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by chalst 6y ago
I've had a good experience with flagging bad posts and users: about 3/4 of the time the accounts I report get suspended. I only go after the really nasty accounts, though.
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by chalst 6y ago
I switched from iPhone to Fairphone mainly because of the fact that my last two iPhones became irreparable for what I regarded as stupid reasons.
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by chalst 6y ago
Trump's claims about a stolen election remind me of the Nazi's promotion of the Stolchdoß myth. Sometimes the free exercise of speech is a great danger. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
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by chalst 6y ago
Neutrality in context really means covering all the significant points of view that are supported by reliable sources. The tricky concepts are the notions of undue weight (you really can't document everything anyone has ever said about
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by chalst 6y ago
It is essentially continuation-passing style, which makes implementing first-class continuations very easy.
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by chalst 6y ago
The app most useful to me in reaching family in the UK is Telegram. I realise WA is hard to dispense with for many people, but it is not a hegemony.
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by chalst 6y ago
Those graphs paint a fair picture of the nature of the crisis, but I am not so keen on their explanation. Nixon ended gold convertability, but the USD was not on a true gold standard and was in danger of not being able to fulfill this oblig
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by chalst 6y ago
The 40% relates essentially to cash-like assets, which is a tiny part of the total USD money supply. The total has not grown drastically. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_supply
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by chalst 6y ago
This syntax is used by Perl; perversely, if you use it you have to dereference the function.
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by chalst 6y ago
It is misleading to suggest that an implementation of TCO follows directly from the instruction set architecture: it depends even more on what calling convention is followed [1]. gcc supports several calling conventions for x86 [2]. In the
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by chalst 6y ago
The current community around NixOS and Nixpkgs handles these issues just fine, but if 'just use Nix' was regarded as a magic bullet for reproducibility in science, I'm guessing it wouldn't work out so well.
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by chalst 6y ago
The Java classes making up the application proper have had reproducible builds since 2016 [1]. The Play Services Signal relies on don't, but there are open source alternatives. [1]: https://signal.org/blog/reproduc
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by chalst 6y ago
There is nothing wrong with the protocol, the client software or the server software; the problem is entirely with the OWS server TOS.
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by chalst 6y ago
While WA is near ubiquitous in Germany, from my own experience many non-technical people in the UK prefer Telegram to WA. WA is the only way I can reach some of my contacts in Germany, but with my UK contacts I can avoid it altogether.
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by chalst 6y ago
There are forks of the Signal client that do use the OWS servers [1], but IIUC they are in violation of the OWS TOS. Certainly moxie has threatened to block forked clients, which is why F-droid won't host any of these forks [2]. [1]:
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by chalst 6y ago
Directly installing APKs by hand is something that is only for people who know what they are doing. However, providing the APK for download is something that is helpful for 3rd party package managers, which can verify the hash.
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by chalst 6y ago
I don't like Signal's stance on forks (which is that they are allowed but may not use the official Signal network) but it hardly has identical drawbacks. Signal is open source, can be downloaded as an official APK and can be run o
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by chalst 6y ago
I don't have a big problem with Facebook having my number, or knowing who 95% of the people are who have me in their contacts. But it is important to me that the contents of my contacts database is private so that I can be trusted by
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by chalst 6y ago
The article discusses MRAN in footnote 5, when arguing against the MRAN-based 'checkpoint' approach. Nixpkg/Nixos is obviously a useful technology for reproducibility, but note that the output of Nix scripts can depend on the
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Introduction to Register Renaming (21 pages)(d.umn.edu)
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by chalst 6y ago
I thought of Nix when I read "it is not possible to install both OpenSSL and LibreSSL on the same system" - a call out in the article at this point would have been. Being able to switch much of your infrastructure to an infrastruc
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by chalst 6y ago
Both the US and Japan have ran enormous fiscal surpluses for decades with low inflation. How does your plain, simple intuition account for this gap between what you say must happen and what has happened?
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by chalst 6y ago
Thanks, that was an interesting summary. I don't think the involvement of parliament necessarily causes polarisation: Germany has a quite similar system to the US, the most relevant difference being that the election is by secret ballo
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by chalst 6y ago
The politics of appointments in the UK is less obvious than that of the US, but it is there. The Secretary of State for Justice, a member of the cabinet appointed by the PM, has veto power over appointments to the UK Supreme Court. https:&
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by chalst 6y ago
Do you mean that the career of judges is never affected by politics? I think, e.g., that appointments to SCOTUS are an obvious counterexample.
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by chalst 6y ago
From https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC_memory - > A large-scale study based on Google's very large number of servers was presented at the SIGMETRICS/Performance ’09 conference.[6] The actual error rate f
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by chalst 6y ago
Indeed the two binary rails approach corresponds to a logic as well, namely Belnap's A4: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-valued_logic
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by chalst 6y ago
Steve Bannon said of Breitbart when he was still in charge of it that "We're the platform for the alt-right". Miles Guo, the CEO of Guo Media, seems to have latched on to Bannon's brand of political journalism as well-s
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by chalst 6y ago
I think bredren is oversimplifying a bit but not victim-blaming. Bullies choose their victims and they choose situations where their victims are unlikely to succeed in seeking justice. The article provides a clear example: if an junior mana
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by chalst 6y ago
I think this is close to the truth but misses an important factor: journal editors are, as a result of increasing submissions, asking for more refereeing. As a result, an increasingly high proportion of academics don't referee at all a

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