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by holmesworcester 2y ago
The existence of the Internet does make existing copyright law much more destructive and limiting than ever intended. The creators of copyright law never imagined a world where everyone could have a free library of a lifetime of books in th
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...All with just one successful malware-as-a-service attack against the right employee. (Lumma was the malware-as-a-service used.) Interestingly, there's another adjacent story on the frontpage about Pegasus being used against NGOs in
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
What about this type of spying? (Also frontpage of HN right now, and done with similar tools i.e. Lumma malware-as-a-service)? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40534868 The problem is, when the vulns exist due to hand
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
I think a lot of people are mis-seeing these Pegasus attacks as a problem of political will ("we need sanctions on NSO/Israel!") or memory safety ("rewrite it in Rust!") when there is a deeper problem: parser comple
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
> A US company would never be allowed to own any kind of social media company in China. And it's even more implausible to think China would allow this as a result of a US law aimed at limiting China's power. "Ban" is
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
Yes, competition works for factors that the majority of consumers are aware of, like price and speed. But it doesn't work for enforcing net neutrality. If you model it, how could competition work to protect a YC startup with 1,000 or 1
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
> If ISPs are playing the long game, they're being incredibly patient about it. They actually are, and this is how politics and lobbying work. In 2017 it made no sense for US ISPs to run ragged over net neutrality when the 2020 elec
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
Mobile ISPs like T-Mobile are quite open about wanting to offer plans that privilege certain services over others.
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This is some research it would be cool to see: was TikTok adoption measurably slowed in countries where net neutrality violations were common? For example, it's the norm across Africa for providers to offer plans with radically lower p
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FCC*
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The California law is particularly strong and had a huge impact. The other big factor is the threat of new FCC rules, state laws, or federal law. As long as net neutrality advocates can pose a credible threat of passing rules that, from t
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by holmesworcester 2y ago
Actually, the empirical record on this shows that we see more net neutrality violations by ISPs in marketplaces with high competition.[1] This is counter-intuitive but here's how it works: In a competitive marketplace ISPs have tight
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
The cool solution I've seen to this problem is to have some process for identifying the class of people who are affected by [locally burdensome thing] and then allowing the proponents (a business, the government, etc.) to negotiate som
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
Only if either: a) the airport is far from any other humans b) the horde of humans your airport angers do not also ignore regulations OR your airport has its own sufficiently large private army
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
I feel that worry too, but I can validate his advice, somewhat. I'm 44 and spent most of my career working individually and with my closest friends on projects that felt interesting, and it went really well for us in all of the ways. I
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
The US came very close to passing similar legislation recently and it still could. This bill had bipartisan support. Apple was able to kill it using relationships with leadership, but the votes were there. My organization Fight for the Futu
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
But in reality capitalism does coexist alongside other value systems, no? Purdue Pharma (opiates) is a good example of a company following its incentives that eventually was brought down for violating broader common sense values. The values
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
One thing I was thinking recently is that if we get sufficiently good at humanoid robots, perhaps it will be within reach to build a robot around a human that can put arbitrary pressure on different parts of the body sufficient to create th
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
When I talked through the game theory of BlueSky with the founder, it seemed that it would tend more towards competition between a few large services with fairly nuanced and predictable moderation policies. It is very easy to move your acco
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
The fact that someone can screenshot something does not make deletion not real. Deletion is still valuable for many threat models and day-to-day situations humans run into. As someone working on a p2p app that has done a lot of user researc
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
The sample conversations here are hilarious, especially compared to the typical academic or corporate AI paper.
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Another possible explanation for this skew is that TikTok and IG are primarily video platforms. The videos of destruction and death in Gaza are far more horrific than corresponding videos in Israel, because the scale of what Israel is doing
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
Maybe they're doing it because it's the right thing to do, and because they'd like people to trust them. Also: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/11/teen-and-mom-plead-guilty-... They must be able
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
Same experience with Google Assistant on Android. I used to be able to use it to create calendar events in one shot. A few years ago it started insisting on creating events in steps, which always failed miserably.
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That would tip the balance of power to another corrupting influence. Corporations, say. Or professional associations representing highly-educated high earners like doctors or lawyers. Or to politically savvy deca-millionaires who use their
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Given that this feature would have to be real-time and robust, and given what we know about how AI inference works, I think we can assume that the mechanism will be running locally on the car. Otherwise you'd be able to drive drunk whe
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by holmesworcester 3y ago
With enough fusion generator, water, lighting, robots, building materials, and seeds, you can grow all of that stuff pretty easily anywhere. Maybe you'd even be able to download and print the seeds.
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It's not so implausible, actually. "In 2019, 88% of the time L.A. County sheriff’s officers spent on stops was for officer-initiated stops rather than in response to calls. The overwhelming majority of that time – 79% – was spent
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Trust On First Use
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> do you have an individual username for each community, or will your profile eventually be the same across all the communities you're in? We're starting with names specific to each community, since that is simplest/cleane

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