Sir_Substance

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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
>It's pretty well established that CAPEX is the source of security in PoW not OPEX You're literally the first person I've ever heard express such an opinion. Could you give citations for "pretty well established"
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
>To decentralize Bitcoin mining once more and eliminate its massive electricity consumption, a proof of work decoupled from energy-intensive computation is clearly needed. Here's the central thesis and there's so much wrong wit
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
I prefer carousels and slideshows "broken", so I can use my browsers fast built in scroll rather than the visible slow javascript one. This falls under the category of "stop fucking with my scrollbar", a message I wish I
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
Nice, I'll keep that as a bookmarket, saves me rooting around in the inspector!
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
I'd really like to see an addon that just blocks the css overflow attribute. I've only ever seen it used by websites that try to stop people who are blocking their giant modal popups from scrolling. It might be that I'm dumb
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
If you go through someones wallet and write down all the details required to open a bank account in their name, you do not suddenly own all those details, and you may not do with them whatever you wish as if you did. Opening a bank account
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
Nor do I own the banks hard drives, but I do own the money stored on them. Much like how if I leave my phone in a taxi, either deliberately or accidentally, I don't own the taxi, but I do still own the phone.
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
Thanks to GDPR, yes I can. Comparison: The bank's hard drives hold my money, but it's still mine and not theirs.
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
Yes and no. I can't lie, I was really hoping for a significant company to be put up against a wall and shot, maybe a major retailer that won't let you check out online without giving a phone number or whatever. The notion of data
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
>Ultimately it won't have to be explained If there are two boxes on the shelf, one with "Wifi 6" written on it and the other "Wifi 6E", it will be someones personal hell to explain the difference between the two
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
Aaah, fond memories. I was working at an electronics store back when "draft-N" was a thing. Good luck to everyone stuck explaining 6E to impatient 50-something fathers, my thoughts are with you.
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
Same, I'd taken to just holding down the power button, mystery solved I guess.
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by Sir_Substance 6y ago
I'm curious about something because I'm working on a side project that's "in the area". How does workstream, or indeed any remote computing provider, handle the possibility of people using their service to attack ot
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>Group testing is a super efficient way of finding out who’s infected and who’s not. Iceland’s doing it. >As I've written and as Iceland is showing, testing every American every day and giving those who test negative a badge for
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
Oh yeah, there are used phones. But there are two ways to pay someone for one: A) Direct bank to bank transfer B) Cash
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
Icelandic banks make 2FA mandatory, and your only 2FA choice is phone SMS. So now there is a ~1000kr/month fee for using the bank here, with a ~8000kr startup cost, because you need a phone and a sim card.
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
crmrc114 shares almost all of their DNA with their parents, children, siblings and cousins, in addition to the mentioned grandparents. I'll bet you a dollar that neither crmrc114 nor 23&me asked /all/ the stakeholders in
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
We're already seeing filming-in-public laws tightening up thanks to things like creep-shots. Laws take a long time to be revised. By and large, our public photography laws are still based in a time when most photos would become a negat
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
Would you still feel the same way if someone was filming your child?
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>Given a lot of the negative points were around the reaction of others to having a camera pointed at them, I never got why they didn't make it easy to flip up the camera part as a way to physically indicate it wasn't in use. Th
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
That's not actually how the law works though. Restaurants lose a lot of money throwing out food that's probably good enough by the standards that most of us use in our kitchens at home but because there was an excursion in the fri
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
I'd throw two more hats into that ring: - It looks bad to the public if companies directly pay the ransomware creator. Decryption companies can act as a PR "buffer" in that respect. - By funneling the western worlds contact w
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
That's a separate issue. This isn't even really a matter of law, it should be a matter of simple parliamentary procedure that laws will not be considered unless their draft has been available unedited for three months, unless ther
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
I'm envisioning the average sunset clause being more like 20 years. The annual refresh would be "lets make sure this doesn't expire" done voluntarily for the things that are really important that are currently going to e
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>A law prohibiting murder? Seems like the kind of thing that should have no trouble getting rubber-stamped every few years. Lets invert that though. In 1615 Iceland passed a law stating that any Basque that set foot in the Westfjords &#x
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
I look forward to seeing how this feature will work on my phone with no google play services installed.
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
Red hat's engineers don't think it's quite that obvious, and given that in the past I've seen userland tools that everyone kind of assumes will just work break if you have python3 as default, I agree with them. I can see
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
>I was at my parents the other day carrying a heavy can of garbage through their completely black basement. Instead of just being able to tell my voice assistant to turn on the basement lights, I had to fumble around to find the right sw
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
Well, actually, about that... You never did give your graphics card model number, but according to this[1] page the Brazos platform had two codename variants for laptops and notebooks: Ontario and Zacate. Hondo and Desna were exclusively fo
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by Sir_Substance 7y ago
Not in Adelaide they don't. Never in 25 years of living there have I ever heard a case of the police recovering stolen property. Heard several cases of people find it themselves and recovering it on their own, but not once of the polic

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