nyolfen

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by nyolfen 6y ago
i can usually block those scripts and still have a functioning page
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i am not looking forward to having ads delivered by binary blobs. say farewell to the age of client-side scripting.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
encryption, digital money, anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero knowledge, reputations, information markets, black markets, collapse of governments.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
if something is small and fast and you are flying a plane i do not find it difficult to believe that capturing video might prove elusive
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by nyolfen 6y ago
there are valid criticisms of firefox but breaking disqus is a bizarre one. when is the last time you used it? my impressions is that these days the literal majority of content produced on it is spam and it's been this way for the bett
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by nyolfen 6y ago
it is purely an arbitrary exercise in power, making others submit to show them that they must. it is obviously trivial, obviously contentious, and changes literally nothing about the material relations between groups. the entire point is to
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by nyolfen 6y ago
it seems to me that there is a lot of room between "perfectly even" and "twice on the same day"
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by nyolfen 6y ago
how would this apply to disparate aircraft on different maintenance cycles?
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by nyolfen 6y ago
reminded me of a post i saw earlier today: > Occasionally watching terrestrial/mainstream TV is equivalent to dipping your head back into the Cave, except, the shadows no longer make any sense, and yet everyone is entrapped by them.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
how about development bounties by DAO? i’d be surprised if something like this hasn’t already been attempted (i don’t pay close attention to this topic)
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by nyolfen 6y ago
if 51% of hash power were located in the US, the statement would have been about the US. it is not something special about china that makes this the case, only the fact that it is a sovereign state with the means and will to control activit
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by nyolfen 6y ago
not with <50ms ping: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/starl...
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i will have a hell of a time remembering where it was, but a few years ago i read an interview or essay that said this payload was actually a decoy, that the soviets were responding to the SDI program but could not get a workable laser with
554.
by nyolfen 6y ago
in the NSA ANT catalog, writing backdoored HDD firmware was literally an intern project
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by nyolfen 6y ago
white nationalism is the core of contemporary nazism; land has no sentimental attachment to the white race or even people in general, but rather sees intelligence (abstractly) acting via darwinian selection as the agent of history. this is
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by nyolfen 6y ago
citation? land has racist and extreme social-darwinist views but afaik he holds identitarian political movements in contempt, he is more of a nietzschean anti-human trying to usher in a machine god than anything like nazi politics
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by nyolfen 6y ago
years ago, the judge in the video hired a bodyguard to follow him around town (this region is sparsely populated high desert, not unlike fallout), and would have him carry an ornate "chalice" inside his bag to produce on demand wh
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> As a computer science concept it's rather mundane. We know what merkle trees are. a practical, robust solution to a long-standing computer science problem (byzantine generals) that directly results in an entire new branch of compu
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by nyolfen 6y ago
you have a vanishingly small chance of being killed by a police officer if you are unarmed. this is on the order of tens every year in a country of 300m+ people.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
so, arm and fund them?
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by nyolfen 6y ago
irl identities are attack surfaces
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> Why is it that I subconsciously tried hard to prove myself to classmates that I'm an American, but on the other hand, I tried to be as "Asian" as my Asian-American classmates? shared identity is the strongest substrate o
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> Do you honestly think the majority of people who use Robinhood as a broker actually understand how short positions work and why they're driving the price higher? yes, that is the entire reason that this situation began and the rea
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by nyolfen 6y ago
everybody involved knows how this ends, save your paternalistic condescension
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by nyolfen 6y ago
i've been using a 4gb toshiba cb35 with galliumos (chromebook ubuntu flavor) as a daily internet reading device for like six years now, it was $250 when i bought it so it can't be that expensive. i'd recommend swapping out th
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by nyolfen 6y ago
they were probably more likely to end up in finance tbh
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by nyolfen 6y ago
autozone apparently
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by nyolfen 6y ago
for an analogous situation, it would be a car manufacturer that removed some previously-included safety feature, and made the car autopilot against your command when it malfunctioned
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by nyolfen 6y ago
his catalog is available here, i expect it to pop up there as well: https://thoughtmaybe.com/
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by nyolfen 6y ago
>but feminism is about analysing the power dynamic between the _classes_ of 'man' and 'woman'. Any system of class-based power analysis can be abused by supposed adherents to attack _individuals_ in a given class, but

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