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by eggnet 2y ago
If prices go up Americans will buy less.
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by eggnet 2y ago
Google would maintain a kernel patch or upstream a patch if that was the right choice for a given problem.
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by eggnet 3y ago
A good first target is a VM.
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by eggnet 3y ago
You can already tell Mullvad users from their IP address. If their browser only reveals that much, that sounds like a win to me.
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by eggnet 3y ago
Average users will leave toxic environments, and be attracted toward content that is compelling to them. If federated services pick up steam, they will pick between a few popular options.
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by eggnet 3y ago
There is always a second filter bubble. In the case of non-federated sites, that filter is in the form of the policy of the site and also the algorithms used to sort feeds and replies. With federated solutions, users have a choice.
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by eggnet 3y ago
It's not enough if those people's posts are flooded with low quality replies.
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by eggnet 3y ago
Signal to noise ratio. When the admin of a server thinks the ratio of another server is too low, the admin will block it. What's the definition of too low? Up to the admins of that server.
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by eggnet 4y ago
Some problems are harder to solve than others. It usually stems from a long testing period. Try X, wait. Try Y, wait. If the wait period is decades, you have a problem. Broadly, statistics and large sample sets are used to combat that. Huma
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by eggnet 4y ago
> that I don't know of any court interpreting "steals" in a statute to mean "making an unauthorized copy of" or "leaking" Is there some reason you would know this? Intellectual property and classified i
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by eggnet 4y ago
> freedom of speech has seemingly become a right-wing talking point Because hate speech and misinformation is part of the right wing platform...
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by eggnet 4y ago
Favored to win and assume power in 3 months, yes. Trump was president at the time. Current, guaranteed threat, with a track record of doing exactly that. Biden has a long public history, without abuse of power. It's not comparable.
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by eggnet 4y ago
Here you go. https://sgp.fas.org/jud/snowden/complaint.pdf https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/641
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by eggnet 4y ago
Who is Tony in this analogy? Trump was president at the time, and had threatened Zelensky to improve his election chances. Twitter was supposed to fear Biden?
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by eggnet 4y ago
Because the first amendment covers congress's limitations on lawmaking. Thereby indirectly limiting executive and judicial actions in the same way. It doesn't cover someone (regardless of influence or position) asking a company to
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by eggnet 4y ago
Apple doesn’t post tweets using @apple It’s not new.
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by eggnet 4y ago
It’s math. Imagine you are the SSA. There is tax revenue, and there are payouts. Both are controlled by policies enshrined into law by congress. One of the things that can and has been done to control expenses is raising the retirement age.
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by eggnet 4y ago
Liked your comment. The bit about Facebook, I don’t expect anything out of it today let alone in 30 years.
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by eggnet 4y ago
Just to be clear, 5% of China is 70 million people.
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by eggnet 8y ago
You are correct. But it really should be NaN, since 1/ε is positive infinity, whereas 1/-ε is negative infinity. Oh well :)
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by eggnet 8y ago
By which country's standards is North Korea free? Edit: Other than North Korea.
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by eggnet 9y ago
Not to mention some pretty solid data about where the anti Black racists reside. It's hard to imagine a Klan member being a Democrat, within the past few decades. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage&#x2
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by eggnet 9y ago
Major CDNs don't use Tier 1 providers to reach major eyeball networks in the United States. There are no ISPs who have sufficient capacity to the other networks. I'll cover why later. Netflix is what... 37% of Internet traffic? Th
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by eggnet 9y ago
All Teslas use one pedal driving. I'm under the impression that all EVs operate that way. Edit: Yes of course, one pedal driving only applies to regenerative braking, normal brake pads are still engaged with a separate pedal. The Bolt
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by eggnet 9y ago
Regenerative braking only works if there is spare battery capacity to absorb the energy. In general that requires a large battery to be useful. A normal car battery is nowhere near large enough and is generally topped off by the alternator.
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by eggnet 9y ago
You're basically describing two factor authentication, when you have not authorized the particular computing device in question to skip it.
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by eggnet 9y ago
The problem with your argument is that a significant number of HN readers, I among them, work in the Internet interconnect industry. Network Neutrality didn't go far enough. Most major eyeball networks in the US charge a high fee (shou
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by eggnet 9y ago
Competition is not the solution to all problems. That's like suggesting that we don't need laws against fraud in functional healthy markets. Removing monopolies would not fix the privacy issue either. However, it would probably el
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by eggnet 10y ago
The OP didn't say that the Pixel starts at $1000. A 128GB Pixel XL with device protection is $968 US before tax and still has the same 3 year support as the entry level Pixel. The fact is Google sells a $1000 phone with 3 years of supp
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by eggnet 10y ago
Being a thief requires theft. The GP didn't discuss stealing.

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