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by gryfft 1y ago
I think people are reading an implication of "would be justified and righteous" into the use of the word "should" in the phrase "the White House should be furious" in the GP comment.
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by gryfft 1y ago
Submission statement? Just seems like an escape room.
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by gryfft 1y ago
I keep seeing this take, and it makes me mad. "The house is on fire, didn't you expect people to start burning to death? People will inevitably die, why discuss when it happens?" Engineering is fundamentally about exercising
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by gryfft 1y ago
The actual core value proposition of crypto is to be a façade to recycle old grifts for the modern age. First money laundering, then penny stock pump and dumps, and now outright bribery.
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by gryfft 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampling_(statistics)
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by gryfft 1y ago
"if you don't like it, vote with your dollars or quit whining"
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by gryfft 1y ago
Navigating one of those inconveniences gives the user more power, while the other disempowers the user.
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by gryfft 1y ago
I think for much of the HN crowd, many efficacious engagement hacks will have a sort of "paradoxical reaction." [1] Changes that are "minor" frustrations to average consumers can be dealbreakers to us. For instance, I sw
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by gryfft 1y ago
Site is down. Ideas are cheap, implementation is hard.
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by gryfft 1y ago
What made you decide to post it?
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by gryfft 1y ago
https://archive.ph/rdYPd
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by gryfft 1y ago
https://archive.ph/lQqM9
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by gryfft 1y ago
In retrospect my comment was ambiguous. I was referring to the (common?) experience of reporting a clearly documented bug only to have a project maintainer refuse to engage with the issue further than closing #wontfix. The system is working
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by gryfft 1y ago
> Contacted about Hassouna's death, the Israeli army stated it targeted "a Hamas member" involved "in attacks against Israeli soldiers and civilians." It specified that "precautions were taken to avoid civil
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by gryfft 1y ago
> They grinned: “it’s just some old software we run.” Ha! There are layers of lessons to be learned here.
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by gryfft 1y ago
The trick is that there's more than one person involved in making these things happen. In this way, greed, malice, and idiocy can work hand in hand. Such is entropy.
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by gryfft 1y ago
¿Por qué no los tres?
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by gryfft 1y ago
More like only a few days away, honestly.
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by gryfft 1y ago
If by "justice" you mean "El Salvador" then I have a feeling she just might be.
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by gryfft 1y ago
What gives is that many of those saying those things to you were arguing in bad faith to waste your time and attention. Now their team has won and they get to kill all the bad guys in peace.
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by gryfft 1y ago
Chaos is a ladder.
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by gryfft 2y ago
No.
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by gryfft 2y ago
Wow, what an intensely upsetting article. With cheap deepfake generation and laissez-faire platform moderation, a person who develops a pathological fixation on you can just decide to publically brand you as their sex object, and your only
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by gryfft 2y ago
> after the election I've seen at least 3 people in my community start wearing mens clothing again I've heard from multiple trans friends that they are afraid the Trump government will come for them and lock them up for being t
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by gryfft 2y ago
Observation, not admission. The fact remains that you can't argue with feelings.
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by gryfft 2y ago
> disappears Or simply resigns.
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by gryfft 2y ago
They were my favorite band as a kid. They're still my favorite band now.
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by gryfft 2y ago
If you're using symmetric encryption, sure. And then every dishwasher has the same symmetric key, guaranteeing it'll leak.
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by gryfft 2y ago
> The data/time overhead would be negligible. Doubling or tripling the amount of data sent would be negligible over a wire, but an audio protocol won't be as snappy. Then there's the matter of trust/decryption. How ar
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by gryfft 2y ago
Seems to me like the overhead it would add would way outweigh the benefit for the use case. I wouldn't want to wait an extra 10 seconds for the audio to finish transmitting every time just to prevent nonexistent spies in my kitchen fro

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