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by nexuist 5y ago
> I don't think society should pay for students' university books. Why not? You will have to pay for their jail cells if they don't get the education experience they need to compete in a global economy.
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by nexuist 5y ago
A lot of HN articles are about military topics!
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by nexuist 5y ago
I mean...at a bigger airport the runway would just have built-in lighting, a situation like this one would never occur. Even at un-monitored (read: no ATC) airports the pilots themselves can turn on/off the lights via radio command, or
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by nexuist 5y ago
Note that this means, like, cyber-attackers, not hand-to-hand physical or ranged combat. I mean, I expected it would be cyber-attackers, but I would eagerly have accepted the alternatives as well.
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by nexuist 5y ago
...and the moderators who resigned immediately set up their own network under their own terms (libera.chat), so I'm not really sure what your point is? The difference is that you can jump to another server with an IRC client, you can&#
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by nexuist 5y ago
Which is how it should be, IMO - the base model is available to anyone for free. If you want extra features after using the base model, then a small donation to the developers for their time is a worthwhile tradeoff.
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by nexuist 5y ago
Generally the way P2P applications dealt with this is by assigning one peer as the "host" that would disperse one single source of truth among all the other peers (granted there are security problems here if the host peer is runni
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by nexuist 5y ago
The entire server-first computational model of today is a direct result of the disastrous adoption of NAT, which killed peer to peer applications and from which the P2P market is still recovering from (uPnP was one such [failed] attempt to
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by nexuist 5y ago
Is this something anyone can do, or do you need someone to be a Swedish citizen first?
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by nexuist 5y ago
Phone companies at least in the US are taking initiatives to screen spam callers, but there is only so much you can do when there are untrusted actors on the network. Truly ending robocalls would require a global treaty encompassing both h
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by nexuist 5y ago
I am surprised with how many people in this thread are equating mountain climbing with techbro culture. Really? How are those related? The fact that some techbros climb some mountains for fun? How about the millions of people in rural count
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by nexuist 5y ago
It's not really technology so much as investment; i.e. the initial wave of robocalls generate enough income that scam operators can afford to invest in more call centers, phone numbers, infrastructure, etc. Just like a real sales divis
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by nexuist 5y ago
Why have HTML email in the first place? No other messaging client lets you send entire HTML documents as messages. Just send me some words and a link to click on in a proper browser. The fact that HTML email is so bloated and a nightmare
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by nexuist 5y ago
In practice the transactions you perform on the blockchain have value in USD whereas the transactions on your equally-technically-sophisticated git repo have no value at all. So there is no reason for the average person to choose your repo
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by nexuist 5y ago
It's not a hard problem, it's an impossible problem, because it violates the first law of cybersecurity: physical access means game over. When you start allowing untrained and un-punishable customers to mess with your meatspace da
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by nexuist 5y ago
How is this any different from spending $70k a year on some useless degree with 0 job prospects? People will always find ways to lose money.
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by nexuist 5y ago
I think you need a recent Pixel phone to use it, but last I heard yes it does actually work although as other posters have said it seems limited to the reservation booking model.
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by nexuist 5y ago
Very confusing to me as a man why we don't just tell the thing what it should be called and have it use that name wherever it appears on the device (e.g. "Hey David" instead of "Hey Siri.") I think Google Assistant
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by nexuist 5y ago
This is a really good idea. I would love something in the same vein that I could discuss an idea to and it would use the sum of all knowledge it can find on the Web to poke holes into it; essentially trying to sink the idea as hard as it ca
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by nexuist 5y ago
This is literally every company in the entire world. How you talk about your own company is something you have to be mindful of because you are an agent of that company; the words you use and the way you react to things can tip investors of
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by nexuist 5y ago
It seems like it does, given in the demo video there's a lady and a baby in the same shot.
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by nexuist 5y ago
I don't think this will happen. American conglomerates are too dependent on both Western and non-Western markets to push for a fracturing. It would mean a lot of work and duplicated effort to offer the same services across multiple Int
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by nexuist 5y ago
Cyber insurance is a real field but it's still very new so not a lot of executives know about it. I think in the future it will become a very popular industry. I could even see it becoming an option for private citizens, paying $x&#x2F
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by nexuist 5y ago
My understanding is that it always means "approved." When someone says "sanctioning Russia" they're referring to the set of rules or punishments that have been approved by the US government. These rules or punishmen
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by nexuist 5y ago
The problem is ransomware is software just like all the others. What do you do when some random script kiddie in way over their head manages to encrypt a seriously important network but can't develop decryption tools - or worse, loses
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by nexuist 5y ago
Your problem isn't the Internet, it's the lack of trust busting in the tech space that prevents e.g. Disney from being able to launch its own streaming service or Amazon from promoting its own Basics products. The reason why every
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by nexuist 5y ago
For what it's worth, I do plan to support code blocks where you can drop in arbitrary code where you need it, and you can integrate it with the rest of the diagram by defining the input and output types itself. The goal isn't to r
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by nexuist 5y ago
There is a worryingly large constituency, mostly on Twitter, who believe that any unjust death at all is damning evidence that all of our institutions and economic systems must be destroyed and rebuilt. Of course unjust death is tragic, but
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by nexuist 5y ago
My vision is closer to Yahoo Pipes / LabView / GNU Radio, but yeah I think you've got the right idea!
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by nexuist 5y ago
Befunge is very cool, although a bit difficult to onboard users onto :) My language is a lot simpler: it uses functional programming principles to transform input to output without storing state. The programmer would place down blocks on th

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