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by kyboren 5y ago
There is no exchange of value between the parties, but there is definitely a cost to peering. You need to physically get your data to the meet-me room, and that isn't free.
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by kyboren 5y ago
Rather than "put up with" this "serious and dangerous" cyber crime, we should celebrate it. The ability to turn vulnerable infrastructure into cash is a godsend for our infosec and our national security (which are increa
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> Has anything else we've ever done in all of history come close to the positive humanitarian impact that the development of vaccines has? Aside, perhaps, from the development of antibiotics or sanitation or irrigation? > Being a
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Indeed, it was only a couple days until an example popped up right here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27586576
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> Having 2-3 gifted students who can explain basic concepts to the "average" kids and help them with assignments takes a significant load off the teachers back Calling @treis who claimed[0] 4 days ago that "Nobody is talki
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by kyboren 5y ago
That trope needs to die. California's schools are not underfunded. California spends a record amount on education[0], over $18k per child. "Reflecting the changes to Proposition 98 funding levels noted above, total K-12 per-pupi
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by kyboren 5y ago
So instead, let's put them with the high-achievers and force those high-achievers to do the teacher's job of tutoring them at the expense of their own educational opportunity. I can see why schools likes it. But it's terrible
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by kyboren 5y ago
> I am a paranoid schizophrenic [...] At least I would include instructions that indicate Tor exit nodes as viable terrorist strikes. Add that to the list of reasons not to run a Tor exit node from your home Internet connection: Your hou
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by kyboren 5y ago
No, they work very well. You just don't like it because other people are willing to pay more than you are. > They are not mis-priced They are mis-priced. The market value is much higher than MSRP, which you can see on e.g. eBay. T
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by kyboren 5y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear about what I was referring to: GPU resales are not a moral issue. Restrictions on computation very much are. Maybe I misunderstood what you were calling a moral issue. If you were referring to the restrictions on
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by kyboren 5y ago
> Why do you (apparently) imagine these things are mutually exclusive? An economic parasite extracts rent. Arbitrageurs add value by reducing spreads, adding liquidity, and improving allocative efficiency. > Ultimately, Nvidia may fee
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by kyboren 5y ago
Not at all. Simply: If the market value of an item is $2500, and I demand the ability to buy it at $750, I am demanding that someone, somewhere subsidizes my purchase.
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> The issue is that low performers are often only such because of external factors (low income, food insecure, other factors like that), and not due to actual ability. If we focus exclusively on high performers in the low grade, we will
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by kyboren 5y ago
They are not economic parasites. They are the physical manifestation of the Invisible Hand. These are people doing God's work making an efficient market. If you don't want arbitrageurs to capture that value, maybe NVidia should st
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by kyboren 5y ago
No, scalping is a loaded word for reselling. This whole situation, and especially the anger at other market participants from people like you, is totally ridiculous. We know how markets work. NVidia is pricing their units at far below marke
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by kyboren 5y ago
No, that's arbitrage.
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> [...] they don't group solely by ability. When they did [that], the have's had even more and the have-nots had even less. I have two thoughts on this: 1. Since our global economy is increasingly winner-take-all, we should con
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by kyboren 6y ago
> But my impression is this decision has been too hard to defend, since it would necessarily mean more deaths in risk groups while the vaccination campaign is ongoing. You may be right about their motivation, but it does not follow that
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by kyboren 6y ago
Hint: The world has more than 400 million people.
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by kyboren 6y ago
And I would far rather those video cards be used by crypto miners than online profiling and advertising assholes like your company. You and GP don't get to decide what is a "legitimate" use for a GPU. All the outrage that oth
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by kyboren 6y ago
> He has shown over many years that he isn’t someone to be trusted with this type of accreditation. His past convictions aside, he has shown that breaking the rules is his normalcy. Is the URL bar lying to me? Am I actually on Bootlicke
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by kyboren 6y ago
This appeared to me as the second DuckDuckGo result when searching "SS7". Apparently global SMS interception, wiretapping, and realtime location tracking are readily available to anyone with a few hundred dollars of Bitcoin. Desp
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SS7 Software Shop – Buy SS7 Services and Software(ss7.dev)
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I can highly recommend Alexander Burnes' non-fiction Travels into Bokhara and Rudyard Kipling's fictional Kim , which in fact coined the term "The Great Game".
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by kyboren 6y ago
OK, shareholders might get some proceeds after secured and unsecured creditors, but as I am sure you're aware, share prices are generally a multiple of book value. With a corporate death penalty, the net present value of the expected
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by kyboren 6y ago
I think what people are missing with all these analogies about burglaries and negligence is the funny difference between cyberspace and meatspace: In cyberspace, your attacker can be anywhere on the planet, located in virtually any jurisdic
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by kyboren 6y ago
They do not say ethics outweighs science. Dooling simply ignores the science[0] (slide 23) and gives equal "maximize benefits and minimize harms" merit (3 pluses) to vaccinating 65+ and vaccinating essential workers, despite reco
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by kyboren 6y ago
I'm not sure why this is downvoted. Obama established the precedent that it's totally kosher to use flying death robots to murder US citizens without any semblance of due process. You just have to claim (but not actually produce
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by kyboren 6y ago
If you're worried, you should probably upgrade your suspicion of all software, not just Russian-made software. The fact that it's made in Russia should not matter much: You should audit the code, compartment it from the rest of y
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by kyboren 6y ago
Bitcoin is not deflationary, it is disinflationary. The Bitcoin supply is still inflating, currently around 1.8% per year. However, that inflation rate will continue to fall to 0%.

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