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by dpq 7y ago
In that case, I recommend you to read about the story of Douglas Lenat's Eurisco engine and the TCS Traveler game. It's kinda old but fascinating.
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by dpq 7y ago
In this case, Ecosia would still rant about it. They would only change their complaint text from "what about non-profit oriented search engines like us?" to "what about search engines nobody has ever heard about like us?&quot
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by dpq 7y ago
So basically it would be cheaper to fly to Canada (/Europe/Russia/where er) for $500 roundtrip and get an EKG for $100 there. You know something's weird when this is what a better solution looks like.
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by dpq 7y ago
Does this problem have a solution that you would approve of (aside from switching the CDN from CloudFlare to some competitor)?
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by dpq 7y ago
The site appears to been hugged to death by HN. The rate of such incidents makes me wonder whether there are good reasons for so many websites not to use CloudFlare or if it's the result of plain old incompetence of the respective webm
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by dpq 7y ago
I distinctly recall these (and much more restrictive) measures having been tried in the U.S. almost exactly 100 years ago, to a very modest success. Sugar seems to be an easier target, because there are sweeteners like aspartame. Alcohol al
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by dpq 7y ago
Subject for negotiation. But it's going to be in the ballpark of many $k/mo
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by dpq 7y ago
I'm afraid you are in for a nasty surprise: CloudFlare specifically forbids using it mostly as an image/video CDN unless you are on the Enterprise tier (clause 2.8 in the Terms). I found it out the hard way a couple of years ago w
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by dpq 7y ago
Like I said, the chats are stored (or are claimed to be stored) in an encrypted form. But I think I understand why it may count as "stored unencrypted" in your eyes. Still, Signal won't cut it. It's too inconvenient to u
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by dpq 7y ago
You use pretty strong language and have your facts wrong (in the post above when you say chats are stored in plain text). What's your angle? Also, we are discussing web login options here which afaik Signal doesn't support.
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by dpq 7y ago
Plain wrong. It's not end-to-end encrypted by default, that's true. But all chats are encrypted with key portions distributed between different jurisdictions in case some country gets funny ideas. Chat archives are stored encryp
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by dpq 7y ago
For a start, I don't own, and don't want Apple devices. Also, stories about FISA overreach, PRISM, the rest of the alphabet soup plus gag orders do not particularly inspire confidence.
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by dpq 7y ago
Sounds like a good time to remind people about Telegram having a similar function for quite some time now. And just yesterday they announced a feature to simplify logging into web sites using TG bots: https://telegram.org/bl
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by dpq 8y ago
I think your attitude is still extremely mild. It doesn't matter if we believe ourselves to be neutral, there are groups that consider themselves our opponents, and will work against everything we stand for. And, unless we decide to fi
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by dpq 8y ago
Like I said, we're probably screwed anyway.
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by dpq 8y ago
> solutions in which we have fewer idiots Not unless you are willing to avadakedavra them all, and this avenue is also wide open for abuse, as you may imagine
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by dpq 8y ago
Choose your poison then. Either we let idiots run loose and we are definitely screwed, or we empower some individuals and companies to control and govern communications etc, and then MAYBE we're screwed if we pick the wrong ones.
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by dpq 8y ago
As much as I like to consider myself a pro-freedom, anti-censorship type of person, articles such as this one rarely fail to amuse me. As long as the system of payoffs stays unchanged, the end result is inevitably going to be the same, and
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by dpq 8y ago
Honestly I think the docs/official feature map at telegram.org would do a better job than me. I don't think you'd enjoy TG if none of your friends are using it, though [obviously]. Edit: ok I launched Signal which was install
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by dpq 8y ago
I stand corrected then: which was expected by me. It's awesome that Signal provides this feature, but I'm afraid it alone won't be sufficient to entice users to switch to Signal en masse. Still, this doesn't invalidate m
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by dpq 8y ago
> Eventually they will profit from user privacy violations. Where do you get this from? IIRC their plan is to launch a Internet platform TON and a cryptocurrency Gram, and make money off transactions. As far as monetization plans go, th
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by dpq 8y ago
> Telegram has made very dubious privacy claims My love for the word "dubious" cannot be overstated. While there's been a lot of solidly-seeming (I am not a security researcher) criticism of TG security infrastructure, I d
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by dpq 8y ago
> The solar system is already close to a vacuum No. Not at all. You can expect particle density to be anywhere from 5cm^-3 to 80cm^-3 if you stay within 1 astronomical unit distance from the Sun. Besides, all that plasma is accompanied b
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by dpq 8y ago
> You think google is going to send a cease and desist letter to github Wouldn't be the first time, either: https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-shuts-down-gaia-efforts... TL;DR: They shut down an open source G
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by dpq 8y ago
Getting an Estonian bank account is nigh impossible. If you want to do anything AdSense related, go with an Armenian account instead. Less hype, same rules (~), totally worth it.
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by dpq 8y ago
> I do hope that blogs and comment sections do not end up serving any formal role in the scientific literature. Why not? It all depends on the qualification of the people writing blog posts and comments. Remember that some 300 years ago
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by dpq 8y ago
Hi, why not set up Cloudflare to handle the traffic? Sorry if this sounds off topic.
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by dpq 8y ago
Everything you just said is true. So basically in order to help some technology proliferate, somebody had to create a cult around it. Good. If the problem was social as opposed to technical, and someone correctly identified it as such and
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by dpq 8y ago
Do you really care that much? Everything in this world is about tradeoffs. So tell me, if you had a magic button that would erase this narcissistic, childlike, condescending cult leader from history as if he was never born (or retired to th
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by dpq 8y ago
When I was a kid, programmers - the elders, those whose lives and achievements had been described in all my introductory books - seemed to be immortal, because all these people who changed the world and created the wonderful universe of com

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