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571.
by praptak 3y ago
They got the private jets for actually solving this problem (then). Too bad they don't seem interested in keeping it solved.
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by praptak 3y ago
If your behaviour can be predicted then you don't have free will. Obviously you can argue whether this really predicts human behaviour or even the above implication itself (for example I think compatibilism kinda disagrees with it) but
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by praptak 3y ago
TBH missing estimates also didn't do me any harm. That's why I'm always tempted to agree... and then ignore all pressure to deliver. "Your estimate, your problem"
574.
by praptak 3y ago
> At a large corporation, that's the manager. Definitely not at FAANG. One day you are told your product is super important, the next day it gets destaffed and your manager is as confused about this as you are. On the other end of t
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by praptak 3y ago
I misunderstood assert as part of the protocol, i.e. the latter.
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by praptak 3y ago
TCP asserts on received data, so I guess GP really meant reliable message queues. They generally assert after commit to disk.
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by praptak 3y ago
Note it says "most" and "probably". Evening news grade stuff is still admissible if it fits the "On Topic" conditions.
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by praptak 3y ago
But Airbnb is a giant globo-monopoly. So the actual choice isnt between globo-monopolies and small business. It's between monopolies that don't spread bed bugs and one that does.
579.
by praptak 3y ago
This does not explain the existence of evil.
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by praptak 3y ago
There is more than shock value though. Note that the artist herself did not do anything shocking. Without the public she'd just sit there for 6 hours and probably get bored.
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by praptak 3y ago
Did US do anything about the same stuff?
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by praptak 3y ago
I think GP point is that it's not the only country where this could not happen.
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by praptak 3y ago
It does get abused a bit. OTOH the courts are not that eager to side against civil liberties.
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by praptak 3y ago
This could happen in Poland too. Offending religious feelings or a place of cult can get you up to 2 years in jail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offending_religious_feelings_(...
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by praptak 3y ago
No. I mean technically yes but this wouldn't solve the actual problem: mass human communication at scale. Usenet was a decent shot at this problem but it lost to other solutions. Yes, all the current solutions are pretty bad but they a
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by praptak 3y ago
Christopher Alexander, the architect whose work on architecture sparked the software Design Patterns philosophy/movement, also tackled this problem. He obviously didn't focus on software but rather approached this problem from the
587.
by praptak 3y ago
Focusing on deployments is too narrow. Deployment can be automatic but still have a botched config. In this context it's more useful to think in terms of production principles. The principle that was poorly followed was defence in dept
588.
by praptak 3y ago
I see the same problem with this article. Speculation on how climate change could breed new pathogens and then a list of new (or newly discovered) pathogens. What's missing is evidence for causality.
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by praptak 3y ago
"Casadevall has argued that C. auris is an example of just the sort of warming-induced adaptation he predicted. In a paper published in the journal mBio, he and two colleagues posited that the fungus has always been out there; only re
590.
by praptak 3y ago
Maybe it's not very lightweight but pretty customizable, just like Emacs.
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by praptak 3y ago
We found out that this is no longer the case since hardware can contain software which just prevents the "owner" from replacing a part. On top of this manufacturers abuse copyright laws to prevent "owners" from tinkering
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by praptak 3y ago
Knowing some facts and knowing the truth are different things. I'd say "factual but not truthful" is rigorous enough for a quip.
593.
by praptak 3y ago
Obviously the System can locate the terminal and direct all neighboring IoT devices to attack. Hack the wrong machine and your toster reassembles itself into a killer bot that tries to zap you.
594.
by praptak 3y ago
There is one pro-decoupling argument to be made wrt the Chinese-owned factory outside China. This factory while owned by China is not under Chinese jurisdiction. If China pulls a Putin this factory is much harder for them to switch off as p
595.
by praptak 3y ago
> not leech on society by renting All income from capital is renting.
596.
by praptak 3y ago
The train stops that are mounted on the tracks ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_stop ) can be used to arbitrarily stop trains. This is obviously much less practical for the attacker.
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by praptak 3y ago
GP point is that encryption would add a layer of things that can fail, to a system where a false negative is extremely costly.
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by praptak 3y ago
Up until a point anyone with a knife could hijack a plane and fly it into a building.
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by praptak 3y ago
This hack is publicly known since at least 2010, here's a police note about the earliest case I found (in Polish): https://policja.pl/pol/aktualnosci/56015,quotRadioamatorquot...
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by praptak 3y ago
I don't believe there was any intention to deliver a message to future humans (except maybe "don't rob this grave or else") when they were built. Or at least we don't have any evidence for that.

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