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by dcow 3y ago
This factoid made its way through my social circles back in 2019. I'm a little surprised it wasn't more common knowledge.
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by dcow 3y ago
Not agreeing or disagreeing, just curious how you draw conclusion (4)? This attack has nothing to do with systemd or its ecosystem etc.
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by dcow 3y ago
The thing with a Pig Butchering scam is it’s not the drive-by gift-card/bitcoin Kitboga variety you’re thinking of. Asian organized crime groups build entire fake trading platforms and convince otherwise well adjusted healthy people t
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by dcow 3y ago
This is cool (especially the encryption), but certain sequences of bits can’t be encoded. If you have n items left in the sequence then you cannot encode a run of n zeros. So it’s not a general encoding scheme.
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by dcow 3y ago
Curious, why are we okay with this when it’s your job securing trade secrets and IP but not when it’s your nation securing its citizens and preventing spam and fraud?
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by dcow 3y ago
Go to McDonalds right now. You can get 10 nuggets for $5.39 or BOG$1 6 piece, so 12 nuggets, for $4.49. The 20 piece is $6.79. So that’s $0.53, $0.37, and $0.34 per/ct respectively. In the first case it’s not even a volume thing, you j
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by dcow 3y ago
I sit in the middle. Imposing seems a bit strict, but we absolutely do need a better default digital identity layer than “I have an inbox”, no matter what the anons say. With Persona you can IDV using mDL. It’s already happening. What hasn’
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by dcow 3y ago
Do you have inside info? Today I pay less than the sticker price every time I use one of the offers from these places (hint the offers are always available). I can’t remember the last time I bought a full priced menu item. And look at McDon
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by dcow 3y ago
What if I get offered cheaper food during slow periods? Let’s be honest, $12 for a chicken sandwich meal is too expensive. Wendy's wants to sell more food so they want to find the price that makes you think “I’d rather just go grab a B
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by dcow 3y ago
I think consumerism is orthogonal (but a fair subtopic to explore nonetheless). Not all corporate institutions are producers of consumer goods. Not are all consumer products designed (insidiously or not) for a recurring revenue stream. Furt
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by dcow 3y ago
Yes but the challenge is that the article is rhetorically lax because it doesn't provide a domain specific case example of the Shirky principle playing out in government yet submits the hypothesis that the principle supports backwards
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by dcow 3y ago
Or, you’re preserving the HN community by finding some absurd hyper reductionist way to turn an interesting subject into a problem. We could go on… There are numerous and quite normal unproblematic examples of how self-preservation is unwa
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by dcow 3y ago
The article isn’t as hyperbolic as you’re suggesting it is. It admits that there are cases where the benefits of solving the problem outweigh sustaining it. The existence of a generalizable pattern does not imply the wold reduces solely to
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by dcow 3y ago
I get what you’re saying and it’s a fair point (ack that it’d be nice to have a gov’t example) but I am just saying that I don’t think lack of citing a domain-specific case study implies a problem is irrelevant in a given domain. It’s rathe
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by dcow 3y ago
Perhaps it’s easier to study isolated corporations and draw generalizations than it is to study a large interconnected bureaucratic blob? I don’t generally see why problems of human nature wouldn’t present similarly across the public and p
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by dcow 3y ago
More people I know use Twitter now than ever before… I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting it, but “down the toilet” is not where Twitter went.
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by dcow 3y ago
SO: the community that optimized for moderator satisfaction over enduser utility.
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by dcow 3y ago
A little bit of a gap in understanding too. Something happened to your account and you don’t know how? Hacked. Turns out for a lot of people your piss drunk self, your weird ex boyfriend, and that person setting up fake OF with a selection
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by dcow 3y ago
No it’s not. Smokers aren't helpless there are plenty of smoke-free ways to put nicotine into your body. It’s even cheaper than smoking.
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by dcow 3y ago
It’s just iOS and macOS.
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by dcow 3y ago
Statistics and probability don’t bother me and we should use them more. Describing the very nature of the world as a soup of probability out of which observations arise and events take place, however, is getting tired. Superposition is a wo
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by dcow 3y ago
QFT is not complete. It’s one lens through which we model our observations of micro systems. Being well tested just means it’s precise, not accurate.
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by dcow 3y ago
Yes, the universe is a quantum computer that is continuously calculating itself. “Simulation theory” suggests we’re part of some other being’s simulation.
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by dcow 3y ago
“The proton is a quantum mechanical object that exists as a haze of probabilities until an experiment forces it to take a concrete form.” I’m getting really tired of hazy probability distributions and waves that only collapse and materializ
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by dcow 3y ago
It’s like a listicle that tells you every best coffee machine in 2024 is a valid purchase to the right kind of consumer when you’re looking for the best one.
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by dcow 3y ago
I agree cheating is wrong. But it’s wrong because it’s fraud. You’ve falsified data and materially misrepresented yourself in a situation where there’s an expectation of honestly measuring your aptitude. Whoever relies on that truthful repr
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by dcow 3y ago
For the purposes of discussion: In my experience there’s a very real difference. In the first case I’m not getting what I purchased. In the 2nd case I was scrolling videos looking to be entertained. The video entertained me; therefore, I go
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by dcow 3y ago
My gut tells me lying for clicks “isn’t cool” because I might feel bad if I was one of the clickers. But is it formally unethical? Lying for profit seems obviously unethical because there’s an exchange of currency for a service. So if I con
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by dcow 3y ago
Seriously. I’m so sick of people “taking gambles” and getting bailed out because they’re part of the shadow government.
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by dcow 3y ago
The easiest way to understand the issue is to consider cooking. A chef can’t sit around and think up recipes and file thousands of patents. We explicitly agree in the law that it would be incredibly backwards negatively affect society if ch

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