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by concinds 4y ago
I wonder if she lied about her age when signing up to FB. I know I did, and most people I know did too (back when we actually used FB). I don't believe FB ever allowed users younger than 13 due to COPPA (passed in 2000) and she clearly
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by concinds 4y ago
I meant to use IPFS for a "mainstream" site.
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Anyone smart knows centralized exchanges should be avoided. DEX are a thing. It's simple, and I don't know why people are confused. New technology (value-neutral) comes around that promises decentralization. Grifters come into the
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by concinds 4y ago
> Yes. Peer-to-peer networks have existed long before Web3 ever became a thing. Bittorrent worked fine without a blockchain. IPFS works fine without a blockchain. Soulseek and Limewire didn't need blockchains, same as Napster. Fine,
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by concinds 4y ago
Since the top causes of overeating are grief and "comfort eating", it's common sense that fat people are less happy. Being fat is a symptom of self-neglect, which is a component of low self-esteem. But "experts" pat
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by concinds 4y ago
I initially punished a comment disagreeing with you, but after thinking about it more, I agree. Google's clearly signalled that they don't want Adblockers to use "read/write data on all websites"; just like Apple di
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by concinds 4y ago
Yeah, you can extend my argument beyond webcompat to speed, security, etc. An engine that is better on these metrics is a better engine. My point (which I somewhat misstated) was that having the best engine is the bare minimum; it just brin
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by concinds 4y ago
The problem with that argument is that browsers don't compete on engines but on features, UX and integration (and bundling). All an engine is about, is webcompat (and Chrome wins here). It's literally not a differentiating feature
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Both have been reversed, and both were addressed convincingly (that these were true mistakes, not misbehavior they walked back). https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/8/21283769/brave-browser-aff... https:&#x
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Did I say it was evil? I am merely coldly analysing the implications for US political dynamics.
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I don’t believe that can be achieved without going through a legal process, so I think that’s a separate motive.
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by concinds 4y ago
> In the 90s, this was called boycotting, and I don't remember anyone having a problem with it. It's now been rebranded as cancel culture, and is somehow seen as petulant. Every boycott has detractors; if those detractors are t
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by concinds 4y ago
The primary goal is to increase the left's institutional power. They know that KF will still exist and will move on from Cloudflare. The point isn't to hurt KF, but to hurt Cloudflare for daring to nominally support free speech.
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by concinds 4y ago
I think a downside of their CEO & C-level spending so much time on Twitter and HN (spending any time there at all is already "a lot" for C-suite) is that they might overestimate the size and importance of social media mobs.
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by concinds 4y ago
Mind uploading and hive minds are perfect examples of what I mention in my last paragraph (which I edited after posting, and you may not have seen before replying); my concerns are more than relevant there.
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See my answer to bufferoverflow. Also: virtual reality isn't just a heads-up display or an iPhone camera feature. Augmented ears that can hear things normal humans can't hear, augmented eyes, or an augmented brain inherently means
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Transhumanism isn't just advanced medicine. The idea isn't to replace a human heart with an artificial heart that's mostly functionally identical (current-day technology). The whole idea is to transcend biological limits us
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It was replaced by Virtual Reality. The transhumanist philosophy was transcendental. Man, armed with innovative genius and deep technological knowledge, could one day remake himself and transcend his limitations. It wasn't so much a &q
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by concinds 4y ago
I don't get it at all. Music quiz games are fun. But why limit to 1 a day? They're going for Wordle-style "cultural trendiness", maybe hoping to draw people to Spotify if a daily Heardle trends on Twitter. Not gonna happ
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by concinds 4y ago
Trolls are the only people saying this. Part of the motivation for the name change was to avoid being named the same as the bird. https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/07/petition-change-name-tu...
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Context: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2018/09/11/on-the-recently-re... https://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/09/17/mathematics-mat... https://quillette.com/2
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Such papers would probably make it explicit that a given methodology was inadequate (and explain why) so while it may be challenging, it's still a solvable NLP problem.
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Citation rings are a huge problem, but couldn't the sentiment-analysis side be readily addressed? There's a difference between papers that just cite a paper without judgment (+0), papers whose results explicitly support another pa
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There's two problems. Many UIs today are objectively bad and unintuitive (like the Gmail example in the article). UIs should always strive to eliminate the "don't know what you don't know" quadrant: common sense sho
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by concinds 4y ago
These initiatives are always couched in "inclusion" rhetoric (the very name of your project is telling); I don't doubt for a second that it's a genuine sentiment, but I strongly suspect your team hasn't thought thro
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I consider iCloud backups being enabled by default to be a backdoor to E2E encryption; however there's a "more real" backdoor in iMessage, which is that Apple can undetectably add new devices (i.e. an FBI iPhone) to conversat
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Right before writing that, De Botton wrote: > “The emotionally intelligent person knows that they will only ever be mentally healthy in a few areas and at certain moments, but is committed to fathoming their inadequacies and warning othe
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by concinds 4y ago
They used an "invisible 0-click exploit"; where you don't even actually receive a text message or need to click any links or attachments. https://citizenlab.ca/2020/12/the-great-ipwn-journalists-hac.
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by concinds 4y ago
Could a security expert enlighten me: is Windows more secure today than macOS, if we purely take OS-level and hardware-level security measures and ignore subjective factors? (like marketshare, attractiveness of targets, etc.) Windows has al
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The point is that many people have iCloud Backups enabled without any awareness whatsoever of the implications, as iCloud Backups are opt-out and there is zero disclosure within the OS (only an Apple Support webpage nobody will visit). It l

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