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by dcow 8mo ago
What is your definition of zero knowledge ?
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by dcow 9mo ago
This sub thread really doesn’t add value to the discussion IMO and isn’t a fit for HN. The only likely outcome is a real human is attacked based on pure speculation. Let the mods decide if a user is breaking any policy regarding AI comment
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by dcow 9mo ago
How is this different from any other code you publish?
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by dcow 11mo ago
Some jobs require investment in the future. Some do not. That’s just reality. Not white how I feel about it personally, but I think there is a fair amount of the developer trade that is operational.
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by dcow 1y ago
Interesting I’d never picked up on this pedantic subtlety. I too thought reified meant what you could do at the call site not what you could do at runtime. Was my understanding wrong, or is Gemini hallucinating. In any event, you have to us
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by dcow 1y ago
I think the argument is that it’s criminal to take advantage of the patient without insurance and ask them to ruin their life trying to come up with 195k when your system is setup to reasonably profit off the 37k you get from the insured pa
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by dcow 1y ago
The problem is the “they’re making it to the top of HN routinely” part.
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by dcow 1y ago
It’s not that people don’t value creativity and expression. It’s that for 90% of the communication AI is being used for, the slightly worse AI gen version that took 30 min to produce isn’t worse enough to justify spending 4 hours on the han
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by dcow 1y ago
There’s a difference between a physical baseball card and a digital weapon skin. One is permanent, the other is only real as long as the game it’s used in is operational. And we know games have a lifespan. It’s not like csgo/2 weapon s
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by dcow 1y ago
That anyone would use a game cosmetic as a retirement portfolio is so unbelievable it has to be trolling, right? I think we might just be witnessing the grief process unfold…
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by dcow 1y ago
I’ve watched grown adults with kids spend hundreds on baseball tickets and beer in one sitting, too. I’m not trying to invalidate your point. But also be careful about making value judgements (“valve has their hooks in them” reads as a nega
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by dcow 1y ago
McDonald’s at least has AMOE and you don’t have to spend a cent to play. It’s certainly the less convenient path, purposely, though.
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by dcow 1y ago
Is this the fault of AI or are you being overly critical of someone’s learning process? There’s a big disclaimer at the top. Isn’t that police enough? I’m sure the author and readers would appreciate constructive critique without the insinu
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by dcow 1y ago
Ex-employee.
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by dcow 1y ago
Why not? Two reasonable people can disagree about the cause of some complex issue even without the media.
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by dcow 1y ago
How do you replace just the glass with AppleCare? They always tell you it’s a full phone replace if the glass is broken, unless it’s changed recently (which would be welcome).
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by dcow 1y ago
It pays for itself the minute you have to replace a device. It’s insurance. The entire insurance industry is wasteful, by your argument. And like yeah it is. However most people prefer to amortize financial risk. That peace of mind is valua
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by dcow 1y ago
In most places people are the government. Nobody directly votes for laws. And you might be surprised if they did.
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by dcow 1y ago
Governments aren’t banning or restricting it because “god said it was bad”. Nor is the GGGP arguing that we should take it seriously because governments do so. Those would be specific appeals to authority. The GGGP argument uses examples of
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by dcow 1y ago
Are you sure? Under a unified definition Uber’s surge pricing is an example of price gouging that hasn’t been legally addressed because it’s in response to supply-side shortage not demand-side need, allegedly anyway.
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by dcow 1y ago
I think there’s a subtle difference between charging everyone $100 per umbrella in a rain storm vs charging $100 for your last few umbrellas. Former is price gouging; latter is just economics.
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by dcow 1y ago
The only responsible disclosure is full disclosure.
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by dcow 1y ago
They even say they’re committed to offering BYO storage as the feature matures
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by dcow 1y ago
Keybase works entirely fine to this day. What sucks is everyone stopped using it solely to retaliate against the acquisition with thin justifications in speculation that Zoom would ruin keybase. Well that didn't happen, Keybase’s own u
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by dcow 1y ago
I actually kinda like HN in comic sans with bugs crawling around the screen. It’s cute.
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by dcow 1y ago
Strong digital credentialing—something the web has been surprisingly allergic to.
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by dcow 1y ago
I deployed a proof of work based auth system once where every single request required hashing a new nonce. Compare with Anubis where only one request a week requires it. The math said doing it that frequently, and with variable argon params
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by dcow 1y ago
Do kids really get hit by cars at a level that would materially impact the “let them play in the park” calculus?
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by dcow 1y ago
Over parenting and hyper-paranoia are liberal traits in my experience.
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by dcow 1y ago
In the US, laws protect the franchise. The franchise may have wealth but at least at this point in history we have as a nation, extended it to everyone. If the laws protect the wealthy then perhaps your cynical view misses the fact that the

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