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by dcow 1y ago
Well, I guess you’d argue that if the ecosystem is so big that it has a social-scale impact, then it should be subject to the whims of society. One such whim is adoption of capitalism as economic policy and a following belief in preserving
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by dcow 1y ago
> Companies that monetize user data in exchange for “free” services that abuse your privacy aren’t affected by this [the app store tax], as they don’t process payments through the App Store. However, privacy-first companies that monetize
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by dcow 1y ago
It would be nice if you could argue, “well, just be a good site and don’t use marketing cookies”, but the ePrivacy Directive requires consent for performance and preference cookies too. Perhaps a liberal reading arguably allows classificati
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by dcow 1y ago
I thought we were talking about a solution that the tech industry could implement and deploy en masse to users, because it’s just, like TLS and browser standards. That’s usually what is being discussed when these give everyone privacy topic
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by dcow 1y ago
And how do you force all consumers to buy their own privacy hardware? Edit: sorry my question is not strictly how one person would mangle their hardware so it breaks presence detection, it’s how the tech industry would develop an at scale
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by dcow 1y ago
We suffer from a problem that engineers want nothing to do with politics. I 1000% agree we need a digital bill of rights. It pains me every time a “well behaved” website pops up a cookie consent banner for the billionth time after I alread
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by dcow 1y ago
And how do you technically stop an ISP from using the radio in their hardware to detect small changes in phase angle of signals in your home?
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by dcow 1y ago
> A society that is producing children will not die off. This isn’t true. Right now each woman has to produce ~2.3 children for a population with no immigration to replace itself every year. This rate changes but can never fall below two
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by dcow 1y ago
And that may well be the ultimate resolution (that individual-liberty-preserving capitalist societies with unrestricted access to contraception die off). However, if we like how life works right now then we’ll have to work to sustain it. Th
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by dcow 1y ago
Yes I agree the dual income expectation is super backwards when it comes to raising a family. First your income isn't enough to have a family unless you’re earning in the top 5%. Second, as you point out, managing a home and a property
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by dcow 1y ago
Children helped support their families, I don’t see the face value problem with that. The fact remains that humans have been having kids in their teens and 20s for millennia, until very recently in western liberal societies.
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by dcow 1y ago
No it’s not, the point is to outperform other predators and be the apex. Always has been.
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by dcow 1y ago
This only works if you indoctrinate. I’d say the current US phenomenon is something between raw relocation and true indoctrination. The entire point of my comment was related to maintaining the society we all enjoy (not FUD about some zero
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by dcow 1y ago
Yes. We’re saying that shrinkage sucked and it’s time to grow. It’s sooner than you’d imagined, perhaps.
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by dcow 1y ago
The plane only levels off by taking the fact that it has no power to its engines seriously, troubleshooting, and then restoring power. That’s all I’m suggesting we start to do.
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by dcow 1y ago
I wasn’t as clear as I should have been: I am not talking about global population and humans going to zero in some hyperbolic nightmare fantasy. I am talking about one society, e.g. US population, living with the values and freedoms and tec
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by dcow 1y ago
We may have swung the pendulum a little too far towards deliberate, though. The birthrate right now is below replacement rate, meaning that if we keep going like this (even if the birthrate doesn't keep trending down and holds steady)
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by dcow 1y ago
Full disclosure is the only fair and humane way to handle “security” bugs, because as you point out, every bug is a security bug to someone. And adversaries will make their way onto embargo lists anyway. It’s good to see a principled mainta
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by dcow 1y ago
Except this one is (see your sibling).
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by dcow 1y ago
Practically, though, you rely on hardware time until you get network time.
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by dcow 1y ago
I think it’s a fair aside. One doesn’t just “throw in a little DNSSEC” in a security discussion without extreme care.
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by dcow 1y ago
Which is exactly why I initially suggested that the structure of primes has more to do with how theoretical beings count than with how the universe propagates state.
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by dcow 1y ago
I don’t think this understanding will be related to the structure of reality but instead the structure of discrete math. Math is not an observed property of reality it’s a system of describing quantities and relations between them, often wi
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by dcow 1y ago
I think the argument is not whether EVs will take an extra 65-80 min to go 1000 miles, it’s whether that matters to the average driver. Realistically for my family it doesn’t. I’m sure for some (predominately) solo drivers it does. But then
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by dcow 1y ago
That’s somewhat different from user-agents refusing to implement useful features because they might have privacy implications.
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by dcow 1y ago
I’m not saying we should stop caring about online privacy, but the extent to which we fight fingerprinting while not actually solving the problem has made the web worse. It’s kinda like the argument for gun control: the unsavory folk will s
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by dcow 1y ago
Wouldn’t the addition of the debugger disprove this slant? Huge feature that has nothing to do with AI.
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by dcow 1y ago
That’s not how it worked in the US. I also stipulated that I’m talking about contract plans not pay-as-you-go. From my time in Europe I recall pay as you go being much more of a prominent option.
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by dcow 1y ago
No, like I don’t believe the math. It’s not about not wanting to believe the math. I don’t believe the mathematical conclusion is practically true even if there may be something theoretically interesting to talk about, like the monty hall p
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by dcow 1y ago
Something is mis-configured. This isn't the default experience. TouchID works just fine for AppStore purchases.

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