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by arkh 9y ago
Most vague laws have been created to be enforced on some specific population. Now that they could be automatically used against anyone the ruling population which was not supposed to be affected is starting to question those laws. It is OK
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by arkh 9y ago
> The system is part of China’s efforts to build a digital surveillance system able to use a variety of biometric data — from photos and iris scans to fingerprints — to keep close tabs on the movements of the entire population. Currently
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by arkh 9y ago
> A perfect example of this is under armor. Why pay 40 dollars fora t-shirt when you can get 5 for that price? Because they suck and their sizing is way the fuck off.
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by arkh 9y ago
They never lasted ages. People just repaired them because it was economically a better choice. And most of them did not mind using clothes which were not perfect.
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by arkh 9y ago
But, how would you want to use your open source code as a resume if you could not be identified? Github and friends are to coders what twitter is for marketers: a "social" media to make money.
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by arkh 9y ago
I like their stance on it: > This system is very much symmetric. A transaction that commits generates pretty much the same amount of work as a transaction that aborts. This is very elegant, but it’s not best in practice, because very few
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by arkh 9y ago
And the "reasonable" response to this is to act like China: block those services. China showed it is possible so now the "lol it is Internet you can't stop people accessing things, VPN, crypto blablabla" spiel is pr
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by arkh 9y ago
> People are listening to music and setting timers, but they are also getting things done. I'd like some examples of those things getting done.
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by arkh 9y ago
> I think there are a lot of ways to make it harder for specific groups of people to vote. Like requiring them to register on some list making them volunteer for war before they can vote?
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by arkh 9y ago
When jQuery was young it was not alone. What are the current Dojo? Or the current Mootools, prototype?
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by arkh 9y ago
Nature is not a fucking intelligent being. Just tell it like you mean it and replace Nature with God in your message. Even if it is intelligent with a purpose, it would have made us with all our capacities. An important one being able to ma
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by arkh 9y ago
> everyone will race to have the same set of (currently) desirable traits I think it is not the case. Just on Earth you need different traits due to different climates and life conditions. Once we start really colonizing our solar system
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by arkh 9y ago
> all players are roughly on the same skill level, and can independently agree on who the current winner is It is even more fun when they don't. You can spend a lot of time arguing about who's ahead or on the way to be ahead a
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by arkh 9y ago
Here is the trick: gang up on the current winner. Playing with at least 3 or 4 players most games become more about diplomacy and getting other players to do what you want than getting good roll / cards. A good trick is to get hit hard
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by arkh 9y ago
So the important problem fixed by Bitcoin is getting some value which can be electronicaly moved. I guess banks never thought of offering this kind of service. Thanks Satoshi!
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by arkh 9y ago
> You see, despite being volatile, Bitcoin still solves important issues. Which ones? Can you use bitcoin to pay for some food? Or to get your roof fixed?
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by arkh 9y ago
This. Try to see the good parts of things. Someone is cursing you about your work? First, that's just words on a screen so you can close it to not see it. Two, this person bought your production so hey! your bank account feels better.
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by arkh 9y ago
> Abuse is the cost of doing business. Reading the article, that's the guy behind Firewatch. I think the problem is not his games but his social media use. I'd wager most of this abuse he received was after he DMCAed pewdiepie
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by arkh 9y ago
You just need to not give a fuck. It works for online interaction and it sure work for other parts of life. Care about what you can influence, don't about things you have no control over. Someone cut in front of you in traffic: good fo
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by arkh 9y ago
> the U.S. government would never put a major company like Intel in a position of risk like this to try to hold open a vulnerability The US government sure. The NSA? They sure would as this statement shows.
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by arkh 9y ago
Doing a lot of code maintenance what is the worst is most "smart" things. Every time I get to some indirection to be smart and I can't just ctrl-click on some line to get to the definition I'm angry. I don't want to
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by arkh 9y ago
How much time spent charging? Charging time is what make petrol win. Drive 500 miles, take 5mn to charge up and you're good for 500 more miles. Until EV can do this (surely through charging stations like petrol cars) they won't go
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by arkh 9y ago
Not two results. But "when you click on this after that this happen while it shouldn't" is usually enough info to start debugging: you have reproducible steps. Which you can do with a debugger running so you see exactly were
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by arkh 9y ago
> Because most of the time, it reduces "test precision". Which means when such a test detects an issue, there's now a bigger area of the code where the issue could be located. Tests are not a debug tool. Tests are here to
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by arkh 9y ago
I use a small truecrypt file containing text files with passwords generated randomly which is available online on some of my servers. Not perfectly secure nor the best ease of use but good enough for me and not using a third party. Note: as
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by arkh 9y ago
> As I'm sure you're aware, many content creators that you are reading the work of fund their efforts via ads. Not our problem if they bet on a brittle business model and don't want to adapt. Even more: the web ecosystem w
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by arkh 9y ago
I'll have a wild guess there: all devs and most managers have access to the full data set. Any disgruntled one could ex-filtrate it anywhere with not trace. That's the kind of things which make me for the vision of data as liabili
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by arkh 9y ago
You still benefit from your parent's network, you learn a lot more at a young age at home, you profit from their money while being raised. That's a huge difference between people from poor areas and those from even middle-class fa
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by arkh 9y ago
There are two extreme ways to remove the inheritance problem. One would be to forfeit personal property: you can't give what you don't own. The other would be to remove the concept of family: when born you are placed in a communal
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by arkh 9y ago
You need extremists like him. If he was a moderate we'd have stayed in the corporate moderate ecosystem we had: everything proprietary. When you want something to change you can't have only moderates as they're in fact happy

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