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1y ago
> convince a user to enter their google 2fa code into a site that isn't obviously google? if the BAD site itself looks legit, and has convinced a user to do the initial login in the first place, they won't hesitate to lie and s
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1y ago
but the device is under the control of BAD. They fake a signin on their backend to GOOD. Your computer never touches GOOD at all, except from seeing the email from GOOD (which you're told about by BAD, and lied to about being a partner
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1y ago
that analogy is drawing similarities when there is none. The "bad" guys in the cops vs robbers scenario is one where the bad guys have already done something worthy of needing to be caught.
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1y ago
but an estimate could be had if you use an imputed price of similar goods/services that _are_ transactional? So the problem reduces down to counting these events - perhaps a survey and such could be used to estimate their frequency etc
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1y ago
however, this same action could be useful if it was placed in a different context - for example, if the teacher uses the same AI to produce an artefact, then use it to critique the student as part of teaching (say, to show what might be lac
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1y ago
> a multi-polar world. what you want does not require a multipolar world. It requires that there be no regulatory capture, and representative democracy. It requires rule of law, but also not rule _by_ law (written with vested interests i
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1y ago
But it also depends on how precise the recipe is - if it's described down to the exact movements the cook needs to do, which may be replicated via a machine...
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1y ago
the fact is that this is a terrible feedback loop, because every time you started late, but manage to finish on time, it is reinforcing the idea that you're "good" and can manage it even if you start late! This self-reinforci
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1y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/20/cluely-a-startup-that-help...
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1y ago
> they forget people also need money to buy their goods. the goods ought to have become cheaper if the ai/mechanization/industrialization is cheaper than labour. And also when "the rich" have more profit, they now wan
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1y ago
> What problem does it solve that hasn't been solved by other people? nothing. Except for "portability" arguments perhaps. Java has had security managers and access restrictions built in but it never worked very well (and
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1y ago
but then what's the point of the canvas here? Unless if it was possible to mix and match canvas painting operations seamlessly with the declared elements...
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1y ago
> then unload onto the public via IPO this implies they're unloading at a valuation that is higher than it is worth. If so, why do "the public" make the purchase?
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1y ago
you misunderstood the parent post - "connected" is meant to be understood as "privately capture", rather than participation. Oppenheimer's value generation is not captured by him, but by the taxpayers (and whoever i
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1y ago
you put as part of the claims in the jwt that you agree to the TOS (may be something like { ... TOS:www.service.com/tos.txt, TOSAgreed:true ... }), which you sign. Then this is an explicit agreement from you as a client.
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1y ago
> If you think they're good, why not do a paid day of work then? not many people could take the time away from their current job, so you'd be automatically filtering out people who are currently employed (which, i would imagine
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1y ago
> they can set their prices as high as the market can afford. which is the correct price - because you dont need a cartel to set the price at as high as the market can afford; each individual landlord chooses to price their rental at the
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> it's clueless rich people and corporations buying up properties and thinking they can flip them so the original owner got a nice priced deal out of the sale. Then, when said clueless rich person decides to sell in the future due t
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But that filter is at best inaccurate then isnt it? Surely there exists a driver which would accept a tipless delivery, but you cannot find them because all you can do is decline to do business. Americans need to remove the idea of tipping.
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> As a website operator I don’t want a mob of bots draining my resources so charge for access. If the value the site provides is high, surely these mobs will pay for it! It will also remove the mis-incentives of advertising driven revenu
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> bundled within their package some might even call this anti-competitive practice!
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A Privacy-Preserving Postcode lookup tool [video]
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until you pressed enter, this progress is understood to be ephemeral. It has only been recently that the user has been 'conditioned' to expect the form inputs to be retained when they click a link, and it's because the app is
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> All of those questions and more will vary between applications. One size does not fit all. all of those come from the fundamental "requirement" set out earlier to have no in-page state, but still require the webpage to behave
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youtube's recommendation algorithm favours channels with a consistently scheduled upload cadence, high clickthru rate and spread/virality (people share the video - which is tracked by this si parameter in the share link if you use
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> constant system administration work why is that an inescapable truth? If the needs of such a self-hosted system is not changing, there's a theoretical argument that there shouldn't be any need to make administrative work. if
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> unthinkable that everyone would have their own desktop computer at some point it was unthinkable not because people didn't want it, but that it costed too much back then. Half a mil for a microcomputer that took up a room?! Curren
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> pay a dividend to the employee. the whole point of equity compensation is that it replaces cash, as the startup rarely has sufficient liquidity in cash. But equity is often used in ways the employee does not understand and get screwed
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> The only way to learn how to do hard things, is to do hard things, so do the hardest things. and i don't want to pay my employees to learn, i want to pay them to produce output i can sell. Doing hard things are good, if this hard
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1y ago
It is in nvidia's interest to commoditize one's complement. These models make owning and using nvidia hardware more attractive - being open and all. There's no incentive to "hide" the sauce.
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