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by bawolff 3mo ago
> This is fully end to end encrypted! We use the WISP protocol for TCP-over-websockets. Umm, that doesn't sound right. By definition, i dont think you can be end2end encrypted in a web browser, since your server controls what code i
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by bawolff 3mo ago
I guess, but it seems like if your encoding is not ascii compatible its better to just store as a blob anyway. Even without the null issue its not like string functions not expecting utf-32 would give reasonable answers.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
if people aren't buying the bonds, then people do not believe that they are doing amazing.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
But how much less then normal. Like the logic here is the scalper company buys all the crops and then resells at an exorbitant mark up because everyone needs to eat, but then the market price becomes what the scalper is selling for. Would t
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Yes, although i would argue that a cartel suppressing supply is a different mechanism than what is happening with scalpers. The onion futures thing is kind of interesting, because it was essentially the opposite of a scalper - they didn&#x2
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by bawolff 3mo ago
What is it that they don't understand about live music?
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by bawolff 3mo ago
There is a reason this doesn't work in general though. If you bought up all the food, farmers would raise prices until either you couldn't afford to do that anymore or eventually there is a splurge of new farmers taking advantage
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by bawolff 3mo ago
I never liked writing cursive. Then i tried a fancy pen once and it was so much better. I suspect cheap ballpoint pen killed cursive as much as anything else did.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
I mean, there was that whole elephant hunting thing...
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by bawolff 3mo ago
> eh, other countries can improve their offering. Or they could use coercive measures to punish the countries undercutting them. There is no world police after all to prevent them. A big reason why capitalism works is 2 factors: its easy
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by bawolff 3mo ago
> As I pointed out, if Ireland didn't adopt it's tech FDI policy which it did in the 1990s, it would be a much poorer country today. Perhaps, but if you want to measure the effect it had on ordinary Irish people you should be u
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by bawolff 3mo ago
> Why should Ireland undermine 13% of it's GDP Undercutting other countries on tax policy tends to piss them off. So it comes down to whether the benefits of the policy outweigh the blowback. The 13% of GDP figure can be a bit misle
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by bawolff 3mo ago
> Alberta coal Alberta doesn't have any coal power plants afaik.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
I mean, if you own a house (you cant put solar on the roof of something you don't own), you probably do have access to loans. Houses make great collerateral. Not neccesarily saying it makes economic sense to get a loan to install solar
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Probably people are responding less to the dumbness of the take and more the arrogance of the tone combined with the dumbness of the take. Everyone has dumb takes, not everyone is an asshole while giving their dumb takes. Regardless i do ag
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by bawolff 3mo ago
In fairness, minimizing surface area (doing nothing unless you need to) is security 101, so i hardly think that is a criticism.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
I never believe people when they say, we would have been famous if not for one piece of bad luck 35 years ago. Yeah, i'm sure the lawsuit was crappy and set things back. But if you can't recover after 35 years, then its something
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Then life moves on without you in the club. Unless they are chosing something super obscure and sketchy, most club members are going to be fine with the leader just saying, we're picking whatsapp, either join or dont.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
I think there is less cost to being in multiple chat platforms than multiple social media platforms.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Hopefully though we will slowly wean off the live vaccine. For the most part the live vaccine is only used in developing countries. There are a bunch of factors that make that difficult but i think eventually we will get there.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Well also Rinderpest, but i suppose you meant human disease. Personally i'd call smallpox as actually eradicated despite the samples. I think its fair to call other diseases effectively eradicated, even if they aren't total. If le
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Really, you don't find it plausible that environment could affect mood? I dont know if the hypothesis in the paper is correct, but it seems clear that environment can affect mood in some cases. There is a reason why night clubs and lib
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by bawolff 3mo ago
We generally do give a lot of credit to programs that do something novel. The first gets a lot of credit. But if its just another CRUD app, nobody cares. Its the same with proofs. First time someone proves something gets a lot of credit. Th
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Just because someone can get around rules doesn't neccesarily mean they will want to.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Fun fact: cameras have existed long before cellphones (let alone smart phones) Its draconian not because selfies are a fundamental need, but because they seem harmless. Rules should be justifiable.
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by bawolff 3mo ago
Yeah, but you pay the cost for outgoing messages and set the cost for incoming messages. The incentives aren't super well aligned, and its difficult to convince people to pay a cost to contact you when they cant force it to be reciproc
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by bawolff 3mo ago
What age groups are we talking here, because if we're talking about a 7 year old, giving them unfettered screen time is probably bad parenting. However if we are talking about someone old enough to have gf/bf its probably also bad
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by bawolff 3mo ago
> My son only gets Calls, Messages, Maps, Camera (so we can video call, but I've ruthlessly turned off selfies), Photos, and Music. Nothing else. I get that the internet is an addictive scary place with lots of content potentially d
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by bawolff 3mo ago
> Who cares how or why it got forwarded, or whatever else? Because it broke enough niche usecases that lots of people didn't feel comfortable fully turning on dmarc in strict mode. Fixing that will hopefully spike adoption
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by bawolff 3mo ago
> Or just use Hashcash or any other PoW. People love the idea of this, but i don't think it really makes sense. How high do you set the PoW to? I dont think there is any middle ground that would actually deter attacks but not deter

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