from? If you downloaded it over HTTP, then you could be running anything. Even if you have a checksum for uMa
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The underlying assumption is that we're talking about the internet, not a private network, but even your private network would benefit from encryption. What is the benefit of having anyone with access to your network potentially read &
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
HTTP is not ok. Anyone can ready / modify what is being sent. This privacy intrusion will definitely happen, whereas the risk of being banned by "some external corporation" is low. And, you always have the option of self-sign
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
I don’t have an expectation. The article is essentially asking why is the second derivative of productivity negative despite increased technological advancement. I’m just pointing out that your graph shows that the second derivative of prod
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
This point always comes up, and it typically shows a lack of knowledge about what you can do with a smart contract. E.g. with a smart contract, you can implement an option on anything and sell the option to a counter party with very little
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
This is a good point I hadn't thought of. One adjustment to your calculations is that the CO2 emitted from plastic would weigh over 2 times the weight of the plastic due to the additional oxygen atoms, but that doesn't change the
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The graph looks linear. If productivity gains were increasing (or even staying constant), you'd expect it to be more than linear. This implies the rate of productivity change is decreasing.
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by DANK_YACHT 4y ago
The CO2 is from decomposing food, not from plastic. The CH3 can be harvested, or it will breakdown on its own after a decade.

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