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by cvwright 7y ago
In comparison, Mike Bloomberg totally failed to take over a US presidential primary , and he spent almost half a billion dollars.
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by cvwright 7y ago
Exponential growth . It's the growth phase that matters. People keep mentioning the exponential because both of these curves, at an important point in time, grow very fast. Much faster than anything you're likely to encounter i
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by cvwright 7y ago
Ok, look at the differential equations on this page about the Kermack-McKendrick model: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Kermack-McKendrickModel.html Notice that the rate of change in the infected population ( dI/dt ) is
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by cvwright 7y ago
No, the other side is most definitely to blame. The problem is that this holds true regardless of who you consider to be “the other side.” Here in Oregon, our governor is politically on the opposite end of the spectrum from the US president
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by cvwright 7y ago
Right wingers used to post a low effort meme along the lines of, “WTF I love ____ now” or “WTF I hate ____ now”. Now for whatever reason, people in this thread have decided to prove them right, by acting out the meme in real time.
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by cvwright 7y ago
To be fair, Matrix as it stands today isn't very decentralized either. The dev team reports that their big matrix.org server has something like 40k monthly users. And while there are a ton of tiny little personal homeservers out ther
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by cvwright 7y ago
I think most people still understand that you can email people on different systems - Hotmail, work accounts, school accounts, etc.
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by cvwright 7y ago
I usually just tell people that Matrix works like email. You have your server, and it relays messages back and forth to other people’s servers for you.
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by cvwright 7y ago
> Refusing to serve, say, black people is illegal because of the pernicious societal harm caused by discrimination. That is true, but that's not what the Colorado guy was doing. (In the Oregon case, you're right, it's muc
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by cvwright 7y ago
You're making a moral case that one of these examples should be treated differently from the other because of the morality of their opinions. It's not against the law to be a bad person. In fact, there's a famous quote from
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by cvwright 7y ago
Ok, I did some digging. The wedding cake case in Oregon was much closer to what you describe. The one in Colorado was more like the Youtube case. He offered to sell them a cake off the shelf, but refused to create a custom cake for somethi
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by cvwright 7y ago
This is a fascinating example, particularly in comparison to the "wedding cake" cases from a couple of years ago. The question of trading off between the customer's speech and the service provider's freedom seems to be n
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by cvwright 7y ago
I hope you are right.
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by cvwright 7y ago
With the topic of "exceptional access" in the news again, I thought HN might be interested in this work that we did a couple of years ago. The idea is, you can have my decryption key as long as you're willing to spend a milli
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Show HN: Crypto Crumple Zones: Enabling Limited Access Without Mass Surveillance [pdf](web.cecs.pdx.edu)
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by cvwright 7y ago
> Without bonafide strong encryption, those strong protections against misuse probably can't exist. Agreed. I actually did some work on this topic that requires having things like strong ciphers and hash functions, and protocols th
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by cvwright 7y ago
Law enforcement likes to talk about big, scary threats like terrorism, because those make the public more likely to accept their position. The article below argues that the real use case for breaking encryption is to catch everyday criminal
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by cvwright 7y ago
I think we in the tech community tend to vastly under-estimate the threat of legal restrictions on encryption. When the public gets scared, they look to governments to "do something", whether that something is really a smart thin
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by cvwright 7y ago
Another one that the GP poster may find interesting. This is from Stefan Savage at UCSD, and published in ACM CCS in 2018. https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/lawful.pdf Lawful Device Access without Mass Surve
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by cvwright 7y ago
Maybe something like this? Judge, Jury & Encryptioner: Exceptional Access with a Fixed Social Cost https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.05620 > We present Judge, Jury and Encryptioner (JJE) an exceptional access scheme fo
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by cvwright 7y ago
His department is recommending a multi year sentence for one of the president’s closest allies, while declining to even prosecute some of the president’s adversaries (Comey, McCabe) for a similar offense. Not sure exactly what you want fro
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by cvwright 7y ago
Wow, I think they still have some pieces of that machine on display down in the library at Lincoln. It was always cool to see it, but I wasn’t aware of the significance until now. Edit: Looks like I was wrong. The computer in the LL librar
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by cvwright 7y ago
I interpreted the GP as saying that the AI could try to infer what the DCT coefficients had been prior to quantization. I don't know enough about JPEG or about AI to know whether that would be doable.
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by cvwright 7y ago
Love them or hate them, the one nice thing about Bloomberg and Trump is that, finally the billionaires are stepping out of the shadows. Instead of just bankrolling some frontman who looks good for the cameras, they are running as candidate
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by cvwright 7y ago
Because the company with the de facto monopoly on web search is the same company that bought the company with the de facto monopoly on user generated video content.
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by cvwright 7y ago
What owning the means of production gets you, typically, is debt. Leveraging that debt to create something of value to others — that is what can make you rich. Otherwise you just go broke in a big way.
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by cvwright 7y ago
It's easy to like the idea of "government funded culture" when you can reasonably expect they will fund things that you like or that you agree with. Now imagine that some Trump appointee comes in and declares that their theme
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by cvwright 7y ago
> a culture of the coast for the coast. The people who don't like the NEH / NEA are arguing that that's what they're getting already. Only now, the people in Lousiana and Nebraska are being forced to pay for it as w
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by cvwright 7y ago
And plenty of professional athletes do go broke buying (too many, too fancy) new cars and houses etc.
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by cvwright 7y ago
A limit of two terms in the US senate would still allow for a total career of 12 years — 4 years more than any president. A 3-term cap would give 18 years, two more than any two presidents combined. That’s a long way from being a newbie.

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