julian_1

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by julian_1 9y ago
I would argue that indigenous inhabits as private citizens have the better claim by virtue of tradition and generational succession, than the 'state' as defacto beneficiary and law-maker everytime. The dispossession of native peop
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by julian_1 9y ago
Why do laws that appropriate private citizens wealth need to be justified? Well, the alternative is wonderful stuff like civil forfeiture law. Whereby a policeman without evidence or proof of criminal wrongdoing can take that $2000 in your
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by julian_1 9y ago
> The land you inherit is not "justly yours". It was the previous owner's thing. You are getting it but it is not your divine right, except that you won the birth lottery by being born into this family. Of course those arg
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by julian_1 9y ago
So you would be in favor of taxing someone's social security or charitable receipts - since the benefits are not earned ?
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by julian_1 9y ago
> the tax system treats unearned income and wealth more favourably than earned income. The income was taxed when it was earned. What reason is there to tax it twice? > how you feel about in increase in unearned income flowing to the w
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by julian_1 9y ago
Where is Minix OS mentioned? How many preemptive processes are running? Which orgs - internal or external to Intel have review-power or signoff on the code running ?
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by julian_1 9y ago
Up until a few weeks ago, people speculated the firmware blobs included a small amount of low-level bootstrap code used to configure IO and to switch from 16 bit to other modes etc. Nobody suggested there was a parallel multi-process operat
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by julian_1 9y ago
Do you know technical details - like how many processes are even running under the Minix OS? Also which internal or external groups lead the code development of those processes? Is the code accessible to any employee/engineer with a te
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by julian_1 9y ago
> were going to run a lot more stuff -- think a full JVM Is a JVM really a lot more stuff than Minix OS?
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by julian_1 9y ago
Isn't this why monero exists? By using ring signatures to guarantee fungibility of spendable outputs by making them untraceable? Also, you don't need to resort to property torts, when there are crimes of stealing and fraud and sta
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by julian_1 9y ago
> A $5000 super-duper giga-hash miner barely breaks even, takes forever to ship, and and in a year becomes a paperweight. The fundamentals that make bitcoin so scarce and difficult to mine/acquire, are what gives it value.
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by julian_1 9y ago
For another (type-theory) perspective - a 'dynamic language' can be automatically considered weakly typed if it can return an runtime exception due a failure to perform a runtime type coercion, or because the typesystem is not exp
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by julian_1 9y ago
Not sure anyone is conflating ability to mine, with ability to profitably mine.
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by julian_1 9y ago
Do undergraduate fees contribute to a faculty's research funding? And if not why are student fees so high, if there is such a low (albeit understandable) emphasis on undergraduate teaching?
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by julian_1 9y ago
Infineon still haven't said how their hardware is vulnerable?
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by julian_1 9y ago
What does, "practically factorizable" mean?
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by julian_1 9y ago
The more technically competent you are - the more you want to be focused on your domain specialization - syadmin, cloud, development, devops, networking, PM etc. Why would any professional wish to waste time learning the complex compatibili
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by julian_1 9y ago
Here's some good evidence. Increase in the Monetary Base 1984 - 2010: https://www.aftershockpublishing.com/pub/images/c03f002.jpg
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by julian_1 9y ago
That's interesting. The Windows firmware update works by entirely bypassing the hardware. I wonder if other fabricators could have licensed the same core ip.? > Microsoft is releasing Windows security updates to help work around the
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by julian_1 9y ago
Will upgrading the firmware fix already generated keys?
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by julian_1 9y ago
> besides a conspiratorial "the NSA needs it to spy on everyone" Isn't the ability to spy on everyone the official mandate of the NSA?
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by julian_1 9y ago
The thing is running Minix OS, so it's not inconceivable to configure non-intrusive drivers for third-party NICs sitting on the pci bus.
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by julian_1 9y ago
> We could have: Offered the mobile OS for free from day one. Given Office on Mobile for free from day one. Bought or OEMed Xamarin a lot sooner. [...] Made dev tools (Studio CE) free earlier. Quoted for emphasis. It's remarkable i
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by julian_1 9y ago
I remember when the tcp stack for Windows 3x was a third party application. https://thanksfortrumpetwinsock.com/
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by julian_1 9y ago
> reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it into a nationwide communications network. It's difficult to avoid the comparison with Bill Gate's book "the road ahead" published a decade lat
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by julian_1 9y ago
Blockchains and POW are mostly orthogonal concerns. They've become associated because one implementation chose to use it, and is very well known. Also because POW is an effective way to grow network-effects by distributing profits to t
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by julian_1 9y ago
You can even do it(in fact it's a common pattern) using partial application. Configure a function by binding its first argument with some config data/behavior/policy/mock etc. This eliminates the first arg of the functi
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by julian_1 9y ago
> Only people with a feeble understanding of the world, economics and finance will seriously engage with the idea one can make money out of thin air, You don't need an econ degree, to understand fiat money multipliers but it helps,
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by julian_1 9y ago
Offline signing is common, so theoretically you could print the transactions and private-key to the account/utxo on paper and use them as physical promissory/bearer notes. Unfortunately though, it's the network that verifies
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by julian_1 9y ago
Why join rather than bind?

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