rcxdude

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721.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Just say your point instead of dancing around it.
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
So does any effect as well, though.
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
Correlation is not causation but it's a pretty good idea to start with how blindingly obvious differences in brains affected with the disease might be related with the disease. There's also evidence that it precedes the symptoms o
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
Eastern Europe is not Russia and Russia does not automatically get a say in what Eastern Europe does because they are nearby. Russia seems to believe it is entitled to a sphere of influence. That the US does a milder version of what they&#x
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
Heat pumps have gotten a lot better, you need a pretty extreme climate for them to start to struggle, even the air-source ones. (And PV works well enough in the UK for it to be a no-brainer to put on residentials roofs, which is on the whol
726.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
>and they don't have any uncurious attack dogs willing to defend their narrative-busting results. Well, they seem to have some champions here...
727.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Only if you enjoy lawsuits, though.
728.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Yeah, it's a frequent target of the naturalistic fallacy. But to me the most honest criticism of it is not liking the taste. Health-wise, almost certainly better than the sugar it's replacing.
729.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Which is why power is much more complex than brute force. Sheer physical or military power is not the be-all and end-all, just a facet of the total picture (and in fact, social creatures that humans are, even just adversarial aspects of pow
730.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Because significantly less of the money you pay goes to the person who wrote the book.
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
As far as I understand it, people looking for oil using theories that oil is formed from organic processes have had significantly more success than people looking for oil using inorganic theories, and not for lack of trying on the latter si
732.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
AI seems to be full of these kinds of circular deals. It's one reason to be wary of the financials of the business.
733.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Swapping does help reduce the high peak power demands that fast charging has. There's limited places where you can get the infrastructure to install a bank of chargers capable of this kind of speed (though, one potential approach is ha
734.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Outer wilds definitely has stressful parts (it is also a horror game even though it doesn't wear the normal aesthetics of one), but generally the time pressure is not a major issue: the game even pauses while you're reading text s
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
IIRC the one of the first times a group put timelines to a fusion reactor they had time vs funding level of something like 20 years/50 years/never, and the funding level that actually materialised was below the 'never' a
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
I don't think you understand the point of the OTP and why it can't be brute forced: for any possible output, there is a corresponding one-time key. So you have no way to tell if the key you have come up with is correct, you can &#
737.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
The whole point is that RSA and ECDH can't be made safe against quantum computers by making the keys bigger. The speedup is exponential and so breaking a 4096-bit key is only twice as hard as a 2048-bit key. The 'cutting in keysiz
738.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Is it? I've generally understood that most symmetric cryptography like AES is safe. QC only gives exponential speedups on some specific problems. The most is that naively you might want to double your keysize to get the same protection
739.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
1) It takes a long time to change cryptography standards, and cryptography also generally needs to provide some forward secrecy: i.e. you would like that something you encrypt today is safe for some time afterwards. This means the timelines
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
There's already some pretty comprehensive bans on smoking in places where it could affect other people. I don't really encounter cigarette smoke in my day-to-day life.
741.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
That's a different in the harm, not a difference in the effectiveness of prohibition. In fact, the more addictive the substance, the less effective I would expected prohibition to be (and the more ancillary harms to result, especially
742.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
Smoking is already banned in public spaces and workplaces. It's pretty rare to be in a room with someone smoking unless they're friends or family.
743.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
At a certain level of abstraction, yes.
744.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
When there's severe downsides to an measure to try to improve something else, the efficacy of it matters. This isn't about the app specifically, it's about the requirement for this kind of verification in the first place.
745.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
This still gives your bank a pretty good idea of what websites you are visiting though. It should not need to know this with modern cryptography.
746.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
That's only an issue if getting the proof involves somehow identifying the service you are sending it to. If it's a generic 'send me a proof' it's not necessarily a problem, though of course it would be better if yo
747.
by rcxdude 6mo ago
The goal would be that neither the verification service nor the service you are verifying with can link the connection: the verification service can't tell which service you are connecting to, and the service you are verifying your age
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
Yeah, there's just so many microorganisms (and some evolve so quickly) it would basically be impossible to really enumerate the species.
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
You always get people screaming about 'it should have been encrypted!' when there's a leak without understanding what encryption can and can't do in principle and in practice (it most certainly isn't a synonym for &
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by rcxdude 6mo ago
They would still exist in plaintext, just the permissions would make it a little harder to access.

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