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by dlenski 6mo ago
> Your argument is that people had no existing profit motive to use dirty tricks to influence scientific results/data? No, that's way too broad. I don't believe that , and I didn't write that . Oil companies indeed
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by dlenski 6mo ago
(Having seen your edited and clarified comment, I think we basically agree.) > the version where the market influences the decision is the much less effective way to do things. Okay, so two possible scenarios: "market influences dec
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by dlenski 6mo ago
> That has proven not to be the case with sports betting. Otherwise every major league pitcher would be needing armed guards to stop all the people with pipes trying to disable them. This is a ridiculously over-broad claim. First of all,
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by dlenski 6mo ago
> It's much more effective to make the decision first and the bet second. What did I say that contradicts this? > Why almost certainly? Because I haven't seen any clear reporting with evidence documented down to the level of
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by dlenski 6mo ago
Yep. Feels like we see new depressingly creative examples of this every few days.
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by dlenski 6mo ago
What a strange and uncharitable response. 1. ICBMs. I question your claim that these are "of course" valuable without nuclear payloads. No ICBM has even been used in war (there's a questionable case of Russia using an exper
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by dlenski 6mo ago
> Just wait until they start killing people to win bets. Quite likely it has already happened. There's been an enormous amount of betting on various military strikes by the Trump administration, much of which looks like insider trad
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by dlenski 6mo ago
I agree, but the fact that authorities even have to spend time investigating is a massive negative externality. A few years years ago, there was no conceivable profit motive for interfering with weather sensors on public property. Now t
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by dlenski 6mo ago
> On April 15, one trader made $21,000 (£15,600) betting that the maximum temperature would not be 18 degrees, data from Polymarket show. A temperature of 18C was seen as a 99.6pc probability before the temperature spiked later in the da
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by dlenski 6mo ago
> We don't use vulnerabilities in our products. With all due respect, and acknowledging that your work is technically excellent… Isn't everything that you do an exploitation of vulnerabilities? https://news.ycombin
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by dlenski 6mo ago
Title should have the word "its" rather than "it's"
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by dlenski 6mo ago
I don't understand the sub-heading… > Good news for those working with Windows, bad news for Paragon Software Why is this bad news for Paragon Software? Paragon donated a GPL'ed NTFS driver to the kernel a few years ago, pres
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by dlenski 6mo ago
Thank you. I was going to simply comment "Suspicions"!?! … but you've explained it more thoroughly.
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by dlenski 6mo ago
Uh…? That's not my life at all. I work from home 95% of the time, with most of my colleagues a continent away. So I'm definitely home and present in my son's life nearly all the time, probably more so than many parents given
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by dlenski 6mo ago
> You can definitely pickup on whether another male is a father or not. Hah, yep. There's a quality of patience and looking out for small children that nearly 100% of other dads I meet have, but probably only ~30% of men without kid
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by dlenski 6mo ago
> I also have been surprised by how fun fatherhood is. Same here. My son is approaching two, and he's a blast. He can be tiring, he can be a big ol’ mess, but he's never boring . He's healthy and he eats well and he'
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by dlenski 6mo ago
There's a pretty big missing case in this comparison: nuclear weapons. The US spent ~$12 trillion in ~2024 dollars on nuclear weapons between 1940 and 1996, and the vast majority of that spending was in the 1950s and early 1960s. http
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by dlenski 6mo ago
I don't understand the quixotic obsession with fighting e-book copying. As with music and movies, it only takes one person to succeed in ripping a non-DRM'ed copy of an ebook before it'll be easy to widely distribute via BitT
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by dlenski 7mo ago
What exactly does that have to do with the bandwidth of one's home Internet connection?
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> you can't even stream Youtube at 4K resolution with that Not something I care about. I don't have a 4K TV. I'm not sure if I've ever seen a 4K TV. I've definitely seen a very high-resolution TV at a friend&#x
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by dlenski 7mo ago
Yes, I reversed the up/down bandwidths as you noticed, but didn't see the mistake until I could no longer edit. > Otherwise I think 50 - 100Mbps per person is generally the point we see law of diminishing returns. Right. Whethe
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> > What are people doing with their higher-speed Internet connections that makes it valuable to have such fast ones??! > Honestly, most people go for the shiniest number they can afford. Right. It's a costly and irrational an
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by dlenski 7mo ago
Yes, you're right. "Fetish" was too weird and dismissive, but I can't edit it now. Perhaps "irrational obsession" would be a better word. I don't understand why so many people are obsessed with maximizing
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by dlenski 7mo ago
I don't understand the desire (fetish?) for high speed home Internet connections at home. I have 25 Mbps up. 10 Mbps down. Have had it for years. It's fine. It's fine when both my wife and I are working from home and doing ca
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by dlenski 7mo ago
Well said. I'm glad that as blockers have managed to develop effective approaches under Mv3, but it took a tremendous amount of engineering effort that was only necessary because Google was trying to impose these very large costs on th
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by dlenski 7mo ago
Same. I've climbed Mount Adams (12,280 feet) several times, including once with an overnight stay at 9,500 feet as well as other times when I did the whole ascent and descent in a single day. It's a tiring climb and a tiring desce
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> 1. Do a request to `chrome-extension://<extension_id>/<file>`. It's unclear to me why this is allowed. Big +1 to that. The charitable interpretation is that this behavior is simply an oversight by Goog
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by dlenski 7mo ago
From Google's point of view, very little downstairs to banning those other accounts. And the upside is that they reduce their legal risk: "We automatically blocked the account that was generating the kiddie porn, as well as the
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> I currently use Google Voice for almost all SMS 2FA Same. I have financial accounts in multiple countries, many using Google Voice for 2FA. However, whenever I create an account that allows anything other than SMS for 2FA, I immediat
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by dlenski 7mo ago
> > Intel and some iteris chipsets are well supported. > Intel chipsets categorically do not support AP mode This is not true. Intel chipsets do support AP mode; what they don't support is 5 GHz AP. You wouldn't want to

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