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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Whenever people argue as strongly about something as they do with "is Bitcoin a currency?", I think there's a heuristic which can be applied: If people argue very much about if X applies or not, then X probably applies to a c
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> Does anyone avoid Go the way that they avoid other google products? Hell yes! Also: It was dead for me the moment a *giant search engine company* decided naming something with 2 letters is a good idea. That is either proof of being com
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Why would they have to obey the laws if they're not part of the EU? They could just leave their website online as is, no need to block it if the laws don't apply to them anyway.
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> apparently people really hate cocomelon nursery rhymes...it shows up 11 times in that list. There's a really plausible explanation for huge dislike ratios on videos for children: Very young children don't understand the UI, t
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
- It is called the "WORLD WIDE web", not the "local web". If you go to a place you ought to respect its fundamental purpose, no matter if it is a physical place or a virtual one. - We live in a highly globally interconne
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
They're *NOT* honest: > We are engaged on the issue No you're not, the GDPR has been active for 3 years now, or 5 years if you include the time where it wasn't mandatory, if you were engaged it would have been fixed alread
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> Possibly jail, but definitely places Is this a thing where you live, putting kids into jail for something as worthless as a laptop? Everyone has got half a dozen old laptops in their basement nowadays, I can hand over 3 to them if that
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> please consider seeing a doctor Is it just me or has the "tell people to GO TO A SHRINK" plastered all over the internet become kind of obnoxious? E.g. consider this instance here: We're on a website where the intelligen
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
I think the more important question is: Does the foreign code my machine runs have Internet access? Or can it only send the work result to the Golem network itself? I wouldn't want my IP to be used for DoS on the public Internet or wha
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Not necessary, Bitcoin Core obfuscates the data on disk for the very same reason which we're discussing here :)
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
If anyone hasn't watched Cody's Lab videos yet, do yourself a favor and watch some :) It's a really nice nerd content channel with science of lots of different areas!
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
What's the component close to the center of the 3C501? https://www.os2museum.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/P117... It looks like a camera but it surely isn't, so what is it?
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Thanks! :) Will use it!
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
If you use a swap file on the encrypted root partition then initramfstools will actually ask you to enter the password before it can resume from hibernation - the file is encrypted like everything else on the partition.
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Can Java be used to access the FIEMAP or at least inode information to apply this technique in Java software?
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Apple has $ 195.57 billion cash reserves [1], are you seriously trying to say that them giving $250 is a good deed? It's like driving by a homeless person in a stretch limo and giving them $0.10. It's an insult, not a donation. [
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
I don't understand the "key image" cryptography, but I can't fathom how any cryptography, no matter how smart it is, could prevent the user from: 1) Creating a backup of their wallet on disk. 2) Sending their coins somew
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> Regarding Sybil, nodes define their own trust relationships, so membership is open but not automatic. Thanks for clarifying! So you're expecting people to - manually add peers to be able to use the network. - manually monitor the
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying! So let me rephrase this to ascertain I understood you correctly: Your algorithm is basically "swipe 'NO!' upon all the non-very-beautiful people to get yourself put into the 'very beautiful people&
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
So this does seem to use some voting mechanism instead of scarcity through PoW. How do you prevent the sybil attack then if there is no scarcity? I.e. what prevents an individual from spinning up 10 million nodes to get more voting power?
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
> Even when you are aware of it, and game it to increase your own visibility, its a very toxic way to treat other people How does gaming it work if it depends on other people's actions?
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
An interesting argument for it is a novel point of view! Thus please allow me to also dare an equally novel, opposite point of view: On the other hand, what does the non-tinkerer majority of humanity do to deserve the tinkerers inventing th
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
I would go further than that: It should be up for question whether the neurotypicals are actually the ones who are "retarded". Just because there's lots of a particular phenotype of a species doesn't mean they have to be
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
How much energy do the following consume in total: - mining metal for coins of fiat currency - mining gold because people don't trust fiat (digging otherwise useless-in-that-quantity rocks out of the earth, a Proof of... hmm... WORK?)
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
The density of water is also temperature-dependent :) My point is that the chain of determining the measurement of a natural value should start at the value, not at what we want it to be to then bend the value over backwards to be that then
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
The same could be achieved by having different work hours in different seasons, no need to change the underlying metric of time to achieve this. It's as if we redefined the density of water in winter so when you measure a frozen contai
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
You can get beyond that mindset by imagining how much money they earn by using open source software to run their infrastructure, as compared to how much they give back. It's probably a ridiculous asymmetry.
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
Just uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere.
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
I use uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere. In uBlock Origin, I had already enabled "Disable pre-fetching (to prevent any connection for blocked network requests)".
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by eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 6y ago
I wasn't upvoting anything, it happened on visiting the frontpage without clicking anything there IIRC. Notably, I was not redirected to the login page - which does happen if I click the upvote arrow.

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