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by mcherm 2y ago
The blog article didn't mention what to do when a node fails, and therefore is unable to hand over its section of the curve to another node.
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by mcherm 2y ago
Fair question, but I would also like to ask "What the f** is wrong with cops?". Receiving an anonymous call claiming some not-particularly-plausible threat at a particular location probably DOES deserve a police investigation. I s
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by mcherm 2y ago
If the party who chooses the service provider is not the same as the party who pays the fee then it is difficult for market forces to operate. Making the same party choose and pay can fix that. This is a different problem than "the ser
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by mcherm 2y ago
If you are paid hourly and can adjust your number of hours this is a sensible way to compare. But many of us are paid a fixed salary. Also, many of us could potentially get work done while commuting.
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by mcherm 2y ago
> Except that the drug has negative side effects and does not work-not even with the most optimistic interpretations. One of the difficult things about ethics (including medical ethics) is that everyone has slightly different opinions. B
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by mcherm 2y ago
> for no real reason other than to further tighten control they have of the supposedly "open" platform I think you're overlooking the obvious motivation of "maintain a lock on a substantial profit stream".
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by mcherm 2y ago
Would you not want to use Pin when sharing memory with a driver or extension written in a different language (eg: C)?
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by mcherm 2y ago
I don't think that would be possible. Either there would be so few people doing it that it would not be effective at transplanting the network graph, or else it would be widely enough used that X noticed and cared, in which case they w
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by mcherm 2y ago
> If your social policy needs to be enforced, then it didn’t succeed in the marketplace of ideas. > If you like this, then do it. It will catch on if it catches on. I have often met the kind of entrepreneur who thinks that just buildi
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by mcherm 2y ago
If the patent trolls were only harming CloudFlare then I would not be so concerned. But it is my impression that they mostly try to go after very small, independent companies because those can be guaranteed to not have enough funds to fight
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by mcherm 2y ago
I think that the alternative is some form of "per review", where the effort of performing reviews is spread out among a volunteer f with reasonable "reputation" management and in which a party can accelerate their own re
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by mcherm 2y ago
> You can join any private club you want with any composition of well-rounded people. What does that have to with higher education? I believe that a key component of an effective education is studying the roots of philosophy. Surely you
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by mcherm 2y ago
I'm in the market for a new TV. Is there any source that lists models that do NOT engage in this sort of spying? I am willing to pay a significant premium and forego convenience features, but I lack the expertise to review products mys
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by mcherm 2y ago
But in the US, federal labor law makes it illegal for employers to prevent employees from sharing pay information (at least for employees who are entitled to unionize).
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by mcherm 2y ago
If there were no growth, that would eventually be true (after 27 months). But there is a lot of growth.
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by mcherm 2y ago
> I occasionally watch something on Disney+ Then it's too late for you (according to this legal theory). You have permanently lost your ability to use the court system against Disney.
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by mcherm 2y ago
Wow... I guess that would be a great deal of money.
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by mcherm 2y ago
Yes, except this person DID cancel her Disney+. More accurately, she never signed up for it, merely ran a free trial for a month in 2019. So the only possible way to avoid this, if Disney's argument was upheld, would be to have never i
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by mcherm 2y ago
This is about OpenStreetMap, so you are proposing that my minor daughter not be allowed to read a map?
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by mcherm 2y ago
I am not a fan of many of their products, and I have turned down hiring managers at meta before. But I wouldn't rule out working for the company. Look, I am old enough to remember the time when Microsoft was the antithesis (and sworn e
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by mcherm 2y ago
If anyone is suggesting that this would help with the climate crisis, then it's worth noting that it would require other sources of energy (solar, wind, nuclear) to produce substantially more energy than the total amount consumed by hu
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by mcherm 2y ago
In a prefix language, I first learn what I'm going to be doing, then I learn what values I will be doing it to. This has the advantage that I understand the context in which things are going to be used. It helps in working from the top
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by mcherm 2y ago
If you read the article, the second paragraph tells about someone whose costs were $700 (significantly more than $400), and even explains why they were so high: the need to travel to California to appear in person.
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by mcherm 2y ago
> The embarrassing truth is that we can't do it. If what you mean is that we find ourselves unable to do perfect security, then that's clearly true but it's missing the point. The point of the article is that we do better
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by mcherm 2y ago
I've asked a few people in the past for a lobster.rs invite and haven't gotten one yet, so I'm interested. Check out my posting history here or my (somewhat neglected) blogging on https://www.mcherm.com . My email
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by mcherm 2y ago
My summary: Anything which drives predictions of "the next token" must create a model of "how the world works" AND a model for "what state is the world in right now". The authors train a transformer and demonst
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by mcherm 2y ago
"Needs to escape their echo chamber and read other stuff" is a bit too strong, but if you moderated it to "would benefit from escaping their echo chamber and being exposed to other stuff" then yes, I would take that posi
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by mcherm 2y ago
If the expected rate of known shoplifters is 1 in 10,000 then the human security team can keep a close eye on 10,000 people (one of whom is probably a shoplifter) or on just 2 people (one of whom is probably a shoplifter). The latter is muc
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by mcherm 2y ago
I can think of one possible regulation that I think would produce the proper behavior incentives. Require that the system intentionally produce false positives (selected at random) at approximately the same rate as the true positives. This
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by mcherm 2y ago
> I suspect Google would err on the side of accidental deletions rather than accidental non-deletions: at least in the EU. I certainly hope not, because that would be incredibly stupid. Customers understand the significance of different

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