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by philh 9y ago
"No you are seeing me state that is a violation of Freedom of Speech and jump the erroneous conclusion that I desire some kind of law, or legal penalty for that violation. I do not."
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by philh 9y ago
The London bedsit I lived in a few years ago didn't have one, I had to use the nearby laundromat. (Aside: as it turns out, I didn't know how washing machines worked, and I spent like a year washing my clothes without soap before t
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by philh 9y ago
(I know you're being tongue-in-cheek, but) > our computer might compute the correct answer but then just throw out the 9th bit, giving us zero (0000 0000) instead of 257 (1 0000 0000)!
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by philh 9y ago
I don't suggest putting in enough money to risk insolvency. If you're confident that the decline will happen in, say, five years, then I expect you could buy a few put options and make some healthy profit.
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by philh 9y ago
> It's coming. I take it you plan to short the stock, to take advantage of what you know that the market doesn't?
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by philh 9y ago
So I think I've been pretty clear that I've been taking about what peteretep originally said versus what you think he originally said. E.g. "I'm accusing you of accusing peteretep of..." And I think you've been
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by philh 9y ago
> His position was that any punishment of false claims was "putting off" victims from making real claims. Not true. He was replying to a post that said "False accusations should be punished with the same penalty as the acc
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by philh 9y ago
> Are you honestly going to claim that his description of "putting off victims" advocates for no position? No specific policy, certainly. There are many policies consistent with what he said. I gave one already; another would b
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by philh 9y ago
Dropping the "proven" thread because it's not what I want to focus on. > Or maybe you think I'm deliberately avoiding taking an object-level position. > If he's against charging fraudsters You're still tu
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by philh 9y ago
> Every widely publicized false accusation (Duke lacrosse rape, etc) causes hundreds or perhaps even thousands of real rapists to go free and rape more people This seems like almost certainly an exaggeration, and I think an unhelpful one
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by philh 9y ago
> I guess you can say it's not needed but then again what is? There's a difference between "not needed" in the sense that I don't need a calculator when I have an abacus, and "not needed" in the sense t
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by philh 9y ago
I'm not interested in talking about your claim. I'm talking about how you replied to someone else's claim. > That claim is provably false. I explained why, using examples. No you didn't. You gave some examples where t
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by philh 9y ago
It looks like the BSA accepts LGBTQ members (or at least GBTQ) as of recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy_Scouts_of_America_membersh...
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by philh 9y ago
> the prevalence of suicide is actually higher among rape victims than for people sentenced to long prison sentences. I would guess this is confounded by the difficulty of committing suicide in prison? (Attempts might be less confounded,
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by philh 9y ago
The claim was a descriptive one: "This policy has this bad side effect." You seem to have taken it as a prescriptive one: "We should do the exact opposite of this policy, as hard as we can."
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by philh 9y ago
Even if the name references Veritaserum, Veritaserum isn't particularly associated with scams. Far more likely they'd be trying to associate with its truth-finding properties. The quoted line is amusing, but no more.
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by philh 9y ago
I didn't say corporations make better software than open source. I said that if I had only a single piece of information that's the prediction I'd make. I have opinions about to what extent my counterfactual prediction is c
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by philh 9y ago
> But go ahead, keep drinking the Kool-Aid. This was unnecessary.
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by philh 9y ago
> With only that in mind you can predict what will happen in most of the cases. With just this information and no other, I think I'd predict corporations to make better software than open source. I take it that's not what you h
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by philh 9y ago
Under US law, I think that's probably true, but a) it's not what I was talking about, and b) I don't think you should be as confident as you seem to be.
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by philh 9y ago
...passwords that might be reused for the email addresses, and paypal, and... A web app might not touch real money, but a leak can still have real money consequences for the users.
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by philh 9y ago
By giving something to someone. I mean, legally, what happens is not "consenting to theft". Unlike say assault, which you can consent to, and legally speaking an assault actually happens but consent makes it okay; but with theft,
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by philh 9y ago
Do you have to commit to one or the other? Or could you transfer out from the paper wallet on both chains?
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by philh 9y ago
> Yes because that would still be a crime. Expanding on your analogy - if I declare right now that it's ok to murder me, it's still not ok to come and murder me. The comparison to murder doesn't work because you can't
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by philh 9y ago
The kinesis is expensive. It's worth it for lots of people, but not everyone. And it's hard to say whether it'll be worth it for you without buying one. (They have a return policy, but a lot of people are going to be unwill
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by philh 9y ago
I was wondering about that. I had two thoughts, neither of which I'm confident is very significant: - Finding and downloading the file is more work than just monitoring a set of bitcoin wallets. If the file gets leaked multiple times,
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by philh 9y ago
What does that get you? If I understand correctly, I don't think the content owner finds out who uses the private key. They find out that the key has been used, which normally means that someone leaked the file to a pirate, and tells t
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by philh 9y ago
> I think we all remember that 6 month period where Microsoft decided to shove VSCode down every ones throat. Not me. I don't remember hearing about VSCode until a few months back. I had no idea it was first released two years ago.
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by philh 9y ago
> it's obvious there are organized efforts to push specific narratives or point of view. It's not obvious to me, at least, that these are organized.
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by philh 9y ago
Note that the term "Dutch auction" is overloaded, but in this case the article specifies: > Often called a "Dutch" auction, this type of sale allows any investor—institution or individual—to put in a bid over the Web

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