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by davorb 10y ago
Here's his stance on the issue. > there is no need to reject hardware with nonfree designs on principle. http://www.wired.com/2015/03/need-free-digital-hardware-desi...
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by davorb 10y ago
Almost 12% of internet users are accessing Google over IPv6, and that figure is growing exponentially[0]. The users are already there, and our apps need to start using IPv6 more. [0] https://www.google.com/intl/en/
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by davorb 10y ago
> are we sure we will not need exponentially more energy or time to get the result of computation The minimum free energy that must be expended to operate a computer is theoretically very close to zero, since it is not strictly necessar
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by davorb 10y ago
It's very hard to say, because of the use of parallel construction. We know very little about what the NSA does with its data; even members of Congress are being denied access to this information. But we do know for a fact that the DEA
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by davorb 10y ago
Are you bothered by literature like Vladimir Nabukov's Lolita, as well?
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by davorb 10y ago
> Do the carriers and hardware manufacturers not bundle in a bunch of total garbage that you aren't allowed to remove I can tell you that they don't do it in most European countries, but I wouldn't be surprised if they d
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by davorb 10y ago
The problem isn't that it's digital. The problem is where do you store it? Hardrives, CDs, floppy disks? All of that stuff has a very limited lifetime, after which it simply stops working. And even if it continues to work, what ar
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by davorb 10y ago
> "You don't go to war with your trading partners." http://blogs.reuters.com/anatole-kaletsky/2014/06/27/world-w...
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by davorb 11y ago
The headline is a reference to a 1958 essay with the same name.
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by davorb 11y ago
I understand that you feel that way, but do me a favour. Go back and look at some of the stuff RMS wrote 10-15 years ago, and then tell me to stop with the slippery slopes. What they are talking about is a pretty big deal, it's a hug
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by davorb 11y ago
> What's the next step? Imho one thing that the Signal project suffers from -- and that a lot of open-source projects suffer from -- is poor documentation. They need document their protocol better, to make it easier for third partie
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by davorb 11y ago
> That alone marks him as a hell of a lot more mature than the numerous folks one reads of in the papers who speak despite not being authorised to, who take it upon themselves to release classified information, or who are careless with i
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by davorb 11y ago
The same way uBlock manages their lists of ads.
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by davorb 11y ago
I agree with you. But the fact is that those clickbait games exist for one reason and one reason alone -- to make money. Unfortunately, this aligns well with the interests of the app stores; their interest is to make money, and not to make
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by davorb 11y ago
If you believe in the concept of natural rights, then it doesn't matter what polls show. Privacy is a fundamental human right, and neither government nor mob has any authority to impinge upon that right.
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by davorb 11y ago
> Play strength scales roughly with the log of computing power To be fair, a lot of the progress in recent years has been due to taking a different approach to solving the problem, and not just due to pure computing power. Due to the way
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by davorb 11y ago
There are a lot of situations where a "worse" algorithm will be significantly faster that another algorithm that's faster in theory, due to memory locality. In practice, it is very hard to know beforehand what parts of your p
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by davorb 11y ago
> The world powers wanted a war back then. That is arguable. Austria certainly wanted war with Serbia, but a world war? Absolutely not. Germany certainly didn't want a war, but in the event that war was coming, they were more or l
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by davorb 11y ago
> Is it because the Terror War isn't enough to justify the elites' desired levels military spending? It's the politics of fear. I wish there was something we could do about it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by davorb 11y ago
There's no money in it.
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by davorb 11y ago
Are you just using Signal's protocol internally, or will I be able to communicate with Signal users?
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by davorb 11y ago
> My irritation is with the owners of the telemarketing company. Sadly, the best way to do this is to make it less profitable for them to employ these business practices. And there are only two ways for you to do that: don't buy the
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by davorb 11y ago
I think that only messages sent between two android devices are encrypted using E2E. If you send a message to your mom (who uses a blackberry), the message won't be encrypted with that protocol.
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by davorb 11y ago
Yeah, way too low contrast. I use redshift at night, and this isn't readable for me.
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by davorb 11y ago
Why can't you just accept that people are different, like different things and have different needs?
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by davorb 11y ago
It's not there. I would say that this just tweaks IRC, rather than adds much needed features. A little bit of too little, too late.
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by davorb 11y ago
The Soviets managed to fool the US government into believing that they had many more strategic bombers than they actually did, using the same tactics. > At the Soviet Aviation Day demonstrations at the Tushino Airfield, ten Bison bombers
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by davorb 11y ago
> black swans To be fair, he does have a black swan event in the form of the Mule.
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by davorb 11y ago
Check out Cixin Liu! His style is quite different, but I'm sure that you won't be disappointed. http://www.amazon.com/The-Three-Body-Problem-Cixin-Liu/dp/07...
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by davorb 11y ago
> One thing that they didn't quite touch on is the incredible increase in the performance of web browsers. This has largely been offset by the fact that we're sending more and more data over the wire. The average web site is no

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