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by javajosh 3y ago
It's so important for any platform owner/operator to at least be perceived as being unbiased on the platform, and at best to actually be unbiased. But the siren song of unfair advantage to executive leadership is, in many cases, i
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After rebranding, X took x from its original Twitter owner and offered him merch(npr.org)
11 points by javajosh 3y ago|3 comments
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by javajosh 3y ago
>They may write well on a subject but that doesn't mean they know anything. There's a bit to unpack here. Being articulate is orthogonal to being skilled. That is, it's widely understood to be harder to explain what you
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by javajosh 3y ago
>That's not really fair Uh, what? It's not fair to say that a vastly more complicated thing evolved from a simple thing? That's how it always happens - each step seems reasonable, and justified, but you look at what thos
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by javajosh 3y ago
Can we all just take a moment to laugh at the fact that all of this complexity is, roughly speaking, the evolution of AUTOEXEC.BAT ? (Pedants: I know AUTOEXEC.BAT not a direct ancestor of systemd, but it's a close cousin and serves
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by javajosh 3y ago
If those vehicles are connected to the internet and there is a path of control from the internet to control surfaces, yes.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think it's also an opportunity for each of us to appreciate the frailness of the human condition. In particular, how plastic our minds our, how susceptible to "narrative" and social pressure (particularly when connected to
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by javajosh 3y ago
That would be great. I'd go further: I want mechanical linkages for throttle, breaks, and steering. No more "drive by wire". I cannot, will not trust my families safety to a smartphone with wheels.
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by javajosh 3y ago
>there would be literally no point to this specification as it could always be faked. I disagree. There is a point to making something more difficult but not impossible: you alter behavior at statistically significant scale in practice
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by javajosh 3y ago
>It's just trees, you idiot I suppose this is why we distinguish between wives and friends. Also, compassion is not a new invention, nor is the absence of compassion in people. It sounds like your great-grandma was a jerk, even fo
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by javajosh 3y ago
Your first paragraph, about ad blockers, is very strong, thank you. I may even be convinced. I already want a world where communication only happens by consent, and framing this change as fundamentally coercive makes sense. One may object o
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by javajosh 3y ago
It's a change to the browser that gives site-owners the ability to require a positive attestation of non-modification before running. The stated goal of this change is to make it more difficult for end-users to block ads. As the spec s
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by javajosh 3y ago
>What does this comment actually contribute to the dialogue Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know YOU were reading. Let me break down the concrete assertions in a numbered list for you. Feel free to attack any or all of them: 1.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Where every other belief comes from: When a mommy belief and a daddy belief love each other very much, they make a baby belief! The more precise question is why do certain beliefs die and others keep going strong? A belief in abundance, lik
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by javajosh 3y ago
As an aside, the opening disclaimer "get help from a professional" is, in my view, actively harmful. I'm not anti-therapy but I am anti-telling-others-they-need-therapy. The latter is simply a euphamism for "I don't
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by javajosh 3y ago
Oops, the first practical radios were powered by semiconductor rectifiers, not transistors. The Pickard silicon point detector circa 1906 was used in WWI (btw owning/making a radio was illegal during the war!)
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by javajosh 3y ago
Other commenters have science fiction dust in their eyes, and speak of room temp superconductors in general. But this particular discovery is a brittle crystalline structure that cannot be extruded into wires, and does not have the high cur
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by javajosh 3y ago
Ah, I see. You are excited that this will change the world, but you don't know how, and you're willing to label someone who asking about specifics as a backwards luddite. You wouldn't happen to be in crypto currency would you
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by javajosh 3y ago
Everyone is so excited, and it is exciting, but I guess I don't see how this will "change the world". It doesn't seem applicable for transmission lines (it's brittle and cannot conduct large amounts of current), whi
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by javajosh 3y ago
This general pattern is so dangerous, politically. Using taxes to shape behavior opens up a potentially very invasive, nanny-like attitude towards individuals, and ultimately codifying what is vice and what is virtue in law. The slippery sl
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by javajosh 3y ago
Are you serious? If not you forgot /s
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by javajosh 3y ago
Well that's terrifying. People can sue you in civil court and you don't even have to be present or notified that the trial is happening and then be on the hook for millions of dollars? Am I the only one who thinks there's som
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by javajosh 3y ago
"In both cases, Adidas and the NBA were given leave by the courts to run the cases ex parte — without a requirement for all parties in the case to be present. " Wait, what? I thought habeas corpus was a thing in the US?
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by javajosh 3y ago
I don't see the connection between Chrome attestation and Android attestation. A computer has only one operating system (in general) but many browsers. I see some value in attesting to a "pristine" browser environment to any
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by javajosh 3y ago
Surprising even myself, I actually like this proposal. It does two things, one which is good, and the other which is not as bad as people are saying. The good thing is to give browsers a way to attest to their inviolability to systems on th
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by javajosh 3y ago
Definitely with the intermissions. But I really mean that I often like to stop a long movie, think about it awhile, and then come back to it later. This is how short TV series work, for example. This is also how books work, by their nature.
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by javajosh 3y ago
Oh, I can imagine lots of uses for a bevy of PS5's, assuming you can gain remote control. What do you do with a botnet? What do you do with a botnet with a pretty good GPU? What do you do with an always-on microphone in people's l
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by javajosh 3y ago
Sounds like it would be a better movie split into 2 or 3 sittings.
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by javajosh 3y ago
I think you meant "recently published paper" but others are bringing up old stuff. I've always enjoyed Einstein's (translated) papers. They are both precise and readable, and his reputation for genius is well deserved! T
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by javajosh 3y ago
I mean, the PS5 is running a Zen 2 processor [0] so I would assume it's vulnerable. In general I would assume that AAA games are safe. Websites and smaller games made by malefactors will be the issue. (Note that AAA game makers have li

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