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by alasdair_ 2y ago
The difference is that in Europe, you apply to take a specific subject at university, like Computer Science, and there are only so many spots available so that effectively caps the class sizes. You don't have a bunch of other people ta
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
If I want to hire an artist, I'd like to see their portfolio. If they don't have commercial work they can show me, I'd like to see things they created on their own time.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
>It should be able to learn how to drive a car just as fast as a human does. So after 16 years of processing visual data at high resolution and frame rate, and experimenting with physics models to be able to accurately predict what happe
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
The hope is that the 300 Sandy Millers can find jobs at other places that simply couldn't afford to have a staff of ANY customer support agents in the past (because they needed 300 of them but couldn't pay, so they opted for zero
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
>the classification is essentially "I know it when I see it". I already see it when it comes to the latest version of chatGPT. It seems intelligent to me. Does this mean it is? It also seems conscious ("I am a large langua
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
It has a battery in it (the puck is compute). It lasts 2 hours at the moment.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
The point of AR is all the new stuff you can do with it. For example, imagine running facial recognition on it to remind you the name of someone you met once a year ago. Or having your map route overlayed as a blue trail like a videogame. W
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
>Edit: For all the cynics and doomsayers here, consider this: Tor has been around for a long time, but there has never been an uptick in arrests that could be correlated to cracking the core anonymity service. If you look closely at the
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
The point is that there aren't only two sites available on the clearnet. Is the idea that you find a unique file size across every single site on the internet? My understanding (that may be totally wrong) is that there is some padding
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
My first thought was actually "I could probably do that myself given some motivation" Hiring people on something like fiverr could take care of most of the manual part. My point is that if I could do it, a nation state cracking do
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
My point is that it doesn't require "vast resources". A VPS is $5 a month. A thousand of them would be in the disposable income budget of a single FAANG engineer never mind a nation state. Pay people on Fiverr to set them up
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
If I don't know the whole chain (or I don't use a timing attack with a known guard and exit node) then I don't see how I'd know who sent the packet in the first place. The person in the chain would connect to a random to
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
Iran probably has enough money that it could pay a thousand different isps in a thousand different ways with a thousand different os versions and tor versions. This could all be automated pretty easily.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
>The answer is less than 0.14%. Is this per circuit? So if someone switches circuits every X hours, the chance of being caught after a year is actually quite high? And even catching 0.14% of pedophiles would probably be worth it to the F
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
Here is what I don't understand: Let's say I as a private individual fund 1000 tor nodes (guard and exit nodes included) and have them all log everything. This could cost less than $5000 for a month, with some time needed to get g
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
I can't see a gated community being much of a deterrent to a gang of kidnappers sophisticated enough to use these services to find potential victims. Maybe if the gate has armed guards and a strict "no tailgating" policy with
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
>Imagine a government agent buys drugs on the dark web and arrests the courier. The courier protests, "I didn't know it was drugs, I didn't ask what was in the package". Do you think that defense is going to keep the
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
>By not keeping logs, you are intentionally hindering law enforcement. This is why I keep a diary indicating every single person I've ever interacted with, along with the date, time and place. It's a pain to do so and it takes
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
The satellite stuff is the reason why I'd buy it. I only need to use it once to be worth the money.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
Real AR with very lightweight glasses that work outdoors and don't use camera passthrough would be a massive market. The problem is that we are still far away from that point.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
It's not a loan, it's considered a security.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
It’s 0.5% plus a portion of the asset appreciation, not just 0.5%
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
There is already a 13.something million dollar exception. If the house is worth more than that it should be taxed anyway.
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
One solution to deciding how much an asset is worth is to let you declare any value you want for it, with the caveat that if someone is willing to pay you more than the declared value, you must sell it to them. Now obviously things like tra
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
Sell it to dental insurance companies who charge different amounts depending on how frequently you brush your teeth and for how long?
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by alasdair_ 2y ago
Just make PII copyright of the person it identifies, similar to how a "likeness" is owned by a person. Then sue for copyright infringement.
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by alasdair_ 3y ago
Like Russia and Ukraine.
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by alasdair_ 3y ago
>Much of medical research has been on males for male problems Or even men for pills designed for women. e.g. https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/a-drug-for-women-test...
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by alasdair_ 3y ago
With a large enough version of this, safety could be an issue. Imagine getting trapped in the center and never being able to leave.
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