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by Reelin 6y ago
You can't prove they don't spy on you for their own gain (financial or otherwise). A single rogue employee with physical access is all that's necessary otherwise. There are also plenty of small cut rate cloud providers out th
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by Reelin 6y ago
> I mean what is the switching overhead of signing the VM memory. Not much. The crypto is implemented in hardware. It's transparently added and removed as data is stored to and fetched from memory. The CPU contains unencrypted data
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by Reelin 6y ago
> because CRC is actually worse for checking file content collisions So use SHA-1 or SHA-2 or SHA-3 or if you really hate NIST standards for some reason then CubeHash or Skein or Blake2 or ...
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by Reelin 6y ago
Due to the seemingly consistent inability of many people to understand the broader concept you expressed there I feel the need to spell it out in a bit more detail. Free speech: the freedom to speak one's mind (this can apply in any co
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by Reelin 6y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment of what you expressed. However, I have to nitpick for accuracy. Despite becoming a cliche, "yelling fire in a crowded theater" was never actually the standard in the US. Currently it's &q
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by Reelin 6y ago
> plus then you can consider different graphics cards I can't speak for Nvidia but modern midrange AMD cards support 6 4K monitors (you'll typically need a DisplayPort MST hub).
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by Reelin 6y ago
I think it's bad to let your tools become a crutch to avoid gaining a deeper understanding. That being said, if you take a software developer's CPU away what are they supposed to do - build their own foundry? Same for electrical e
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by Reelin 6y ago
What you describe is the polar opposite of freedom. It should be immediately dismissed not due to the current political climate but instead because it would establish the ultimate nanny state full of red tape and bureaucracy. No one should
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by Reelin 6y ago
> he is also a garbage human being who has made the world worse His company went on to create Anton and actively pursues computational chemistry and drug design research. To me, that's an active (and expensive!) attempt to improve t
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by Reelin 6y ago
I don't find it awkward at all - it's just an apposition. (Admittedly also reversing the clauses makes for a complicated sentence structure. Depending on the level of literacy of the target audience, it might not be appropriate.)
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by Reelin 6y ago
I agree that equal representation isn't in the best interests of the more populous states. The problem is that there's a fundamental tension here. Regardless of differences in population size, it's not reasonable for the lega
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by Reelin 6y ago
> > ban anonymity > if we do not, the effectiveness of any one individual's free speech is going to greatly diminish False dichotomy. A solution which preserves anonymity while counteracting abuse should be sought after. >
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Free speech is necessary, but not sufficient, to find truth and pursue justice. I wholeheartedly agree! However, regarding the rest of what you said. Propaganda can and does influence public opinion; numerous verified historical exampl
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by Reelin 6y ago
> > Manual human labor requirement creates a rate limiting which is removed by automated content creation in the name of the human. > What if we impose artificial rate limiting with posting fees or some kind of proof-of-work requir
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by Reelin 6y ago
It strikes me that none of these are really novel problems. ML reduces the cost but otherwise the issues already exist. The current solution seems to be largely reputational - either interacting with identities that you personally trust or
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by Reelin 6y ago
The part of my comment you quoted was referring to preventing people from disingenuously proxying for another entity, not to maintaining their own personal anonymity. Regarding accidentally revealing oneself, that's always a risk. If y
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by Reelin 6y ago
Web of trust (or something substantially similar) solves this on an algorithmic level. The problem is that, to the best of my knowledge, we lack friendly and accessible UI tooling to support such a scheme. Naive web of trust algorithms are
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by Reelin 6y ago
Due to the nature of HN I have no idea if you'll actually see a response at this point, but ... You said it yourself. Smaller states can amend the constitution while representing a minority of the population. (I didn't do the math
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by Reelin 6y ago
This is highly dependent on the discipline and particular field. For topics with a large number of practicing labs that make use of relatively accessible tooling you might be able to pull off such an approach. Other fields require customize
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by Reelin 6y ago
They will indeed serve any random ebook. However, it comes encumbered by DRM (thus controlled digital lending) and they "own" an instance for each copy they lend at any given time (hence the waitlists they refer to). Note that man
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by Reelin 6y ago
SciHub and Library Genesis still seem to be doing well enough. (To be clear, I don't think IA is even remotely comparable. I'm just directly responding to what you said.)
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by Reelin 6y ago
I guess we're a bit off topic at this point but I think the only glaring structural issue is the winner takes all voting. > electoral collage I'd disagree that the US got this wrong; it made a lot of sense historically. These d
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by Reelin 6y ago
I think you meant to reply to @ygjb? But yep, this is pretty much my thinking as well - that being ruled by the whims of the mob is hardly desirable from a societal standpoint because it ultimately results in many of the same issues that go
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by Reelin 6y ago
Higher level math continues to advance but calculus itself doesn't change much. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calculus )
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by Reelin 6y ago
> Why is it a precedent? Precedents aren't limited to the legal system. Their actions changed the expectation (ie established a new precedent) for their behavior going forward. > So the only reason for continuing to work for&#x2F
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by Reelin 6y ago
> if you have your private toll road you can forbid any bumper sticker you don't want on YOUR road If this existed in reality somewhere in the US (or wherever you happen to live) are you seriously saying that you would be ok with it
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by Reelin 6y ago
> The reason why freedom of speech ... is important This view is (IMO) far too narrow. Freedom of expression, particularly political expression, is absolutely essential to the functioning of western society as it currently exists. Person
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by Reelin 6y ago
This misses the point to an impressive degree. No one here is disputing the current legality and I think everyone here understands the difference between government and private services. The argument is that we've come to depend on p
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by Reelin 6y ago
> human intelligence may not be that general Humans have more of an ability to generalize (ie learn and then apply abstractions) than anything else we have available to compare to. > would it be considered a human-level AI yet Not nec
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by Reelin 6y ago
The 0.7 unicorn example is doing absolutely nothing to temper my expectations. Quite the opposite in fact. ( https://github.com/minimaxir/gpt-3-experiments/blob/master/e... )

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