Reelin

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by Reelin 8y ago
What you describe would be a temporary problem - tolls for entering the city would appear out of necessity (see London for a present day example). Life would go on as before except for a bunch of now outraged self driving car owners, mass t
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by Reelin 8y ago
> With today's pervasive laissez faire mindset, measured tighter restrictions may be a necessary evil. My... uhh... friend doesn't understand what you meant by that. Would you mind elaborating?
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by Reelin 8y ago
I realize it doesn't entirely solve the problem, but the evolve extension for Mercurial seems to at least be a step in the right direction. https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/
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by Reelin 8y ago
That's the point though. Anyone is free to implement it, anyone can interoperate with it, and anyone can publish improvements to it. Dependence on a protocol instead of a service or piece of software directly facilitates decentralizati
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by Reelin 8y ago
Whoops, just reread your previous comment and somehow I missed the "no outbound traffic" part. That would indeed seem to largely eliminate the issue, although I wonder how long it will be until devices start communicating with eac
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by Reelin 8y ago
I don't suppose we could get something like this for vehicles as well?
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by Reelin 8y ago
> they can't access anything interesting anyway A "smart" TV is presumably running content ID on everything that shows up on its screen, a fitness tracker is (of necessity) monitoring your physical activity, ... you get th
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by Reelin 8y ago
So US interests could be harmed by damage to an important US company, itself entirely due to backwards US drug policies? I don't think Musk is the problem in that case...
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by Reelin 8y ago
>> it's purely an exercise in philosophy and logic > It's of little use as long as it is. I didn't mean to imply uselessness; my previous comment was worded poorly. Aside from the spiritual aspects, logic and philoso
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by Reelin 8y ago
You're a substance dualist, then? The obvious opposing view to what you've just expressed would be that you are your body, and that what you just described as your true self is merely one part of you introspecting about anothe
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by Reelin 8y ago
Had to look that one up, that's a really good example of the sort of unexpected complexities that can come up (many years later in this case). For others (like myself) who haven't seen it before: https://academic.oup.co
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by Reelin 8y ago
I actually agree that this would presumably be a good thing to do. However, that's not because "children dying == bad" but rather precisely because a decent amount of research appears to have been directed at this idea alread
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by Reelin 8y ago
It's even worse than you're making out, actually. I'm all for eliminating malaria, or mosquitoes, or whatever. And I'm generally in favor of GMOs and related technologies. However, the described approach uses a gene driv
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by Reelin 8y ago
> and certainly it is nonsense to suggest that this is equivalent to imposing the precautionary principle on every possible technological advance I agree, but would also like to point out that as technology in general becomes more "
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by Reelin 8y ago
I believe that the point being made by the person you're replying to isn't to avoid acting until future effects can be perfectly foreseen, as that milestone will generally never be reached. Rather, the future effects of an actio
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by Reelin 8y ago
Given the sheer complexity of the systems under consideration here (entire ecosystems, species population dynamics, the potential genome-wide interactions of even a single DNA mutation, etc) it seems wholly unreasonable to reduce this to th
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by Reelin 8y ago
> why can't an ad-blocker plugin still trigger a payment for the ad view, while preventing me from seeing it? The ad-blocker won't load the ad at all for two reasons. 1) Performance. Less to load (and process, and render, etc
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by Reelin 8y ago
In light of all the comments about the "missing" TLS, I want to point out that it would be a bit weird if the install processes used by the FOSS software ecosystem were dependent on a form of centralized authority such as TLS. PGP
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by Reelin 8y ago
I agree that a feature doesn't have to be 100% foolproof to be beneficial. I also agree that leaving sensitive things lying around "by default" is a poor approach to security, and think that software should facilitate automat