admax88q

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by admax88q 8y ago
Group A doesn't have it as bad as Group B, therefore Group A is never allowed to complain about anything.
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by admax88q 8y ago
> AdBlockers are just too important. I mean you can still install them from F-Droid, especially if you prefer open source.
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by admax88q 8y ago
> In other words, a decentralized trust-based system allows, for example, for a second-hand market for among other things digital assets. This sounds like you're trying to use blockchain to invent artificial scarcity for "digi
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by admax88q 8y ago
> Most early-stage startup use the best practice of “delete=1” Honestly that's a bad best practice if the data your collecting is sensitive, which PII is.
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by admax88q 8y ago
> They're not tracking you because they hate privacy They're tracking you because they're indifferent to your privacy, and they can make money by violating it. The writing has been on the walls for a while ever since ad bl
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by admax88q 8y ago
Yeah only druggies J-walk.
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by admax88q 8y ago
> It's possible that this project is Uber's last ditch effort at existing, in which case there would be enormous pressure on everyone to make self-driving work at any cost. If you're an engineer at Uber and you're fac
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by admax88q 8y ago
> So they can mine honestly on Coin 1 for a while, then switch to Coin 2 and do some double-spend attacks, then when Coin 2's price collapses, they switch back to Coin 1 or move on to Coin 3. The miner has no long term incentive to
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by admax88q 8y ago
I can also think of many things a bad employee might do that the employer should probably care about. But if you hired someone you've given them a tremendous amount of responsibility and power, if you can't trust them to do their
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by admax88q 8y ago
> If GDPR applies to Bitcoin, _who_ would you demand the purge action from? Any company that operates under jurisdiction of the GDPR and runs blockchain nodes? If they are unable to comply then they shouldn't run nodes. I don't
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by admax88q 8y ago
I think the term "blockchain" implies more than just a merkle-tree but some level of distributed concensus. A plain merkle-tree or merkle-list. Such technology has been around for a while before "blockchain" was such a
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by admax88q 8y ago
> But do those things really contribute to the sophistication of the software? > Can you really say that the second bit of code is more "complex"? I don't think you should equate complexity with sophistication.
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by admax88q 9y ago
> The promise of JITs outperforming AoT compiled code has never really materialized. Well JITs do actually outperform AoT compiled code today. Java is faster than C in many workloads. Especially large scale server workloads with huge h
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by admax88q 9y ago
I don't know I think you're getting caught up too much on the specifics of what they're doing. CPU's are adopting JIT like tendencies in order to increase performance. Instruction reorder, register renaming, branch pred
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by admax88q 9y ago
The point I'm trying to make with the analogy is that the x86 instruction set is not representative of what the hardware is actually doing. It is not "low level" because it is an abstraction or virtual platform that the proce
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by admax88q 9y ago
None of the "registers" in x86 assembly are real. Few of the instructions are implemented in hardware, most are impelmented in software microcode. Advanced hardware will re-order and pipeline instructions based upon data dependen
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by admax88q 9y ago
> If C is not a low level language then a low level language does not exist for modern CPUs I think that's a fair conclusion though, I don't think the article is misleading. x86 assembly is a high level language. It's ana
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by admax88q 9y ago
But they won't. The reason they're willing to store and serve all the information for us is so they can mine it for revenue. They're not going to adopt homomorphic encryption and lock themselves out from their primary (only
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by admax88q 9y ago
Homomorphic encryption is interesting from a mathematics perspective, but in practical terms it seems like an awful lot of effort being invested to move even more computing off of your own devices and onto the "cloud."
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by admax88q 9y ago
Or perhaps journalists could actually do some investigative reporting rather than treating blog posts as even a potential source of truth.
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by admax88q 9y ago
> If you can't handle the stress of me watching over your shoulder while you code then you can't handle the stress of getting a critical bug fixed immediately. Those are two very different kinds of stress. In one situation you&
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by admax88q 9y ago
Don't worry, if it doesn't than the network will just fork to return all investors money. Because "the code is the contract" except when it's not.
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by admax88q 9y ago
> You mean, unless you browse the web and enable javascript... Even then, if you're only hitting Gmail, Facebook and reddit, hackernews maybe a few news sites, you're gonna be fine most of the time. Yeah sometimes malware gets
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by admax88q 9y ago
They shouldn't market it as "autopilot"
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by admax88q 9y ago
How did diabetics even manage to buy sugar-free snacks before Amazon's recommendation engine? Thank god for Amazon profiling them, they must have been starving before.
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by admax88q 9y ago
> But this doesnt sound "radical" at all. It really is radical to the current culture of silicon valley where every product must be "smart," collect user data to provide recommendations and "analytics." Ther
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by admax88q 9y ago
> But we haven't figured out a way to scale the vending machine model yet, Haha sure we have, it just isn't as profitable as the current solutions which are to collect as much data as you can and use that information secondary
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by admax88q 9y ago
If the purpose of a company is profit, is there really a distinction?
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by admax88q 9y ago
Java applets were huge, and still are quite big in enterprise.
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by admax88q 9y ago
Sure it does. Why did they want a higher performance JS VM for the browser? The language of choice to build interactive applications on the web before JS was really viable was Java. A high performance JS VM means we don't need to use

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