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by lvs 8y ago
This is nothing more than a very long-winded PR denial.
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by lvs 8y ago
Transactions in the last 24 hr were 10% of the market cap (i.e. ~$7b USD), so the on-chain activity is therefore much higher than what's being claimed as "real" volume here.
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by lvs 8y ago
Essentially, this is a subset of the argument that more prevalent global communication has actually been far worse for society and far easier to exploit than expected by tech optimists. It's not a new argument, but it's still one
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by lvs 8y ago
Just to be clear, does it say anywhere that Slack does/doesn't retain access to the key store? It seems like it would be impossible for the service to work without maintaining access to the keys from their servers, so nobody shoul
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by lvs 8y ago
All these anti-education articles are pretty tedious. If you believe it's the schools who have it all wrong by teaching subjects that aren't useful for building phone apps, you're probably already pretty set in your worldview
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by lvs 8y ago
No, then you didn't even click the article links. From the first study, for example, the correlation with homicide rates is 0.746.
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by lvs 8y ago
Lol. Warez. It's been a long time.
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by lvs 8y ago
You're clearly looking to veer this into a traditional debate along traditional lines. I don't think you'll find anyone in sociology who believes that any civic problems are monocausal. People who make these kinds of argument
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by lvs 8y ago
Then just price in the cost of security updates into the up-front price. Done and done! This "innovation" in tech business plans to maximize perpetual revenue from users is (obviously) anti-consumer and dystopian. It's dising
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by lvs 8y ago
But why do these companies have such huge operating expenses? It's a phone app for goodness sake. They're not fronting or maintaining the cars, insuring the drivers, paying any pensions or benefits to their workforce, etc. These a
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by lvs 8y ago
I don't understand why everyone is tolerating (nay, engendering!) the level of invasion and subjugation that's baked into all the modern operating systems, linux aside. I want to spend $99 on a perpetual license and not be monetiz
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by lvs 8y ago
I find it interesting that all of the examples ITT so far are vaccination and public health related, the products of rigorous nonprofit science and implementation done by researchers and clinicians --- i.e. not in the private sector. Of cou
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by lvs 8y ago
Surely that's some of the motivation for aggressive spam filtering, but I am seeing this on very legitimate and anticipated emails. In fact, in some cases I get replies sent to spam despite the fact that I've sent outgoing mail in
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by lvs 8y ago
Thanks. It looks like it's probably DKIM and DMARC failures in general, but I can't solve these problems for the sending domains. Some heavy-handed crackdown on best-practices is not helping anyone, if that's what's happ
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Ask HN: Why Is Gmail Spam Filtering .gov?
2 points by lvs 8y ago|6 comments
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by lvs 8y ago
Step 1: take a bunch of research out of context and spin a nice bedtime tale that the data doesn't really support.
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by lvs 8y ago
I don't think you understand what you think GP doesn't understand. Bitcoin uses energy to establish distributed consensus. What's technologically missing from the protocol is an energy-efficient way to establish distributed c
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by lvs 8y ago
This is a long-winded argument that says only that Bitcoin shouldn't be singled out as a waste of energy. Fine, many things are also wasteful and pointless, but that doesn't absolve Bitcoin of anything.
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by lvs 8y ago
This article's basic argument is that the modern alternative to PGP (GPG) is not to do any of the things PGP is used for. How modern!
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by lvs 8y ago
Only part of the argument with ad blockers is speed. The rest of the argument is trust. So, how do you make money? As far as I know, ublock Origin has no profit motive whatsoever. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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by lvs 8y ago
D-Chain
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by lvs 8y ago
It doesn't solve any of those issues. If one bank controls the infrastructure to mine and update, they can hard fork at any time. Why would another bank trust that system? The whole point of "distributed consensus" is to dist
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by lvs 8y ago
Obligatory anger for the Gmail and Calendar minimalist redesigns. This is not minimalism really. It's whitespace maximalism.
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by lvs 8y ago
I usually used Octopart. It's been around for awhile.
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by lvs 8y ago
No, you're all making them hard. It was no problem to book a flight in 2005.
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by lvs 8y ago
It's it convenient that Chrome's moves against the URL also makes it easier for Google to MITM/proxy the whole world using AMP?
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by lvs 8y ago
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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by lvs 8y ago
Entertainingly, it was precisely that update that induced me to drop Mendeley and switch to Zotero. After updating to that version, every login attempt at the app failed. I guess it hadn't fully updated the database because import into
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by lvs 8y ago
They (ubuntu, at least) have always been overtly hostile about this issue, which seems strange. I recall seeing open issues that just devolved into argument for many years on this. I don't get it.
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by lvs 8y ago
This is just a dog whistle for the political claim that search results, curated content, or algorithmic feeds are "biased" against a particular viewpoint of the world that they would prefer. Their intent is to use enforcement and

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