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by nokcha 7y ago
Ideally, backups (or at least the decryption key for the backup) would be stored in offline, air-gapped storage.
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by nokcha 7y ago
The manufacturer can charge higher prices for repairs if it can exclude third parties from performing repairs.
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by nokcha 7y ago
>"therefore, if you are running a legacy system which had not yet upgraded from RSA to ECC, you should not bother to do so, and instead should save money for the future upgrade to post-quantum protocols." (WTF? Most people thou
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by nokcha 7y ago
The terms "supervised machine learning" and "unsupervised machine learning", by their ordinary English meaning, make it sound like all machine learning is partitioned into one or the other. But a lot of the literature i
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by nokcha 7y ago
>If it's sex or drugs or any sort of addiction, the user is victim. With weapons, other people are the victim. At least in the US, a majority of deaths by firearm are suicides. And as for potentially addictive drugs (e.g., alcohol)
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by nokcha 7y ago
>I have no ... recourse. In theory, you could sue ASCAP for damages and/or injunctive relief. Perhaps for libel, for grossly negligently communicating a false and disparaging claim about you to YouTube. Perhaps for tortious interf
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by nokcha 7y ago
There are legitimate reasons for wanting privacy/anonymity. Not everyone who uses a tumbler does so to evade taxes or launder money.
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by nokcha 7y ago
>Your argument appears to be that lighter tax evasion shouldn't be prosecuted as long as there are heavy tax evaders that haven't been prosecuted. I think the argument is more along the lines of: "Something is wrong if the
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by nokcha 7y ago
>"The possibility that a Libra node run by Mastercard or Andressen Horrowitz would suddenly start running malicious code is such a bizarre scenario to plan for and is better solved by simply enforcing protocol integrity and through
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by nokcha 7y ago
The swastika symbol in Unicode is the Buddhist/Hindu swastika, not the Nazi swastika (which is tilted at 45°).
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by nokcha 7y ago
>an IR photo Is such a thing possible? My understanding is that IR emission from ordinary objects is primarily determined by their temperature. To imitate the IR signature of a human face, one would need a special-purpose, actively-pow
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by nokcha 7y ago
>Law enforcement certainly can lie to the public. OK, but that's just because the government hasn't passed a law against such speech; it isn't protected by the First Amendment. If the government wants to adopt a rule stop
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by nokcha 7y ago
jschwartzi was talking about power supplies (i.e., devices that transform mains AC power to DC power), not power banks.
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by nokcha 7y ago
You can buy potassium citrate in bulk and measure out your own dose.
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by nokcha 7y ago
>Number of states that have made efforts to ban tobacco: 0 Do you suggest that states should ban tobacco? I think that would be a mistake, judging by the effects of alcohol prohibition in the 1920s and the current war on drugs.
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by nokcha 7y ago
>It then becomes valuable for the original owner to secretly mine a chain, attempting a 51% attack. Depends on how able the injured party is to retaliate. In ordinary life, bouncing a check often results in actual or threatened legal ac
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by nokcha 7y ago
And a potential prion problem as well. Plants grown in prion-contaminated soil can absorb prions, and animals who subsequently eat the plants can become infected. [1] And while composting might be enough to destroy most infectious disease
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by nokcha 7y ago
>Is there any programming language at all which allows sensitive data to be annotated in such a way that the compiler will promise not to leak it to memory indefinitely in some sense? Somewhat related: there's a recent paper that de
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by nokcha 7y ago
>because in this case killing doesn't serve any purpose. Revenge comes from an emotion, that's why I'm saying it's not really rational. Rationality is a means of achieving a goal. Rationality says nothing about what
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by nokcha 7y ago
>Once the missiles are flying, there is no rational reason to retaliate Why is that? It appears to me that most humans value getting revenge on an enemy who has harmed them.
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by nokcha 7y ago
Not in the US. Section 230 gives Google civil immunity (for any information provided by another information content provider), and even without it, they'd be protected by the First Amendment.
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by nokcha 7y ago
"Commercial speech" refers to advertising, or more precisely, speech that "proposes a commercial transaction". It does not refer to speech that is charged for. Newspapers and books are fully protected by the First Amen
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by nokcha 7y ago
>The president is not a CEO The president is, literally, the chief executive officer of the US government. He holds an office under the United States, and that office is executive in nature, and it is not subordinate to any other office
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by nokcha 7y ago
It seems to me that journalism suffers a "tragedy of the commons"-like situation: since many news stories are available free of cost, there is little incentive for individual citizens to pay for subscriptions that fund the informa
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by nokcha 7y ago
This seems to be the human study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42183-0
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by nokcha 7y ago
Apple is arguably acting as a monopolist abusing its market position in violation of anti-trust laws. Apple takes a 30% cut on App Store purchases, potentially much higher than they would be able to if they didn't stifle competition.
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by nokcha 7y ago
Exempting newspapers from sales tax seems like a good idea. Perhaps the government could go even further and match subscription fees up X dollars per year per customer, as an incentive for people to subscribe. To prevent abuse (such as
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by nokcha 7y ago
>Some foods digest better than others. I can eat the same calories from potato chips a lentil dish but my digestion and laster on weight change will be very different. The food that exits your body without being digested falls into the &
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by nokcha 7y ago
>but I would shudder the thought of living in a society where the government tells you exactly what you can and can't eat. I agree, but the government can use softer nudges like taxes and subsidies to help encourage healthier eating
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by nokcha 7y ago
>This action can be flagged as suspicious as well, triggering a deeper investigation into the traveler. Whenever I travel internationally on business and need a laptop, I'm required by company policy to bring a laptop freshly wiped

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