DuskStar

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by DuskStar 7y ago
> Child porn is the most obvious example of an exception to both. We can all agree that we don't want to see that and don't want to host it on our platforms. I wouldn't be surprised if some site like 8chan was happy to com
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by DuskStar 7y ago
That's only true for induced drag, though. Parasitic drag is independent of lift, and would be reduced by flying higher.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> But x2 fuel consumption is a hard lower bound. Can't you gain a bit of that back by flying higher than a subsonic design could?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
That's nice. But while places like Sweden or the US have the per-capita GDP to pay for universal health care, Kenya really doesn't. (The US has 40x the GDP per capita) So would you rather that there wasn't even the option t
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Pensioners are window-breakers, in today's society. They consume, but never produce. (This used to be less true, with grandparents providing childcare etc) This doesn't mean we should kill them all off! But the consumption of a pe
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by DuskStar 7y ago
It also means that many people think that your loan is worth risking beimg forever in debt for. If I offer you a loan and you need the money to pay for medicine for your child... Is that really a trade that no one would welcome with open ar
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by DuskStar 7y ago
If there's a thousand people dying of pneumonia every day in Wuhan and you have capacity to test 2,000 people, do you spend half of that capacity on the dead? Or do you try and test the "maybe" cases who might or might not be
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Another reason would be that on a day-to-day basis it's easier to say "yeah we had 100 deaths yesterday" than it is to say "we've been lying, there were 1,000 deaths yesterday and 10,000 so far with 500,000 infected
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by DuskStar 7y ago
> “Gay people shouldn’t have the same legal rights as straight people” is a moral position? Which commandment is that one? I've been trying to explain how it's a moral position for some people, in response to this statement of
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by DuskStar 7y ago
That's a very good argument for why gay marriage should be allowed, and IIRC the one that the supreme court followed. That doesn't mean that there aren't still people who would challenge the morality of such. Morals and leg
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Well, many conservative christians would say that gay people already had the same legal rights as straight people - that being the right to marry (+have sex with, etc) another person of the opposite sex. To them, conflating "the righ
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Do you have examples of the shortsightedness of the modern forestry industry, or are you relying on stereotypes from a century ago?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Except that for a collision attack to be a thing, you need to know the value you're trying to collide with - and that requires reversing bcrypt.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
It takes some doing to get a virus on a Chromebook.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Yeah, that was what got me. (But at the same time, I don't think there's a trivial way for teamviewer to securely store that per-install key. "Trivial" meaning "can be implemented with no dev time and work on all
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Well, the key isn't hardcoded in the browser implementation. (It's unique per-install) And I think browsers generally do a better job using OS security mechanisms to restrict access to that key, too.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Why on earth would you store user passwords with AES locally and then use a hardcoded key to encrypt them ???
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by DuskStar 7y ago
So a theory I've had for a bit now... Google maps doesn't optimize for ease of travel, or time, or anything like that - it optimizes for engagement , like every other Google product. And how would you do that with a maps product?
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Infections are doubling every few days, so yes most infections occurred very recently. If it takes a month from initial infection to declare someone "disease-free", then there might only be ~300 people to that point.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Automated in the sense of "don't need a person standing in a tower", not in the sense of "needs no maintenance". I suppose minefields might be the latter, but even then I'd argue that minefields are less "
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Well... We (the US) haven't given up on mines, and the biggest issue with them isn't their indiscriminate nature as much as the inability to turn them off once a conflict ends. Automated, engage-everything-in-area, gun-based def
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by DuskStar 7y ago
If it's a pound, sure - that would be too much to add to a pistol. If it's an ounce, and has no maintenance/reliability issues? Who knows, but I wouldn't bet against it.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Japan? [0] Most construction is by-right, and housing is some of the cheapest in a developed nation. There are zones, but only 12 nationwide, and each only specifies a maximum use - this means if a location is zoned for industrial or de
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Not just those - IIRC Hubble's mirror diameter was changed to 2.4m at least partly so that they could use NRO tooling.
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by DuskStar 7y ago
USA 245 is gathering data on targets from about 300km to 1000km away - it'd be pretty hard to see individual structures from geosync. Here's the orbit info: https://www.heavens-above.com/orbit.aspx?satid=39232
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Why on earth do you think the Outer Space Treaty bans weapons in space space, and that space isn't already weaponized? Yes, it bans nukes in space - but that's all. It doesn't ban communications satellites, a huge strategic
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Yep!
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by DuskStar 7y ago
And that email server has to be in a datacenter you own, because AWS doesn't exist. (What is AWS if not hosting user-generated content?) And if you run a tor node, then you're liable for anything someone does with tor. And if you
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by DuskStar 7y ago
A cynical person would say that this is because the stated targets weren't actually the targets, just like with this act. (Stated targets: sex traffickers, real targets: tech companies offering e2e encryption)
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by DuskStar 7y ago
Dollar per kg to orbit of the Space Shuttle was pretty respectable - if you count the mass of the orbiter as part of the payload . If you don't, it's absolutely ruinous. (~$5,000/kg with orbiter, $20,000/kg for what it

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