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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
I guess most of the people against this change have been lucky enough to never live in a place where the internet is actively censored. It must be nice living in a place where you don't have to worry about access. But for many of us, t
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
It's also great to have data for justifying the points you claim. You are claiming that insider trading (information asymmetry) is a net positive benefit for the software industry.
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Can you expand on this? Trusting a VPN is equivalent to trusting the VPN provider. As long as you believe the VPN provider is more trustworthy than the network you're tunneling through, I don't see why trusting VPN is bad practice
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
How about "corporations are supposed to take advantage of things they can take advantage of to better their position"? If a corporation believes they are a net positive for society, then any advantage they can get furthering their
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Quoting individuals who make blanket statements like that without providing any evidence (or possess authority on the subject of genetic testing) is doing a disservice to actual viable applications of genetic testing, especially in the heal
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
I don't want to belabor a secondary point too much here. But I will add there's a big difference between feeling guilty for being wrong and feeling guilty for lying.
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
The topic of how to deal with genetic information is an important one. There are many nuances about the technology itself which are distinct from how it could be used and potentially abused. This article does an awful job for this topic on
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Firefox adds NextDNS alongside Cloudflare for DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH)(neowin.net)
4 points by cracker_jacks 7y ago|1 comments
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
> cancer progresses much faster in summer than in winter Can you point me to a reference for this? This pattern is surprising and I would like to learn more about this.
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Iowa Electronic Markets: online market based on real-world events for research(iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu)
2 points by cracker_jacks 7y ago|0 comments
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Is the Starship Mk1 more structurally sound than it looks? From a first glance and having no knowledge of its design, it looks like an empty soda can that would deform at the slightest disturbance. And the way it crumpled in the video doesn
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Where is the 9980XE @ $979 coming from in the price vs performance chart? Where can I get a 9980XE for $979??
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
I agree that the improvements like the ESC key and 16" screen are good things. But is it strange to anyone else that a company that prides itself on being innovative and motto is "think different" is parading around a screen
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
How does creating more demand ease a housing crunch?
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
A terrible summary of why VPNs are useful. Goes on and on about privacy with no mention of bypassing censorship. It must be nice living in a place where you don't have to worry about access. There's no point in privacy without acc
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
This is a strange definition of decentralization. I suppose it gives you redundancy. But aren't you broadcasting information about your request to multiple parties if you're doing recursive resolution from different providers? But
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
I think you're arguing against the wrong thing here. You want decentralization of DNS. I don't see DoH really impacting this issue in any clear direction. On one hand, you have centralized DNS (based on your ISP). DoH gives you so
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Some of the numbers in that table do not make any sense and makes me question the quality of the entire article. Where are the numbers for the Cerebras chip coming from?: - How do you have a TDP of 180W for an entire wafer of chips? - Why i
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
What is the alternative solution here? How do you effectively protect access to websites while simultaneously making sure you never get false positives? I really don't think going back to not having Cloudflare-like services is a ste
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Read, Attend and Comment: Automatic News Comment Generation(arxiv.org)
3 points by cracker_jacks 7y ago|0 comments
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
This article doesn't do a good job of explaining the censorship-resistant benefits of DoH. The author conflates privacy and access as the same thing. They are entirely different. Access to information is the first step. Privacy is a lu
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
What is the cause for concern? I am trying to understand why DNS-over-HTTPS could be a bad thing from the user end.
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
I'm referring to solar as a distributed energy source. Imagine homes and buildings having their own energy sources.
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Solar energy seems like a great way to decentralize energy infrastructure, making it more robust to attack.
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UC faculty to Elsevier: Restart negotiations, or else(news.berkeley.edu)
30 points by cracker_jacks 7y ago|6 comments
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
Has one of the fundamental components (water) for farming changed at all in recent years? Perhaps there hasn't been enough of a market force for innovation after the advent of irrigation.
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Adversarial Objects Against Lidar-Based Autonomous Driving Systems(arxiv.org)
2 points by cracker_jacks 7y ago|0 comments
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
The other tradeoff is you're giving Google an extraordinary amount of power to decide who is allowed and not allowed on your website with no transparency on how this decision was made. Not sure what company is willing to blindly trust
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The Emergence of a Fovea While Learning to Attend (2017)(bair.berkeley.edu)
88 points by cracker_jacks 7y ago|8 comments
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by cracker_jacks 7y ago
In our research, we show that the fovea observed many times in biology may be an emergent property that emerged from an attention system: https://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2017/11/09/learn-to-attend-fo...

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