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by gnode 9y ago
To what extent is this, or will this be enforceable? Is there an obligation to securely erase data? If not, presumably someone could store user data on a log-structured file-system and disable garbage collection, or similar.
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by gnode 9y ago
Ballistic missiles often don't have steering fins, and are guided using thrust vectoring. Also, missile defence often has to take place in the terminal stage of flight (e.g. THAAD), where the missile is carried to its target by its mom
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by gnode 9y ago
Something like a Godiva device (pulsed nuclear reactor)? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godiva_device They have a risk of creating a small nuclear explosion though.
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by gnode 9y ago
As I understand it, it's supposed to be a blurry dream-like vision of Doom (or similar game) hallucinated by a neural network.
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by gnode 9y ago
Large carbon fibre tanks are arguably 3D printed. They're made with a CNC machine that winds carbon fibre tow onto the tank. A larger challenge would probably be to cheaply produce the raw carbon fibre on Mars.
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by gnode 9y ago
> A country like the US is not even self-sufficient, although we could be. The consequence would be a reduction in productivity and quality of life. For this reason, I think Mars isn't going to prioritise self-dependence. A civilisa
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by gnode 9y ago
> produced like sausages I think the trend may well go in the other direction, and become more like shipbuilding. Due to reusability, we can afford to make costlier rockets, as they're useful for many launches. This may for instance
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by gnode 9y ago
With relatively cheap transport to Mars (due to reusable launch), I don't see why building rockets there would make more sense than bringing them from Earth, i.e. returning them to Earth. Furthermore, to develop rockets on Mars you&#x2
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by gnode 9y ago
The issue with inferences is that you could use relatively unprotected data, such as location data, to derive, for example, medical data. The example of going into an abortion clinic and having had an abortion is an obvious one. In that cas
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by gnode 9y ago
Does anybody know what the legal situation (in US or under the GDPR) is for data derived from inferences? E.g.: if he visits this nightclub he's gay, or if she goes to this clinic she's having an abortion. As the subject never tol
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by gnode 9y ago
I think this comment highlights exactly why legislation like the Federal Assault Weapons Ban was made. Anti-gun people generally don't know much about firearms, and can be appeased by the banning of cosmetic features, like folding stoc
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by gnode 9y ago
Plenty of tools are used very infrequently, and make up a large proportion of the market. Most households probably have a screwdriver, a wrench, a spade, etc. which rarely get used. Yet people keep buying them.
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by gnode 9y ago
Particularly as a common effect of expected regulation of firearms is increased sales, as customers try to preempt new legislation. Especially true for laws which focus on sale rather than possession. However, on the other hand, expectation
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by gnode 9y ago
Competition only works if the customer has relevant information. For a cable network's customers it's instantly apparent when their internet speeds suck; it's not apparent when someone sells your private data. It doesn't
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by gnode 9y ago
I would say it's more comparable to the casino. Psychology is analysed and exploited to the benefit of the house. To some it's harmless entertainment, and to others it's devastating. Support for regulation of casinos is born
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by gnode 9y ago
For a long time C++ and Javascript did not have futures. Rust is relatively new, and futures aren't part of the language proper yet. The problem is that the author's criticism of Rust seems to all hinge around a bleeding edge feat
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by gnode 9y ago
If you believe you are legally entitled to money (you agreed upon a payment) or didn't assign copyright, you can sue them. I don't know where you are, but in the UK for example, the small claims court handles cases like this (up t
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by gnode 9y ago
Being pedantic: In GEO, with an orbital radius of about 42Mm, and earth having a radius of 7Mm, that gives a radius of 7Mm * acos( 7Mm / 42Mm ) ~ 9800km around 4°W (almost a hemisphere), for which it would be overhead. But admittedly i
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by gnode 9y ago
I feel like a lot of difficulties people run into with Rust are because they're trying to do things the "right" way. You can often make your life easier with liberal use of reference counted objects, instead of solving diffic
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by gnode 9y ago
An example of a variable size Vec in a struct: My understanding is that technically the Vec object itself is fixed size under the hood (a pointer and size field), but as far as I can tell, this is what you're after. It needs no referen
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by gnode 9y ago
The grievances you and the article's author mention seem less to do with Rust itself, and more to do with this seemingly horrible futures library. As far as I can tell, it's still in the rust-lang-nursery, which is an indication i
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by gnode 9y ago
People don't treat others all alike. We naturally interact with people of different genders, ages, and in different contexts differently, and continually pick up social cues (such as how loud or forward someone is) and change our behav
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by gnode 9y ago
It's a tautology and irrelevant to say guns enable shootings. Guns make murder convenient, just as the Internet makes certain crimes convenient. But in both cases, the majority of the user base is benign and law abiding, and legislatio
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by gnode 9y ago
Personally, I found Google much easier to replace than Facebook. In the case of Google, I started using DuckDuckGo, and it's been fine. There are alternatives for maps and email too. In the case of Facebook there's a lot of peer p
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by gnode 9y ago
The Internet can be colloquially interpreted to mean the community of Internet users. The isn't necessarily the same as society in general, and for the purpose of argument, it is useful to distinguish community that is specifically ena
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by gnode 9y ago
In order for steering to be a collision avoidance strategy, the system would have to risk the life of the driver. It may be fairly easy to recognise an obstruction on the road, but determining that it's human is much harder. If a plast
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by gnode 9y ago
You can prevent crawling (and retroactively remove your site content from the Internet Archive) using robots.txt, with the ia_archiver user agent: https://www.fightcyberstalking.org/how-to-block-your-website...
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by gnode 9y ago
To use an analogy, this would be like blaming the developer of an antibiotic or anticholinergic for rendering your weaponized anthrax or nerve gas ineffective. Cyberweapons can easily fall into the hands of criminals (especially given their
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by gnode 9y ago
In Instagram's case, it's trivial to profile people by what they follow, and the platform has become heavily laden with ads. It was too much for me to bear, and the main reason I left it. Also, I don't know about global stati
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by gnode 9y ago
I also find that (at least in my social network) many friends don't broadcast their lives (and rightly so), so you need to talk to people anyway to get the real picture. What you see in a social network is limited to content that peopl

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