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People are trying to find stability in a unstable system. The system is unstable because of the shifts in the North America (and World) economy. With manufacturing leaving the US, and the US focusing more on the service industry, the econom
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Tibia.
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The big problem with utilitarinism, is that people think that a preference function for the utilitariam that is creating a given world is something simple. Then some people are like, no, it's more complex, we need to take into account
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My mom sent me a photo of me when I was about 8 years old, playing on the home computer. It was very expensive to have a computer in Brazil at that age, and my parents used it for their work. I used it for games. I grew up using computers.
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Gmail is not just email. It is all the space they give you so you don't have to worry about emptying inboxes. It is the internal search so you can find an email from 5 years ago. It is labels. It is a mobile app that works smoothly, wi
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The use the Signal library. A security researcher could analyze the binary, and check that it always calls the signal library correctly. Prove that they don't, and congratulations, you will become a very famous security researcher.
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> you know, Turing completeness doesn't mean you can actually port arbitrary Turing complete code on another Turing complete environment. You can't transpile x86_64 Linux Kernel image into a bare HTML+CSS file, or random genera
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By having implicit arguments, a framework can decide when to override the implictness and be explicit to use a different arena when needed. Also, many process like servers are long lived, so the OS clean up strategy does not work for them,
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This is why so many big companies are forbidding usage of LLMs, without properly validating how the data can be used. LLMs are based on completing text with the most likely text that follows it. Imagine being able to ask ChatGPT, please com
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The standard industry definition. It's just that not everything is E2EE, you have to turn it on: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360048660871-End-t...
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It's not. You have to turn E2E on: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360048660871-End-t...
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Zoom has not committed any fraud. They clearly state that by default their meetings are encrypted, but not end to end encrypted. And that you can turn on end to end encryption, but that it causes a bunch of features to be disabled. I think
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Yeah, the key delivery is the hardest part if you are privacy focused. Signal and Whatsapp have a screen, where you can generate a QR code, and use that to verify that you and your contact have exchanged keys without a man in the middle att
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Yup, Signal is the industry standard into getting actual privacy. But one player that deserves a shoutout when it comes to privacy, is Whatsapp. Even after becoming a Facebook company, it has kept E2EE, for messagings, group chats, and call
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> I kind of disagree in the sense that readability indirectly forces someone who has been at Google for a while/ is more experienced to have to sign off on new people’s code. Without it, you could have some very junior members with
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There are lots of people that have this view that there is "objectively correct" language, and that you can find it in grammar books and dictionaries. Any linguist worth their salt knows that is a completely outdated and classist
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So was Ponzi an unrecognized genius instead of a fraudster? Money is not a high score in life, and money fraudulently stolen from others even less. This American logic of "guy stole so much money he is rich, lets treat him as better th
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It is a great strategy for Facebook. They have lost the race to be the trend setter for walled garden LLMs, so by giving companies the freedom to do this outside of walled gardens, they sabotage OpenAIs biggest possible source of revenue, a
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When looked at a macro scale, any region, even a small town, has to import stuff into it's economy, and has to get dollars from out of the region to pay for the imports. This can come from exporting things, be it raw resources or manuf
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All the existing systems we have to solve this area are trust based systems. You trust your browser and OS to choose the correct CAs to trust, and they are the ones that validate to you that google.com is Google. Whole schtick of crypto fol
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Yup. And you can make sure to run your tests in the exact same Postgres version you are running in production. No need to go help your teammate whose machine is for some reason behaving different, due to some weird configuration file somewh
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Even if I wasn't using containers for production, the ability to make a repeatable build allows you to make software with complex dependencies extremely easy to develop in. Making it possible for a new developer in a new environment to
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Are you using bazel as your build system? If not, for almost all languages, your build system itself is probably not reproducible. Gcc uses random numbers. Lots of compilers add timestamps to builds (javac does). For almost all non-Google u
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This page is completely wrong in so many levels. It says it's talking about population density , but many of the cons are about population numbers. If you have the same number of people of a city, but spread out more, it is harder to
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In fact, it should be the opposite. You get way more economy of scales in providing a social safety net in dense areas than in sparse areas. Hospitals can cover more people, social workers can handle more cases, public transportation become
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It's amazing how quickly code-is-law becomes regular law is law when the code allows all your money to be stolen. And that is the nail in the coffin of this ideology, proponents of blockchain claim one day your house deed will be on th
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How can we maintain consensus reality, when it has never existed? There are a couple of bubbles of humanity where honesty and skepticism and valued. Everywhere else, at all moments of history, truth has been manipulated to subjugate people.
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Then you do something else. Engineering is a matter of tradeoffs. There is no silver bullet, we don't throw off an approach because it doesn't solve everything.
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> Firefox (whose Google used to be the primary source of funds) Google deal with Firefox was always about being the default search engine there, and that's it. They never had any power of cutting it adding features to the project.
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The web from 10 years ago is very different from the web today. High quality content is found more and more in closed gardens like Discord. The spammers have gotten better and better tools to automate their production of low quality trash m

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