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by dcow 3y ago
The conclusion is that we don’t know and therefore it might be coincidental. Hardly satisfying. It does appear there are cycles for other lengths.
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by dcow 3y ago
RMS famously refers to the GPL as a hack on the copyright system. It comes from an axiomatic belief that restricting copying in the computer age is fraught. To put yourself in the headspace, imagine the ivory tower discussion: look at how s
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by dcow 3y ago
For the judicial system’s behavior to result from capitalism would imply that our economic policy is baked into our foundational doctrine. I was just pointing out that capitalism did not beget our legal system.
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by dcow 3y ago
I get weird looks when I tell people we ran for 3.5 years on an s3api in front of bucket storage. It scaled to meet our needs and was especially appropriate for our app’s storage profile. And now that the startup doesn’t exist I’m glad that
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by dcow 3y ago
I genuinely don't think Netflix discovered or believes that. I think if they could they'd have the highest quality and most extensive library possible. I think other media companies got stupid business school level FOMO and tried
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by dcow 3y ago
Exactly. Downstream uses are the responsibility of the person using the content, not the engine that generated it.
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by dcow 3y ago
If you prompted me with: "<blank> for a Klondike." and I responded with "What would you do for a Klondike." then I've recreated copyrighted material. Does it make sense to sue me? I've learned the phrase
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by dcow 3y ago
You’re arguing past the GP. Just because it’s never been safer to fly doesn't mean we should relax any part of the rigid and high bar the aviation industry holds itself to. You’re both right…
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by dcow 3y ago
America is not founded on capitalism and our judicial system is not innately born from it. Not saying capitalism via corporate lobbying and bribes hasn’t had an effect on the notion of justice , but our foundational legal principles exist
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by dcow 3y ago
> Now what do you do if you don't trust someone but they demand your info anyway and you're not in a position to refuse? Can you explain when this is the case? You can always vote with your feet and not use x|y|z.com. Not a onc
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by dcow 3y ago
The way I'm reading the comic, it'd be something like "main/master is special", and "always merge in changes". Things that make people assume that forward history is somehow enforced by the software. But y
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by dcow 3y ago
You're massively oversimplifying reality. > The only reason anybody cares about this even for banks is that it's required by law. No it's not. Many many services ask for phone number as a proxy for "this is a unique h
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by dcow 3y ago
This isn’t a technology problem. We just need to put our foot down as a society and make tracking as illegal as sexual harassment/assault and aggressively and visibly punish and shun companies that abuse you. There isn’t a technology t
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by dcow 3y ago
WebAuthn can be device bound. A Passkey is webauthn with nil authdata.
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by dcow 3y ago
You’re really missing the point of the whole conversation: account bootstrap and recovery for situations where things like verifying that a real human and not a bot owns the account, that the real human is unique and isn't lying about
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by dcow 3y ago
I’d challenge you to live life without a government ID, and without giving your phone number to any “public service”. I’m sure we could be more private than we are, but you aren’t going to get far without your permanent ID.
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by dcow 3y ago
You’re just sea-lioning at this point. Please stop.
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by dcow 3y ago
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by dcow 3y ago
No it’s not. At least that’s not what anybody in the security community means when they say device bound. Device bound implies the key is cryptographically tied to a piece of unique physical hardware.
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by dcow 3y ago
Entirely unfounded FUD! Wallets wouldn’t just let some random thief access all your credentials. They have safeguards like biometric TEE unlock. If you’re being targeted by someone who can get past that, then they could do equal damage with
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by dcow 3y ago
You can use whatever credential society is willing to trust. Practically that’s a state-issued ID. All I’m arguing is that we should extend the concept of your state ID cryptographically into cyberspace. Amd that it should be used for recov
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by dcow 3y ago
Some services explicitly want to disallow this so it’s actually an attack vector in that light.
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by dcow 3y ago
Passkeys aren’t device-bound. I think they’ll work just fine. The real problem, though, is that we seem to need digital identity solutions to be perfect as opposed to “good enough”. No solution is perfect and we’ll be stuck on email as lon
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by dcow 3y ago
Didn’t Google try this already? It seems useful to me, at least. IMO the next frontier of search is not better hypertext, it’s podcasts, audio, and video.
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by dcow 3y ago
Sounds like you’re arguing that “AI” is better at navigating complex human discussion than the multiple humans in this thread? I’ll take that conclusion, I guess (whether you ultimately believe yourself or someone else arguing against your
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by dcow 3y ago
I’m not combatting anything… I am just offering my perspective that I think your OP is stronger on its own. The sub-thread digressions betray your unfamiliarity with the topic and your narcissistic nature rather than reinforce your OP. Take
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by dcow 3y ago
There is pretty well established modeling that demonstrates that the stop and go rhythm that arises from tight following distances leads to worse throughput. To avoid slinking, everyone needs to accelerate and decelerate at the same rate. A
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by dcow 3y ago
Modern AVs are not driving like they have a death wish by any stretch of the imagination (and these systems are not developed using raw RL). They are driving safer than humans. Any concern that they are not following established best practi
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by dcow 3y ago
I’ve entirely lost any semblance of a point you might have had initially. You’re doubling down on a weak stance making hyperbolic claims like “our infrastructure can’t handle cars leaving a safe following distance”. What nonsense! It’s more
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by dcow 3y ago
Your comparison is RL dogfighting? I think you need to brush up on recent autonomous driving systems…

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