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601.
by rlt 6y ago
I wonder if you could block unknown DoH endpoints via traffic analysis. They probably have pretty unique signatures, with every request/response being approximately the same size. Not that I want to give anyone ideas.
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by rlt 6y ago
Ok, but I was asking about a single space laser vs a single fiber, not the theoretical limits of many of them. Space is pretty big, lasers are pretty narrowly focused, and not many people have lasers in space yet.
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by rlt 6y ago
Why couldn’t intersatellite laser links have similar capacity to fiber? In principle, if not practice? Is it because ISLs will require more powerful lasers because the light is focused through a lens instead of guided through a fiber?
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by rlt 6y ago
Or just lottery tickets, which are mostly purchased by low income folks, and legal/state-sponsored, no less.
605.
by rlt 6y ago
If it’s equally likely, I’ll gladly take half as many pandemics by eliminating one source of them.
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by rlt 6y ago
What? Of course it matters. If it was accidentally released from a lab, those responsible should be held accountable so it’s less likely to happen again. If it was intentionally released, it’s even more important to know by who and why.
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by rlt 6y ago
I mean, if you say “don’t ever trust” an entire race/sex, then yeah, by definition you are racist/sexist.
608.
by rlt 6y ago
> This research creates deadly diseases that may not have existed otherwise. This seems like a supremely bad idea.
609.
by rlt 6y ago
What crimes are you referring to, and are you saying they should continue to be crimes? “Aroused” states, touching, exposing to specific individuals, etc seem like pretty obvious lines. I think most people can tell the difference between “b
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by rlt 6y ago
Would you work at a Big Tobacco company post ~1990s? Because that’s how a large portion of the population now sees Facebook.
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by rlt 6y ago
How much, and how large, are typical new houses?
612.
by rlt 6y ago
Sure, depending on your definition of “basic”: npm i express node -e ‘require(“express”)().get(“/“, (req, res) => res.end(“hello world!”)).listen(3000)’
613.
by rlt 6y ago
You just like trolling Elon fans, don’t you?
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by rlt 6y ago
Maybe they shouldn’t make Amber Alerts preempt Do Not Disturb then fewer people would disable them. It’s unlikely anyone woken up by an Amber Alert would be useful in that moment. At least defer it until they turn off Do Not Disturb.
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by rlt 6y ago
Sorry, you are clueless. Yes, some aspects of his personality are obnoxious, but he’s built multiple companies that have delivered real innovation, his customers are largely happy, and I’m sure his engineers don’t care how much credit he ta
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by rlt 6y ago
A Raspberry Pi is extreme, but again, I’m not talking about a few block size doublings. “Visa scale” is on the order of 1000x Bitcoin’s current capacity. The other argument I’m familiar with is longer block propagation times lead to more or
617.
by rlt 6y ago
I’m not ideological about this, but I don’t understand how it’s not obvious to anyone technical that Bitcoin can’t simply keep increasing block size to meet global/mainstream demand for payments without eventually sacrificing decentral
618.
by rlt 6y ago
Soon enough this will be used to block other kinds of "unsafe" sites containing dangerous things like "hate speech".
619.
by rlt 6y ago
There was speculation Starlink could be used for HFT once it gets laser links, but this would even beat that since you don't need to travel up and down an extra 500 miles, plus any buffering in the satellites. Starlink would have more
620.
by rlt 6y ago
I believe you are thinking of the term “assault weapon”, which was a term invented to help ban semi-automatic military-style rifles, that arguably aren’t significantly deadlier than other less scary looking semi-automatic rifles, but are po
621.
by rlt 6y ago
I didn’t mention AWS.
622.
by rlt 6y ago
> If folks don’t like companies that, in their opinion, unreasonably restrict speech, then I suggest they vote with their dollars, their attention, and maybe their work (via competitors). Like Gab and Parler! Oh wait... I generally agree
623.
by rlt 6y ago
> treatment of BLM protestors How many BLM protestors were shot and killed by police? I’m genuinely curious, as I’m not aware of any.
624.
by rlt 6y ago
Are you aware an unarmed white woman was shot and killed by police at the capitol that day? Yes, on average black folks are treated more unfairly than white folks by police, but exaggerated claims like “the cops would have iced every one of
625.
by rlt 6y ago
It’s pretty bizarre to (in the same sentence) imply Uber is “exploiting” gig workers, and also self-driving taxis eliminating that “exploitation” is a good thing for them.
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by rlt 6y ago
> human eyes are so superior to any existing camera technology that it is hard to compare them Not in every respect. Cameras can have a wider field of view, they can see wavelengths humans can’t, and of course you can have more than two,
627.
by rlt 6y ago
Are “good” human drivers an order of magnitude better than “average” human drivers? Because that’s where I put my bar: marginally better than “good”, an order of magnitude better than “average”.
628.
by rlt 6y ago
Or maybe some people don’t like being packed into cities like sardines, and America has plenty of land?
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by rlt 6y ago
Elon believes LiDAR is unnecessary and I’m inclined to believe him. After all, humans have exactly two “cameras”, while Teslas already have many more cameras, radar, and ultrasonic sensors.
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by rlt 6y ago
If Tesla can prove riding in their autonomous cars is an order of magnitude safer than human operated cars then it would be unethical to not allow them to switch on full autonomy.

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