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by emn13 5y ago
It's convenient to think this is some simple tax loophole that needs closing, but that's unlikely. Those 50 legal entities likely have no profit (on paper) due to fairly arbitrary pricing of intellectual property and the loans. I
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by emn13 5y ago
I misunderstood your criticism; so while I do believe such subscriptions are scams in the sense that they prey on victims via deception and the presence of such actors undermines trust in the marketplace thus undermining fluid trade, thus s
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by emn13 5y ago
Except that you don't really get to pick to pay the price or not because of their monopoly position. At best you get to take your marbles and refuse to play entirely; which isn't exactly a reasonable long term strategy. There shou
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by emn13 5y ago
Which is at least a factor 10 too low under the assumptions that fines of that size are the result of a lengthy legal process and thus that such fines are not levied more than once every few years. 4% is peanuts for a massive tech corps t
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by emn13 5y ago
We empathize with "people doing their job" perhaps a little too much? But part if is must also be just how inhumane jail sentences have become. Prisons are terrible places in the US, and sentences really disproportanate. With th
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by emn13 5y ago
Even a few weeks would likely be at least some disincentive; and anything less than that - like fines - runs the risk of being "costs of doing business" (e.g. most of the EU's laughably low fines, and US fines are very unpred
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by emn13 5y ago
But to compensate those tricky features are sandboxed much more rigorously than JS is, e.g. https://developer.chrome.com/blog/enabling-shared-array-buff... - no SAB without site isolation.
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by emn13 5y ago
Ah, threads got enabled, and quite a while ago. However, not in a way that's spectre sensitive; only in a site-isolation context ( https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/_0MEX...
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by emn13 5y ago
You're talking about some hypothetically fully featured WASM that has all kinds of attack surface it simply doesn't have today. It doesn't even have threads; nor accurate timers, nor shared memory; and those choices aren&#x2
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by emn13 5y ago
Spectre seems pretty hard to exploit in practice judging by the almost complete lack of observations in the wild (lots of PoCs you read about, but most won't work with standard mitigations enabled, and I haven't heard of any actua
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by emn13 5y ago
The reason WASM programs are better protected from each other is because they have virtually no means of interop, and far fewer tricky CPU instructions available. Hypothetically, you might see classic OS programs use a sandbox that's a
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by emn13 5y ago
Well, easier... except that your hypothetical insecure WASM program has virtually no I/O, so pretty much every exploit is going to need some kind of extra indirection to even get into the WASM program - and once hacked, that WASM progr
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by emn13 5y ago
At the end of the day, if an attacker needs to chain exploits that's still a safer place to be that if they didn't need to do so. Additionally, how relevant is a link in an exploit chain when it's very likely the same overal
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by emn13 5y ago
I think that's grossly overstating things. I'd put it this way: C compiled for the WebAssembly runtime is more secure than C in a traditional OS context, however, it has fewer defenses available that protect the program against
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by emn13 6y ago
So your claim is that they can't automate the UI (well) via conventional browser automation tools, and can't access whatever endpoints gmail the client-side-app uses without being detected, but could if the code wasn't obfusc
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by emn13 6y ago
The cover your tracks implementation also breaks down uniqueness per category, per metric. They are nice resources, but don't get too scared! Frankly, both are exaggerating a little - e.g. including stuff like browser version numbers w
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by emn13 6y ago
How exactly is a post-logged-in-app obfuscation supposed to be relevant to fraudsters that game the AdWords and reCaptcha etc? Obviously people and corporations can choose to obfuscate; their prerogative. Doesn't mean it's effect
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by emn13 6y ago
The point is that nobody relevant is going to get stopped by this DRM. That's because nobody relevant is likely to even try copying it in the first place, and if an economically relevant party were so unwise, I expect google's leg
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by emn13 6y ago
You may have been thinking of this one: https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
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by emn13 6y ago
The issue specifically with casually reinforcing negative stereotypes, especially in childrens books, is that it seems at least plausible that will influence readers' perceptions later on. I'm not entirely convinced by this argum
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by emn13 6y ago
While I agree that it's remarkable and likely not very helpful to so actively move to suppress these books, I think the argument that this matters for free speech is a poor one, deserving debunking. Obviously there's the issue of
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by emn13 6y ago
Presumably the difference would be smaller or for some frameworks even negative if each request did some actual and not entirely predictable amount of CPU work (e.g. executing some html templating scenario with varying levels of output and
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by emn13 6y ago
Typically simulators don't benefit much from extremely fine-grained parallelism; while you likely can simulate each entities behavior in parallel, and then step the world, you don't have fine-grained dependencies within one step (
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by emn13 6y ago
The senate is elected on a slower cycle, and simply by nature of its differing powers you might get different dynamics. You see that happen in some other democracies, at least. Also: just because the senate should be proportionally scaled
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by emn13 6y ago
I'd pick a different classification. It's more like these groups: 1. Uses whatsapp out of momentum. Doesn't want to use anything else, but might if people really push them; i.e. open to transition to group 2. 2. Will use wh
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by emn13 6y ago
Even if we take out the whole morals aspect of it all, because capitalism, I think this this is really right. Yes on: amazon is free to do whatever the license allows. But no on: if that wee the point of the licensing, it'd be encod
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by emn13 6y ago
> The bicameral requirement for a concurrent majority is entirely by design and has plenty of supporters. It's pretty egregious to cite this first on the list of supposedly crucial flaws. The issue isn't the bifurcation of cong
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by emn13 6y ago
Yeah, I have no illusions that any of this is likely easily achievable. Though I disagree fundamentally that proportional representation is in any way parochial, it makes complete sense for small states to cynically hold onto to influence
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by emn13 6y ago
Apparently Puerto rico overwhelmingly voted in favor of statehood, but turnout was low. In any case - your points against redistricting are good. But even a "temporary" solution might have centuries of value, so I don't thin
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by emn13 6y ago
Regardless of how senators are picked, it's deeply problematic if representation is so divorced from population size. Alternatively, if we insist on retaining a fixed number of senators per state we could strip the senate of essentiall

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