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by PeterisP 3y ago
I think that if you really care about privacy and security then the simplest way to ensure that a game can't harm you is to avoid handling anything important on your gaming PC. If you think they might do something malicious, not having
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Yes, that's true, so the true impact of these vacancies on other aspects of society won't be visible until (and if!) they start actually lowering the rent despite having various reasons not to want that.
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It's not built on high test scores - while academics do benchmark models on various tests, all the many people who built up the hype mostly did it based on their personal experience with a chatbot, not by running some long (and expensi
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by PeterisP 3y ago
Good. Now let's see when the rent - and thus valuation of real estate - starts falling; because even if this particular space can't be used for housing, it will drag down housing rent/prices as well.
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There may be a preexisting contract between investors that grants this right of first refusal. In some scenarios (e.g. startup seed rounds) it is customary to require such a contract as part of the investment deal, however, if you don'
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by PeterisP 3y ago
You may want to ask what does it mean for a game to have a keylogger? A game is usually supposed to capture what buttons you press and, if it's an online game, send that over the internet, and so that would be perfectly fine as long as
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What technology? The main technology needed to work gold leaf is a smelter to pour the initial shape, and after that you don't need any weird materials or machines, it is just skilled and careful hammering. Going thinner doesn't r
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Because securely storing the keys is quite difficult, and the whole system doesn't work if the keys are routinely compromised ("You could go in person to any government building and request a new private key to override the previo
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> if anyone does find them, that'll be a pretty devastating blow to the theory that the NIST P-curves were maliciously generated IDK, if I don't think that finding that a seed matches a hash of "Give Jerry a raise of $1000
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Cell tower time. Modern cell communications use time-slot multiplexing with transmission slots in the scale of a millisecond and need the beginning/end of transmission to have microsecond-scale accuracy so that you don't miss stuf
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Redundancy, so if one backdoor is closed/fixed/avoided, you still have more.
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There are two main things. One is that the 'cookie law' is quite different in scope and terms (e.g. it also applies to various non-personalized cookies), and the consent conditions for accepting cookies in that law are substantial
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The core principle of how EU and GDPR treats privacy rights is that they're inalienable, they're not for sale, they can't be traded away in a contract or arrangement. So for use cases where you need the user's consent be
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Liability adds a strong bias towards inaction and it's in society's interests to avoid that. Like, pretty much everything has some side-effects, and if (for example) you have the choice between doing nothing and having a million
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Captchas are used to distinguish between anonymous humans and scripts trying to impersonate a large quantity of unrelated humans. The other way of preventing someone from impersonating many fake people with a script is requiring actual veri
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OK, I understand that the initial sentence is too strict, however, using codepoints for text editing and cursor position is even worse - even in your example of Korean there's a clear distinction depending on how the same character is
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Comparing by memcmp will result in false negatives unless you can ensure that all incoming text gets normalized to a particular canonical form.
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There seems to be quite large segments of developers working on functionality which "handles text" as immutable whole blobs, in which case one really doesn't have to know anything about unicode. However, as soon as you want t
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There are rules for that, Unicode has standards (not only formal, but easily usable in most software libraries) for canonical forms that will collapse all the variations to a single representation. But, of course, unicode can't define
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If some tokenizer of a comma-separated list treats the comma (I'm assuming any 0x2C byte) as "just a comma" even if the value after it begins with a combining character, that's a broken, buggy tokenizer, and one that can
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I'd argue that you must use grapheme clusters for text editing and cursor position, because here are popular characters (like ö you used as example) which can be either one or two codepoints depending on the normalization choice, but t
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That 2012 article is obsolete, as GDP and energy usage has now been decoupled in advanced economies (e.g. https://ourworldindata.org/energy-gdp-decoupling ) as nowadays improved consumer goods tend to require less physica
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In many fields it's easier to predict the aggregate of the whole system than the quantity of any specific component. Weather, thermal behavior, and also population.
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There's no link between "enough data that you can't produce it yourself" and "mass surveillance" unless perhaps in the context of face recognition. Training a language model on every book ever published does no
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Getting people to buy them is a superior barrier compared to getting people to keep using them afterwards. People won't appreciate how comfortable something is for long term use if they won't even start using it because it looks u
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It's not simple, but also from the technical and business process perspective it's mostly a solved problem, all the international cloud B2B services know how to handle that for their customers. I mean, that's not theory or so
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Lol, no, not even close. First, what do you mean by 'an international arbitration court'? Such courts exist only because of (and in the scope of) treaties where countries explicitly agree to be bound by such courts, for example, b
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Currently Croatia manages this territory as its own until the dispute is resolved; so while they don't claim that this is their de jure land in perpetuity, they clearly assert (and demonstrate with their actions as seen in this article
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The EU/GDPR solution to that is definition of "freely given consent" where such discount treatment means that the "consent" doesn't count as a valid reason to permit processing data, as it was not freely given;
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The EU solution for that is specific 'data processor' agreements where (a) they process the data on your behalf; (b) they don't gain any permission whatsoever to use that data for their own purposes, only what you ask them to

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