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by DINKDINK 9y ago
I'd say though that if a judge can get a free pass to lock anyone away indefinitely by police planting a USB drive -- by claiming the defendant is in contempt of court -- that's drastically different in terms of payoff on evidence
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
I thought the section showing which fields had gender oscillations was an interesting axis to pivot on. Another interesting metric might be: "Jobs that the gender distribution has remained the most static" and "Once Female, S
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
What checks exist to prevent police from planting a USB hard drive on an enemy of the state that's encrypted and then claiming the defendant won't decrypt the hard drive? The state would have a really easy time imprisoning him&#x
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>why should typical cash businesses like hairdressers get huge tax benefits from being cash only over the business next door? 'Why should that person over there benefit from free speech while I am censored? We should go censor that
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
"The cashless society – which more accurately should be called the bank-payments society... is a utopia where money cannot leave – or even exist – outside the banking system, but can only be transferred from bank to bank." -"
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>The lightning network has no security (protection against double spend) That's not true. By locking funds into a Lightning Network payment channel you solve the double spend problem _in the channel_ (the person receiving your paym
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>What is it then? It is the username you are issued by the government. It is solely used to identify you.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>I'd say it almost certainly does significantly change their chance of divorce Where's your data to break the Null Hypothesis? Though, if the author of the article wanted to back up their claim, they would attempt to show to wh
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Potentially more limited, but less manipulatable.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
The problems in these people's lives, that caused them to turn to hate and aggression, will not be solved attempting to excommunicate them. In fact, I suspect it will exacerbate them.
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Post's Theorem and Blockchain Languages(youtube.com)
2 points by DINKDINK 9y ago|0 comments
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Totally more secure, less error prone, and faster than a blockchain. /s
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
People overestimate over estimate possible improbable odds and underestimate near certain odds. Much the same way the mental processes enjoy playing the lottery. See Possibility Effect, Certainty Effect
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>I will switch to the small business (love the private key[...] Are you talking about this?: https://support.code42.com/CrashPlan/4/Configuring/Archive_e... "Archive encryption key security options Yo
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>yet another product that has folded because its users understood "unlimited" to mean "unlimited." good riddance to these unethical companies, What did CrashPlan do that was unethical? Seems like they kept their word
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Hanlon's Law
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>How can you expect an AI to do that? Machine Learning is just a way to launder bias. What will be defined as extremist by US companies will favor the West but discounting Western extremism and overplay non-Western extremism.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
What about all the speech that's censored that doesn't have enough interest or political clout to make people aware of the injustice of its censoring.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
For those who haven't been following what's been going on in the Bitcoin space: Various groups have been proposing new rules that govern what constitutes a valid Bitcoin block (Called consensus rules). Bitcoin, as a blockchain pr
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Major Bitcoin-to-bank payment processor releases protocol,consensus trojan horse(twitter.com)
1 points by DINKDINK 9y ago|1 comments
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Your argument is: "Why would anyone spend any money if it's worth tomorrow?!" to support a pro-inflation argument The counterargument / parallel reality in an inflationary world is: "Why would anyone accept any mone
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
And also allow more flexible commercial real estate to be built. For example, in 1985 San Francisco passed Prop M which caps the limit of area of office space to ~1e6 square feet (think roughly 1,000 2-BR or 4,000 desk spaces) apartments t
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Traffic dynamics of rush our traffic != traffic dynamics because people think their city is about to be nuked.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>Is [non consensual user-information leaking] really even a big issue? Yes
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
What about shadow regulation where government regulators censor information they legally cannot censor for 1st amendment issues but de facto can by increasing their regulatory levers on companies to stand up to state level censorship
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
What You See Is All There Is If the lion share of people can't see it, it doesn't exist.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
Point for debate: Between the extremes of transparency and commodification where should we strike the publication balance? e.g. If an organization/individual has ulterior motives (of fears) for testifying in a case other than the limit
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
I wonder if the location of the arrest influenced the prosecutors' decision: "We 'caught' him at a hacker convention where they broke a voting machine!"
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>Centralized authority. Centralized authority isn't cheaper. It trades proof of work for violence or denial of liberty.
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by DINKDINK 9y ago
>And if there's a fork? If someone proposes to violate the rules of your blockchain, you ignore them. Only when users support rule changes does the market value them. >either you follow the fork supported by the majority [...],

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