Kalium

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by Kalium 3y ago
At the scale of Meta, "down" is a nuanced concept. You are very unlikely to get every piece of functionality seizing up at once. What you are likely to get is some services ceasing to function and other services doing error-hand
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by Kalium 3y ago
You are absolutely correct. That would be a much better experience. That said, getting there strikes me as pretty challenging. Automatically detecting a down state is difficult and any detection is inevitably both error-prone and only wor
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by Kalium 3y ago
Every healthcare system I've ever encountered, read about, or heard about has some kind of rationing. This is apparently independent of questions of profit or non-profit, private or public. Socialized, not-profit-driven healthcare syst
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by Kalium 3y ago
I'm sorry, I can see I have been unclear. I am in no way defending the worst system of rationing healthcare on the planet. It's awful, horribly, abominable, and must be changed to include some basic fucking humanity. I'm
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by Kalium 3y ago
One the primary goals of any - and indeed every - medical system is to ration resources. Which is to say to privilege access to medicine. When we talk about medical care access, we tend to talk around this, but it's a needed part of an
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by Kalium 3y ago
There are probably better numbers somewhere. Likely several sets worth. One of the things that makes SF's numbers especially thorny is that SFPD engages in a daily campaign to deter reporting crime. This makes the official numbers kn
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by Kalium 3y ago
Naively, yes, diversity avoids systemic risks. However, from working in auto insurance it was my experience that insurers reason about risk in considerably more sophisticated ways. For one thing, in the US auto insurance is entirely a state
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by Kalium 3y ago
In a great many cases, insurance rates drop. Sometimes quite sharply. I've seen as much as a 50% drop. Auto insurance is inevitably surveillance capitalism. Insurers always look at aspects of life your life and behavior to establish yo
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by Kalium 3y ago
From the perspective of a private insurer, you do not want as diverse a risk pool as you can get. There are groups that you can reasonably anticipate are at high risk of being a bad bet. In many cases you want to encourage them to either
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by Kalium 3y ago
How do you imagine the auto insurance industry is driving this change in customer behavior and outcomes? I cannot imagine any way in which it's the fault of the insurers, but I know that this is merely a failure of my imagination. Be
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by Kalium 3y ago
Yes, I do think it's ineffective. It's needlessly ponderous, excessively emotive, and cares far more about its activist mission than questions like "How is the business structured?". It's not an accident that the ce
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by Kalium 3y ago
What, in your opinion, is the sensitive and inclusive way to discuss a category of business that the author can fairly assume a significant fraction of the userbase has never interacted with? Should the author discard that assumption and pr
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by Kalium 3y ago
It's also worth remembering that the world of LotR has people in it who were there for the advanced civilization. It's not beyond living memory. A number of those people are important minor characters, and the sense of loss help
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by Kalium 3y ago
Mountains of expository prose are a crutch for an unskilled author. There are a number of storytelling techniques to build out a world as it becomes relevant that allow for hinting at greater depths. These allow for exposition, characteriza
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by Kalium 3y ago
Most people already have something to lose. Giving them the fear of losing it has more to do with enforcement.
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by Kalium 3y ago
Where I am, I get a lot of aggressive behavior from drivers because I am sticking to the traffic regulations and they don't like it . The laws here very explicitly give me a clear right to use almost all roads. Many drivers imagine th
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by Kalium 3y ago
The VC-oriented financial model (that is, your typical startup) is fundamentally incompatible with Mastodon's non-profit financial model. As a result, very different choices around licensing, funding, and business structure are good fi
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by Kalium 3y ago
I would hesitate to characterize a service running on grants and donations as a good model for your typical startup to imitate.
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by Kalium 3y ago
The effects are, if any, are not observable. Let's go with a change of phrase, then. What's the practical difference between suggestion and a clear and explicit instruction that is unenforceable and where the user offering the ins
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by Kalium 3y ago
What's the practical difference between an unenforceable and unobservable explicit instruction and a polite suggestion? My point is not that Google is good or bad or that all the other kids are doing it. My point is that DNT is at curr
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by Kalium 3y ago
Your browser is doing that to the extent that it carries over information about downloads and bookmarks. That's not the same as Google associating those with the cookies used to track your Google account. I've yet to see anythin
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by Kalium 3y ago
Do Not Track is a suggestion at best. In the best of all possible worlds where Google does exactly as you suggest in forcing it on and respecting it, every other server out there is perfectly capable of ignoring a polite suggestion. Your ot
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by Kalium 3y ago
> Incognito mode is supposed to not send your regular cookies so sites shouldn't be able to track you unless they use dubious stealthy tricks rather than the explicit well-known and documented method (i.e. a cookie). While I know th
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by Kalium 3y ago
You can use older images, collected from before the "poisoning" software was released. Then you don't have to. This, of course, assumes that "poisoning" actually works. Glaze and Nightshade and similar are very much
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by Kalium 3y ago
That works if you're willing to have your system be DoS'd. If every request takes half a second, that just means the attacker needs more systems sending requests in parallel to get the required number of samples quickly. In today&
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by Kalium 3y ago
Bottom line: Yes and no. Yes, you can do that. No, it won't really do what you want. The best way I've found to imagine a timing attack is as a set of graphs produced from thousands to millions of data points, each of which is a t
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by Kalium 3y ago
It's a neat possibility for a science fiction author. I've seen the idea used a couple of times. One of the key questions for life is where all the external energy to overcome entropy comes from. Being close to a star without bein
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by Kalium 3y ago
It's worth noting the critical details: how to prevent scurvy was understood, but the underlying mechanisms were not. This mattered because it meant why the treatment worked was not understood, with the result being a resurgence when
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by Kalium 3y ago
In some setups, you're required to trust both the maintainer and the mirror, which are not always the same party. If someone can generate a collision, it means a mirror can mount an attack even when the maintainer is corrected trusted.
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by Kalium 3y ago
Long story very short, history. Unions in the US are organized shop by shop. You can go to a union's homepage and click "JOIN TODAY!" if you wish. It just doesn't create any obligation for your employer to care.

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