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by kickopotomus 5y ago
> Those images won't be flagged because they aren't in the database provided to Apple This is not accurate. Apple is using perceptual hashes. If the features of an image are close enough to an image in the NCMEC database it may
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
They are not using cryptographic hashes. They are using perceptual hashes[1] which are fairly trivial to replicate. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_hashing
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
> I would gladly take this if it removes a barrier to making iCloud E2E encrypted; they are likely bound to do this type of detection, but doing it client-side before syncing feels like a sane way to do it. But there is an issue there. N
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
Processing data locally and maintaining information locally is wholly different from reading (supposedly encrypted) information from your device and reporting it back.
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
1) Fertility treatments are expensive and don't work for everyone 2) "1 in 10 healthy women in their 40s will get pregnant in any single menstrual cycle". I.e. there is a 90% chance that a woman over 40 will have at least som
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
Unfortunately, a few of my friends fell victim to the Qanon conspiracy bandwagon and the fact that mask pore size is wider than the virus was heavily circulated as a reason for mask ineffectiveness.
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
There is no subjectivity here. We are not discussing the perceived value of cryptocurrency. We are talking about the value of the PoW algorithm. It is objectively wasteful. It is wasteful by definition. It's entire purpose is to force
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
I haven't written off anything. PoW is inherently flawed. It does not scale and Bitcoin has proven that. Bitcoin averages ~300K transactions a day while using more energy than some countries. That is unacceptable.
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
There is no need for Bitcoin to use PoW. Bitcoin can continue to exist using a different algorithm to establish distributed trust. But since you brought up Bitcoin, yes, I would say that it provides little value to society in it's curr
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
But again, read what the person you are responding to wrote. YouTube provides something of value to millions. PoW is not required for cryptocurrency to function. PoW provides no value. It wastes time and energy for the sake of wasting proce
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
Why do you say that? What makes PoW so much more meritorious than PoS in your eyes?
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
> But neither are EV completely new at this point, nor is a car just its drive train. Exactly this. The EV drivetrain is also simpler than an ICE because a transmission is not needed[1]. I think the hardest part about vehicle manufacturi
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by kickopotomus 5y ago
This is a neat little project and all but what is the value proposition? The JS console of any modern browser is much more feature-full.
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
Do you happen to have a more verifiable source for your claim that COVID-19 vaccines are more risky than the flu vaccine? Excerpt from the disclaimer in your source: > VAERS accepts reports of adverse events and reactions that occur foll
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
Could someone here shed some light on the possible copyright implications of how Google now rips excerpts from web pages and displays them directly on the search results page? A cursory search shows that there have been a few lawsuits in th
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
Renesas | Principal Software Engineer | Full Time | Austin, TX | https://www.renesas.com/us/en/ We are currently seeking a Principal Software Engineer who is technically savvy and is excited about working within a
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
AWS is not a common carrier. They are a hosting company. There are hundreds (thousands?) of hosting companies to choose from and you are not even required to use one to host a website on the Internet. You are free to host your website yours
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
Renesas | Principal Software Engineer | Full Time | Austin, TX | https://www.renesas.com/us/en/ We are currently seeking a Principal SW Engineer who is technically savvy and is excited about working within a SoC d
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
Agreed. The timing is also rather suspect. I am not sure why they wouldn't have announced it last night if they closed out yesterday. Instead, they waited until this morning after a ~100% jump in price. I find it hard to believe that n
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
> The geopolitical ramifications of completely centralizing the only leading process node in such a sensitive area between the world's super powers cannot be understated. This is a fair point but I think it will be less of a concern
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
You do not have a right to a Google account. You do not have a right to force them to store your bits on their servers. They offer a free service which they may revoke at their discretion. If you do not like those terms, you are completely
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
> Layers and layers of legal loopholes make politically biased corporate censorship perfectly legal. What loopholes? The 1st amendment protects you from being persecuted by the government for your speech. It does not require private enti
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
Discrimination is perfectly legal in the US. It is only illegal if you discriminate against someone within a protected class on the basis of them being a member of that protected class. Political affiliation is not a protected class.
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
> But I'm seeing a bunch of articles about how the number of players one steam has fallen by X% I am part of this group. I think the real reason for the drop off is just that their is not really that much to do in the game. You can
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
Is there a particular reason for the snark? We are talking about essentially a 5-year blind trust in a historically volatile asset.
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
It's worth a billion dollars today. But in 5 years, who knows? Could be worth $10B. Could be worth $0.
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
> Again, he's not American. What is your point? Espionage laws are typically intended for foreign nationals. > Also, "sought out information".. you're gonna take that as an exception for rights of the press? No pub
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
But there’s the problem right there. Your analogy is incongruent with the Assange case. Assange is not a whistleblower. Again, if Assange merely published information that he was given (unsolicited), then he should be protected by the first
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
I will admit that aiding and abetting is a gray area, but we are all subject to the laws of countries that we decide to travel to or associate with. If it is true that Assange attempted to solicit classified information and did not simply a
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by kickopotomus 6y ago
1) No, quite the opposite. It was one of the reasons cited by the CDC as to why they originally did not support widespread face mask use. 2) This ties into the fact that PPE supplies were low when the pandemic started. They did not want to

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