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by nshepperd 7y ago
> Which is obviously not constant time, and will leak information through cache/timing sidechannels. This confuses me. Why is it in the kernel if it's not constant time? Isn't that a security risk? (Is there any context wh
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by nshepperd 7y ago
If you take it for years. Why is everyone ignoring that part?
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by nshepperd 7y ago
> It is all about living within your means, No, it's about spending wisely . Ask not "can I afford it?", but "is it worth it?" (taking into account, yes, your financial situation). This article hasn't don
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Good. This is exactly why I signed up.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Yes.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Couldn't the client just tell the server what to delete? Which would require only downloading an (encrypted) index of what data is in use, not downloading and reuploading the data itself.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
The problem is always political. By "violating the agreement" you mean drawing water without paying for the required allocations (eg. disconnecting water meters), or? And the state politicians allow this because of competition, ba
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by nshepperd 7y ago
This is an example of center embedding, which is generally considered grammatical but difficult to process with more than a few levels (to the point where people don't naturally produce such sentences). https://en.wikipedia.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
"fish fish eat eat" isn't a noun phrase, no. The noun phrase in question is X = "fish fish eat". Which you can embed between "fish" and "eat" to make a bigger noun phrase: (1): X' = fish X e
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Water is already subject to capitalism, both in the sense that you literally pay money for it (more than industry does, note), and in the sense that wasteful and profligate use of it due to lack of appreciation of its value ( because its pr
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Demand for drinking water is inelastic. That's a tiny fraction of a fraction of usage. The majority of fresh water is used for farming, as coolants, solvents, reagents in industrial processes. These uses certainly do have alternative
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Nice! Perhaps the problem is that there's too much water on the market, due to the government handing out too much too cheaply? Edit: Ah, looks like yes; the government was working on undoing this mistake by buying back water rights at
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by nshepperd 7y ago
If prices flow on to the consumer, that's good. It motivates consumers to buy less water hungry alternatives and industry to find less water hungry production methods. It certainly would lower water usage.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Yes, so charge agriculture and industry more.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
If only it was somehow possible to charge more for water, so that people would use less.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
> 3. Authors ignore the waste storage problem, which is a debt future generations will be saddled with for hundreds or thousands of years. Taking on debt is profitable if the interest rate is less than the return on investment. I'd
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by nshepperd 7y ago
People intentionally remove them to make them louder.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
That story does not strike me as highly inconsistent with TFA. Just took a few times to go from polite tolerance of an annoying person to telling him to fuck off.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
> How do you fly on someone’s private plane without realizing it is their plane? I was wondering this too, so I googled it: https://flyxo.com/operator-partners/ Apparently, if you own a private jet, you can rent it
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Seems to me this is a principle-agent problem, really. Manufacturers and the FDA are only liable for one part of the system's safety - immediate injury or death attributable directly to a specific error. They're not liable for the
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Yeah, except that the Fed has decided to undo all of that by selling off the assets it bought, effectively burning the money it spent so much effort printing. https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Thanks, you are correct. I have updated my comment accordingly.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
The idea that you could be sued[1] with breach of contract for violating a ToS in a case like this is goddamn insane. A contract can only be formed if both parties agree to it; and you can't be forced to agree to a contract against you
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Low level chronic lead exposure doesn't cause a "mental disability". What it does is cause permanent brain damage which subtracts a few IQ points, harming individuals with above average IQ scores just as it harms those with a
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by nshepperd 7y ago
If it's not such a high barrier to pass then maybe you can make your arguments without appealing to the most easily knocked down nonsense (social priming). If you want to argue that IQ is "wrong" you need to explain https:&#
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by nshepperd 7y ago
Those papers have nothing to do with IQ.
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by nshepperd 7y ago
That's not at all how the effect of Lead exposure works. The research has found that Lead exposure causes a consistent loss of IQ points, with no evidence that the effect is limited to the low end of the IQ scale. Naturally, none of th
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by nshepperd 7y ago
IQ was important to determine the effect of lead exposure on cognitive function. Without it we probably wouldn't have nearly as stringent laws banning it (eg. in paint, and gasoline), and would still be suffering from endemic lead pois
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by nshepperd 7y ago
How does that justify making factually wrong claims like "There is no correlation IQ/Income above 45K"? Is that claim true somehow? It certainly looks wrong, looking at the scatter plot (even setting aside whether a linear re
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by nshepperd 7y ago
> More than a decade on from the credit crisis, inflation is still scarce, with wages increasing only modestly despite large drops in unemployment. The ECB, for example, isn’t expected to get to its close-to-2% inflation target over the

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