andrewla

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by andrewla 4mo ago
I'm with you on the well-intentioned aspect. But it's not a question of poor execution -- there is simply no way to execute this. There is no way to achieve the goal (age-restricting websites) without identity verification. There
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by andrewla 4mo ago
This is underselling it -- an adult can sell these yubikeys untraceably, pocket the cash, and never think about it again in their life. If we tie the person's identity to the token (THIS IS A BAD IDEA) then if underage use is detected,
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by andrewla 4mo ago
Yes, it screams "conspiracy theories" because it is literally a theory that involves malign conspiracies. And yes, this is repellent to many people. It is most repellent, I think, to people who genuinely hold the belief ("I w
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by andrewla 4mo ago
If you mean this to say "this is probably the best we as a society can do on balance from a 'worse-is-better' approach" then I'm pretty much in agreement. But obviously this doesn't "solve the problem&quot
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by andrewla 4mo ago
I'm maybe a bit of an outlier here in that I do think that this is a genuine grassroots good faith effort to "protect the children" that does not have sinister ulterior motives. I know plenty of parents who have expressed ent
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by andrewla 4mo ago
Not a doctor, but the overdiagnosis concern is at the intersection of three phenomena: 1. Imaging is expensive, just in dollars and time, even without analysis 2. Imaging is not without impact -- CT scans, especially full body scans, expose
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by andrewla 4mo ago
> But arbitrary cancellations and delayed disbursements are unprecedented Is it though? I would like to see more evidence. The scale of the cuts is clearly larger than what we have experienced in recent history, but this has always been
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by andrewla 4mo ago
Well, color me impressed -- my understanding was that Roku was formed as a spinoff from Netflix around the release of their first streaming player. This is sort of confirmed by the Roku wikipedia article, which does not, for example, mentio
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by andrewla 4mo ago
The lagginess is a puzzle to me; one big selling point of the Roku (vs. e.g. the Amazon Fire Stick) is that it is so much more responsive, but newer models have been getting worse instead of better. The last time I used Apple TV I was disap
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by andrewla 4mo ago
Obviously preferences vary, but I would prefer to accumulate the goodwill rather than the ad fees. I'm not a saint and I would probably try to have some sort of "buy the roku streamer v7, now with <some new feature that I don&#
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by andrewla 4mo ago
As a long-time[1] customer of Roku I am tentatively extremely pessimistic. I have always been unhappy with Roku's decision to get involved in streaming content at all, because it could potentially cut into their service-agnostic archit
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by andrewla 4mo ago
Some alternative sources - Fox PR: https://www.foxcorporation.com/news/corp-press-releases/2026... - Reuters: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/fox-buy-roku-...
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by andrewla 4mo ago
Dug it up when I got home: https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/ewd12xx/EWD1297.PDF
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by andrewla 4mo ago
I think what I appreciate most are the smaller notes, that probably don't represent a publishable result in any way. There was one where he describes a problem that he had seen in an elementary school -- find a fraction between a/
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by andrewla 4mo ago
I have even experienced this in my personal life -- I like in NYC and when I moved here I had to get rid of a ton of books. The ones that I could not bring myself to part with ended up in boxes in my parent's basement where they remain
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by andrewla 4mo ago
I'm always sad to see books discarded; some hoarder instinct in me says that there must be some way to preserve them. My particular experience with book dumpster diving was when they were cleaning out the office of a former professor a
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by andrewla 4mo ago
I think philosophically this comes down to the Universal Church-Turing Thesis. If you believe that there is computation being done by nature/physics that is strictly more powerful than what a Turing machine is capable of, then consciou
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by andrewla 5mo ago
I may be a bit unorthodox here but to me the user interest is in minimizing the amount that it attempts to modify the web. Ad blocking is frankly not something I want my browser to do. I want it to make it hard to advertise -- things like f
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by andrewla 6mo ago
This seems like an area rife for a scam, like hurricane insurance or earthquake insurance. You pocket the money, and when disaster strikes, who is going to sue you when you do nothing? If there was a real bunker-worthy event then all your i
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by andrewla 6mo ago
When my kids were little they had a toy doctors set and the fake wooden stethoscope broke; replacing it with a real one was significantly cheaper than paying Melissa and Doug for a new one.
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by andrewla 6mo ago
For the first part -- silly because there's literally no evidence presented of a conspiracy. No connection between the individual agents and actors. No motivation given for the underlying commonalities. And most importantly, for this &
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by andrewla 6mo ago
> hint: it's not because of the kids Why the silly conspiracy theory? Can't something just be stupid and bad but well-intentioned? You really think lawmakers are involved in some secret cabal that wants to track everyone's
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by andrewla 6mo ago
> There is a zero percent chance this is organic Why go to the silly conspiracy theory place? Up until then I was in violent agreement, but things don't need to be a conspiracy to be bad. The rules are well-intentioned but poorly th
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by andrewla 6mo ago
I'm happy to find myself corrected but I'm somewhat skeptical. What is the limit on the scaling then? If we can scale up tokamaks, why aren't we right now building 10GW plants? 100GW plants? The scaling constraints on other f
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by andrewla 6mo ago
It looks like you're right -- what I've noticed is that ebook prices have remained steady (and too high) but what I failed to notice is that physical book prices have grown wildly since I was last looking at the situation. So mayb
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by andrewla 6mo ago
This is a mea culpa on my part -- looks like the situation here has improved*. I pretty much only buy ebooks now and the prices have been stable, but apparently print prices have been shooting up so the situation has now been corrected. * i
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by andrewla 6mo ago
Apologies if I've missed something, but isn't this all just a fantasy? None of the current methods for getting fusion power are even close to being practical -- even the theoretical net output experiments require extensive and sen
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by andrewla 6mo ago
I'm still using a Kindle Oasis (and bought a couple of unopened used ones on eBay). I need the physical page turn buttons so Amazon has basically abandoned me. Trying out the Boox and Kobo readers I was immediately struck by their legg
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by andrewla 6mo ago
In my view the death of the eReader is just the price fixing on ebooks -- that ebooks are sold at par with at a premium to physical books still bothers me, and I think is responsible for the fact that the Kindle is dying -- Amazon can'
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by andrewla 6mo ago
Has anyone done any interesting work on transflective / reflective frontlit LCD panels? It seems like this is rife for progress; LCDs can achieve densities and response rates that are beyond the reach of any eink device, and only the l

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