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by knorker 4y ago
Not in isolation, no. E.g. FIRE. It's not unfair that those who retire early don't continue to get a salary. It's not even unfair (on its own) that those who are irresponsible with credit cards to go on trips, instead of inve
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by knorker 4y ago
It's a proposal that is exactly taking people with lower incomes into account. What, short of abolishing capitalism altogether, would be "fair"? More money will always be able to buy more than less money. And the comment you&
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by knorker 4y ago
Why would you use strncpy on non-c-strings? Why not use memcpy?
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by knorker 4y ago
This was once a Simpsons joke. The religious extremist (Ned Flanders) said "there a things we don't WANT to know. IMPORTANT things!"
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by knorker 4y ago
The ACLU now only protects those they agree with, and Nature will only publish conclusions they like, It's a mad world. And this is basically driving moderates into the arms of the authoritarian strongman who at least doesn't deny
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by knorker 4y ago
Yes, thats the proposal. Not mine, mind you,
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by knorker 4y ago
NAT doesn't work "just fine". ISPs have been deployed for years without IPv4 or bad IPv4 (see this thread). And even not counting those ISPs there are countless more than would completely fall over if the major players stop a
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by knorker 4y ago
> how many are still operating in the old model of "never share personal information online"? Depends what you mean by "never". A middle ground could be that platforms give a green tickbox, but no personal information
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by knorker 4y ago
I think a year or two may be optimistic. One can only assume that if you start using class E then you've already used up all of 10/8. So the only option is to move to IPv6. I don't know AWS internals, but they may need to do
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by knorker 4y ago
To blame, maybe. But say you get a class E network. Are you fine not being able to talk to anything hosted on AWS? Blame is not correlated with pain.
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by knorker 4y ago
Amazon and Verizon definitely don't have as many IPs as they want or need. Other clouds too. And CGNAT is expensive. No. There are some legacy allocations, but at least my experience is than nobody has enough.
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by knorker 4y ago
I know multiple large companies that would have no choice but to block any public use of these, as they have databases where these addresses have special meaning. Yes, obviously that was a terrible choice to make. But it's there. And l
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by knorker 4y ago
What about Dvorak is a bad habit?
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by knorker 4y ago
> I read it slightly differently, they're saying a law could apply to a British subject overseas. Perfectly reasonable way to read it, and maybe even how it's intended. I'm just pointing out that because parliament cannot
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by knorker 4y ago
> It was a loophole which has since been closed by extending the territorial waters of the UK Maybe. The first part sounds a bit British nationalistic "parliament cannot be bound", and could indeed make laws about the minimum a
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by knorker 4y ago
To go to hn i just press ctrl-l to go to address bar, then 'n', and chrome already knows the rest, so i press enter.
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by knorker 4y ago
As always blockchain adds no value to the idea. You can just buy it here: https://sealandgov.org/shop/become-a-lord-lady-baron-or-baro...
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by knorker 4y ago
Really? I must have forgotten that part of the story. I do remember them being taken to court and the UK court saying it had no jurisdiction over Sealand. What I found now: Shortly after this declaration, Sealand faced its first test of sov
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by knorker 4y ago
> but the key difference would be that it's an open market It's not really, though. Banking is also an open market. You could already start a bank, and some people do. But it comes with a bunch of red tape. But you can't j
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by knorker 4y ago
Linus limited his scope to something that doesn't matter for users. I think this is a valid criticism. It's admirable to do the dishes, but the house is also on fire, so nobody will be able to enjoy the clean plates, so what'
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by knorker 4y ago
Yeah Linus's "we don't break user space" is a joke. Great, the kernel syscalls API is stable. Who cares, if you can't run a 7 year old binary because everything from vdso to libc to libstc++ to ld-linux.so is incomp
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by knorker 4y ago
I replied to most things here in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32443447 In git it's a hiccup if upstream does it. But it does work. For buttcoin you get the DAO split.
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by knorker 4y ago
It can be good to write things down for yourself, to think them through. But I agree that to actually teach others Linus describes it much better, without the sprinkling of errors this post has. Like for example the author confuses the term
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by knorker 4y ago
Yes, it's a hiccup. But not fundamental because it is actually possible to do it. A company can have a flag day, and keep a mapping of old hash to new hash for audit purposes. I'm not saying do it willy nilly, but repos are fundam
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by knorker 4y ago
Sure, it's a hiccup to rewrite history. But in Bitcoin it's 100% fundamental breakage. There's a difference.
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by knorker 4y ago
The C++ `const` keyword makes for a blockchain.
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by knorker 4y ago
There's 20'000 cryptocurrencies, and zero actual use cases outside of crimes like tax evasion, money laundering, and buying illegal things. So your percentages are a bit off, and should be more like 0. I wouldn't even classif
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by knorker 4y ago
> You can't rewrite history in git without changing commit IDs. But "not changing commit IDs" isn't part of git's utility. Not inherently. This is easily proven by the fact that people do rewrite history. Becau
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by knorker 4y ago
Yeah, it's one of my two main languages for new projects. I mostly write system tools and cloud-focused tools. For the former I use C++, for the latter it's Go. The portability of C++ just can't be beat. At worst you have to
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by knorker 4y ago
Yeah this is what I meant about the US being a bit technically behind, but this is not the same as the "surprise" delays referred to.

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