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811.
by feanaro 6y ago
How do you know that? And even if it was true, what is the underlying point? I don't see the "hardly anybody uses Monero for anything other than crime (right now)" -> "cryptocurrency is useless" argument working.
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by feanaro 6y ago
Are you of the opinion that people shouldn't have the right of financial privacy online? Or is this just a quippy way of dismissing cryptocurrency as a concept?
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by feanaro 6y ago
> That doesn't indicate success. Of course it does not, but it certainly is not a good argument for failure either.
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by feanaro 6y ago
> Bitcoin has been around for about a decade now. It didn’t take anywhere near that long for the internet That's not true, as is obvious with only basic fact checking. Apart from it not being obvious what you mean by "interne
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by feanaro 6y ago
We don't know that yet since everything said so far is speculation.
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by feanaro 6y ago
Yeah, I'm grasping at straws because I don't really understand what your position is from the things you said in this thread.
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by feanaro 6y ago
You said the distinction between a probabilistic world and a deterministic one is incoherent. But if there is no local realism, wouldn't it be more accurate to describe your position as saying all events are probabilistic rather than
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by feanaro 6y ago
Aren't these just word games? How do you define "autonomy"?
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by feanaro 6y ago
How do you resolve the problems raised by Bell's theorem?
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by feanaro 6y ago
Does karma play a role in this on HN? I wasn't aware of that.
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by feanaro 6y ago
Please let's not help with the efforts to hide the URL by spreading this sentiment. It's a misguided move that will only make users more helpless and the web more mysterious for them. I'm increasingly encountering users that
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by feanaro 6y ago
How are they not a useful tool, though? I'd imagine that being able to glance at an overview diagram while you're learning and thinking about biochemical pathways is a boon. It seems as useful as any reference tool is. At least it
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by feanaro 6y ago
It is not a given that it will be milder, just estimated to be more likely once everything is taken into account. As an example of why, the comment you are responding to mentioned the spike being functional (it is used by the virus for cell
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by feanaro 6y ago
Firefox also has profiles, though they're not a very prominent feature and are a bit less polished as a result. firefox --ProfileManager
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by feanaro 6y ago
I'll do this when I get some free time. I feel a bit sorry for my initial flippant reaction. I just got a bit tired of services in recent times telling me to bugger off based on my settings and/or location. I really like the desig
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by feanaro 6y ago
It was the Gin video: https://calmcode.io/gin/intro-to-gin.html
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by feanaro 6y ago
> Sorry > Because of its privacy settings, this video cannot be played here. Okay, bye.
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by feanaro 6y ago
> Don't get me wrong, I like the reasoning, but perhaps, "what expectations of privacy do you have for yourself or your family?". I feel like some people flippantly respond "none" to this, which they can afford b
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by feanaro 6y ago
I agree. But that's not a viable legal definition.
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by feanaro 6y ago
> Likewise, YouTube's rolling cipher can't really validate that it's not sitting inside of an instrumented browser that will dump whatever URLs it grabs. What is the criteria for differentiating between youtube-dl and a &q
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by feanaro 6y ago
Yes, I'm not disagreeing with you. Non-repudiability should be an explicit design point in protocols that need it.
832.
by feanaro 6y ago
A good blackmail attempt could then be devastating for you, on the other hand.
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by feanaro 6y ago
I called this a couple of times[1][2] so it is nice to finally see someone else make this argument. It seems obvious to me. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25006577 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com&#x2
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by feanaro 6y ago
> I provided a counter-example to demonstrate that your statement was an exaggeration. Which counterexample is that exactly? Your counterexample involving a store is incorrect -- the store's email would still be authenticated for a
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by feanaro 6y ago
Some Wire and Matrix people are working towards a decentralized MLS proposal, last I heard.
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by feanaro 6y ago
I was serious. I don't want to actually get into the usefulness of the DMV, I was just assuming a common opinion for the purposes of the discussion since the OP made the comparison to the DMV.
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by feanaro 6y ago
What do you propose to do instead? To actively prevent people from creating clients for the protocol? The Element clients are the closest to what you could consider official clients, being made by the Element company, which does most of the
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by feanaro 6y ago
I guess you haven't heard of OCSP stapling? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCSP_stapling Active OCSP is far from being considered a good thing universally.
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by feanaro 6y ago
I think this is simply a consequence of the fact that the technological overlords who wish to oversee all of computing had not had a chance to overly lock down computers just yet (though they certainly wish to do it). Once they inevitably o
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by feanaro 6y ago
Since the DMV exists primarily for traffic safety, I assume Apple is removing your ability to run whatever you want on your processor for your safety too?

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