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by kyboren 7y ago
So if I have the cash and I want to buy a lake cottage, a hunting cabin, a second home near my kid's college, etc.--that should be illegal? Commercial property developers should not exist, and any housing needs should be met presumably
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by kyboren 7y ago
> If a property is paid for, there's no emergent liability set upon the owner that isn't also set by the state (which grants them absentee property title in the first place). I mostly agree here, although there is an argument t
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They offer the service of providing limited-term accommodation with no assumption of liability for regular, small payments. Contrast this to owning a house/condo, where the owner has an indefinite right to the property, but assumes li
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Germany did do the same: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-09/germany-f...
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I think the strategic advantage is to drill, baby, drill, and profit from those natural resources as much as possible while we're still in the Oil Age. If the Middle East runs dry it will be a strategic victory for all those countries
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by kyboren 7y ago
> They will once their taxes start going up. We can use a relatively small amount public funds to make targeted investments in electric grid infrastructure and scaling PV solar and storage. That will drive costs down and coal will disap
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I think there's a much simpler and more powerful way to describe the relationship: Google are digital pimps. You're not paying for any services because you're getting tricked out and your pimp is raking in dough from the John
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by kyboren 7y ago
OK, I understand all this. > Hence selection pressures will skew it towards “Antibody resistant, lower fatality” But that's my question: Will it in this case? If those with severe symptoms are more likely to go out and spread the d
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> This won't happen here because the severe strain will die out. Can you please elaborate why this is the case? What if mild cases stay home while patients with severe cases go out looking for medical care, spreading it around? I
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I'm pretty sure GP was actually referring to President Trump's refusal to give up his personal tweet gun^W^Wsmartphone.
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I think that this is poor style, but also probably is more because of his extremely unique given name. There are many Alfreds, Andrews, and Thomases, and so it really is necessary to specify Alfred Menezes, Andrew Miller, and Thomas Pornin
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by kyboren 7y ago
> An Intel CPU is a pretty large design. I'm not sure it's feasible to run all formal verification benchmarks on a full RTL design of the entire chip, including caches, memory controllers, etc. Agreed. It's still possible
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by kyboren 7y ago
I see, thanks. I was confusing "logging" for logging the association between AuthCredential and UID rather than logging IP addresses. For what it's worth, Signal does allow connecting over Tor.
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> They could support this new scheme AND just store every thing in plain text. Could they? I am not clear that this is possible. I thought the entire point of "Alice provides a zero-knowledge proof to the server that she possesses
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> It's possible to detect the difference between the request types if you examine the actual data on them With things like this and the trend towards first-party CNAME records for adtech partners, I think this is the next step in th
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It's not so much a worry about being caught on camera while in public. Please forgive me for assuming, but I don't think JohnFen is particularly concerned about cameras owned and exclusively operated by private citizens disconnec
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Even if those chips are completely devoid of American-origin IP cores, they almost certainly were designed with American-origin EDA software. I am not sure if such chips would be covered by existing export bans or if EDA software licensing
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by kyboren 7y ago
> This has to do with companies making their own rules about what is right or wrong without any checks, balances, or voter feedback. As far as I understand, companies are generally free to make their own hiring decisions, so long as they
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> By that reasoning, a presidential candidate of Chinese descent who was a natural born American citizen but had relatives back in china would be disqualified Not so. The Constitution is very clear on eligibility requirements for the Pr
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> discriminating based on notational origin is a big no no from an ethical perspective However, discriminating based on exposure to coercive pressure from aggressive and hostile foreign powers is probably OK, even if such exposure is hea
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by kyboren 7y ago
> But it is possible [...] that more communication leads to better political outcomes I believe this is true and also that this is basically the hypothesis motivating freedom of speech under law. However, I believe that modern digital p
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by kyboren 7y ago
> Great news, but I want to get rid of those face recognition border-pass less gates by airports. I have not yet had to deal with that, but CBP tries very hard to capture your facial biometrics when you cross the US border. FYI, US citi
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> Also, read stories of them saying you have no rights to an attorney or even to film them since they don't technically consider you in the US. You are in some limbo between countries. An entirely different ballgame than a traffic s
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I also have first hand experience as a US citizen refusing to answer any questions each of the ~couple dozen times in the past half decade or so I have crossed the US border. In my experience, not only should you decline to answer any ques
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Some crimes can also be aided by whispered in-person conversation. Should we require all in-person conversation to be shouted near a government office? The societal default used to be that substantially all conversations were inaccessible
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You make the mistake of assuming the watchmen have and will always have noble intentions. Rather, you should assume that at some point, someone in power will have the most ignoble intentions. What do you think the negative consequences are
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> The paperwork is a strong incentive to avoid keeping data you don't need. The paperwork is a modest incentive to avoid keeping data Google doesn't need. The problem is that what people need is not necessarily the same as w
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Cool! Very similar techniques can be used in the hardware domain. For these types of problems, at least, I have found SRI's yices solver to be much, much more performant than Armando's CEGIS solver. Do you have any tips on othe
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> [...] arguing that “it can’t be done”, which is of course theoretically true if the goal is to have zero additional risk by introducing a third party [...] So then you recognize that "exceptional access" mechanisms necessaril
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> This includes both how to build a better mousetrap (one that doesn’t have a “backdoor” or significantly weakens the encryption mechanism), and how to solve concerns about abuse of exceptional access. There is a simple way to solve conc

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