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by beager 9y ago
In a sense, if the growing power requirements for cryptocurrency mining box out players who can't afford the compute and the energy, wouldn't that give all the power to the monied players anyway?
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by beager 9y ago
What if I don’t need a scalable blockchain, but I need a tamper-proof persistent ledger? Are there tools that are lighter-weight that can help me there?
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by beager 9y ago
You can bet they got paid in fiat.
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by beager 9y ago
The OWASP Top 10 isn't changing because we can't (or won't) stop not patching those issues. Quite telling that when talking about how to move beyond the baseline security struggles of the OWASP Top 10, TFA provides only super
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by beager 9y ago
I think it's because secretly, people think they've got a chance to be in on the con and make bank before the regulators show up.
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by beager 9y ago
Occam's razor. These guys are not planning on building anything real, they mimed the usual pattern of celebrity-pimping an ICO based on smoke and mirrors and will pocket the money after this all dies down. Another one for the "sha
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by beager 9y ago
> In the U.S. I'm not even sure what such a mechanism would look like? How could you enforce this? Some entity produces the data that finds roads unfit for driving based on weather and publishes it, local governments consume that da
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by beager 9y ago
I think a good question that follows from that is: how unsafe is too unsafe for autonomous vehicles? Can we evaluate roads in some generalized way that will not only prevent autonomous vehicle activity, but inform local governments about wh
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by beager 9y ago
IMO if you solve for inclement weather and snow you've brought the capabilities of autonomous vehicles to a nationally viable level.
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by beager 9y ago
I'm under the impression that New York City does this. Effective property tax rates in the 5 boroughs are strikingly low contrasted with surrounding counties, but only for a certain number of units. After a certain number, your propert
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by beager 9y ago
I believe they attributed this to MAU/DAU of Digits[0] who are not otherwise MAU/DAU of Twitter. Ostensibly, users who use Digits to sign into 3rd-party apps ride in the same DB as bona fide Twitter users, and they just didn'
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by beager 9y ago
Similar racially-motivated tactics were used in New York. Specifically, I recall that Robert Moses designed bridges and roads out of the city to not be accessible by bus, so only people who could afford cars could live in the suburbs.
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by beager 9y ago
Advertising is only valuable when the user is engaged with the device. It's a very poor model for mining. Why not: 1. Sell compute when people aren't using their machines and split the spoils (not actually profitable for people wh
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by beager 9y ago
I hope that this will be covered by "Expanded Definition of Spam and Related Behaviors". In fact, I hope for major action on that front because I feel like it's a force multiplier for all of the other guidelines that they&#x2
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by beager 9y ago
Yes, any regulations that make things better for someone's interests will be seen as good regulation. You personally would probably perceive the same for EU privacy and data rights, but would large companies that profit off of data col
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by beager 9y ago
In a word: regulation. But I know for many capitalists, regulation is a four letter word that is considered a direct attack on their livelihood. Should we regulate behavior targeting? Data collection? Advertising nature and reach?
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by beager 9y ago
I’m sure the positive anecdotes and trends are accounted for in the data, but nevertheless the data still says what it says. Uber and Lyft aren’t here to solve for transit access and commute optimization, they’re here to serve as many rides
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by beager 9y ago
I’m so often at a loss for ideas about how to make this better. This is a really big problem for US democracy that deliberately targets a large attack surface on the underbelly of the US consciousness, one that has been ripened by a declini
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by beager 9y ago
Could we get a citation for, like, any of this?
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by beager 9y ago
I did the same trying to write a Minecraft clone back in 2012: https://github.com/beager/craftalike I'm very much not proud of the code, it's sloppy, incomplete, quite copy-pasta. But it helped me learn a lot
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by beager 9y ago
I've got an idea for you. Set up an account to receive a forwarded rejection email, and then send that rejection letter back to the sender every month/week or whatever cadence they choose, with a different motivational lede every
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by beager 9y ago
Which I’ve long held is a wedge they use to force the obsoletion of otherwise suitable devices.
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by beager 9y ago
Can you describe a reasonable scenario where a layperson would see the support document prior to encountering some sort of frustration with the feature in question?
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by beager 9y ago
I fail to see how dumping documentation for a cryptic feature at such an unfriendly URL counts as "informing".
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by beager 9y ago
3D touch and long-press are such awful places to bury any sort of functionality. There are no visual cues, no material cues, and the only way you'd know about those things are to watch Apple keynotes. How hard would it have been to emu
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by beager 9y ago
I think you’re overgeneralizing a community that intrinsically resists introspection, but even if we entertain your premise, an aim to violate norms for “lulz” doesn’t preclude the platform from incubating real damaging disinformation. In f
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by beager 9y ago
Interestingly enough, your comment contains two strategies commonly used by witting or unwitting disseminators/consumers of disinformation to dispute inconsonant reporting: 1. Calling it "fake news" ("Bullshit article&qu
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by beager 9y ago
This was a much meatier writeup than I expected from the premise, which usually gets a pretty surface, opinionated treatment. Maybe I misunderstand the capabilities of offered solutions, but I can't imagine that ML would be a tremendou
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by beager 9y ago
> Plenty of fake news on both 4chan and CNN, just different fake news. "Hands up don't shoot!" vs. naming the wrong man as the Vegas shooter Those two sorts of things are vastly different. Major outlets like CNN, WaPo, NYT
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by beager 9y ago
That's what I was thinking. This is a dupe but the main thread didn't get upvoted at all. Convenient way to bury unsavory news.

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