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by rmtech 7y ago
It's pretty amazing that modern browsers don't flag .com. as a scam. Is there any legitimate use for addresses like this? It's also amazing that email software doesn't highlight fake link texts. There should be a rule
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by rmtech 7y ago
Browsers should flag .com. It's pretty unbelievable that in 2020 your browser just les this through
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by rmtech 7y ago
You could have some digital technology that allows a person to credibly prove that they own a particular property, that is resistant to hacking techniques. Alternatively you could have a legal rule that requires the seller to turn up in per
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by rmtech 7y ago
Why can't nuclear be scaled beyond 1TW?
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by rmtech 7y ago
True. Though this is a minor benefit, considering the risks we will be incurring for it. It's like warming your hands on the flames as your house burns down.
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by rmtech 7y ago
> an AI-powered State, with fewer and fewer people at the top in control, or maybe no one really in control, not even the leaders, perpetuating itself against all competing organized thought Yeah, this is a serious risk. I don't qui
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by rmtech 7y ago
yes but the state is not run by normal people.
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by rmtech 7y ago
Pervasive surveillance data relating to a suspect could be turned over to the defence and could be used to exonerate the innocent. More Surveillance will probably lead to more accurate enforcement of laws, all else equal.
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by rmtech 7y ago
This made me wonder, what are the benefits of this kind of technology? Suppose you had a way to know all this stuff about people; what could you do with it that would actually be good? China has a social credit score system and apparently t
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by rmtech 7y ago
> Why can't we have self driving buses that replace trams? Why can't we have both, and sizes in between, and then dispatch whichever vehicle size is most appropriate for the situation?
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by rmtech 7y ago
Self-driving cars, vans and buses are better than mass transit that operates on fixed lines and schedules in nearly every respect, including energy use. Mass transit on fixed routes is a fossil and it will increasingly be phased out in favo
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by rmtech 7y ago
Look, from the point of view of a passenger, the best transport system goes: - where you want, - when you want, - carrying what you want, - as fast - and as safely as possible, - at the lowest cost possible. Trains are weak on multiple axes
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by rmtech 7y ago
They're not as good as the best, but they're a lot better than the worst countries for trains. The train network is also fairly thorough in its coverage of the country. I think it's a good representative example (not best, no
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by rmtech 7y ago
I don't drink, but it is very, very inconvenient if your activities are constrained by the train timetable. Much better to have a car available and be able to travel when you want to. Of course sometimes you dont want to travel late or
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by rmtech 7y ago
Nowadays I live in a city with a tram system, trains to other larger cities and bike lanes. If you are going from one city centre to another, during the day, the train is the best choice. If you are moving within a bike-friendly city, bike
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by rmtech 7y ago
Keto + regular gym works better than anything else to get a man into shape quickly. If you care about that a lot for some reason, then you should do keto and let the "experts" talk to the hand. It might be bad for your heart/
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by rmtech 7y ago
Trains kind of suck though. I used them a lot in the UK because I didn't have a car. The UK has an OK train network. The problem with trains is that they are very, very inconvenient for most journeys. Sunday evening? forget it. After 1
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by rmtech 7y ago
There are some, many even, instances where the kind of fraudulent modifications you might want to do could not realistically be done at the time the page is saved, but could be done at a later date. So for that, it's useful.
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by rmtech 7y ago
What was the expectation from skeptics? 0?
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by rmtech 7y ago
> Imagine a virus that looks for Sonos devices on a network and bricks them all via "recycle mode"! This would be an incredible public service. Unfortunately I don't have the skills to do it so I won't.
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by rmtech 7y ago
> It mostly makes moderation (or censorship) impossible. Making total censorship impossible is mostly congruent with the goals of society in my opinion. Censorship has done immense damage, e.g. Lysenkoism in the USSR (to pick a particula
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by rmtech 7y ago
> How is decentralized twitter supposed to solve misinformation? There will be a space where different people and organizations can build filters that rate information for veracity and other traits. Over time these filters will develop a
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by rmtech 7y ago
This is a crime against sanity
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by rmtech 7y ago
nicely done
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by rmtech 7y ago
For now, but remember that crypto essentially doesn't work at the moment because of scaling problems
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by rmtech 7y ago
Just looked on Google play, it has a 3.5/5 star rating, multiple people saying the app doesn't work with international numbers and that they got cancelled at the last minute. Uber has a 4.0/5 star rating Lyft is 3.9/5
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by rmtech 7y ago
Is it any good? Is it price competitive with Uber?
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by rmtech 7y ago
> This is why tumblers aren’t likely to be used by most people I think that the ZK (ZCash, AZTEC, etc) technology will solve this problem and we will be back to the case where the government wants to make the technology itself go away.
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by rmtech 7y ago
I do know what fiat means, and my meaning in this context is government-issued fiat such as dollars, pounds, euros, etc, though I think that was pretty clear to everyone else!
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by rmtech 7y ago
I willingly concede that legacy/fiat money is better at stopping bad people/criminals/terrorists etc from having access to money.

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