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by henearkr 6y ago
I will not adress everything but only this point: Before a patch is accepted, "auditability" is the same in OSS vs in proprietary, because both pools of engineers in the review groups have similar qualifications and approximativel
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by henearkr 6y ago
Like that: malevolent actors are banned as soon as detected.
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by henearkr 6y ago
I don't have the name of the professor. [Edited: it seems like they do love OSS and contribute a lot. See child comments.] I had based my consideration on the way they are testing the open-source development model. These professors act
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by henearkr 6y ago
Auditability is at the core of its advantage over closed development. Submitting bugs is not really testing auditability, which happens over a longer timeframe and involves an order of magnitude more eyeballs. To adress your first critic: b
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by henearkr 6y ago
You need to compare what happens with vulnerabilities in OSS vs in proprietary. A maintainer pakage is just one more open source software (thus also in need of reviews and audits)... which is why some people prefer upstream-source-based dis
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by henearkr 6y ago
Fair point. I'll just leave my comment as it is. The university administration still bears responsibility in the fact that they waived the IRB.
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by henearkr 6y ago
[Edit: they seem to truly love OSS. See child comments. Sorry for my erroneous judgement. It reminded too much of anti-opensource FUD, I'm probably having PTSD of that time...] I fixed my sentence. I still think that these professors,
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by henearkr 6y ago
Not a big loss: these professors likely hate open source. [edit: they do not. See child comments.] They are conducting research to demonstrate that it is easy to introduce bugs in open source... (whereas we know that the strength of open so
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by henearkr 6y ago
Isn't their website url-wiki.com? I would assume that note.com is not their creation but rather the blog platform on which they presented their work.
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by henearkr 6y ago
The average person will also put ads on their blog to generate revenues.
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by henearkr 6y ago
It's destroying the geopolitical consensus on joining forces to solve the problem, by pointing our finger on the country where it originated (the next pandemic can come from anywhere). We know that it came from animals and that human a
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by henearkr 6y ago
That's safflower oil. But from another comment, lipid pneumonia is a thing, so I probably shouldn't start spraying safflower oil in my nasal cavity and pharynx...
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by henearkr 6y ago
Sorry my "you" was rhetorical, my purpose was not to single you out. If everybody using cryptocurrencies is like you and is still paying taxes, then that's effectively one problem solved.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Exchanges go down for a reason. If you don't want to be in it, you put yourself outside of the national economic scheme. I can see the reason why, but if everybody does the same then the whole economy goes "informal" and you
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by henearkr 6y ago
Then everybody can have two accounts, Rx and Tx, right? What is the problem then? It would all be nicely wrapped in a fun and convenient app. Having separate accounts allows you to immediately know how much tax you need to pay, it'll b
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by henearkr 6y ago
That's a positive point for MobileCoin. This way it seems like they can follow a better path (regarding energy) than the mainline coins like btc, that's a very good thing.
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by henearkr 6y ago
Yep. GNU Taler should be enough for all needs of a decentralized payment system. The whole need for cryptocurrencies is a dark area of tax evasion and illegality hiding (which it isn't even good at). Oh, something it does very well is
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by henearkr 6y ago
> These social skills are crucial in this role. Absolutely not. He is a theorist (if not the theorist) of Free Software. His role is paramount, he is literally the only human completely implacable regarding the degrees of freedom that
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by henearkr 6y ago
If it's encrypted and only you have the key, then it doesn't matter where it's stored. You can even publish it, it would just be random gibberish without the key. They just need to ensure that's the client side that deci
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by henearkr 6y ago
Actually that's something really needed. Most of the time, the more detailed reports you show to your physician the more they are overwhelmed, so I hope it would manage to become a new standard where the doctor can easily find what the
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by henearkr 6y ago
It's already a Free Software. Huge fork in 10... 9... 8...
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by henearkr 6y ago
That's sad... Still, I cannot believe the lack of vision of the founder of Signal Marlinspike. Now Signal will be soon banned. Already democracies were looking for "legit" ways to ban e2ee, but hey they did not even foresee
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by henearkr 6y ago
Fight it? How?
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by henearkr 6y ago
Let's fork Signal.
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by henearkr 6y ago
He seems genuinely ignorant (to his defense) that those are not just still pictures, images, "doing no harm", but that they have a story, they have been taken at some point, sometimes under duress, and then that some people are pa
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by henearkr 6y ago
What's interesting is that there is a category of specific neurons (called engram neurons) in which this process of chromatin-based memory formation occurs. It would be really cool to know how these neurons are different, and how and w
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by henearkr 6y ago
The Japanese version will not be closed. It's called Chiebukuro, and it looks like it will continue as it is: https://chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/
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by henearkr 6y ago
No, it seems like Chiebukuro (the Japanese version of Yahoo Answers) is not ending. At least, on their front page they do not hint at any such intention: https://chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/
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by henearkr 6y ago
Because games serve another purpose than just the energy consumption. Whereas the bitcoin has no utility versus already existing fiat currency, except for the one to prevent any governmental fine tuning on the economics (by decentralizing).
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by henearkr 6y ago
Why, when you could just have your dinner sent through the Great Burritos Wormhole?

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