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by bsedlm 5y ago
nobody wants people to get things as valuable* as their hard-earned IP without either paying up, or putting in the pain and sweat just like they did. also, you wouldn't want the Chinese to get this for free either, right? *potentially
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maybe that's why they failed, they should have kept it closed and private with tight controls, patents, etc... in order to really profit. couldn't they even get in trouble with their investors for having failed to achieve profitab
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I mean it in the sense that they undo the 'noise' added to (or reverse the scrambling of) the initial input . even if they do it in a different way.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
from what I've seen, there's a lot of "obscurity" to this; there are many seemingly arbitrary choices all over the place. In the end most encryption algorithms boil down to doing 'random' (arbitrary, hard to ju
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by bsedlm 5y ago
could I take this to argue that modern management theorists are current-day slave owners? /joke
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by bsedlm 5y ago
the simulation is in each of our heads, is how we consciously interact with the rest of the world (reality). the simulation is the entire body of scientific understanding. the simulation is how we can do something in order to get an expecte
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what's interesting is that they think to get a judge to do this, as in they consider it a viable strategy that may work. (which means it has worked before)
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As far as I'm aware, in the mexican transport industry is a common practice to overload the trucks as much as possible. This is so widespread that any company which doesn't do it is likely less profitable than all the rest which d
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by bsedlm 5y ago
none of the real issues breaking the internet (which is not quite broken yet) has technical solutions. No better tool nor "more technology" will solve the problems at hand. The problems are social and economical, they require &quo
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doing any activity indefinitely is not fun, is a day job
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> science is owned by the community rather than any individual person the problem is that the community is a group of many individual persons, ultimately it is the individual persons who by actively knowing the 'science' embody
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What I wonder about is how does making blind with beliefs work
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> You’re contradicting yourself. Where would you live right now if you weren’t renting? my parent's house? a friend's couch? My own appartment or house? (I suppose even millenials could inherit property). I do not understand wh
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> rental housing isn’t “an evil thing that needs to go away.” I disagree, rental housing is a thing that does need to go away, or at least be severly limited. Because there's a strong trend towards corporations owning all housing an
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I agree with this statement, people downvoting parent are almost certainly living in not-very corrupt countries.
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> Any function a DAO can perform a notary can perform cheaper, including running votes. However the DAO can the notary's job more transparently and without corruption (real oversight of their activities is cheaper... heck, it's
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it may still be human, but if it's just rubber stamping is it really a review?
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software engineering is like roman civil engineering
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by bsedlm 5y ago
I choose to read this as a ever more pressing need to explore music beyond 12-tet. and not just in a niche microtonal fashion. computers can take us there but not so long as MIDI is the standard. the 'problem' (which is really mor
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Which works democratically, there's people in Ukraine who will support Russia and people who will support "the west" The point is also that it's borders are badly drawn, there's an air of civil war to this conflict
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by bsedlm 5y ago
from the Russian point of view, offering NATO membership to Ukraine is an act of agression and they've been wrecking Ukraine for this ever since.
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by bsedlm 5y ago
the first part of the video by that professor, explains that ukraine is a very divided country, it's made up by two different groups of people, ukrainian-speakers and russian-speakers. So you gotta take this into account when consideri
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by bsedlm 5y ago
> solving DSA-style problems and building software are two different things disagree. I'd say that both are needed skills for software. Software is made layers, like a cake. Maybe DSA style problems are like grounding the flour (or
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It's a political letter which likely only makes full sense for people in Israel and under the influence of Israel's ministry of health to whom it is addressed
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> There are other ways to cultivate safety, besides manufacturers locking things down and making them an unmodifiable black-box. Yes, but they're more difficult and costly; a blackbox is cheap, easy, and when done a certain way, it
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by bsedlm 5y ago
The car example is a terrible example. I only used it because it's a well known example. But I'm actually thinking about digital computer techonology. In computers the difference between able and allowed works very differently. Sp
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that's a terrible tactic. consider as an example playing chess while disregarding what your opponent may do.
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What if examining the thing you own endangers somebody (including yourself?) should you be allowed to change its behaviors (consider as an example altering your car in an unsafe way)? As computers are now everywhere and have to do with ever
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> Why would a company share its trade secrets? indeed, I wish I could answer this. > Not to mention the national security arguments. it is an inteserting excercise to consider this from the rival's point of view
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> They have to put in a lot of time and resources to rediscover closely guarded secrets that are almost impossible to reverse engineer yes, they have to repeat all that work, they have to solve all those solved problems again because com

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