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by jude- 5y ago
> 1. it's slow, requires insane amount of storage, power and traffic Compared to the infrastructure required to uniquely identify every human in order to stop them from registering lots of troll accounts, and implementing a fair and
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by jude- 5y ago
> nothing stopping someone from selling their private key to someone else. The fact that the original owner(s) can still use the name would prevent resale. For example, the admins could simply shadowban a username if they verify that mu
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by jude- 5y ago
> How do you make a username non-transferable? Trivially. You make it so that there's no recognized way to change the private key for a username. > It sounds like all you've actually invented is "identifying people by
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by jude- 5y ago
Fundamentally, a struggle between asshats and honest users/admins is a struggle of attrition. The honest participants only win the struggle if they can make it too costly for asshats to continue participating. To achieve this, it woul
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by jude- 5y ago
Kinda surprised no one's used a blockchain for this. The registration flow could be as follows: 1. User registers a non-transferable username (maybe an NFT?) 2. User signs into the client with the username NFT 3. The server admin main
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by jude- 5y ago
Honestly, if you're going to clean-slate design an open-membership p2p network, the very first problem you should be tackling is what you're going to do to deal with asshats. Open-membership p2p systems sound nice in theory -- an
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by jude- 5y ago
Distributed systems are anything but deterministic.
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by jude- 5y ago
It's extremely hard to reason about the global emergent behavior of a complex system than the isolated behavior of a small component.
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by jude- 5y ago
I take it that you have no evidence of malicious intent, since if you did, you would have linked it. Seriously, why is it so hard to believe that Julian just punked them? It's easy enough to pull off, and honestly more believable from
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by jude- 5y ago
You can advertise without abusing the user.
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by jude- 5y ago
Pretending to be a robot, in order to not get caught by robots. Kinds makes sense. In a sci-fi dystopian way.
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by jude- 5y ago
They should just go ahead and pull their ads, then, and see what happens. Call their bluff.
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by jude- 5y ago
Saint Julian reused the same password on multiple different files. Ask yourself why he might commit such a slipshod error. > Wikileaks should censor the source files before journalists got them. WikiLeaks, like anyone, should take prude
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by jude- 5y ago
That's because Julian Assange reused the same password on multiple files. At best, it's terrible opsec on his part. At worst, it was deliberate on his part, so he could plausibly claim no responsibility for the fallout. Either way
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by jude- 5y ago
This is the reason why I don't feel too bad for Julian Assange, and why I don't refer to him as a "journalist." Not redacting PII is such a rookie mistake that I can't see it as anything other than journalistic mal
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by jude- 5y ago
First, hospitals do get compensated some by both Medicare insurance and Medicaid; it's just not enough [1]. Second, a growing majority (63% as of 2020) of US adults want there to be at least a public option for healthcare [2]. Do yo
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by jude- 5y ago
I'd love for that to happen, too. Why stop there -- why not also make it so everyone who wants one gets a place to live? Maybe do something like how Singapore manages housing? I'd love to have that as well. But, we don't h
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by jude- 5y ago
Your currency losing value is not the same as someone else's life circumstances improving. This program is about compensating landlords who were forced to provide housing for free, much like how hospitals get compensated to provide med
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by jude- 5y ago
This isn't about renters, though. It's about compensating landlords who were forced to provide a service for free. Like, are you upset that the government compensates hospitals for caring for people who aren't able to pay? If
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by jude- 5y ago
I'm not sure it's going to be that clear-cut. If you rented a place, and can prove you could have afforded it, but simultaneously can't prove that you paid rent for all the times it was due, then that's going to hurt
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by jude- 5y ago
Wouldn't not paying rent (regardless of the reason) cause your credit score to decline, and make it harder for you to rent in the future? Also, would you rather deal with the large amount of homelessness that would result in landlords
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by jude- 5y ago
> By giving everyone the cash, people who made prudent decisions are not punished No one is being punished here. If you managed to pay rent, your pay-out was not having to deal with sudden mass homelessness from mass evictions, and all
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by jude- 5y ago
You aren't being punished if someone else's life circumstances improve. Also, do you really think that the average American who has been saddled with the average amount of student loan debt would really be in a superior financial
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by jude- 5y ago
They are being directly helped -- they don't have to deal with the massive negative externalities of so many people being made homeless all at once.
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by jude- 5y ago
How, exactly, is this harmful? Why can't you be happy for everyone else? I would be. Like, if you're worried about the inflation shock that would create, then the same people who have the power to give a million dollars to every
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by jude- 5y ago
The upside for people who did manage to pay rent is that they don't have to deal with the resulting mass homelessness (and associated mass violence and sharp decline of public safety) that would result from landlords evicting everyone
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by jude- 5y ago
> well, the money to pay the rent off comes from somewhere... ultimately taxpayers, which includes these "responsible" people Well, then this program should be welcome news. Instead of wrecking the lives of millions of people
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by jude- 5y ago
Nope. I would not feel one iota of resentment.
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by jude- 5y ago
First, fairness != resentment. One is a quantifiable statement, and the other is a feeling. It would not be fair to me if I didn't get the stimulus while everyone else did, but I would still be quite happy for everyone else. > Now
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by jude- 5y ago
This is absolutely about choosing to feel resentment. Why else would you care that someone else got a leg-up if it doesn't affect you, personally? Like, nothing was taken from you, and nothing was done to you, and yet you still feel

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