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by g_sch 4y ago
The writer here makes an error in assuming that what he terms "luxury beliefs" are invented by people with more money or influence. Ideas like police abolition absolutely have their roots in working class movements in places like
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by g_sch 4y ago
Speak for yourself. At least 80% of my messages run over Signal these days. And I communicate with a wide variety of people, not just techies. I think a major contributor to this was that Signal got normalized early as the venue for a large
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by g_sch 4y ago
I suppose it does function as an engagement hack, but I like ephemeral messaging like this because it is low-stakes and I often don't care strongly whether any individual sees my post or not. If I did care, I'd simply send them a
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by g_sch 4y ago
Seems unlikely, given that this story was told from the perspective of someone mining in the pre-ASIC era. I suppose they could have invested in ASICs early on, but they started as a broke student and the reason the story is fun is because
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by g_sch 4y ago
What kind of technical analysis would you be looking for? Reading the post, it seems like their analysis came down to (1) fundamental values, i.e. not including insecure communications within an app when they've built their brand aroun
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by g_sch 4y ago
Exactly. Unions fundamentally exist in order to prevent owners and investors from harvesting all the profits (and from pushing off the consequences of losses to the workers alone). If companies were equally owned and operated by their worke
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by g_sch 4y ago
You've piqued my curiosity - what happens when you drain your pool in Houston?
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by g_sch 4y ago
Watching the video, they mention that in order for the red team to reach their goal (downloading Google Glass schematics), they had to pivot from the users they compromised with the plasma globe (who were not working on the Glass project) t
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by g_sch 4y ago
My reading of the post is that they determined the "1,900 users" figure by the number of users who had requested a code during the duration of the Twilio incident, as the attacker could have accessed their SMS messages at any poin
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by g_sch 4y ago
This info gives us an interesting opportunity to estimate the rate at which Signal is adding new users. They've been very tight-lipped (understandably) about their usage stats but anecdotally they seem to be an increasingly common pres
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by g_sch 4y ago
It comes up in the news precisely because it's such an unusual occurrence. Lawfare by attrition is an extremely common tactic. Having more resources than your opponent can massively tilt the scales in your favor.
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by g_sch 4y ago
Is pumped hydro really able to scale to a significant level where it can provide enough energy storage for a national (or even state/regional) grid? I was always under the impression that pumped hydro was indeed awesome, very cost-effe
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by g_sch 4y ago
I think this is good advice but it also shows why using TOTP as a default 2FA mechanism (instead of SMS) is a tough sell. How many people are set up to store a TOTP seed in a location other than their authenticator app? How many people even
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by g_sch 4y ago
That's an interesting choice of analogy. Just a few weeks ago there was a popular submission here reporting how 90% of nurses are considering leaving their profession in the next year due to burnout and poor working conditions [0]. It&
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by g_sch 4y ago
What is it about Mars that would cause those same problems to collapse into mere engineering problems over there?
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by g_sch 4y ago
Aren't you just suggesting a very simple CAPTCHA challenge? This is an area that has seen an arms race for over a decade of platforms coming up with increasingly complex "human-intelligence" challenges, and botmasters coming
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by g_sch 4y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how many people consider some problems here on earth to be hopelessly intractable, but simultaneously consider a livable human colony on Mars to be not only achievable, but also not subject to the same supposedly
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by g_sch 4y ago
I can't buy this. He very clearly seems to relish public attention for its own sake. Otherwise we'd have to accept that his hyping of random crypto tokens (e.g. DOGE) is somehow indirectly connected to saving the world or advancin
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by g_sch 5y ago
I'm having a little trouble understanding the motivation for this move. Did Bandcamp have a poor revenue/profit outlook and were they looking to scale? Was this just an exit for founders? I was under the impression that they had a
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by g_sch 5y ago
I always figured this was a performance issue related to sharding in distributed systems. Deep pagination is an expensive operation so most search clusters limit the number of visible results by default. That, in addition to an assumption t
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by g_sch 5y ago
It's weird to see this article reference the Justin Keller open letter and pretend that its intended purpose was to call attention to the problem of unhoused people with mental health issues in SF. As if his "heretical" act t
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by g_sch 5y ago
Perhaps surprisingly, whether picket lines are lawful is often a matter of legal contention when there's a strike. Company owners argue that they are obstructive (which is at least partially the point), and courts often grant injunctio
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by g_sch 5y ago
The way the article cites "The Tyranny of Structurelessness" is slightly off base. The essay argues that lack of structure is not an effective way to dismantle hierarchies, because it merely masks them instead of dismantling them.
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by g_sch 5y ago
Anecdotally I've noticed that nearly all progress bars on major apps/sites are fake these days. Instagram and Facebook also have "progress indicators" (usually used for uploads) that just show asymptotic progress regardl
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by g_sch 5y ago
This strikes me as pretty optimistic given that exactly this kind of carbon dodge has been going on for years (e.g. Europe and the US importing goods from East Asia and other countries running on dirtier fuels)
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by g_sch 5y ago
It took a second for me to make this connection, but the Charlie Munger in this article is the same Charlie Munger who designed that windowless dorm at UCSB that made the news a few days back. [0] I wonder if he applied the same principles
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by g_sch 5y ago
I talk about it (especially when asked) because I firmly believe I am overpaid relative to the value I (and most tech workers) provide to society. Much of my social circle isn't in the tech industry, and many of them work in nonprofit
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by g_sch 5y ago
Markets aren't going to fix everything. You know what else desalination requires a lot of? Energy, which currently comes largely from nonrenewable carbon-intensive fuel sources. Can we simply spend more money to bring renewable energy
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by g_sch 5y ago
Do you really think so? Both parties have assiduously avoided making any material legislative moves to address any issues raised by the BLM movement. Democrats have been more eager to make symbolic gestures (renaming things, removing statue
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by g_sch 5y ago
Can anyone make heads or tails of the chart with the survey numbers? I'm having a hard time understanding how "Engaged/Disengaged" maps to the question they ask ("To what extent are you currently looking for a diffe

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