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by bhawks 5y ago
This argument is based on the false premise that the state will 'force' the labor of a police officer (or others) to protect your rights. It does not. See Lozito vs. NYC - an individual was attacked by a drug addict with a knife.
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by bhawks 5y ago
Society has no duty to protect you either. See Lozito v. New York City. On July 25, 2013, Judge Margaret Chan dismissed Lozito's suit, stating that while Lozito's account of the attack rang true and appeared "highly credible&
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by bhawks 5y ago
> Because crypto transactions, which are recorded on the blockchain, are untraceable by governments and other central authorities like banks, they’re often the preferred payment among ransomware hackers and other criminals. And literally
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by bhawks 5y ago
Ah yes there is actually: https://www.justice.gov/criminal-afmls/file/839521/download?... It covers crypto, real estate, stocks, and a bunch of other things explicitly.
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by bhawks 5y ago
If someone sold drugs for rare artwork, would the government keep the artwork? Would they sell it? What if during trial a museum burns down and now this is the last painting buy the artist and the value skyrockets. Should the government let
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by bhawks 5y ago
This is a user agent (browser) concern not a web site concern. The browser is doing what works for similar broad preferences (eg: language). If you think browsers should offer a knob to turn off forwarding you color scheme preference that i
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by bhawks 5y ago
> Specifically, there's an especially tricky road in I-35N in Texas Why are we ok with streets in such slapdash condition in the first place? Yes I think self driving cars need to handle it, but I also think we aren't handling
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by bhawks 5y ago
Every new college grad and intern I work with I give the same message: always separate work hardware and software from your personal life. Yes it costs money and is mildly inconvenient. Having your personal life vacuumed up into legal disco
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by bhawks 5y ago
CSV is the embodiment of worse is better axiom. Anyone that has dealt with more than 1 CSV is aware of many of the aspects of their horrible nature. The more interesting reason is why they're so damn successful. 1: network effect - not
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by bhawks 5y ago
Was this a pure engineering driven exercise? I hadn't heard that before and it doesn't match up with what I've heard about Apple's internal culture. The level of defensive pushback really makes me feel that they are very
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1) FCC regulates mostly broadcast technologies, not the stock market (SEC?). 2) The amount of morale hazard we have allowed to build up since the great financial crisis is astronomical. No one has been held to account for that mess and the
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by bhawks 5y ago
This is a problem for any product that stores and retrieves user data. It is not just a Google problem. It is not just a 'devs shouldn't have db access' problem. If you're working on a system that doesn't have data
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by bhawks 5y ago
I think we have to be honest that the state of the art for end to end encryption doesn't work well yet for many types of usescases beyond 2 way communications. How could you make an e2ee calendaring service? E2ee google sites like page
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by bhawks 5y ago
They both rely on the same mechanism though, just different impact and intent.
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by bhawks 5y ago
> I'd be really interested in the answer, because if it is yes, then Google is surely collecting way too much information An example from the article has an employee listening to children's voicemail. Google operates a voicemai
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by bhawks 5y ago
China's parliament is a literal billionaires club. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/01/business/china-parliament... There is no altruistic motivation to better the lot of the common person. The only
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by bhawks 5y ago
What's conservative about corruption and kleptocracy? One of the ways politicians like Preston cement their power is by convincing their constituents that the 'other team' are literal demons. I can disagree with someone'
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by bhawks 5y ago
The fine article and your comment both say crypto is 'old' tech. TFA points to iPhone's 2007 release date as if no one (even apple themselves had tried to crack the personal digital assistant before). Which is a laughable omi
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by bhawks 5y ago
Contracts cover more than what type systems on most common languages can express. For instance popping a stack with no elements throws an exception. Or similarly constructing an object with certain propertied set cause methods on the object
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by bhawks 5y ago
Mocks make me sad. They are so often misused by people with the best of intentions. I have seen so many tests that literally only assert the mock expectations and say nothing about the code under test. I have watched upgrades and refactors
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by bhawks 5y ago
Providing 'idempotency' in this case commonly means to be robust against transient network partitions and timing delays. This goal can be met efficiently with a timebound nonce. (Indeed that is a common approach). A request identi
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by bhawks 5y ago
Not the point. This turns the trust model of the ecosystem on its head. When I install an app like Signal today - I have cryptographic certainty that it was the code the Signal team intended me to have with 0 tampering. In the new model - I
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by bhawks 5y ago
Very disappointing. Normalizing sharing private keys? I expect better from Google. None of the user facing benefits of the new format apps are predicated on throwing away the trust model of the app ecosystem. It is easier to implement and o
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by bhawks 5y ago
First off disputed borders are a very common occurrence in geo politics. It rarely prevents country C from recognizing both country A and country B. Outside of the Taiwan case I can't think of a situation where a border claim dispute e
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by bhawks 5y ago
Empty words and token sanctions are not going to stop the CCP's blatant takeover of HK and trashing of the '1 country 2 systems' agreement. Real action - offer US citizenship to Hong Kong era that want it. Then go recognize t
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by bhawks 5y ago
> Here you appear to know that the real strategy is waiting. Eventually, Xi will die, and it's more likely than not that his successors will liberalize. What leads you to think this will be the case? The west has been trying to spre
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by bhawks 5y ago
Tezos is amazing, it has upgraded itself entirely through on chain voting governance 6 times. No drama, no crazy rollouts. Tezos smart contract ecosystem has grown to 10% of Ethereum and it's gas prices are pennies (and will continue t
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by bhawks 5y ago
Send is only 1 leg of the transaction though? Time is money, if I need to move funds across the globe I would prefer to do it as fast as possible. I am pretty sure this is a common sentiment.
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Federal reserve regulation D puts strict limitations on transfers from savings to ensure bank capital ratios and solvency, not liability. Fraudulent withdrawals (eg: check forgery, ACH fraud) are caused by the nature of our high trust banki
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And crypto gives the entire world that great experience, without needing a bank or a government. It is hard to say that isn't an amazing technical solution to an organizational problem. There are worse countries to manage your finances

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