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by jhugo 4y ago
I'm familiar with the theory. But in order to evaluate your claim "just because it's a computer program does not mean it's unintelligent", we would first need to agree on a definition of intelligence. I don't h
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by jhugo 4y ago
Yes, I've heard this sentiment repeatedly among my less-technical friends. It's no surprise given that we insist on attaching the word "Intelligence" to a language model.
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by jhugo 4y ago
What evidence do you have that nobody thought about the size of the balloons? That's a comically unlikely take.
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by jhugo 4y ago
Sad to see this being downvoted. Rational voices have been censored on many western platforms for saying things that went against the popular narrative, the most recent obvious example being during the pandemic. Some of the things censored
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by jhugo 4y ago
> I'm not a crypto geek, but that isn't my understanding. I think that the challenge is key distribution. The balloon will have been loaded with a database of keys. Perhaps they will have relatively few keys and will just rotat
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by jhugo 4y ago
I was wrong regarding GPG — see my sibling comment to yours! Direct use of asymmetric encryption is still feasible for short messages where performance is not as much of a concern, though.
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by jhugo 4y ago
The mention of GPG-encrypted email in my above comment is actually wrong: even GPG generates a symmetric key, encrypts that with the public key of each recipient, and encrypts the actual message content with the symmetric key. As well as im
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by jhugo 4y ago
This is basically an optimisation — asymmetric encryption is more resource-intensive. But for relatively short, fire-and-forget type messages (e.g. GPG-encrypted email), encrypting directly with the public key is fairly common.
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by jhugo 4y ago
Not quite. "assistant U.S. Attorney Timothy Howard, who was co-responsible for prosecuting the case, testified that no such plea offer existed. He further testified that the only plea offer had been made before Ulbricht's indictme
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by jhugo 4y ago
I don't agree with this. Driving is, taken at its fundamentals, a dangerous activity; we are taking heavy machinery, accelerating it until it has considerable kinetic energy, and maneuvering it through a complex and constantly changing
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by jhugo 4y ago
They built a bot which can answer any number of questions, each of which would have needed some analyst time. Given that the analyst rotation was an entire day once every N weeks, and the bot took 1 day to make, this is going to pay for its
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by jhugo 4y ago
> Perhaps because it was always possible to do tiered lockdowns in a way that avoided these negative side effects but the only criticism I ever saw was "lockdown bad because covid is fake, don't get vaccinated." I'm n
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by jhugo 4y ago
I was saying this early in the pandemic when lockdowns started to be proposed, and being aggressively shot down for it, even here on HN. I think once we have a more full accounting of the true cost of the lockdowns, there will be no controv
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by jhugo 4y ago
https://www.straitstimes.com/business/aussie-billionaire-urg...
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by jhugo 4y ago
> Wok cooking without gas is unimaginable to many people, what's a possible solution here? There are actually some excellent electric woks. > Sure, you can use an electric oven, but is this really more efficient? It's probab
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by jhugo 4y ago
Is this common? I've only lived in a few places with gas hobs (a couple of places in Europe and a couple of places in Asia), and all of them had an extractor with a vent through the wall to the outside. I thought that was basically uni
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by jhugo 4y ago
Yeah, they are fantastic. I am forever hopeful that their feature set will inspire other banks. So far I have seen that happening in UK/Europe, but not so much elsewhere. Wise does offer the ability to switch your balance from Cash (sa
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by jhugo 4y ago
AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc are not best thought of as datacentre operators. It's the software that makes the cloud. AWS doesn't even operate all their own datacentres. The fact that they do operate many of them is primarily for
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by jhugo 4y ago
Not sure about Australia but in many countries (at least UK, SEPA countries, Singapore), Wise is a registered bank now and the card is just a Visa debit identical to those issued by any other bank. When you "top it up" you are jus
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by jhugo 4y ago
Sure. What's your point? Your original comment seemed like you were trying to rebut my point that the Nazi (for literally any definition of Nazi you care to use) can just be removed from the bar. But it seems like you are not trying to
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by jhugo 4y ago
What? Of course there is, in the United States and many other countries. Protected classes are explicitly defined by the Civil Rights Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and others. The bar owner can't refuse entry to a person becaus
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by jhugo 4y ago
The proprietor of the bar isn't required to let them use it as a platform for their ideas, and given that Nazi is not a protected class, they're not required to even let them inside. They can turf this hypothetical Nazi out on the
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by jhugo 4y ago
I guess I just have a lot less faith in the ability of companies to design perfect processes, and the ability of humans to perfectly carry them out, than you do.
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by jhugo 4y ago
Tencent provides a list of regexps, and anything matching those regexps is passed to them. As far as I can tell, we don't get to know what those regexps are (and presumably they can be changed at Tencent's whim). Can you not see t
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by jhugo 4y ago
> This allows less stops for cars at night. Which is better for the environment, and for the sleep of residents adjacent to the road. From that perspective, it seems like madness to suggest that cars should be forced to stop and idle rep
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by jhugo 4y ago
Without even having got around to reading the whole report yet, I can promise you that a f*ckup on this scale cannot be avoided solely through technology decisions. The problem was (is always) with the people and the structures they were wo
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by jhugo 4y ago
When did a Facebook page become a "peripheral news story"?
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by jhugo 4y ago
> It uses the same tone that SBF uses when characterizing the situation as a complicate mixup instead of what it really is, deliberate fraud using customer funds to increase leverage. That's because describing it as "deliberate
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by jhugo 4y ago
> How can these individuals feasibly react in a rational way knowing such things, with their local regulations being poor? Were the water sources reliable before these corporations moved in? Generally no; biological contamination came al
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by jhugo 4y ago
> A lot of people in the third world trust the cola cola company more than the local water supply to not poison them. Those that can afford to buy a drink can just buy the bottled water that Coca-Cola (and Pepsi) sell under various brand

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