Spivak

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by Spivak 1y ago
Runtime is the glue between JS Engine and OS which is from scratch. Runtime embeds engine and lets engine talk to the outside world.
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by Spivak 1y ago
I can actually give a very specific real life example of political ads working because I have a friend who was part of the campaign. In Ohio there was a constitutional amendment on the ballot to legalize abortion. The orgs that spent millio
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by Spivak 1y ago
So I think we've over-grouped ads into too broad a category to be useful. Brand sponsorships (i.e. The Doritos-Jeep-AT&T Halftime Show) and other 'brand awareness' are clearly bad ads by your own metric, they do nothing t
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by Spivak 1y ago
Ahh I see you've done work for the government.
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by Spivak 1y ago
You would have to leverage the law (if you have one) that involves the state resolving the dispute because otherwise the automated disputes would probably be dropped on the floor. The insurance company has the leverage because they're
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean the problem with Passkeys is that they're unsuitable as the sole login method for an account. They're great as a stronger "keep me logged in" for certain devices but they're something you have and they don&#x
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by Spivak 1y ago
I'm so surprised by this, not because I don't think that many people would fall for a phishing attempt, but because the corporate "training" phishing emails are so glaringly obvious that I think it does a disservice to t
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by Spivak 1y ago
Credit where it's due I think Republicans, people whose political ideology is Republicanism as opposed to the RNC whose dominant political ideology is now Conservatism, can still lay claim to those things. But they are a dying breed ar
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by Spivak 1y ago
This is so funny that with a self-hosted PDS you can just tell BlueSky "trust me bro." What an absolute joke these age verification laws are. We were content with "Are you 21 Y/n" for sites featuring alcohol for yea
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean when lists are opt-in and users have to specifically choose what lists to subscribe to then well… kinda tough shit if you end up on one that many people are happy with. That's the point of putting moderation in the hands of user
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by Spivak 1y ago
That part actually still works, it's just that BlueSky imposes a moderation list that can't be disabled (which to me is the problem) in their aggregator. In theory this is fine because you can run your own with different rules but
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by Spivak 1y ago
If there's an avenue for extrajudicial punishment it seems like every government is angling to use it. How did we wind up with such openly vindictive and unprincipled people in our governments? Like you call yourself Liberals, surely i
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by Spivak 1y ago
I think you would find a large political block that would be more than supportive of economic stimulus taking the form of a public jobs and training program to improve infrastructure, landscaping, and other public works. I personally would
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by Spivak 1y ago
Right!? Apple has got to be thrilled about this. Android's one philosophically differentiating feature, that you're not bound by The App Store, just gone overnight.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Which is so stupid, there's a probably a million examples of this exact pattern. It is crazy that courts have decided that people don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy for data that is otherwise kept secret with multiple
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean if we're going cut back on the worst offenses of sports gambling it seems like "you can only gamble on professional sports" could be a potential easy win. The next step would probably be eliminating betting on individu
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by Spivak 1y ago
I mean the decent alternative is object storage if you can tolerate not getting a filesystem. You can get an S3 client running anywhere with little trouble. There are lots of really good S3 compatible servers you can self-host. And you don&
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by Spivak 1y ago
I feel like the fundamental disconnect between the goals of private enterprise and government in these matters is a never ending source of frustration. I don't know what that solution is but it feels like we have to do something to rew
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by Spivak 1y ago
The test is can you say, "thank you for telling me this app isn't signed, install it anyway." And with this system you can't.
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by Spivak 1y ago
> my own devices I mean hey, at least we all know now that they aren't.
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by Spivak 1y ago
Yeah, this is ultimately why I don't love the idea of single payer. But honestly I'm (slowly) warming up to it as the fears of government controlling healthcare in the way you describe are starting to happen anyway. I guess we&#x2
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by Spivak 1y ago
Pretty much yeah, I wouldn't put as much in the state controlled basket as you but like that's a policy discussion—I don't think we have some fundamental disagreement that means we couldn't work together and be pragmatic
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by Spivak 1y ago
The different political labels are interesting but also deeply frustrating because it paints people at odds when they're not. There's two baskets: one is a "centrally planned" economy led by government spending. One is &
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by Spivak 1y ago
When you write down a license plate number you're not surveilling the owner of the car. The privacy being talked about here is being lost in the crowd—you're not protected from someone looking for your license plate but you are
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by Spivak 1y ago
But then why do a blockchain thing? Why not just make CloudflareBucks they centrally control? Surely that is much easier to monetize and cheaper to implement.
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by Spivak 1y ago
If you expect people to take real-life inconvenience over an abstract perceived freedom you will be disappointed until the day you die. People buy computing devices to do things. If the device has freedom but can't do the things they w
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by Spivak 1y ago
Unethical, morally questionable, in poor taste, impolite, unprofessional, or underhanded is pretty normal and you can find it in every job in every industry and you might not even realize without the benefit of hindsight that what you did w
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by Spivak 1y ago
Which is why I think the ACM's code of ethics is good for someone looking to be introspective about right and wrong but would be terrible as the basis for a legal code of ethics. The scope would necessarily be narrower and "perm
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by Spivak 1y ago
So the reason to have the DID in control is for users that say sign up for Bluesky and have a bluesky handle which is a domain they don't control and want to move to a different provider without breaking everything. If your handle was
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by Spivak 1y ago
I don't think this makes sense to be on the module side, the caller is the one with the information as to whether the module can or needs to be lazily loaded. There's nothing really for the module being imported to decide, every m

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