dandelany

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by dandelany 3y ago
So, what, if you make a bunch of money selling stolen goods you should be able to keep the proceeds? Surely there are plenty of cases where assets directly involved in the commission of a convicted crime may be justifiably confiscated? Seem
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by dandelany 3y ago
Assuming you place no value on your own time & frustration…
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by dandelany 4y ago
I am dreading the inevitable future day when I have to argue about a denied health insurance claim on the phone with a fucking robot prompted to make it as difficult as possible for me to win.
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by dandelany 4y ago
Jeez, one usually has to do some bad things IRL to be called shitty spammy and pathetic, apparently all it takes online is saying “hey”. Doesn’t that seem a bit excessive for someone whose crime is not figuring out some rather subtle unwrit
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by dandelany 4y ago
I think the key difference is that bisect refers to slicing something into equally sized parts. This is sometimes the case (see eg. git bisect) but bifurcating the problem space would be the more general term.
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by dandelany 4y ago
They use a chicken gun, but yes… https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_gun
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by dandelany 4y ago
The phrase "zoning amnesty"/"zoning peace" is like the "death tax" or the "green new deal" - a way of rebranding a controversial political issue to make it seem incontroversial and obvious. It&#x
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by dandelany 4y ago
per the docs at https://www.unitednuclear.com/glowdata.htm : "Do no not grind the glow powder or try and dissolve it. On a microscopic level, the glow powder works by an energy exchange in its crystalline structure. Th
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by dandelany 4y ago
…assuming you can find another guy in 1000 years who will be able to retrieve your disc from the mine :)
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by dandelany 4y ago
Law does not work by analogy. The difference is obvious - one of them is an automated computer system, the other is a human. As mentioned above it is not clear whether use/redistribution of this data is legal. But generally speaking, d
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by dandelany 4y ago
The first amendment is specifically about the government interfering with one's free speech rights - " Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging t
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by dandelany 4y ago
How is it any different from an NDA? You have a right to free speech, and a right to willingly enter a contract with another party which constrains that right. Presumably the drivers can break the contract. I’m not condoning F1’s actions he
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by dandelany 4y ago
A few more clues which are demonstrated, but not explained, by ^this response: * Begins with a slight rewording of your question, rephrased as the introduction to the answer * Ends with at least a sentence or two of CYA-type caveats, like &
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by dandelany 4y ago
This nicely illustrates one of the fundamental problems of internet comments… it took 30 seconds to write this but it would take me an hour to prove it’s bull.
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by dandelany 4y ago
Stick your tongue left or right instead of dead middle
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by dandelany 4y ago
All true, but when A) your entire business model relies on keeping those IDs hidden and B) you’re storing them on intentionally “promiscuous” media (RFID), it definitely increases the attack surface in a big way. I’m sure this is a calculat
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by dandelany 4y ago
Hard agree. On the flipside, devs also tend to overestimate the cost of already-implemented abstractions that they haven’t yet internalized, leading to complaints and lengthy refactors when they could have just spent the time to learn the
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by dandelany 4y ago
I think the pace of progress is a direct result of continually poking at the failings of each successive model.
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by dandelany 4y ago
OK, but that is just one product. I agree that some companies are overselling e-ink in a way that is scammy, but that doesn’t mean the whole market is a scam. Plenty of products eg. Inkplate are upfront about what you’re getting, and I thin
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by dandelany 4y ago
Awesome! A few years ago I made some physical Penrose tiles out of wood & magnets, this will help me come up with some new designs to make with them :) https://twitter.com/dandelany/status/1313591497577570305
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by dandelany 4y ago
This is a strange legal take. There is nothing about music that makes it special in the eyes of the law, it is speech like any other, subject to the same protections and restrictions as publishing a book. If you release an album containing
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by dandelany 4y ago
Because “believing in crypto” (for most people) doesn’t just mean believing that the math works. It means believing that we can build a sociopolitical ecosystem that allows crypto to be a useful part of our lives in the future. To many, SBF
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by dandelany 4y ago
Truly awesome work. There is a weird second-order kind of beauty here, in that the act of classifying and visualizing the surprisingly-complex emergent behavior of simple CAs is, itself, a meta simple-CA-like algorithm that has managed to p
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by dandelany 4y ago
https://twitter.com/osinttechnical/status/159021878144783974...
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by dandelany 4y ago
Whether or not the game is actually inspired by IKEA (clearly it is) has no legal bearing on the matter. What matters is confusion. The factors include: "(1) similarity of the marks; (2) strength of plaintiff's mark; (3) sophistic
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by dandelany 4y ago
Can we not make this the new low-effort way of saying "this doesn't make sense to me"? I've seen it a lot lately and it's at least as insulting as a regular old ad hominem attack. FWIW it made perfect sense to me. I
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by dandelany 4y ago
Is it really impossible to appreciate owning well-made objects without devolving into consumerism? I used to have a crappy kettle that brought me frustration. Now I have a nicer one that makes better coffee and I enjoy owning and using it.
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by dandelany 4y ago
It's a military fighter jet. EVERYTHING is spec'ed out to the MAX. "We can't get the original parts, just use this off-the-shelf transistor" IS fraud.
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by dandelany 4y ago
He didn’t say “memory” - he said RAM! Why? Because it’s funnier and it rhymes with spam! Plus “hard drive space” is three syllables. It’s a song not a README, sheesh
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by dandelany 4y ago
You know roughly what the future looks like, but it only takes a tiny (sub-millisecond) amount of error (due to user movement, clock drift, wireless lag etc etc) to throw the phasing off and ruin the effect. So you still need some combina

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