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by asymptosis 6y ago
Yes, I was a little confused at why the article framed it as "a loss for ISPs". Did ISPs pay Ars Technica to put a spin on it?
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Everyone can do better.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
You'll figure it out eventually.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
I'm not talking about consciousness adhering to logical consistency (I think it actually requires completeness ). I'm talking about all parts of a given mind needing to agree on what the current focus of attention is. Failure to
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by asymptosis 6y ago
The author has perhaps overlooked CAP theorem. Consciousness requires both consistency and high-availability, thus it can't arise in situations of partitioned networks. Brains (or, at least, most healthy brains) are unpartitioned. But
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by asymptosis 6y ago
It seems likely that the author has just aged and is noticing different things about the world. And people who didn't seem like culture heroes at the time, now seem in hindsight like they were always culture heroes. Rich people and pol
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Yes. And it didn't have to be an all-or-nothing thing. It's also plausible that cow milk was used for babies who lost their mother. So to create an evolutionarily significant effect, it was sufficient to simply select for babies w
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by asymptosis 6y ago
I came here to say the exact same thing. Who even goes around comparing things to seeds anyway? The writer was trying to be cute but just ended up saying something bizarre and stupid.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
This reminds me of the art on the walls in Prey (2017), eg https://giantbomb1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/0/5370/30...
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by asymptosis 6y ago
> and likely already is today. This is the claim that requires backing up. Since offering emails in base64 form is not usually done, I consider it pretty unlikely that bots have been specially modified to go around checking everything
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by asymptosis 6y ago
When did I say that? Maybe someday address scraping bots will learn base64. Maybe it will be at about the same time you learn to read.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
The person you're replying to didn't say anything about whether or not sociological studies are or are not real science. Being unable to make that distinction, do you think you're in a good position to explore the scientific
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Base64 would be better: unlikely to be automatically checked by bots, easy to decode, and guarantees that the decoded form matches the true email.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
> Australia won't dare set up national firewalls I wouldn't be so sure about that. Australian govt is pretty open to implementing draconian laws. We've already got mandatory ISP metadata retention; we don't have a bil
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Sure, it's a stupid law, but that's a separate issue to the idea that Google's response is also self-defeating. We're already laughing at the idea of Google search no longer being available, like do they think we haven&#
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by asymptosis 6y ago
I'm not convinced of the relevance of your strawman.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
Not precisely jokes, but the Unix Koans are both fun and insightful: https://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/unix-koans/
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by asymptosis 6y ago
> This currently only works on Mac OS X. That is already a sign that this project is not going to go anywhere. Anyone who wants to build a server or make this part of their seedbox is going to use Linux or one of the BSDs.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
I had exactly the same thought. I suspect there is a personality difference in play where some people find themselves trying to analyse the music, so it acts as a distraction for them. Compared to them, I sink into the energy/rhythm of
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by asymptosis 6y ago
I guess you're not a fan of "du", "df" or "su" either.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
That could happen. So don't forget. Or don't worry so much. A little personal responsibility and stoicism is called for; when you mess up, learn from the mistake and move on with your life.
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by asymptosis 6y ago
One tactic to consider is fragment your identity into multiple profiles representing different facets of your life. Your "work self", with your company's email address has one google account. When you leave the company, disca
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by asymptosis 6y ago
It is a bit offputting that the install script expects sudo rights just to copy a file from a user-readable directory to a user-writeable directory. That is literally the only place where sudo is used, so it should be removed. (After removi