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by oconnore 9y ago
> in the past, I'd have agreed, but with communication via the Internet making realtime decision-making between all members of a democracy possible, I think direct democracy is theoretically possible at least. Our current issues h
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by oconnore 9y ago
> There is likely a critical mass of volunteers needed - fewer than that and you lose it all. Volunteers... don't cost money. If they were paying people to contribute/edit that would be one thing, but all the money they're
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by oconnore 9y ago
> In the end we all know that the answer is for humans to stop doing this work. We need machine-assisted verification of protocols, preferably tied to the actual source code that implements them. This would ensure that the protocol actua
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by oconnore 9y ago
* is pretty cool but has some issues.
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by oconnore 9y ago
In a world where we measure webpage size in megabytes, why do people consider key size to be so important? I can see TLS caring due to latency, but gpg? I could attach a McEliece quantum 8MB key to every email I ever send, so your "lar
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by oconnore 9y ago
find ... -ok ... {} \; is easier to type than find ... -print0 | xargs -0 -p -I{} ... {}
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by oconnore 9y ago
You would not accidentally type, with your own hands, some string that would attack the parser. People do not actually name their children Robert"); drop table. An SPKI parser + a manual keyboard operated by a trusted user is an incred
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by oconnore 9y ago
Do you normally get up in arms about large scale B2B arrangements? Are you upset that magazines and newspapers collect payment (twice!) from both readers and advertisers?
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by oconnore 9y ago
My argument was practical. Practically I think you will be fine, the title is wrong. I think the fact that many ISPs have local monopolies is not fine. I don't think net neutrality is related to that, and I think we're basically t
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by oconnore 9y ago
Yes, they throttled Netflix and Youtube, two sites that account for ~30% and ~13% of total traffic volume , respectively. This is consistent with what I said.
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by oconnore 9y ago
It would be interesting to go the other way: a politician must give up all property upon entering office, is given a stipend during service, and then is given a reasonably generous "retirement" package upon leaving. Assume obvious
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by oconnore 9y ago
Do you want an FTC antitrust case? Because this is how you get an FTC antitrust case...
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by oconnore 9y ago
No ISP is going to stop rural Montanaians from looking up Yelp reviews or visiting obscure ferret jousting fan pages. No one is even going to throttle video streaming, unless the ISP can demonstrate that the bandwidth consumed times some sm
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by oconnore 9y ago
This is a straw man. We're talking about video streaming. Comcast/Verizon want a cut of your video streaming business. That's it. Ethical or not, this is not a practical issue for new companies.
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by oconnore 9y ago
Starting a web business is already massively cheaper than in any other industry, and that won't change anytime soon. Your innovation is not going to fail because you have to pay extra money for bandwidth -- you're probably already
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by oconnore 9y ago
"The internet" or "the web" is already dead, in the sense that most people use a handful of sites run by a handful of large companies. The internet could essentially be a native app run by a corporate governing body and
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by oconnore 9y ago
The article is trying so hard it's hard to tell what the actual issue is. It is dangerous to backfeed the grid -- you may kill the line worker coming to fix a blown transformer or downed line. In some places a grid connection is cons
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by oconnore 9y ago
> "wait for the scientists to fix it [while slashing scientific research budgets]"
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by oconnore 9y ago
I think the issue is that many people see monopolies as a good thing, as long as they are not being very blatantly abusive (and especially if you can say, "well look, they only control 80+% of the market!"). Examples: Thiel, Fri
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by oconnore 9y ago
Borg is amazing, except for the lack of public key encryption, which makes it unusable: https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/issues/672
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by oconnore 9y ago
IRV voting in Maine, automatic districting to prevent gerrymandering, and reliable voting schemes like Scratch and Vote.
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by oconnore 9y ago
I don't think it has to do with imagining the solutions, but with avoiding the power issues that come when people try to take baby steps at scale, and overcoming the "efficiency holes" where people have found good enough loca
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by oconnore 9y ago
I'm pretty sure that parking minimums, zoning, and minimum ft^2 are just thinly veiled NIMBY tactics, not a separate thing.
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by oconnore 9y ago
I use blurays to store "archived" files that I don't actively edit: music, pictures, book reports from high school, etc. Then the usual btrfs send/receive tricks.
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by oconnore 9y ago
I'm saying that with dynamic pricing grid loads no longer have to be noise. Everyone can charge, heat, clean when energy is cheap/available.
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by oconnore 9y ago
But so much of the demand is flexible. For example, I get zero benefit from heating my water tank at a particular time. Building grid storage so I can run my heat pump when it's dark and the air is still is inefficient and silly.
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by oconnore 9y ago
If they priced residential power in line with real market rates (in this case negative), I suspect this would not be a problem for long. But we need smart meters first. I would love to be able to have my heat pump run during steep discoun
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by oconnore 9y ago
We should stop hiring vaccine researchers that actually want to cure diseases.
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by oconnore 9y ago
I think that's still called a conspiracy theory, but maybe with more supporting evidence than "aliens stole Waymo lidar".
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by oconnore 9y ago
Tipping exists because employers (in this case Uber) don't pay enough. Not tipping once you are already stuck with that system doesn't solve anything, but expanding that system makes things worse.

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