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by grandalf 10y ago
Isn't the crux of this back and forth proofs that rely upon the axiom of choice vs those that do not? It is my understanding that philosophers have added a lot to our understanding of how the axiom of choice impacts logical reasoning a
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by grandalf 10y ago
Very true. My comment was not meant to suggest that I think Twitter should promote already illegal forms of speech like threats, etc. To conflate speech with privilege is absurd. We are all equally empowered and equally vulnerable in a fr
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by grandalf 10y ago
> they use that platform to gather followers under the direct purpose of separating the white race from the blacks or the Jews or whoever the hate-object-of-the-week is I find the sort of speech you describe highly unsavory, but I also d
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by grandalf 10y ago
> threatens violence or is intended to foment violence against a person or people I see no reason why having a clear, public record of such communications is worse than forcing those involved to use a different messaging system. It'
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by grandalf 10y ago
I think Twitter is already pretty great. My suggestions are below: - Twitter is a platform, open it up to allow any clients first class access. - Stop political censorship immediately. It's fine to prevent scams and bot-nets, but do n
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by grandalf 10y ago
It's great to hear that Susan's experience is not the case on every team. Uber clearly does a lot of things very well, and although I posted in a different comment that perhaps Travis should go I think that the best outcome would
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by grandalf 10y ago
Thanks for sharing your experience.
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by grandalf 10y ago
Uh, a credible allegation according to whom? If there had been disciplinary action or termination I think he perhaps ought to have disclosed it, but this seems like opportunism and scapegoating. The more we learn about Uber's culture I
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by grandalf 10y ago
I think the bottom line is that some founders believe that you have to tolerate abusive personalities in order to hire the best. I had a person on my team once who I did not hire but who had a reputation for being one of the smartest and mo
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by grandalf 10y ago
Wow, I think a lot of people learn from their successes and mistakes in previous jobs and bring that knowledge into their next job. It does not seem appropriate to fire someone who hasn't acted badly in his current job. The opportunit
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by grandalf 10y ago
As long as the first part of the diff shown appeared not to be abnormal, some users might be fooled. For example, a file could be created that appears to be a normal source file at the front but contains some other behavior further down.
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Defaulting isn't a big deal even to the banks. True, but the ceiling on the amount that can be loaned to a person is limited by the market-driven interest rate for packages of dischargeable debt. > not dischargable, but with be
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by grandalf 10y ago
More likely we'll see more forms of non-dischargable consumer debt. This is debt which is not discharged when someone declares bankruptcy. Every time you hear a politician advocating more student loans (rather than more affordable high
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by grandalf 10y ago
> And none of this requires any traffic shaping rules that deliberately identify what's video or VoIP True, so why is net neutrality necessary then? Do you think ISPs are making this possible out of the goodness of their hearts? I&#
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by grandalf 10y ago
You are describing a content lock-in dystopia. Yes, this would be anticompetitive (and appropriately addressed by the FTC or DOJ, not the FCC) and it is among the more unlikely scenarios.
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by grandalf 10y ago
Don't you think there's enough demand for halfway decent VPN service that a fair bit of market incentive exists for T-Mobile not to hinder opaque packets too much?
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by grandalf 10y ago
> A fair traffic management policy would allow for YouTube users to consume bandwidth in exact proportion to their share of overall demand for bandwidth. I think this statement is in effect a straw man, since the relevant consideration f
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by grandalf 10y ago
> If anybody gets to pick winners and losers like that, it should be a democratically elected government, but it would be far better to just prohibit last-mile providers from imposing unfair artificial limits or costs. Isn't it the
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by grandalf 10y ago
Interesting. When the guy ringing up the order at Microcenter mentioned that they price match Amazon, I felt stupid even checking the price on my phone, but sure enough it was $20 more. I hadn't thought it possible that Amazon could su
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by grandalf 10y ago
> The problem is what it does to YouTube's competitors: they now suffer because YT can afford to ask T-Mobile to make their traffic more important. But simply by virtue of YouTube's market share, an economic incentive exists to
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by grandalf 10y ago
Thanks for the info. Good point, I suppose anyone relying on SHA1 in 2017 has had ample warning about its weaknesses. It seems that there is also a very strong incentive for anyone receiving anything whose authenticity is verified by SHA1
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by grandalf 10y ago
I would imagine that a lot of old data is secured by SHA1, which may be available for attack. Does anyone have any idea about a broad risk-assessment of systems worldwide that might be vulnerable as SHA1 becomes easier and easier to beat?
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by grandalf 10y ago
To the end customer it's not priority, consider the two cases: customer: GET www.site.com/images/rounded_corner.gif first hop to ISP, then n hops to www.site.com vs GET cdn001.site.com/images/rounded_corner.gif
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by grandalf 10y ago
> QoS isn't always a zero-sum game. True, I didn't mean to imply that. Just that if you have a network cable the QoS can be used in a lot of different ways to maximize the amount of information going over the cable, and that
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by grandalf 10y ago
> just start dropping packets where there's congestion Aside from being normal, do you think this is preferable because it is fair? I think of QoS as a way of allowing more types of SLA to exist. Maybe Youtube makes a deal with T-
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by grandalf 10y ago
> actually believe that "net neutrality" is possible? I don't think very many of the net-neutrality zealots have much technical understanding of internetworking or how ISP business models work. Anything other than a dedica
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Traffic shaping of saturated links sounds like a waste of time and resources when it's so much easier to just upgrade the hardware. It's cheaper too! It also happens to be the fucking purpose of the ISP (to provide adequate b
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by grandalf 10y ago
> the only ones that end up mattering Even in a popular vote system there would still be small issues that ended up mattering (seemingly too much) they would just not be as likely to be from geographical areas with low populations. There
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by grandalf 10y ago
Interestingly, Electronics are the area where I'd recently noticed Amazon was least competitive. I stopped by the local Microcenter (which is, incidentally, has a nice assortment of hobby-oriented electronics items for sale) and they b
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by grandalf 10y ago
> Thank fucking god for that. Do you want swing states to no longer have votes that matter? Or do you wish that the kinds of issues that result in swing states would no longer exist?

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