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by ardy42 6y ago
Even with IPv6, you're still in scenario 1 from my list. Also, using it would really only help with carrier-grade NAT. Someone with the amount of skill needed to setup a server probably has the skill setup port forwarding and dynamic
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This is also great for hiding and suppressing organization of social uprising. This would have totally suppressed all the BLM content this summer. I'm not so sure about that. That kind of policy would definitely put the breaks on
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Actually I don’t mind things being controlled by a smartphone over the Internet. That’s nice and convenient. What I object to is things being controlled by a company’s internet service, commanded by the user’s smartphone. One just requ
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I see people buying internet-required devices as the same people who buy the registry cleaners. They don’t know enough about computers themselves, and the advertorials/computer magazines don’t do them any favors. In some cases, yo
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Irrespective of why, cars and phones did not function in a more reliable manner back then. The statement is false. You're missing the point, and misinterpreting that statement to mean something far broader than it actually says.
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Say what you will.... I see and know a bunch of people wanting to move to america, and pretty much noone wanting to move to China. I know Chinese people who immigrated to the US who say they'd probably have made a different decisi
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by ardy42 6y ago
Your link isn't taking me to the comment, is this the one you're referring to? > Anonymous Anonymous said... > I started that piece but found it intolerable to read on. I do synpathize with your general point - that philosop
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I wish I remember the name that the professor used for this concept, but essentially, he argued that the same activity might be ethical or unethical depending on ease and scale. I hope you remember too, since so many drive-by internet
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I can see how this could be called sophisticated, but worry about language inflation because we still need something to describe technical feats that are govt/military level like Stuxnet. To start, I want to clear a potential conf
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by ardy42 6y ago
Sophistication isn't necessarily mean technical wizardry. IMHO, it's pretty sophisticated to thoroughly look for easily-exploitable goofs, and extract maximum value from them. The big advantage nation states have is probably mai
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by ardy42 6y ago
> This, in my opinion, overlays very well with doom scrolling partisan entertainment on facebook/instagram. No one enjoys it, but the intensity drives them back. But enjoyment-seeking isn't the only thing that motivates people
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I think this article is using "Gentrifying" as a synonym for "ruining" here? It sounds like they mean "gentrifying" in the conventional sense: quirky, cool neighborhood changes so only newly-arrived wealth
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by ardy42 6y ago
> At AWS, I once took an entire AZ down of a public-facing production service (with a mis-typed command), but that was nothing compared to when I accidentally deleted an entire region via internal console (too many browser tabs). Thank g
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Perhaps its not meant to signal virtue to the majority but instead to the decision makers. Perhaps the majority do not identify as a member but the members do. That's not "virtue signalling." If everyone involved in t
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Why do you feel it is inappropriate? Because my understanding is that most Chinese people do not consider the CCP to be virtuous nor do they "identify" with it. That's not to say they're dissidents, but more semi-d
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by ardy42 6y ago
> These names are all one-character long, rather than the standard two characters, and the surnames are some of the most common in China, so they end up having nonzero overlap. Two character given names aren't standard. At least in
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by ardy42 6y ago
> I'd imagine that a large number of those 91 million are people who hold membership for the purpose of group identification and virtue signalling, not because they have a specific role in a hierarchy. You're correct that most
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Pretty sure that was a point early in his presidency where he was block, but Twitter being a US company was not allow to block the US president....? IIRC, there was a lawsuit that ruled that the president was not allowed to block oth
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by ardy42 6y ago
There's zero evidence that's related to the NY Post story or Giuliani's hard drives. Anyway, this Hunter Biden thing is like trying to smear Devin Nunes with the antics of Anthony Nunes ( https://www.eastbaytimes.co
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by ardy42 6y ago
Like I said, it's a personal experience from a friend I trust. But if you need a cite, try this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25411282 .
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by ardy42 6y ago
> “Along with the personal identifying details of 1.95 million communist party members, mostly from Shanghai, there are also the details of 79,000 communist party branches, many of them inside companies”. According to Wikipedia, there ar
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Yes this is true. Being a party member is just passing a test and paying the membership fee. Not really. I have a friend who nearly joined in college. They had several rounds of applications: the first few went to kids with connectio
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by ardy42 6y ago
> A lot of people always complain about how hard it is to figure out what Urbit is, but I'm pretty sure the obfuscation is part of the plan.... > But as others have pointed out (including the author of the post), the idea is deep
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by ardy42 6y ago
> OK so do you give the treatment to the 10 year old kid who has a 0.000% chance of dying or the 76 year old who has a 5% chance of dying? You're jumping all over the place with your contrived hypotheticals. Are we still talking ab
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by ardy42 6y ago
> If there were a vaccine for AIDS, who should get it first, the sober person in a monogamous relationship or the IV drug user having unprotected sex? Giuliani didn't get a vaccine, he got treatment for an active infection. This is
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by ardy42 6y ago
That's true, but we're actually talking about YouTube here, not the government. So if false factual statements enjoy little First Amendment protection, then there's even less grounds to whine about a private party choosing n
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by ardy42 6y ago
> Who are "them" and "these people" here? Republican voters? The Republican leadership? I had in mind white supremacists, QAnon, Boogaloo Bois, etc. I don't think the people making false and baseless claims abou
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You don't need to protect speech everyone finds unobjectionable. I wasn't talking about objectionable opinions or perspectives. I was talking about lies and falsehoods , which are becoming alarmingly widespread. Even now t
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by ardy42 6y ago
>> Sure, it reduced tensions on reddit, but what about tensions everywhere else? The author doesn't care about how toxic Youtube is, he cares how toxic the US is. Pushing these radicals onto radical websites only further radical
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by ardy42 6y ago
> You dismissed my concern as "minor inconvenience". I acknowledge that for you its minor but for me its major inconvenience. I did, because your concern is something that should be dismissed. The hypothetical drunk driver I m

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