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by pdkl95 9y ago
Corporations are a "special power" granted by the government by definition .
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Tactical. It's obviously a metaphor for civil unrest in general, but he is serious about the danger of living in e.g. the Hamptons while pretending unrest isn't actually a problem. At some point people will come for your head. In
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by pdkl95 9y ago
They literally don't live in the same reality the rest of us live in. In the above talk[3], Blyth mentions how someone geolocated every mentioned location in the infamous Podesta emails released by WikiLeaks. The most frequent location
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Mark Blyth[1] has a simple warning: "It is a no win scenario until basically until elites figure out that at the end of the day, as I like to say to my American hedge fund friends, the Hamptons is not a defensible position. The Hampton
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> companies reacting negatively to unions Yes, that's the intended result. Each side has to fight for their own goals. The resulting competition is what limits each side from gaining too much power.
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> special state powers Like the limited liability granted to corporations ?
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Unions (or similar labor organizations) are not only a universal good, capitalism only works when ^both* labor and capital keep each other restrained. The problems start when either side is allowed to "win". Power always needs
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Last I checked, a majority (plurality?) of peaking power plants[1] burn natural gas. When demand increases enough, the base load[2] increases and more power plants are added to the grid. The grid is not a battery ; generated power in is al
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by pdkl95 9y ago
And if anybody questions Vi's musical skill, they should see her ode to the crazy snail: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCoxtPy1sIuJG6ydafT1m... part 1 is brief exposition part 2 is an impressive gospel-style
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by pdkl95 9y ago
An app would need an environment to run in, but the main CPU/etc may not be available if the recovery process involves removing chips or other hardware modifications. A better idea would be to put an RTC + watchdog timer[1] into the se
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> ga('set', 'anonymizeIp', true); Note that this doesn't actually provide any useful anonymization. That feature is a placebo designed to give minimal compliance with privacy policies and pre-GDPR data protecti
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> my primary source of linus news comes from articles It's easy to fall into survivorship bias[1] when "news" is your only exposure to a topic. You are only seeing the extreme events that were "newsworthy". >
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> First microwave had a rotary control Reminds me of the old "ha-ha-only-serious" joke about how a computer scientist would design a toaster: http://www.fiction.net/tidbits/computer/computer_cs_toaster
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Uncertainty principle? It's not about quantum. (3Blue1Brown)(youtube.com)
8 points by pdkl95 9y ago|0 comments
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> Does Snapchat not have any user feedback This is the most important lesson for any service that depends on a community of users for survival: involve them in the update process, or you will scare them away. Even if the new version is
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> you're trying to explain lisp using lisp You may prefer this[1] explanation that uses XML (ant) to explain the basic idea. [1] http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
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by pdkl95 9y ago
It's even worse if software is involved. Radio controlled heart implants that rely on security through obscurity is tragedy waiting to happen. I recommend Karen Sandler's talk about her own experiences with that kind of device. h
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by pdkl95 9y ago
I very highly recommend this[1] outstanding analysis of Black Mirror. It's short, it explores how Black Mirror fits in the history of sci-fi, and is one of the most concise explanations of the root cause of this kind of "tech
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Von Neumann Architecture – Computerphile (ft. Prof. Brailsford)(youtube.com)
2 points by pdkl95 9y ago|1 comments
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> HTML cannot perform 90% of what JS is used for Yes, that's the goal. > Angular ... directives/functions HTML is a document format, not an application framework. My entire point is that complexity cannot be made safe . Rep
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by pdkl95 9y ago
I never said it was the browser's UI. Regardless of which UI, you do not know people are using their computer for, or how much free CPU they have available. My friend's 1.2Ghz Core 2 Solo[1] laptop takes many seconds to reload
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> So have predefined, approved functions that achieve 90% of required functionality, who's composition may not be TC. Aka declarative configuration, which we have already: HTML. Define new tags for if necessary. > Anything custom
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> Most of the problems with the modern web stem from the failure of browser vendors to implement a good user-centric permissions model. I suggest that such creating a proper permission model isn't possible , because it isn't p
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> Has it though? I have personally succeeded in convincing more people to disable javascript in the last few months than I have since Javascript was introduced in Netscape Navigator 2.0 . > this assumption? I'm offering personal
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by pdkl95 9y ago
The increased use of browser mining has made it a lot easier to convince people to globally disable Javascript (or install noscript/etc). Security concerns are rarely convincing, and tracking can be hard to explain, but paying for more
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> any app can subscribe to events of any other app Yes, that's a feature I have used many times in the past. If you want to sandbox an app, run it through a nested X server.
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by pdkl95 9y ago
I, the user , do that. It's not the app's responsibility.
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> compiled applications A lot of HN comments dismissed my prediction[1] that WebAssembly will bring opaque "compiled applications" that treat the canvas as a "standard pixel buffer", allowing adblocking CSS and reques
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by pdkl95 9y ago
> still adds up in a hurry Never mind the wake word; a noise gate (which is a trivial computation locally in either hardware[1] or software) means we are not talking about [every second of every day]. I'm sure Amazon/whomever
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by pdkl95 9y ago
Normalizing the use of always-on microphones in previously "private" areas (such as the home) such that people expect that their voice might be recorded and transmitted to a 3rd party removes the warrant requirement for the po

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