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by gambler 7y ago
I agree that going 100% vegan is "a large quality of life impact". I don't agree that going vegetarian is. >much of the world disagrees Much of the world didn't ever try it.
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by gambler 7y ago
3% is still significant and such estimates vary. Some estimate it at 15%. Moreover, greenhouse gas emissions aren't end all be all. Animal agriculture fucks up the environment. It's a source of drug-resistant diseases. https:&#x2
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by gambler 7y ago
Sounds more like "the challenge of using a mish-mash of non-integrated tools with no interface". Developers could definitively solve this by moving away from 70+ year old abstractions (files, terminal) towards things more in line
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by gambler 7y ago
It's a horribly short-sighted, irresponsible and dangerous attitude. When your service goes down on its own its users can switch to some backup process temporarily. If half the internet goes down, they are screwed. How much they'r
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by gambler 7y ago
You don't have to have hierarchy to have rules and you don't need to have rules to have a hierarchy.
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by gambler 7y ago
I've recently listened to a podcast (2004) with the author of Newspeak. Mind-expanding stuff that makes a lot of sense in retrospect. https://www.se-radio.net/2009/07/episode-140-newspeak-and-pl...
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by gambler 7y ago
Yes. If you have an idea about machine learning that doesn't fit the mold, you're pretty much forced to write your own mini-framework before trying it. And I'm not even talking about CUDA compilation. Mainstream languages don
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by gambler 7y ago
>Further, a web based system would limit the amount of information a physician could get and be subject to the reporting of a lay person. I'm talking about an expert system. You enter symptoms. It asks you questions. Then it says
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by gambler 7y ago
It's scary how hard it is to get quality diagnosis and how stubborn the medical establishment is in maintaining the current status quo. We have treatments for many diseases. We know the symptoms. But because your physician might not kn
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by gambler 7y ago
Reading the paper. Too bad the game itself is down. Something that caught my attention: >For the question about discrediting we used a different non-existent news site (“International Post Online”), employing an ad hominem (Walton, 1998
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by gambler 7y ago
Every time I read about some new clever way to fight "fake news" I ask the same question. Can this method be used to reinforce any arbitrarily chosen agenda or does it work because there is something fundamentally wrong with t
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by gambler 7y ago
On the other hand, a big platform can arbitrarily delete your account/content with no recourse, or just shut down. Happens all the time.
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by gambler 7y ago
>HN probably has the largest proportion of people who maintain their own websites ...on AWS.
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by gambler 7y ago
Talking to the HN crowd about platform ownership is pointless. It's obvious that most people here are not able or willing to grasp the long-term consequences of super-centralization, including many so-called security and scalability ex
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by gambler 7y ago
Anyone who tries to use JSON for complex, extensible formats that involve documents (as opposed to data structures), metadata and semantic data are shooting themselves and their users in the foot. Just because W3C fucked up in some of their
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by gambler 7y ago
I will try explaining this for the last time. We already live in the word where a video is not a 100% proof that something happened. Given enough time and money you can use video editing, actors and CGI do show almost anything. This does
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by gambler 7y ago
Apparently, we're talking about different problems. I am talking about the problem of content creators being able to demonstrate that what they post is real footage. You're talking about the problem of someone being fooled by some
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by gambler 7y ago
>It used to be the industry standard method for recording TV programmes prior to the invention of videotape recorders. Back when everything was analog and low-resolution, had noise and artifacts anyway, sure. Do you have a video that
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by gambler 7y ago
The scare over this is overblown. 1. If the image quality is good and if you pause the video, the artifacts are pretty obvious. 2. Making meme videos is not a problem. You have to think about serious scenarios and ask yourself whether they
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by gambler 7y ago
Have you ever tried this? The quality will be awful. As far as I'm concerned, the need to use a real camera to capture real light is sufficient to thwart creation of truly convincing fakes.
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by gambler 7y ago
You're not thinking this through. The problem isn't that creators can make fake videos (which would be analogous to DRM). Let them. There is no harm in it. The problem is that users have no way of verifying true videos. This can
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by gambler 7y ago
It is bloody obvious that when people spin something up on their local machines the do not intend to make those pages available to every website they visit. This by itself suggests that there should be a dedicated security context for suc
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by gambler 7y ago
Same-origin policy is not a security model. It's a ridiculous quarter century old hack. If you pause to think about it, domain names are a horrible way to delineate security boundaries on the web.
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by gambler 7y ago
There is no happy medium. Due to its complexity, the whole ecosystem of modern software engineering is inherently dysfunctional. Being able to understand existing solutions and to create your own solutions that aren't broken toys is
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by gambler 7y ago
When will software engineers finally understand that issues like these aren't problems with some random service you run on your computer, but with the (lack of) security model behind modern web browsing?
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by gambler 7y ago
Stuff like this is always possible wherever you have fully centralized architecture. I don't know how many massive cloud failures it will take for IT community at large to realize this.
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by gambler 7y ago
No. There are some cases where it is useful to download many pages in a batch, but what I am talking about is, effectively, partial local replication. Bookmarking I describe should create a tiny (but useful) version of the web on your compu
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by gambler 7y ago
This needs to be solved on the protocol level. Of course, the players who have control over our protocols are exactly the people who don't want this to be solved at all. The next best thing would be to redefine what "bookmarking&q
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by gambler 7y ago
>Facebook candidates are asking much tougher questions about the company’s approach to privacy, according to multiple former recruiters. This narrative is highly suspicious. Zukerberg openly and repeatedly said that he doesn't car

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