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by gnode 8y ago
It has this: https://firebase.google.com/docs/firestore/security/rules-st...
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by gnode 8y ago
This is a good question. I think a more general feature it's lacking is auditing (as far as I've been able to find), from which you could judge whether a user was abusive and revoke permissions. There's profiling tools, which
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by gnode 8y ago
> I haven't heard any remotely viable way that any even halfway decent alternative to Facebook becomes possible. Facebook is dominant in social media, but this is mobile gaming micro-payments. Google and Apple are also large in this
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by gnode 8y ago
I think the tragedy here, is that people need to view themselves as "programmers" (by which I assume they mean software engineers) to feel valuable. It's like a paramedic / EMT arguing that they are "surgeons"
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by gnode 8y ago
Whether something is used by others may be more a gauge for whether there is motivation to support it / whether it is here to stay, than whether it's the best solution to my problems. When I'm trying to choose between competi
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by gnode 8y ago
Addiction is by definition disordered and adverse. Animals have motivation which governs our behaviour, but that doesn't qualify as addiction. It may be more correct to say that motivation operates at a higher level than intellect. Mot
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by gnode 8y ago
You don't have to go it alone, and some people benefit from help, but I think it's harmful to say people must rely on others, or in any way invalidate people's autonomous ability to escape addiction or overcome any cognitive
578.
by gnode 8y ago
It is an emulator, because it mimics the behaviour of the native Windows APIs. It's an abstraction layer on top of Linux syscalls, as much as libc is such an abstraction. However it's not a process virtual machine, that's pro
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by gnode 8y ago
> translating x86 code to x86 code My understanding is that it doesn't do any of this. Windows programs generally don't make direct syscalls, they're undocumented and only used by Microsoft-written DLLs. Wine provides a re
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by gnode 8y ago
Layering HTTPS on top of the existing authentication system adds the obvious benefit of confidential communication, such that an eavesdropper can't see what packages you're downloading. There's an argument that you can infer
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by gnode 8y ago
Although 50M EUR is a minor fine for a corporation the size of Google, this goes beyond a "warning in writing in cases of first and non-intentional non-compliance". Does this mean that Google has been previously given such a warni
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by gnode 8y ago
I don't know if this will help in your specific case, but Amazon has an advertising preferences section in your account settings, where you can opt to "Do not show me interest-based ads provided by Amazon".
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by gnode 8y ago
I'm not saying that we should entirely disregard epistemology. After all, belief is necessary to make decisions, and thus to thrive. Although I think people should be mindful that knowledge may not be possible in actuality, just as mod
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by gnode 8y ago
> but you generally don't have the rights to the software or firmware that runs it Legally this is correct in certain jurisdictions. But I'd say this is similar to arguing that you have no right to know the ingredients in food
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by gnode 8y ago
As far as anonymity and abuse goes, the Internet is not a revolutionary development. The postal system has existed for a very long time, and is capable of much worse. The Unabomber is a poignant example.
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by gnode 8y ago
> On the other hand, the owner of a network has some right to look into the packets on that network. I don't agree. If you let a guest use your WiFi network for instance, there's no inherent moral right for you to intercept the
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by gnode 8y ago
I would say yes. There's a saying that when people figure out how to make a computer do something well, that it's no longer in the field of AI. I'd say there's some truth in this, in that for many problems we have solved
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by gnode 8y ago
> We don’t even know whether we’re living in a simulation. I think it's actually worse than this. This scenario suggests that our minds are capable of infallible reasoning yet we may not be able to trust our observations. Really, I
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by gnode 8y ago
That is: no tolerance for foreigners smuggling drugs to China and contributing to problems of domestic drug addiction. China historically fought wars against the British Empire over this issue, and see it in a context of anti-colonialism.
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by gnode 8y ago
> can anyone tell me why on earth he didn't just burn some Debian discs? Because Windows is what the typical American PC user expects and is familiar with.
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by gnode 8y ago
> dying alone I don't think it's unreasonable to have a partner and eat differently to them. It's pretty common where someone has a dietary requirement.
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by gnode 8y ago
Excluding steganography, an eavesdropper will know if they're unable to understand your communications. What's important is that what they can glean isn't enough for them to be specifically motivated or able to harm you. Bein
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by gnode 8y ago
> Everything has to be encrypted and authenticated end-to-end. This isn't really enough. Even with QUIC / TLS your ISP can still know what endpoint you're connecting to, which may in itself be too bad. This is the problem
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by gnode 8y ago
You could take your reasoning to physical security, and say that banks shouldn't be expected to protect customers' safe deposit boxes, because a bank robber could open a huge short position in the bank, rob them, and profit from t
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by gnode 8y ago
Is the effect of this limited to domestic industry, or does it affect Australians working abroad? Can the Australian government ask a citizen working abroad to spy on their foreign employer, and threaten them with imprisonment if they retur
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by gnode 8y ago
The correct answer would be: The system we built learnt that association from the public discourse, and we neglected / decided not to remove said association. The reality is that while most of Google's search system is autonomous,
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by gnode 8y ago
I don't think this is the issue. As the article talks about, architecture is shaped by regulation. Of course, you can usually construct exotic buildings if you have the money and the will to do so, but building codes explicitly approvi
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by gnode 8y ago
> These are caches of 4kb pages of bytes. This isn't true. x86_64 CPUs use 64-bit cache lines, in associative sets. They don't have any caches which contain entire pages. The TLB stores the mappings for whole pages, if that&#x2
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by gnode 8y ago
> It could simply be something within the individuals that drives them to become grandmasters that itself is what staves off the decline. Or it could just be survival bias. If your mental faculties are in decline, then you would be disin
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by gnode 8y ago
I wasn't suggesting determining whether the values were pointers or not. The number itself suggests whether it can be stored with less bits. If the occurrence of such numbers were relatively high, then this becomes a sensible tradeoff.

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