andrewla

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by andrewla 7mo ago
Forgery here would be stealing someone else's ticket code for resale, or selling the same ticket multiple times.
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by andrewla 7mo ago
It's a moving target. Forging tickets has gotten easier and easier, and as tickets get more expensive it becomes more and more lucrative. Law enforcement is generally not helpful for this sort of petty larceny so they are looking for s
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by andrewla 7mo ago
Decades upon decades of holograms and watermarks on tickets to make them unforgeable. But it keeps getting easier to forge them. Meanwhile ticket prices keep increasing (venue space is one of the last things that's truly scarce) and th
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by andrewla 7mo ago
Why would you disagree with the parent post and then fail to provide the title of the book in your own response? Just give the name of the book, please.
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by andrewla 7mo ago
Can we make things so that you don't need a smartphone? I don't think this is as trivial as you're making it out to be. Having a non-exfiltratable bearer token is really really hard. In order to present a zero-knowledge proof
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by andrewla 7mo ago
Ticket counterfeiting is the core problem that they are trying to prevent. If there's a fallback method then that fallback method can be abused to forge tickets. EDIT: I know complaining about downvotes is a downvotable offense itself,
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by andrewla 7mo ago
Really this is mainly about the ++ and -- operators. I think Go made the right call here and allows these only as statements, not as expressions. I will basically never use these in code I write and will remove it from code I maintain or re
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by andrewla 8mo ago
I am not a split keyboard person. But I have one big question -- why aren't the "middle" keys replicated on both sides of the keyboard? That is, for example, why not have two 'g' and 'h' keys? There are al
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by andrewla 8mo ago
I have also switched to nvim, but every release I consider moving back. Honestly a lot of this is that I hate Lua. With so much of the infrastructure moving in that direction it's basically unavoidable. XDG support was honestly one of
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by andrewla 8mo ago
I can't find an original source on the first one. To my eye it is ambiguous in the sense that he does appear to be taunting the officers or otherwise engaging with them. I may be mistaken here but without larger context it's hard
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by andrewla 8mo ago
I guess where we differ is that I believe that we've tried the other side and found it wanting. You can say that the Biden asylum catch-and-release policies did not include entitlement reform or worker protections so they don't co
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by andrewla 8mo ago
If you read the footnotes in the article, it is apparent that somewhere between 0 and 9 of the incidents described are Kavanaugh stops. The article is trying to play up the situation in order to cater to their audience, but they have suffic
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by andrewla 8mo ago
Would you mind linking to some of the videos? You link here to an episode of This American Life featuring 911 calls. While disturbing to listen to, without context, I don't hear anything to substantiate the claim of ICE agents menacing
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by andrewla 8mo ago
For anybody looking on, THIS sort of Big Lie behavior is extremely common in the US these days. Having a source that makes a false claim as a headline but refutes their own claims, while acting indignant, is extremely common in a media land
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by andrewla 8mo ago
I will remove that accusation in the interests of not distracting from my main point. I don't know you and the particulars of your situation and apologize for an unsupported insinuation.
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by andrewla 8mo ago
What can I say, I contain multitudes. I think that yes, they should be deported. This is not a punishment. If your solution is that they should not be deported, but employers should be prosecuted, then you're saying that you want the i
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by andrewla 8mo ago
I don't think he blames the immigrants specifically, so much as illegal immigration as an institution. The only "punishment" that most people want for illegal immigrants who have committed no crimes other than the immigration
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by andrewla 8mo ago
The article is paywalled but it seems the gist is that by restricting immigration and escalating deportation, we risk population decrease. What I find amusing about this is that it is roughly equivalent to saying that the United States need
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by andrewla 9mo ago
It really seems like there is no downside to this, other than the minuscule risk of a low-altitude puncture + spark causing a fire, and even there the exposure is small because the amount of hydrogen gas is so much small. Not to mention tha
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by andrewla 9mo ago
But every airfoil has an equilibrium angle of attack (not always stable with velocity) where it generates zero lift. The chordal angle of attack is for convenience because it depends only on airfoil geometry and not ambient velocity, but it
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by andrewla 11mo ago
If I had a nickel for every time a company that sends out optical disks bought Warner Brothers, I'd have $0.10, which is not a lot, but strange that it happened twice.
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by andrewla 11mo ago
If I had a nickel for every time a company that sends out optical disks bought Warner Brothers, I'd have $0.10, which is not a lot, but strange that it happened twice.
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by andrewla 11mo ago
I'm not convinced that this added latency will help, especially if everyone uses it. It may protect you as long as nobody else uses a cooldown period, but once everyone uses one then the window between the vulnerability being introduce
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by andrewla 11mo ago
Opinions vary, but I posted a link to a web page that he co-authored, which I would argue stands as a very significant and deep dismissal of his views on AI. If, after reading that essay, a person still feels that Scott Alexander has someth
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by andrewla 11mo ago
I reject the premise that https://ai-2027.com/ needs "refutation". It is a story, nothing more. It does not purport to tell the future, but to enumerate a specific "plausible" future. The "refutatio
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by andrewla 11mo ago
It is an attempt to predict a possible future in the context of AI. Basically a doomer fairy tale. It is just phenomenally dumb. Way worse than the worst bad scifi about the subject. It is presented as a cautionary tale and purports to be s
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by andrewla 11mo ago
Scott Alexander, the prominent blogger and philosopher, has many opinions that I am interested in. After encountering his participation in https://ai-2027.com/ I am not interested in hearing his opinions about AI.
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by andrewla 11mo ago
SROs still exist even in NYC; I used to live not far from one in Brooklyn that got bought and redeveloped. At one point in NYC there was a push for what they called "student living" or something, which was basically an SRO -- shar
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by andrewla 11mo ago
Yes -- the closing of mental hospitals was very much in response to a moral panic (possibly justified) against the unreasonable use of involuntary indefinite confinement. That combined with the inhumane conditions in the facilities themselv
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by andrewla 11mo ago
I'm not convinced at the narrative presented here, thought it seems compelling and worthy of further research. My understanding was that it was the tenant rights movement that killed SROs and boarding houses by making it practically im

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