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by lapcat 10mo ago
> This is not true - Safari also supports passkeys managed by third-party password managers. I think you know what I meant and are just being pedantic here for no good reason. Do you think I'm unaware of 1Password? I don't want
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> It's an open protocol, you don't need to use any of the vendors. My Yubikey is a "passkey", so is my Flipper Zero. Keepass provides passkey support. I don't want to use a Yubikey. It's a pain in the butt.
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> not having to reveal your credential to the verifying party is the entire benefit of passkeys I think you misunderstood what I was talking about. The credential exchange protocol is for exporting passkeys from one credentials manager a
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> Seems like vendor lock-in was the goal from the start. Exactly. The passkey vendors state that the goal was to make phishing not just difficult but impossible . This means plaintext access to your credentials is forbidden forever, reg
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> I predict that it's a large majority, >60%, and am unsurprised to see a poll saying 65% Yes, and I don't think I'd be surprised about how many Americans support capitalism. I generally support capitalism. > healthc
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> At 30%, one does observe a faint correlation between genetic potential and IQ. The correlation becomes clearer at 50%, while remaining quite noisy. This is an essential aspect to keep in mind: 50% may sound like a solid heritability fi
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> Guess how many Americans support capitalism, look up the polled number, and see if it surprises you. Guess how many Americans support Medicare For All, look up the polled number, and see if it surprises you. None of the populist Democr
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> How many people would jump ship with Reed Hastings if you excommunicated him By people do you mean voters or donors? I suspect that approximately zero voters would care. > which are the Republican voters who would be swayed to repla
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> society has been caught with its pants down by the speed of innovation. Or rather by the slowness of regulation and enforcement in the face of blatant copyright violation. We've seen this before, for example with YouTube, which be
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> My friend We're not friends. > the article whose provenance you are defending is clearly LLM-“punched up” at a minimum. I'm not even going to ask for your evidence, because the previous argument I had was a frustrating was
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by lapcat 10mo ago
False accusations of AI writing are becoming absurd and infuriating. The other day I saw and argued with this accusation by a HN commenter against a professional writer, based on the most tenuous shred of evidence: https://news.y
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> Making money? Geez, you’re an optimist and that’s a good thing. I'm not. I'm well aware of the bleak prospects. But I'm not the one who told people that they should try to publish.
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> the potential upside of publicity How much publicity have you received? Be careful what you wish for. It's crucial to note that publicity brings a number of potential downsides. For example, close to home, Hacker News commenters w
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by lapcat 10mo ago
I don't think it's useful to compare writing a book for money with writing a blog for no money.
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by lapcat 10mo ago
I may be in the minority, perhaps even a minority of one, but I disagree that publishing a blog is worthwhile even if nobody reads it. I honestly don't understand the point. Write a diary for yourself if you want, fine, but what exactl
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> I was responding to the previous comment, not so much the article. How so? You said, "This shouldn't be controversial. Height is well-known to be heritable. Being tall gives you a better shot at making the NBA. The same is tr
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> This shouldn't be controversial. Height is well-known to be heritable. I don't understand why so many commenters here are arguing against a straw man. The article author does not and never did believe in the "blank slate
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> Sure, we have 50 years of research proving that children are blank states No, we don't. > I find it extremely difficult to believe that we'd be born equal This is not what the article author claims or ever claimed.
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> It seems natural that those that do valuable things get rewarded a lot. I'm not fond of the term "rewarded." I understand how prices are determined by supply and demand in economics. Obviously in the labor market, some s
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by lapcat 10mo ago
What do you mean?
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> It’s not that surprising that many successful people seem to be strong fans of heritability, or more broadly, of the idea that metrics like IQ point to some sort of “universal independent” metric of value. To do otherwise requires livi
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> The question never was about whether or not genetic differences contribute to the spread of intellectual talent—they obviously do. The question always was about the “interesting place” Paul Graham talked about, the meaningful space bet
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> I've felt the need to put human errors, less markup, etc into stuff I write now. Don't give in to the nitwits!
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> please don't make it out like a throwaway "AI bad" argument. The issue isn't whether AI is good or bad or neither or both. The issue is whether the author used AI or not. And you were actually the one who suggested
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> I just ask that as you read various articles over the next few weeks, please pay attention to headers especially of the form "The ___ Trap", "The ___ Problem", "The ___ Solution". No, I'm going to try
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> notice how those 3 previous articles you linked don't contain "The Blahbity Blah" style headers throughout, while this article has nine occurrences of them. The post https://hey.paris/posts/cba/
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> How do governments become corrupt in the first place though, if they don't start that way? I think the US government did start that way. Maybe not "corrupt" as such, but the United States was founded by plutocrats and wa
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> To be clear, I'm not accusing his books as being written like this or using AI. I'm simply responding to the writing style of this article . It's unlikely that the article had the benefit of professional, external edi
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> The root problem is that, in exchange for convenience, we as a society have ceded too much power to these large businesses and we are now paying the price for it. I don't know why some people have made "convenience" into
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by lapcat 10mo ago
> I didn't mention em dashes anywhere in my comment! I know. I just mentioned them as another silly but common reason why people unjustly accuse professional writers of being AI. > I have done a lot of copyreading in my life and

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