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by kbenson 4y ago
To me, that's less an argument against transhumanism than it is people drawing an arbitrary line and deciding the things they don't like can get one label while the things they do don't, so they can easily point out problems
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by kbenson 4y ago
> If that is the case, then what is the explanation for NIST (according to DJB) 1. not communicating their decision process to anywhere near the degree that they vowed to, and 2. stone-walling a FOIA request on the matter? Why are you as
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by kbenson 4y ago
And their takeaway was that there needs to be some advances to smooth out the annoyances, not that the idea itself was flawed. Think of glasses. Glasses are used to increase people's ability to see up to the human norm, not beyond it,
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by kbenson 4y ago
> We are already at the point where people go on tech cleanses, your technology gives you screen time reports so you can make sure you are not using it too much, people are abandoning social networks. We are literally trying to use compu
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by kbenson 4y ago
That person is very well known in this community, and in other communities as well. They are also known for making very specific arguments that people misinterpret and fight over, but the actual intent and literal meaning of the statements
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by kbenson 4y ago
The answer in many cases is likely yes. That's what fake it 'till you make is, really. Obviously sometimes it fails, and in some cases more spectacularly than others, such as with Theranos. But how many founders of companies wit
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by kbenson 4y ago
For what it's worth, I think distributing horizontally is also much easier if you're already limited your database to specific concerns by splitting it up in different ways. Sharding a very large database with lots of data deeply
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by kbenson 4y ago
The I guess my first sentence is about eqally as click-baity as the article title. ;)
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by kbenson 4y ago
Do we know if it shows cold spares? That's all I think is needed at a minimum to avoid the problems I'm talking about, and I doubt they would note those if they don't necessarily have a hostname.
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by kbenson 4y ago
Do they actually say they don't have a slave to that database ready to take over? I seriously doubt Let's Encrypt has no spare. Note I didn't say you shouldn't run one service (as in daemon) or set of services from one
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by kbenson 4y ago
My guess (hope) is that orgs like Red Hat will vet it a bit before putting it out, since they'll have to dive into the code and apply or reimplements it for multiple past versions of rsync. That actually covers a lot of companies using
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by kbenson 4y ago
One server is for a hobby, not a business. Maybe that's fine, but keep that in mind. Backups at that level are something that keeps you from losing all data, not something that keeps you running and gets you up in any acceptable timef
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by kbenson 4y ago
I agree, I was trying to examine how plausible it was from a very simplistic model, which is why I said "ignoring other very important constraints". It sounded implausible on the face of it, as it might require cars to be leaving
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by kbenson 4y ago
> I'm skeptical that anyone can make 20m cars a year. There's just over 30m seconds in a year, that's a car every second and a half. That seems like it would take a lot of assembly lines to pull off ignoring other constra
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by kbenson 4y ago
> $7,500 credit for any EV that is built in the U.S > It also allows for up to a $4,000 credit on used EV's. I can't wait for the eventual headline about how dealerships would sell cars to themselves so they could resell the
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by kbenson 4y ago
I don't see a problem with taxing both, as long as the taxes are not equivalent. I don't think some minimal amount of taxation for the ability to rely on the U.S. and return whenever you want and to vote is too much to ask. That
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by kbenson 4y ago
Many countries allow dual citizenship, so I'm not sure just getting citizenship somewhere else is enough in every case. I'm not sure the specifics of when they deny renouncing citizenship, but if you don't have citizenship so
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by kbenson 4y ago
Not being explicit gives wiggle room for people to let their hopes override their logic when interpreting how it will work. Some number of people will read that and say "it's safe, I knew they would assuage my concerns" that
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by kbenson 4y ago
I fully support you not paying those post citizenship taxes if you end up in that situation, for all the good it does you. ;) To be clear, in case I wasn't enough above, I'm not saying I completely agree with all the specifics of
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by kbenson 4y ago
And those people are all receiving benefit from that citizenship. If for some reason they were forced to leave, they'd have a place to go. If they had no such place, they'd be refugees. It's a situation the host country is o
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by kbenson 4y ago
Obviously you want the benefits of being a citizen, so nothing I said suggests you should renounce citizenship. > If not, get off my back and stop trying to make my life worse. I wasn't aware I had such power. Who knew my random co
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by kbenson 4y ago
Warrants cover everything in the U.S. I'm referring more to people that shove their money into offshore accounts designed to be hard to locate and examine. Think the cayman islands, the panama papers, etc. Physical money already has
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by kbenson 4y ago
Eh, I don't think that actually changes my point. Even as a reframing, when looked at with respect to how well it communicated its point and fostered understanding and discussion of that point, it was poorly executed.
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by kbenson 4y ago
U.S. citizenship comes with benefits (voting, etc) as well as drawbacks (taxation). If you don't need those benefits and you don't want the drawbacks, renounce citizenship. That said, I was being a little loose when saying citize
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by kbenson 4y ago
I totally support that. There's a difference between "need a warrant" and "squirreled away where a warrant can't even get it". I think needing a warrant is a sane middle ground, but I also thinkg requiring t
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by kbenson 4y ago
There is and always will be a fundamental tension between law enforcement and people wanting privacy and security (when from law enforcement). A simple illustration of what might trigger people to thing of the other side of this might be
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by kbenson 4y ago
No, as that would be a purposeful misinterpretation of the intent of the original poster, if it was obvious they didn't mean it to be interpreted that way. Even if the response that used it differently was meant to make a valid point (
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by kbenson 4y ago
> it would be silly to claim that it is being deployed in minority areas. No, it would be silly to claim it's being deployed only in those areas.
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by kbenson 4y ago
Do you seriously think by "minority" they meant at the local populace level and not national populace level? When has that ever been the colloquial use?
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by kbenson 4y ago
"Viagra Cialis, CBD" does sort of sound like a name with some odd post-nominal...

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