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by nyolfen 5y ago
parasite is probably a better term
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by nyolfen 5y ago
it is dangerous to say that you have changed your mind about something?
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by nyolfen 5y ago
yes, i didn't mean this in a way that was dismissive of monero, only trying to convey my excitement about privacy tech becoming an intrinsic part of crypto as a whole
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by nyolfen 5y ago
ZKs, bulletproofs etc are going to be working their way into btc and eth in the next year or two and i would expect to be ported to competitors. it will be impossible to prevent strong anonymity in transactions on any of the major chains in
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by nyolfen 5y ago
this is a conscious calculation to attract alumni donations — people who are into their college teams donate more than others, and even more when the teams do well
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by nyolfen 5y ago
reasonable people can disagree: https://thebulletin.org/2021/05/the-origin-of-covid-did-peop...
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by nyolfen 5y ago
i think it would be fair to say that science failed us if this is due to a lab leak, which appears to be the case. science made by possible by public health funding, in fact.
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by nyolfen 5y ago
https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
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by nyolfen 5y ago
that's cool man, i'm still going to block the 99.9999% of attackers that don't own my isp. you are conflating "bad idea in extremely exotic scenario" with "counterproductive"; ever heard of defense in dept
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by nyolfen 5y ago
people who control the l4 stack probably aren't brute forcing my ssh server
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by nyolfen 5y ago
it's pretty easy to set up TOTP 2FA using google authenticator's PAM module: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-... a password-protected SSH key is also two factors
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by nyolfen 5y ago
my understanding is that spoofing only works for sessionless protocols or situations -- eg a single udp packet or a series of packets that do not rely on any kind of response, since the response (like a tcp ack, or a dh handshake) is routed
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by nyolfen 5y ago
of course, true capitalism has never been tried, but this is what you might call 'actually existing capitalism'
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by nyolfen 5y ago
strange decision to cater towards newbies by publishing something for org-mode
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by nyolfen 5y ago
ddg sources from bing
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by nyolfen 5y ago
> Likewise, it's not that there's compelling evidence of a lab leak (now or in 2019/2020). It's that we're sort of left with it by process of elimination. For example: if Covid-19 came from an animal population (
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by nyolfen 5y ago
that's great, the US has more guns than humans
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by nyolfen 5y ago
this only works in one country at a time, you can rest assured that other governments have your face tucked away in a datacenter
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by nyolfen 5y ago
great writeup that overlaps with a lot of stuff i do for myself — a few related tool suggestions from my own experience are caddy for https (absurdly easy config — seriously, i would never go back to nginx if i could help it) and netdata fo
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by nyolfen 5y ago
these things are absolutely important but they are at most half of the picture. intelligence is broadly heritable: https://www.nature.com/articles/mp201185 and a representative piece of a very large body of evidence th
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by nyolfen 5y ago
miners pay energy bills, ergo seek out cheap energy. the cheapest energy is usually hydro. the efficiency directly impacts their bottom line.
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by nyolfen 5y ago
it is literally the exact same thing distributed over a larger area. at least miners are incentivized to use cheap renewable sources.
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by nyolfen 5y ago
it is true however that in the west, education is inversely correlated with fertility, that education is closely linked to intelligence, statistically, and that intelligence is at least 50% accounted for by heritability, as shown by many la
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by nyolfen 5y ago
google seems to go out of its way to exclude results that match exact wording these days, even with quotes. this is incredibly frustrating, especially for technical searches. i halfheartedly switched to ddg a few years ago but it has become
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by nyolfen 5y ago
there in fact exists a pass-like interface for age: https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage
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by nyolfen 5y ago
it would be difficult to be impressed by this structure if you have passing familiarity with what contemporary civilizations were building. it’s obviously of historical and archaeological significance but my assumption based on the superlat
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by nyolfen 5y ago
how would the term 'fetishizing' apply to a discussion of paper culture?
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by nyolfen 5y ago
reddit is cabal-moderated, or moderated in the same way as prison gangs moderate their communities
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by nyolfen 5y ago
appreciating is not something ‘genuinely harmful’
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by nyolfen 5y ago
yes, we don't talk about that one

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