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by dane-pgp 5y ago
We can prove that it is a logical impossibility for some algorithm to exist, but I don't think we can say, given an algorithm with a certain set of steps, that there isn't an equivalent algorithm that requires fewer steps. Also, &
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
But could there ever be a guarantee that no more efficient algorithm could be found? I agree that, given an algorithm, you can reason about the runtime/space/probability requirements that it places on an implementation, but you a
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> When primary votes are tallied, the two candidates with the most approval overall would move on to the general election. I think Approval Voting is a big improvement over plurality voting, but I definitely think there can be cases wher
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Like more than one candidate on a ballot? New initiative allows multiple votes(geekwire.com)
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
Would it be unreasonable to answer that with "F-Droid"? I guess the implicit (and reasonable) assumptions of your question are that the source code is fully reviewed by the people running the app store, and it is a "store&quo
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
We also have a certificate transparency system to detect misissuance, and some precedent for economically ruining CAs who break the public's trust. I'm not sure what would happen, though, if someone claimed that a CA had issued a
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> - doesn't have many other identities I wonder if they have a system for allowing two identical twins to appear in two separate live video calls to verify it's not just one person filming two videos of themselves.
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> Afaik, neither of these things has been proven. It's not even clear (at least to me) what a proof of "difficulty" would look like. You would have to prove that no mathematical process could exist that was capable of (fo
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
And having that much inscrutable and unaccountable power would very quickly attract hundreds more untrustworthy individuals who would be tempted by the very fact that the power could be abused. Once their capability became self-reinforcing
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
Some time in the next decade or two, a global interoperable online ID system will be created. The properties of that system will reflect, and be reflected in, the global political and power structures that develop alongside it. We have a l
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> then a comment like yours pulls me back in. That's a really positive thing to say, and I appreciate it, thanks. > it would challenge the ideas of religious people around the world. Don't you think it would also challenge t
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> knowing systemd, journalctl, nginx, apt, ssh and docker and how to run them through bash. Or, the way things are going, systemd, systemd[1], systemd[2], systemd[3], systemd[4] and systemd[5]. [1] https://www.freedesktop.org&
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
I think Gilbert and Sullivan wrote a song about him...
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> To build nukes you need a nuclear industry. The corollary being, if you want to reduce the chance of nuclear war, you should phase out civilian nuclear power. At the very least, we should limit nuclear energy to only countries that are
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> Because the process is not entirely deterministic, it is much harder for a bad actor to corrupt. As in software, a lack of determinism means a lack of reproducibility, and without reproducibility it's harder to have consensus. In
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
If we could prove the universe was a simulation, we might be able to find mistakes (or limitations or design choices) of the simulation that enabled, for example, faster than light travel, or sending information back into the past. You coul
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> It may have been a long time coming for those of us who do not wear an Apple Watch, but I am glad to have this now. So if you don't have the Apple logo on your wrist, their phone will check your facial biometric markers instead?
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> I wouldn't say it requires more trust. It's not like bitcoin holds an election every few years for determining which party holds the economic majority. But it's at least possible, from the protocol, to determine the bala
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
Isn't this just proof-of-stake with more steps? And those steps aren't built into the protocol, so they require even more trust.
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> How is a Web version of a form more subject to discrimination than a paper one is? I'm sure it would be possible to "accidentally" introduce bugs where the fonts don't render on older platforms (owned by poorer peop
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
Wait until you find out how big the browser that runs that code is!
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
This isn't just a beautiful demonstration of Hyperscript, it could also be a great introduction to what it can be like when writing for the web platform, or to coding in general. Well done!
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
That would be an interesting study, actually, to see what percentage of medieval kings died of old age (and not in their successor's dungeon). As a first order approximation, I've looked at the Wikipedia article "List of mon
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
It's reasonable to have the opinion that juggling chainsaws is a dumb idea, even before you've learnt the techniques for making it slightly less dangerous.
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
If you found yourself locked in a prison, you might suddenly be motivated to learn how to survive there, even if you're not a big fan of imprisonment.
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> Today, America's poor have a better quality of life than medieval kings. And today's rich are doing even better than that, so there's no harm in taxing their wealth, right?
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
But you might be able to trick more people to buy your fake medication if you put another company's logo on it. I'd hate to think that a country's procedures for stopping copyright infringement are so efficient that they are
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> ML enforcing rules is bad enough, not allowing false positives to be corrected is ridiculous. And potentially illegal. According to Article 22 of the GDPR: "The data subject shall have the right not to be subject to a decision ba
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> If bad laws are okay The reason I asked if people are checking vaccine passes when their friends visit them is because I don't actually believe this law exists at all, not because I think people are breaking it. It's possibl
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by dane-pgp 5y ago
> In New York, isn't it mandatory to show your vaccine card to go into any building that isn't your house? That doesn't prevent you leaving your house, and are people really checking the vaccine passes of friends who visit

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