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by acdha 6mo ago
TD Bank believes it will make them a profit. Their interests are not those of eBay’s shareholders: if they can juice the financials long enough to sell their loan, they don’t care if the company goes bankrupt the minute after that sale clos
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by acdha 6mo ago
> Banks aren't stupid. Even a cursory familiarity with the history of the industry shows both that this is untrue but also that it’s leaving out many of the core reasons why finance is regulated. Bankers do make mistakes, but also t
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by acdha 6mo ago
> Cohen is already rich rich, his GameStop compensation doesn’t really matter much I think this argument is much stronger in the opposite direction: if his motivations were not focused on accumulating wealth, he’d be retired or running s
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by acdha 6mo ago
Terrorism comes in two flavors: you have small groups where a pure assassination strikes can work (e.g. Bin Laden) and larger groups backed by an actual social faction (e.g. the Taliban, Hamas, ISIS), where they don’t. The Somali pirates fa
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by acdha 6mo ago
Not unless you’re referring to significant mental illness, no. Individual people may vary if, say, I ask for health advice but if I ask the same doctor they’re not going to flip the answer based on whether I use medical or wellness influenc
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by acdha 6mo ago
That’s not a valid analogy: humans reliably perform that task billions of times daily. It’s still routine to find cases which reveal that while models may have improved on some basic tasks (or learned to call a tool) there isn’t a deeper un
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by acdha 6mo ago
If that was a military problem, they’d have done it. Unfortunately, it’s a societal problem and you can’t bomb governments into functioning or people out of poverty.
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by acdha 6mo ago
This is definitely complicated—I’m not a neuroscientist but worked for some and married one, so I’ve heard quite a few entries from the genre of how our brains fool ourselves or make our conscious experience seem more coherent and linear th
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by acdha 6mo ago
We subsidize driving by somewhat over a trillion dollars annually, mostly due to lax penalties for negligence which shift liability to drivers’ victims[1]. One way to tackle all of these problems would be requiring drivers to cover the full
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by acdha 6mo ago
I’m curious, what are you talking about for that long? It sounds like that’s moving out of the home automation space into something else.
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by acdha 6mo ago
Liquid Glass was also noteworthy for being the first macOS release since 10.1 which was worse across the board in a deliberate manner. They have shipped bugs before but this time it got such poor reception because all of the regressions wer
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by acdha 6mo ago
> Besides, nothing legally prevents placing code under a license. Enforceability is the question, not permission. That’s not how copyright works. If you don’t own the code, you can’t release it under a license. The question of how much h
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by acdha 6mo ago
Who’s doing it better? I have yet to hear from a Google or Amazon user who has a transformatively better experience, and I think that’s why they haven’t jumped so far because they have hundreds of millions of users who have daily habits tha
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by acdha 6mo ago
> My personal opinion for a while has been that crypto operations should be in the kernel so we can end the madness that is every application shipping it's own crypto and trust system which has only gotten worse since containers wer
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by acdha 6mo ago
Sure, nobody’s saying it’s an inscrutable mystery but if your goal is to inform a wide audience it’s considered good form to expand all but the most common acronyms. It’ll even get you more internet points than petty smugness.
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by acdha 6mo ago
That’s very optimistic. I’d bet there are an order of magnitude more people wondering how exposed they are than security researchers reading this.
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by acdha 6mo ago
I don't think that's a fair dismissal: you see ads all over media websites because the rates have been plummeting as consumers tune out ads. One main reason why everyone does is that ads are so obtrusive and repetitive, and that&#
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by acdha 6mo ago
Jane Austen died long enough ago that her works are in the public domain, so Winters did not need a license to use it. That does not mean that he gained rights to her work: if he tried to sue someone for use of anything which appeared in th
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by acdha 6mo ago
It was worse than that: they forced _everyone_ into it, whether or not you had any interest in using it. They did this before having notification control or usable filtering[1] so what this meant was for most of year, you'd login to Gm
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by acdha 6mo ago
This stopped working in the mid-Atlantic when invasive tiger mosquitoes arrived. They need like a bottle cap sized amount of water so even things like a flower can hold enough water for them to reproduce. We’re using scented lures which hav
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by acdha 6mo ago
They’ve been like that since the turn of the century. This is like eating every meal at McDonald’s and wondering why your health is suffering.
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by acdha 6mo ago
> The execution flows of individual async tasks are still linear, much like individual threads are linear. Think about what happens: 1. Request one hits an await in foo() 2. Runtime switches to request two in bar() until it awaits 3. Run
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by acdha 6mo ago
> I always thought this method could be used to provide a/c for neighborhoods, operated as a neighborhood utility. I've not seen it done tho. I've seen neighborhood owned water supplies and sewer systems; it tells me the o
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by acdha 6mo ago
Expecting scientific rigor is not a bad bias: everyone who has been willing to do actual science agrees that climate change is real and significant. For example, Richard Muller was a climate skeptic who had a great job at one of the most pr
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by acdha 6mo ago
Basically it’s the non-linear execution flow creating situations which are harder to reason about. Here’s an example I’m trying to help a Node team fix right now: something is blocking the main loop long enough that some of the API calls ma
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by acdha 6mo ago
There’s also a really good operational benefit if you have limits like total RAM, database connections, etc. where being able to reason about resource usage is important. I’ve seen multiple async apps struggle with things like that because
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Trump ousts National Science Board members(washingtonpost.com)
21 points by acdha 6mo ago|2 comments
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by acdha 6mo ago
In 1999, most websites were not hostile because they weren’t chasing diminishing returns from ad-tech companies. Most of the companies I worked with were trying direct revenue models getting people to buy things or subscribe directly, and t
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by acdha 6mo ago
I am still surprised that Keycloak makes this so hard. They finally added support for n=2 but it’s still walled off behind a “this is experimental, use at your own risk” warning, and it’s something that literally every OIDC client needs to
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by acdha 6mo ago
He was incentivized to win the bet. The military does not want people to have outside loyalties because that creates problems any time they’re not perfectly aligned – for example, if they had orders to minimize team or civilian casualties y

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