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by rmtech 7y ago
I don't think this is an important distinction. In both cases there mere existence of the technology helps both good and bad parties to achieve their aims, that is all that matters.
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by rmtech 7y ago
By pretty much the same argument strong encryption cannot work because governments would prefer it not to exist; terrorists and rogue states can use encryption, and it is not technically possible to build encryption that "only works fo
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by rmtech 7y ago
> You know, the “currency” problems and not the “crypto” problems. You seem to be looking for fiat currency, that already exists. The point of cryptocurrency is that not everyone wants fiat, some people place more of a priority on certai
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by rmtech 7y ago
> 2. How do we stop payments to international terrorists and rogue states. We should definitely build a technical system that stops payments to terrorists but allows payments to freedom fighters; that stops payments to rogue states but a
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by rmtech 7y ago
Comments like this help the scammers.
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by rmtech 7y ago
> Agreed, but the average Joe with fight you tooth and nail. charging for road use is the only way to decrease congestion. Neither building roads nor closing them will reduce congestion. Traffic congestion follows a pareto principle. The
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by rmtech 7y ago
> Were it not for the roads, the people would live in denser development All other things being equal, without the roads people simply wouldn't have a place to live at all and would have to live and work somewhere else. See e.g. th
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by rmtech 7y ago
I think you're committing a fallacy here related to demand for transportation. The goal of building new transportation infrastructure is to provide more transport services and to reduce congestion. As a matter of fact, there is huge la
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by rmtech 7y ago
They got the Golden State Killer without a warrant. They took a cup he had drank from and then discarded. The key was that the DNA of his relatives led them to him. Once you are in that position, you are already done.
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by rmtech 7y ago
That wouldn't work. If you are already a suspect, the police will retest you, not rely on what's on the database. What you actually want to do is send your own DNA in someone else's name - preferably someone who is demographi
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by rmtech 7y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the reasons for free speech. As soon as some entity gets a license to start banning speech, you have given bad ideas an advantage over good ones. This is because a bad memeplex can co-opt the censorship
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by rmtech 7y ago
> VB6/MUMPS stack That sounds like a medical condition. And after looking into the MUMPS language, I can see why they named it after a disease!
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by rmtech 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that all of those views were censored because they were immoral according to the dominant ideology of the day, and in every case it would have been argued that this time the censorship was good because the dominant ideo
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by rmtech 7y ago
> in all the hotly debated discussions I had, I found anything of value in the person being censored I think history is a better guide because we can more clearly see what was valuable. Things that were censored in the past: * Heliocentr
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by rmtech 7y ago
They should pay the military decent money. And he should have found a legal way to make more money, and he also should have been in control of his wife's spending (easier said than done in the modern age though...). Selling the weapons
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by rmtech 7y ago
yeah, this is unreadable on mobile.
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by rmtech 7y ago
Just for fun I checked my spam folder as I read this. I found an important email (from 3 days ago) from a recruiter asking for my CV in it. Yeah, Google's spam has erred too far towards making false positive errors.
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by rmtech 7y ago
yes, it's clear that he has some unorthodox views, though all of them are backed by a degree of logic that most people don't apply to these things. I wouldn't personally touch any of these topics. Too controversial, no gain.
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by rmtech 7y ago
And that's why you should never buy Apple. It's not your iphone/ipad/Macbook, it's Tim's iphone/ipad/Macbook that he deigns to let you use, but only at his pleasure and only to do what he thinks i
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by rmtech 7y ago
Can anyone recommend an intro to Haskell for me? ~4 years of Python experience and a math background. Ideally something online/interactive ...
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by rmtech 7y ago
I don't think the thing about false positives is actually true, though obviously it will depend on how good the crime scene sample is, and on how good the police are at their jobs.
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by rmtech 7y ago
Got a reference for ioannidis on this topic specifically?
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by rmtech 7y ago
The US system is such a mess. It's supposed to be a free market, and yet the middlemen and the doctors are arguing about who should set the prices. Guys, this is not how capitalism is supposed to work. Imagine this model in any other s
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by rmtech 7y ago
Someone should introduce a language feature - maybe a decorator - where arguments have to be called by name. @mustnameparams copy(str from, str to) copy(from = "blah", to = "hrg") > works copy("blah
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by rmtech 7y ago
Yeah, I think it should be solved in both places TBH. Defense in depth. But it won't happen because people are dumb and don't care about the issue until the exact moment it bites. This basically applies to every security problem:
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by rmtech 7y ago
Being serious, I don't think waiting 72 hours for a SIM number port is an inconvenience. IF you lose your phone & SIM inside it, you need to go to the store anyway, or have a new phone sent by post (takes a few days usually). One o
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by rmtech 7y ago
There are still ways to make the system more secure. For example, you have to physically go to a store to port the number unless you have the old SIM. Then it's not done immediately - there's a 72 hour period in which multiple tex
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because they let you use the phone number to reset the password
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by rmtech 7y ago
Well why are you allowed to make phone calls that appear to come from somewhere they don't come from? Furthermore, why do police feel obligated to respond to a phonecall that could be fake but not to a tweet, email, IM, etc? The system
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What does UK law say on the subject?

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