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by kbenson 3y ago
I don't disagree that it's extremely unlikely that certain governments will adopt it, at least not without lots of other governments to point to as success cases at least. I'm just not sure how it's feasibly funded in an
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by kbenson 3y ago
> If by "highly standardized" you mean "you don't get a choice in what you can do or how it works", I agree. That is exactly what standardization means, by definition, both dictionary and colloquially.
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by kbenson 3y ago
Yes. Sometimes you can see that there's a static (per session) header they add to each request, and all you have to do is find and record that header value (such as shimming addRequestHeader) and append it to your own requests from th
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by kbenson 3y ago
I don't recall if I've encountered that specific problem in tampermonkey (or if I did and it didn't cause a problem worth remembering), but you can run things in the extension's context as well to bypass certain restrict
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by kbenson 3y ago
I think you're still misunderstanding. Sometimes, sites haven't adopted a pure data-driven model, and when example.com/api/endpoint?productid=123 is requested it doesn't return JSON for the product with id 123, but
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by kbenson 3y ago
It probably doesn't save you much, since you already built the chrome extension, but having done both I found that tampermonkey is often much easier to deal with in most cases and also much quicker to develop for (you can literally e
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by kbenson 3y ago
You can buy proxies to use, of varying quality, but they are somewhat expensive depending on what you need. I'll just say that firefox still runs tampermonkey, and that includes firefox mobile, so depending on how often you need a diff
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by kbenson 3y ago
I think btown's point was sometimes what you're served is not just "the data you need" from that request, but a portion of the page that will be inserted, rather than built from raw data and inserted, so you need to pa
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by kbenson 3y ago
The distribution portion of UBI is the least interesting from a theoretical and technical standpoint. Giving money to people is easy, and a solved problem, which is basically what I've been saying. Funding that money is the hard part
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by kbenson 3y ago
The issue I have with the language is that I went from the top left of that graph to fairly far on the right, vacillating between the top or bottom. That happened for me long before it became Raku. I clearly remember reading through the syn
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by kbenson 3y ago
Okay, but I'm not sure they're wrong assumptions, because I don't know how UBI could not be government based, and I haven't seen any explanations challenging it. Either it needs to be government based, in which case I th
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by kbenson 3y ago
You're talking about the market in general, and I'm talking about with respect to UBI. My thought process is: * Any UBI is going to be government based, as there needs to be a way to collect (tax) and redistribute (UBI) money bet
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by kbenson 3y ago
But again, as GP noted, isn't that a problem governments have already solved? If you want UBI it's going to be through the government, as that's the entity collecting the funds through taxes that would be distributed, and the
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by kbenson 3y ago
One of them is easy to include in thrilling action movies that allows the idea and risk to enter public consciousness, and the other is something that economics wonks and people interested in how business works at high levels look at. Prota
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by kbenson 3y ago
> This aerial deployment maybe cheaper, but there is on going rent for having your line on someone else's poles. I don't think it's much, if anything, depending on the location. My understanding is it's governed by pu
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by kbenson 3y ago
> Too bad Sonic doesn't have fiber in my office area, but I hope they will at some point. Aerial (telephone pole) deployment is vastly cheaper than trenching (and many business parks and newer neighborhoods were built with conduit b
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by kbenson 3y ago
Possibly because as a total amount of gold by itself is a poor indicator of anything. As a fraction of GDP and/or per-capita might yield some numbers that at least made the amount relatable to something that countries commonly differ
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by kbenson 3y ago
I'm not really well versed in solar technology, but I found this[1] to maybe explain what this means. It looks like an ~5% overall theoretical efficiency gain might be expected, and if we can achieve the same over 90% of the theoretic
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by kbenson 3y ago
I think that depends on how it's implemented and how their account recovery process is done. If they give SMS special status and use it with few or no other data to recover accounts when you're locked out, then adding SMS 2FA mig
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by kbenson 3y ago
> F-Droid compiles open-source apps on their own servers, so the source code they receive is the source code the compiled APK uses. Even if your app is open source, there's no way to upload a precompiled APK to the F-Droid website.
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by kbenson 3y ago
Just because this article references Android doesn't mean iOS is without its own security issues.[1] The "just use iOS" portion of your advice may be a bit optimistic. 1: https://www.wired.com/story/kasp
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by kbenson 3y ago
> corrugated cardboard is made of paper, not an entirely different material; recycling cardboard is recycling paper Did you actually bother to read what I wrote in my various comments? Much of it was devoted to explaining the difference
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by kbenson 3y ago
> refers to as corrugated fiberboard, which most people call cardboard in english. it's made of paper and glue ... there are different kinds of paper Isn't that exactly the point I just made? I'm confused as to why you&#x
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by kbenson 3y ago
I think the point is that you don't abandon gmail right now , you give yourself an alternative, and when you access a service or decide to change something about it or need to recover an email, you change it then (and store the new in
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by kbenson 3y ago
All it takes is a few quick searches from the search bar at the bottom of the page to see what I'm referring to. You can search just "paypal" or "paypal stole" or "paypal froze" for some of the more egreg
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by kbenson 3y ago
There are plenty of horror stories of Paypal holding funds. They've been doing it for far longer than most these other companies, since they've been around longer than most of them.
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by kbenson 3y ago
> people do sometimes steal paper to recycle it > they are the cartoneros, because what their carts are usually piled high with is cardboard, cartón Paper, or coardboard? It's unclear whether you're referring to cardboard a
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by kbenson 3y ago
I think you're providing evidence for their point? HN isn't exactly useful without a person to browse it. "A generic understanding of hypermedia" is easy to say, but may be much more complex in reality to encode into a
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by kbenson 3y ago
There's a wide space between "can be recycled" and "profitable enough that there's theft for base components that can be resold". That doesn't mean it won't be profitable to harvest the gold (I don&#
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by kbenson 3y ago
Yeah, I'm not worried about it in sizeable cities, but me moving out of CA would probably be coupled with being a bit more rural (and that's coming from not living in a "large" city already, as I live an hour north of SF

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