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by avodonosov 1y ago
What journalists are good at? Politics? Economy? Technology? History? Weather? Sports? Anything else? (Disclaimer: I didn't say they are bad at all of those) PS. Read the original paper if you don't like the article.
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by avodonosov 1y ago
Why did you stop?
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Marijuana hospital visits linked to dementia diagnosis within 5 years – a study(cnn.com)
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Youtube (esp. shorts)
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by avodonosov 2y ago
You are right that the scheme I described is vulnerable. Even without MITM. Just fakeserver.com upon receiving request from client sends equal request to server.com, which creates the needed DNS record and thus real client is "convince
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by avodonosov 2y ago
In the scheme I descrubed where client directly runs challenges the certificates are not issued at all. I am not saying this scheme is really practical currently. That's just an imaginary situation coming to mind, illustrating the incr
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by avodonosov 2y ago
First impression: with automation and short lived certificates, the Certifying Authorities become similar to Identity Providers / OpenID Provider in openid / openid-connect. The certificates are tokens. And significant part of sec
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by avodonosov 2y ago
> a U.S. company named Cicada 137 LLC sued Mr. Medjedovic in Ontario. The identity of the person or people behind the company is unknown, but Cicada said it lost US$9.69-million worth of digital tokens to the exploit. (It’s common for si
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Transformer is just an example. We observe a constant stream of information shared by companies, even now, when "AI" is booming.
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Interesting. Do you know any particular court cases? My wikipedia link above in turn links to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareholder_primacy , which says in the last paragraph: "The doctrine waned in later yea
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by avodonosov 2y ago
People may be altruistic, but in a company setting they may have no possibility for altruism. CEO decisions influence property of others (the shareholders) so he can not freely pursue altruistic goals. I heard that Dodge v. Ford Motor Co. w
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by avodonosov 2y ago
What motivates the commercial AI companies to share their research results and know-how? Why did Google published the Transformer architecture instead of keeping it to themselves? I understand that people may want to do good things for huma
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by avodonosov 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43618143
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by avodonosov 2y ago
I would add some obasan - the female counterpart of "ojisan"
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by avodonosov 2y ago
> What is missing from the debate is that import/export equilibrium should be achieved on a global level, not on a national level. On global level it's always balanced. (How can it be otherwise?)
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by avodonosov 2y ago
So he says foreigners buy US assets for the dollars US pays them for their goods, and that's the problem - the US being sold out. My question: don"t these foreigners become Americans in a sense? E.g. by holding shares of US compan
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by avodonosov 2y ago
"The Looming Future" chapter of the article. I didn't know all those hortiboe things are planned.
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Breaks compatibility. They remove or rename functions often and openly say they are not going to maintain compatibility.
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Thx for the explanation, makes sense.
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by avodonosov 2y ago
I also wonder why "header only" is advertized. As for the compilation cost, modern C++ tries to adress that with modules.
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by avodonosov 2y ago
> - Optimistic writes should on client are hard This is out of scope - I don't mean a functional equivalent of instantdb. Just a database in browser. > - Reliable communication is hard The same, no special requirements. Just send
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by avodonosov 2y ago
They elaborate on the conflicts in the "80/20 for Multiplayer" section of this essay: https://www.instantdb.com/essays/next_firebase (make sure to also read the footnote [28] there).
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Why he haven't implemented a full Datomic Peer for his DataScript I never understood. Having a datalog query engine, supplying it with data from Datomic indexes - b-tree like collections storing entity-attribute-value records - seems s
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Alternatively to cryptocurrency, some other useful c9mputation. Like contribution to BOINC. Only need to find a way to prove the computation.
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Yes, I was also thinking of this. "proof of pay" or "proof of a transaction" An advantage of this would be not wasting electricity for the proof of work computation.
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by avodonosov 2y ago
This time the site content will not be available if the challenge computation is blocked.
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by avodonosov 2y ago
And the mention links to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinhive which redirects to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monero#Mining_malware
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Ideas: - Make it generate cryptucurrency, so that the work is not wasted. Either to compensate for server expences hosting the content, or for some noble non-profit cause - all installations would collect the currency to a single account. W
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43427679
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by avodonosov 2y ago
Compare the statistics of murders per capita in your city and the US city you plan to visit. I think your fear is unreasonzble. But it's a good thing to avoid travel. By fying across ocean you would contribute to environment damage by

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