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by ineptech 2y ago
It's still pretty deranged. "When Mark shares on Facebook, a part of the narrative is a generational narrative..." Like millennials are sitting around reading whatever Mark Zuckerberg posts on facebook and discussing it wit
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by ineptech 2y ago
Agreed, we need a postscript from the author explaining that he set out to avoid drawing a comparison with chaotic systems, but after months of editing and tearing up handwritten drafts found himself arriving at one anyway.
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by ineptech 2y ago
Well I hope so, but it would take something more exotic than the directory service described in this article, right? ... thinking it through, maybe not. I guess if a client initiates AddVerification for some twitter handle, and the directo
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by ineptech 2y ago
This is a directory of public keys, which every secure messaging app including Keybase must also have, but federated rather than centralized. That's a necessity for e2ee and it's very cool to implement it as an append-only versio
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by ineptech 2y ago
In the early 80s, the local pirate scene in my hometown revolved around a guy who I'll call George. George's entire basement was devoted to boxes full of diskettes (5 1/4" in those days) of pirated software and photocop
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by ineptech 2y ago
For any allegedly-random distribution, it's possible to statistically determine an upper-limit on the size of non-random-appearing structures. The upper limit for such structures in our universe is thought to be about 370 MPc, about 1
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by ineptech 2y ago
> Why is this thread acting as though teaching our children self-control is somehow a different lesson? Because some things require more self-control than others. Imagine if the drinking fountains in public parks had non-alcoholic beer i
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by ineptech 2y ago
> "set reasonable restrictions on phone usage"? It's not so much that people are too dumb to do this or don't understand the danger, it's that doing this well is tedious and time-consuming and expensive. Setting
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by ineptech 2y ago
I think you're reading that comment rather uncharitably, I interpreted "description of reality" to be a synonym of "model".
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by ineptech 2y ago
Comparing someone's wage to the value they produce is a fine way for a company to decide whether to hire someone, but I didn't think that was the question you were trying to answer, was it? Perhaps I misunderstood, but I thought
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by ineptech 2y ago
> someone who only produces $7 of value is no longer employable This is the wrong model. You're using a worker's wage to describe their productivity, and a big reason for the mess we're in is that wages stopped increasing
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by ineptech 2y ago
Any source for this at all? I've seen it before and it's a top-rated comment here, but it doesn't sound plausible and it's exactly the opposite of what game theory would predict.
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by ineptech 3y ago
No, I'm 90% certain both Dijkstra and OP meant that what's critical is mastery of any tongue. In context, he was talking about what makes someone good at programming, not about the need to contribute to a team or communicate idea
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by ineptech 3y ago
It's a complex topic but a popular answer is requiring the owner of the last-mile infrastructure to make it available to competitors at cost. I think that is (roughly) what places with good/cheap broadband do, e.g. South Korea.
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by ineptech 3y ago
This is a kludge because we don't have the actual solution to keeping prices low, which is market competition. No one wants the government to tell big companies what to do, but when you let a monopolist take over you're stuck wit
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by ineptech 3y ago
I'm not sure? Mine still works but I've had to manually upgrade it a few times. For a scheme like this we'd probably need to reimplement it (just the public keyring and challenge proofs on social media platforms, not the cr
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by ineptech 3y ago
I don't have enough time left on this Earth to explain the concept in a way that politicians could implement, I'm in my 40s. In my preferred alternate universe, Keybase was sold to a benevolent billionaire. Or more realistically
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by ineptech 3y ago
Question that sounds idiotic but is quite serious: how do I make it illegal to lend money to me without confirmation via Keybase? (edit: or some similar cryptographic identity proof) The only reason to keep my name/address/SSN sec
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by ineptech 3y ago
I don't think choice is involved here, public and capital-financed companies that aren't maximally greedy get eaten by those that are. When your competitors raise enough capital to undercut you in the short term, you don't s
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by ineptech 3y ago
Eh, when something goes extinct I'd say that's evidence that it isn't viable. That's the paradox of capitalism: anything that can be ruined eventually will be. I'd pay 2x or 3x for 30yr appliances for environmental
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by ineptech 3y ago
Is it even realistic for a company to sell $1000 appliances that last 20 years? I know we can build such an appliance, because they did in the 80s, but can a public company survive selling them?
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by ineptech 3y ago
> a server farm aboard a ship that only sails in international waters. How would this help? If the server software is actually trustworthy and the connection to it is e2ee then it really doesn't matter where it runs. And if it isn
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by ineptech 3y ago
I agree that copying music is not all that similar to an AI model using training data, but they're both examples of a superficially similar activity being transformed by automation and scale. The difference between manually copying a
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by ineptech 3y ago
This is a little oblique, but isn't there a parallel to the music piracy debates of the 90s here? The defense of those who steal training data, "It's not stealing because I'm only taking a little tiny piece from a whole
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by ineptech 3y ago
And from the following day, their paraphrasing of https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/4/23946353/generative-ai-co... is succinct: > Meta: We stole so much stuff that, actually, we didn't steal any s
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by ineptech 3y ago
> I'm always reticent to fully engage in "The Dialogue," regardless of its momentary configuration. It's a smoothie made from shibboleths; you have to be able to detect them at only a few parts per million because onc
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by ineptech 3y ago
Sprints make/made sense in the world of slow deploy cycles, especially for lengthy manual regression testing. If it takes you three weeks to get from a story being done to a story being in production, deciding which sprint a thing goe
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by ineptech 3y ago
Two thoughts: > "Way of work should be defined at a team level by its people, not by the company." OP delivers that like a surprise, but isn't that the single core defining tenet of Agile? I thought it was. > Sprint Pl
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by ineptech 3y ago
I still don't see how this is relevant to the question at hand, where someone is trying to convince you of something. They either convince you or they don't; refusing to decide is equivalent to the latter. Not taking the vitamin
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by ineptech 3y ago
This is probably true, but not very helpful. We can shrug over historical curiosities, but in a lot of cases we have to make a decision. Consider Linus Pauling's claim that you can prevent cancer with megadoses of vitamin C. It was n

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