abathur

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   by abathur 7y ago

   Watched most of the demo with my permanent roommate (an architect) before dinner and we both found it interesting. Good work.
2. 662.▲
   by abathur 7y ago

   > I wonder ... how often might this sort of thing occur, and with what consequences ...? I started trying to answer this directly but I wonder if it's more helpful to go meta here. I haven't tried to check this against past pos
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   by abathur 7y ago

   I'm content with the ground we've covered, but I still wanted to address your specific request for a reply--I'll try to winnow a bit. > b) "you harbor suspicion [I do - suspicion is common human nature] that climate s
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   by abathur 7y ago

   Maybe. Not sure what I think about that framing. FWIW, I was picking "eyeballs" as something wider than just ad revenue. I think ads are the big share, but I'm sure there are people/orgs who want eyeballs for other reaso
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   by abathur 7y ago

   I'm really interested in semantic authoring (not really structuring data with semantics--but marking semantics within running text), though I guess I'm disinterested in the semantic web. I agree with a lot of the problems noted in
6. 666.▲
   by abathur 7y ago

   I think this is one of the big issues. The semantic information does make it easier for end users to find what they're looking for, but it also made denial of traffic possible. In a lot of cases, the information was there to get eyebal
7. 667.▲
   by abathur 7y ago

   I guess by abuse you mean ~black-hat SEO? It seems likely (and perhaps obvious) that: - people will try to abuse it - abuse will keep it from supporting naive trust of semantic information published by untrusted third parties But we're
8. 668.▲
   by abathur 7y ago

   Discussion of Mozilla's announcement also at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21835749
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   by abathur 7y ago

   > Suspicion, bias, identity, and a whole schwack of other things, all fall under the domain of psychology. For sure. I just mean the act of pivoting and re-framing. It's hard to imagine the contiguous core motive that brought you to
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    by abathur 7y ago

    I started responding to your GP comment, but I moved it here (and lightly edited/expanded it) to let you know that I see you (though your pivot from "suspicion" and "bias" to "psychology" and "ident
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    by abathur 7y ago

    Also, the US still has fairly high emissions per capita--something like 2x China, 6.7x Brazil, and 8.5x India (though I think these numbers also leave something to be desired in terms of how they consider other factors the GP notes like def
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    by abathur 7y ago

    Aha. And so here we are, watching something we thought was steadfast float slowly out to sea. The ability to let people say shitty things without trying to shut them up is one more thing we need trust for. (For example, we need to be able t
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    by abathur 7y ago

    I'm not really posting to refute. Just a few scattered thoughts, I guess. Anywhere you have trust, there's a potential for abuse. A seemingly natural response to abuse of trust is to find a lapse in the victim's vigilance and
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    by abathur 7y ago

    Ditto.
15. 675.▲
    by abathur 7y ago

    While I haven't taken the leap to using a JWT in any of these cases yet and am a little bearish on them, I do also feel like the baby goes out with the bath-water, here. Nothing about adopting JWT says you can't still use a full a
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    by abathur 7y ago

    I'm bearish on JWTs in many cases for reasons enumerated here and elsewhere. But I do use them in one place with a revocation scheme similar to this. On init, instances build an in-memory bitwise blacklist that token IDs are checked ag
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    by abathur 7y ago

    Maybe true, but don't lose sight of the fact that "Unitarians, Presbyterians, Quakers, Baptists, Episcopalians, Jews, Shakers" all come from the same tradition/belief/value family tree, as it were. They were all onc
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    by abathur 7y ago

    While it seems like this could be true under some circumstances, I don't see how or why this would be inherently true. (Also, picking "billionaires" as the standard here is a strawman; GP didn't say anything about bill
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    by abathur 7y ago

    I guess some simple (probably too-simple) possibilities are: 1. They aren't just trying to beat inflation. * 2. Viable ways to make money change depending on the scale of the money you're trying to tie up. A lot of things don&#x27
20. 680.▲
    by abathur 7y ago

    Maybe like an NBA GM or something.
21. 681.▲
    by abathur 7y ago

    Right. Roughly my concern. In the immediate, not killing civilians is great. In the longer run, being able to take out who you want without killing innocents modifies the moral calculus. You don't have to justify the turpitude of your
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    by abathur 7y ago

    An injunction would be nice, though I'm not sure if a court would see anyone as having sufficient standing to stop the gears entirely.
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    by abathur 7y ago

    Thinking like a different kind of hacker. I like it.
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    by abathur 7y ago

    This feels like an alt-take on That Scene in The Dark Knight. In a good way? :)
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    by abathur 7y ago

    FWIW, Paul Graham's essay circulating on HN today ( http://paulgraham.com/lesson.html , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729619 ) is a good example/approximation of what described in paragraphs
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    by abathur 7y ago

    I've wondered about this, in the years since. Does anyone else have a sense of what (if any) pragmatic technical steps could effectively deter or neuter this tactic? If the network can't demonstrate the ability to at least pump th
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    by abathur 7y ago

    Ah. Yes. The good ol' reductio-ab-London argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London
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    by abathur 7y ago

    It feels like you're lobbing points from trench to trench. I am not in either trench, and wouldn't like to be (there are weird things in both trenches), so I'm doing what I can to avoid the established battle lines. I am not
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    by abathur 7y ago

    Last fall, my father asked what I thought about a video on YouTube that took a passage from the Book of Revelation, upcoming astral events from Stellarium, and interpreted them into an end-days prediction. I said that it held about as much
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    by abathur 7y ago

    Thank you for taking the time to read this; it took me long enough to write that I was afraid it would be for naught. I think you are reading me more narrowly than I want to be read, but I don't fault you there. I am not good at comm