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by bccdee 5y ago
sure they can take the money back. they just make wikileaks pay them, or else they press charges against wikileaks for holding onto the proceeds of crime or whatever. even if you're insisting that censorship has to be preemptive, then
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by bccdee 5y ago
Here's one example. This guy was arrested for laundering money using Bitcoin. He was arrested for his transactions on the Bitcoin network. If you consider payments as the sort of thing that can be censored, then this certainly counts a
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by bccdee 5y ago
Why on Earth would politicians sign on to that? China, for instance, would just go "Ok we're blocking web4 entirely then. Communicate with us over censorable protocols or not at all." Technology shapes policy, but policy is a
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by bccdee 5y ago
You don't need a realtor to buy or sell houses; realtors advise, advertise, and network, lubricating the process so that you don't need to guess at what a good asking price is, or whether you need to repaint the walls. Blockchain
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by bccdee 5y ago
Exactly! This is my big critique about Web 3 — what can it actually do that we couldn't do already? The new things people propose as Web 3 use cases, e.g. interoperable game items, simply aren't practical. That's why they don
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by bccdee 5y ago
Yeah I bet there are good GUI tools out there, but I always want to go for the stuff I can script myself, so I can hook desktop notifications into it and such. It makes it hard for me to recommend backup tools to the non-technical people in
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by bccdee 5y ago
Sure, but if I'm not comfortable with the terminal, I probably shouldn't be too loud with my criticisms of shell scripts.
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by bccdee 5y ago
Is there any statistically-significant data on which backup applications are the most reliable? I'm not married to restic, but I'll judge it by first-hand experience in the absence of anything else.
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by bccdee 5y ago
I used to use borg and I migrated away from it to Restic when I somehow corrupted my backup archive. I dunno what I did, but I started getting "non-utf-8 filename" python errors every time I tried to access it. It might have had s
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by bccdee 5y ago
The problem is that your argument is unsound. > All of our leaders were "democratically" elected. We have one choice at the ballot and you can vote Yes or No. You place your "secret" ballot (filled out in a closed boo
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by bccdee 5y ago
It's part of establishing a brand for themselves. They want to be the face of the modern linux desktop. They've done a good job of this already with the tweaks they've made to GNOME (I run Pop_OS and I have had a very positiv
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by bccdee 5y ago
I assume `=` is the equivalent of `test` — it's a function invocation, and `[0, ==, 1]` are its arguments.
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by bccdee 5y ago
Probably the fact that these societies arose from violent revolutions doomed them. Revolutions tend to lead to authoritarian governments, because if you can take over the whole country with your army, you don't really need democracy
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by bccdee 5y ago
> In fact, I’m so impressed with how well The Profit scenarios illustrate the value of capitalism that I now build upon it a challenge to socialists: please describe in detail how The Profit style enterprise reform would happen under so
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by bccdee 5y ago
A socialist would argue that socialism is by definition democratic, and the fact that (eg) the USSR was totalitarian from the get-go means that it was never socialist. After all, a socialist society is definitionally one where power rests i
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by bccdee 5y ago
That assumes we'll have DVD drives 1000 years from now. The thing I like about HD-Rosetta is that it doesn't depend on any special technology to be readable. Magnification is the sort of technology that will always exist in any su
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by bccdee 5y ago
But 21st-century ROM isn't human-readable without a 21-st century computer. Would that survive a millenium? It's not enough to have a storage medium that lasts 1000 years; the entire tech stack has to.
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by bccdee 5y ago
Can he figure out how to build a charger for that e-reader from scratch? Wall sockets are going to be different in a millenium, if they even exist at all. With no manual, they could easily fry it with too much voltage before they actually g
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by bccdee 5y ago
There's no technical barrier to truncating a blockchain. Just create a new genesis block and have it initialize every account balance to the balance it held at the end of the previous block chain. You could discard all the junk data as
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by bccdee 5y ago
Electronics aren't that sturdy. Hard drives demagnetize, solid-state storage decays, and there's always the chance that a stray cosmic ray will fry something. Even if we could construct something that sturdy: After a millennium, h
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by bccdee 5y ago
Redlined neighbourhoods are still overwhelmingly black. Redlining destroyed property values and scared away businesses, creating ghettos that still exist today. The fact that many of the processes which created an unjust society are no long
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by bccdee 5y ago
> There's no fundamental difference between this and any other area of life where a wealthy network aids in success. Which is pretty much all of them. I can think of one rather prominent example where having a wealthy network doesn&
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by bccdee 5y ago
Yeah — I get my ebooks DRM-free and manage the contents of my Kobo through Calibre. It works great; I'm happy using my Kobo as little more than a screen for Calibre.
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by bccdee 5y ago
A net negative how? Because it's a non-necessary service? Then it's as much of a negative as nice restaurants or TV shows are. It's just supply and demand. There's demand for sex work, so there's a supply of sex wor
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by bccdee 5y ago
This is a terrible article. > One measure of this success is the media’s increasing insistence on referring to people used in prostitution and pornography as “sex workers.” What is being done to them is neither sex, in the sense of intim
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by bccdee 5y ago
I posted it as a reply to Rietty -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28343549 .
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by bccdee 5y ago
Sure: javascript:(function(){ function sleep(ms) { return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms)); } let sidehover = false; let guildhover = false; let sidebar = document.getElementsByClassName("sidebar-2K8pFh")[0]; let
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by bccdee 5y ago
> you still cannot collapse the sidebar on the left The sidebar bothers me all the time, when I want to have two windows side-by-side on my screen. The actual chat ends up being smaller than the sidebar. I wrote a javascript bookmarklet
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by bccdee 5y ago
It was an older project — from what I've heard, better VS project structuring has only been possible in newer VS editions.
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by bccdee 5y ago
I like explicit error handling, but I wish there were a concise way to handle errors from the same line. A one-line function call `foo()` becomes four times as long once you handle errors. result, err := foo() if err != nil {

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