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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>The Proof of Work "algorithm" is completely unnecessary for processing transactions The Distributed Systems community awaits your proposal for a solution to Byzantine Fault Tolerance in open, decentralized, adversarial network
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"Can't wait for a cryptocurrency with the ethics of Uber, the censorship resistance of Paypal, and the centralization of Visa, all tied together under the proven privacy of Facebook." https://twitter.com/Sarah
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30% by mass not by pollution. The speculative aim of the legislation is to decrease pollution. It's a bit like saying alcohol abuse will go down if we ban alcohol (when the opposite happened, hardcore liquor prevalence and potency i
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>They're phishable the same way an OTP token is Accurate point and why I caveat the malware/phishing point with (some types). >U2F tokens were standardized and adopted as a phishing countermeasure. U2F provides benefits over
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Will the production of plastic waste reduce when the outlawing of thin plastics is replaced by thicker plastics? Your politician who benefits from passing feel-good legislation says yes. Reality might surprise you: "In particular, my r
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>TOTP 2FA is already adequate to make sure you're not credential-stuffed. PAKEs provide defense against both credential stuffing, (some types of) phishing/MITM, CA trust etc without UX cost (a security solution that "Just
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
What are the marginal benefits (and costs) of running a Helm over ProtonMail service? I can see none. The justified concerns the security community has with ProtonMail is: Crypto in the browser is bad (mitigable with Qubes), and How do I k
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by DINKDINK 7y ago
>we'll accelerate wealth/income disparity Do you believe that the wealth/income disparity would decrease if instead of employing one worker to drive a truck, each box was hand carried by 1000 workers? Unless the more cost
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>Uber is the perfect proof that the "customers will vote with their wallets" argument doesn't work. How is this not a perfect example of the "customer voting with their wallet"? Maybe its not the vote you or I w
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>She didn't complete the full course, but has around 100-150 days of lessons "Did wet streets cause rain or did rain cause wet streets" Did 100 lessons of treatment (duolingo) cause her to become proficient in English or
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>I was under the impression that the constitutional protections of all citizens have been suspended 100 miles from all borders This isn't the case. It is a meme propagated by the authoritarian political-class in the US. Refuse all
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The rationale is probably that smelling the air around a car is not trespass.
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>Don’t know if you realize this Yes, it's what I was referring to. Trade will occur regardless of what happens. If factories run out of a fiat money, they'll offer to trade the factory outputs for worker labor. It's jus
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>why [...] would people prefer gold instead of, say, water, toilet paper.. "Hi here's your monthly pay it's $5,000 of toilet paper. Where would you like me to park the truck that's full of it?" The purpose of a
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>most people aren't going to download a new app Fair counter. There will be some lock in. Given that both platforms have similar pricing means that there are strong arbitrage forces at play that keep them in check.
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For the same reason "all the best schools are small" but aren't really [1]. It's the "Law of small numbers" that is: scale-dependency of variance. It's much easier to get an large variance if you sample
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>> Do you advocate fining and imprisoning the savant for the facets of her mind? >No >The government is in it rights to very specifically limit what people[...] can do with license plate data. Ok, thanks for retracting your prev
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>supply and demand dictates there won’t be enough demand and they’ll get lower wages. Reductive. Your model assumes demand for Lyft remains constant while supply increases. This ignores the fact that supply is dropping at Uber, which ca
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophily
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If the state hasn't shown that an accused has committed a crime before the state trespassed but needs to trespass first to then dig up an ex-post justification for trespassing witch hunts develop.
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Say a savant in your neighborhood has been able to memorize everyone's license plate, when and where they park. This violates a privacy law on data retention. Do you advocate fining and imprisoning the savant for the facets of her mi
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
>tax foreign ownership at a significant rate If these "foreigners" should be taxed now, why shouldn't you be taxed also? because at some point in the past you were a "foreigner" relative to where you are now. &gt
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ITT, people who think - economic free lunches exist - any capital after their capital came to an area is illegitimate - markets don't price in risk or volatility - policy doesn't affect the agent on the margin, decreases costs to
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>the government has tons of policies that are beneficial on the individual level: banning trans fats, mandating nutrition labels, and taxing sodas just to name a few. Listing the benefits of a policy while neglecting the iatrogenics is p
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Lost in La Mancha (2002) chronicles Gilliam's ordeal
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I wonder how much small firms/startups have /benefited/ from this arrangement. By artificially reducing demand for labor, big tech firms have effectively made it more profitable for smaller firms to compete against them.
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What are people's expectations of the effectiveness and the iatrogenics of this policy? Before alcohol prohibition in the United States, most alcohol consumption was low-proof/ABV drinks (such as beers). The introduction of prohi
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Electrical Component Cross Sections with Diagrams(twitter.com)
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I guess we disagree then. Pen testing to me is: "Can I steal your key? Here, I have a proof that I can steal it." Actually exfiltrating (not necessary to produce a proof that you were able to view it) so that you can produce fr
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by DINKDINK 8y ago
All markets have congestion controls, they're called prices. The only reason roads and traffic don't function well is because they don't have prices. Traffic on roads* is the 21st equivalent of Soviet breadlines. *(particul

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