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by neiman 7y ago
So in the same time they should condemn democracy and freedom, as they're having exactly the same effect. It is much easier for police in authoritarian countries to prevent crimes and find perpetrators. But if they don't condemn d
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by neiman 7y ago
This makes me think of ENS project (based on Ethereum) that is making a decentralized TLD. The registry is managed automatically by a smart contract. Pros? The conditions are equal to all users. Cons? It is a wild west style registry with n
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by neiman 7y ago
> What about Elon Musk? He's making money, and arguably do good by humanity overall, eh? I wonder what will happen when Musk would have to choose between money and the benefit of humanity.
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I see a problem, though I have no alternative to offer, with the current model of organizations. It seems you are either for-profit, and then you have no ethics and do everything you can to centralize the world around you with no concern fo
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by neiman 7y ago
I wrote a comment system for articles once that was super-duper fast. The result was that it turned into a chat, so we had to add a "fake delay" for people to treat is as a serious comment system.
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I see you're point, but the internet is a free market and people where bad websites will be deserted due to market forces, and not due to regulation of one company. I leave and never come back to cumbersome websites. Even my grandpa do
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by neiman 7y ago
You're right. When you judge a move you estimate the intention of whoever made it, and how much they'll personally gain from it. He Google gains by promoting AMP, and double-gains by incentivizing websites to optimize themselves t
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by neiman 7y ago
I'm trying to fully understand it. So if I'm in a site that is loading slow, Chrome will tell me "this site is loading slow". which is almost like putting a sign in the middle of the ocean, "you in the ocean".
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by neiman 7y ago
Thank you for the reply, I guess it's a matter of usage/machine, since I have none of the issues you mentioned.
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by neiman 7y ago
A question for HN readers that use Chrome: why did you choose that? The readers here seems like the ideal crowd of Firefox users.
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There's a difference between being delayed for procedural reasons, and between being delayed as a punishment.
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This is literally micro-imprisoning, and I can so easily see how this can be abused. We should be careful who give the power to imprison others.
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Thanks!
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by neiman 7y ago
From the post: "Allegation #1: The 2017 Bitcoin Bubble was market manipulation, and Tether was how they did it Allegation #3: They might’ve gotten away with it, too, if they hadn’t gotten robbed while busy scamming" But the big Bi
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by neiman 7y ago
That's probably true, but hardly unique for Bitcoin imo.
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I also find it hard to believe that the whole cryptoboom of 2017 can be narrowed down to one dimensional Tether-Bitcoin analysis.
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by neiman 7y ago
Damn, you're right, I linked the old paper. Oops! But it seems that the new one is "set to be published in a forthcoming Journal of Finance". So it's not published yet. I find it impossible to have a discussion based on
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by neiman 7y ago
It's impossible to have a discussion based on news reports, so here's a link for the original paper. I copied the title and abstract below. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3195066 I browse
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by neiman 7y ago
I'm asking out of curiosity, not in order to take a stand. What's the harm of making fingerprinting illegal? Which good use-cases exist for it?
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In theory you can use cryptography to give a signature confirming you belong to a group, without saying who you are in the group (ring signature, or more specifically for our case, traceable ring signature or linkable ring signatures). But
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What are the possible results? If it's only fines than it may not deter anyone from doing similar things in the future (in case the gain is big enough, i.e., bigger than the fine). Is there a possibility for personal responsibility and
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Fantastic job! I liked it so much that I went to look at the author Patreon[1]. His main thing is creating medieval fantasy city generator[2], which looks even better. [1] https://www.patreon.com/watawatabou [2] https:&#x2
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by neiman 7y ago
I'm asking out of ignorance. You're using the word "solutions". Do we know those are really "solutions", and not guesses for solutions? Like, will those actions reduce temperatures? It seems that some of what a
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by neiman 7y ago
It is: - Inaccurate (surely, since real lie detectors are) - Does more harm than help - Humiliating - Will not stop any real threat - Looks like something of a dystopian film We shouldn't automate human interactions. We shouldn't
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by neiman 7y ago
I would love to use Signal, but I have two issues with it. One, it insists on me giving more permissions to Google services, where it's very difficult to go around this requirements. But worse, it relies on me a phone number as an ID.
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by neiman 7y ago
Age-restricting porn in the internet era is like record companies fighting digital music in the end of the 90s. Good luck with that. (all that without having really an opinion on the the topic of if and from which age porn should be restric
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Don't worry about them too much; they're gonna sell the technology to other countries.
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The problem with pure peer-to-peer, is privacy. While now only one server knows what you do, in a peer-to-peer it changes to almost everyone who are connected. You can can indeed improve privacy, but it normally means giving up speed (like
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That's exactly how over-regulation starts.
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> Bananas are the most-sold item at most grocery stores and, notably, Wal-Mart. In which country? The US? This can't be globally true..

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