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by mcherm 5y ago
Honestly, not even bothering to solve the "double spend" problem makes this much less than it could have been. After all, it is very easy to solve the "double spend" problem without the use of a blockchain: simply use a
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Perhaps it may surprise you to learn that many "bad actors" are rather stupid. This is one of the few large advantages that defense has over offense in security matters.
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So... which cloud storage providers do NOT scan your files and propose to remove things which violate their own sense of what data is "appropriate"? Obviously, I could encrypt my data before putting on such a service, but that mak
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It is obvious to everyone involved (except, apparently, employees of Alphabet) that YouTube's system for reporting violations and adjudicating them is broken. I would happily move to using a competitor instead except that between the p
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I'm just curious, would you have any problem with a similar law that said people were free to protest or speak out about any political party they wanted to but that they could not get a government contract unless they agree to support
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What model has this feature? I haven't seen such a thing.
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Cloudflare, my hero! [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-r2-object-storage/
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I understand exactly how easy it is to game standardized tests. However, I find that I do not know how easy it is to game grades. Perhaps that is equally easy, or significantly easier. For example, can one "game" high school grade
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I have been locked out of my car before. I would be very pleased with the service where remote unlocking is as easy as calling a phone number and convincing the operator that you're the owner. Of course, that comes with one important c
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Whether or not a state and local tax deduction counts as "double taxation" depends entirely on what you mean by "double taxation". For example, one could say that sales tax is a form of "double taxation" becaus
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> If you know a good usecase for ACL in database for OLTP workflows, I'm all ears. Here's one that's meaningful to me. We have a single database with five different applications that access it, each of them managed by a se
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For comparison, how are the controls on access to accelerometer data on Android?
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> First past the post results in a two party system. Nobody can gerrymander that away. Really? Consider the Democratic party lock on the US southern states for roughly 50 years after reconstruction.[1] A huge portion of the population wa
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I feel that this is a perfectly good interview question for a so-called "full stack developer": > Let's turn to databases now. Can you explain ACID to me? I'm not saying that the original article on RoyalSloth was wro
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I think DB tuning seems like a perfect business opportunity for specialist consulting. Doing a really good job requires deep expertise but then it only needs to be repeated occasionally (if the operational profile or the data size changes s
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The article writes: > Since everyone was using HTTP, and since everyone would keep using HTTP at least as a transport layer because of all the proxying and caching support, the simplest possible thing to do was just rely on HTTP’s existi
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The argument that they advance is that if we allowed government supported automatic filing, then people would no longer be able to take advantage of the free filing program that Intuit offers to low income households. What they don't m
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What is your game? Prisoner's dilemma is not so much about the specific scenario as about the fact that the two players have different options (defect, cooperate) with a payoff matrix that makes the best option for an individual not ne
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> The parent comment is an example, appearing to have the approval of the community, but there are several subtle things wrong (or just odd) with it. It's short of misleading people into doing anything harmful, though, so stopping t
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A simple observation, but one that sounds useful and which I had never heard of before.
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Yes, the article uses those words. But an understanding of elementary physics tells us that momentum is conserved in an isolated system. Spending the reaction wheels can cause the outer frame of the satellite to rotate in a certain fashion
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These are not applications, they are services. Which means that the REAL question isn't whether they open-source the code (not saying it wouldn't be nice... but it may come with lots of dependencies about their environment that wo
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> How often does the CEO of one company address management of its biggest competitor? How often can you even get said CEOs to public acknowledge the name of their competitors? Not often enough! I work for Capital One. We are a decently l
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> In a world where cash is starting to dissapear, payment processors and banking in general should be regulated and treated just like some sort of utility company I'm not sure if you are missing contacts or providing irony. But the
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Over a period of a few centuries we have figured out that allowing significant amounts of wealth to be controlled by the wishes of people who died 100 years ago. Imagine, for instance, how perfectly mainstream beliefs in the US would have l
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So, according to the article, Boom intends to make their plane carbon neutral from day 1 (by using fuel generated from atmospheric carbon). Clearly that is intended to address concerns like yours. Does that change your opinion in any way? I
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The company I work for is one example (of MANY) that is finding it quite cost effective to host on AWS as compared to maintaining our own data center. That being said, I certainly wouldn't mind seeing AWS and Cloudflare get into a pric
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Arguably, the user requested it by intentionally choosing to use a browser with that default behavior.
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Well, there is the similarity between features of the virus and research being proposed in a grant application written half a world away just a couple of years before the virus spread to humans. That's a coincidence of note.
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At the end of the day we also have zero evidence of the animal transfer hypothesis. The SARS-CoV-2 virus was never documented in bats (prior to its spread among humans). No one has been able to demonstrate the capability of the virus to acq

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