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by robryk 3y ago
I'm surprised that making sure the service does not trust the ambassador is not listed in the list of issues to consider.
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by robryk 3y ago
> Are you suggesting his influence still lingers? I think this is a poorly specified question. One can imagine a situation where someone's actions caused a change in a society, which is no longer attributed to him according to popul
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by robryk 3y ago
> I suppose I got a bit carried away originally, but the point is just that - can one truly be well-meaning if he works in such a feature as that of the first example? One way of reading the original statements is that there are many peo
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by robryk 3y ago
> First, in the boom prior to around 2015, most software problems were accessible to a smart generalist, but nowadays I don't think that's true. Teams are more specialized. Do you mean that new areas appeared that require speci
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by robryk 3y ago
How do all the combustion-powered engines prevent their shutdown? Well, they were useful, so we adapted our society to rely on them -- anyone who didn't was outcompeted. Now we can't stop using them or the society falls apart. Thi
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by robryk 3y ago
Consider that your argument could also be used to advocate for safety of starting to use coal-fired steam engines (in 19th century UK): there's no immediate direct problem, but competitive pressures force everyone to use them and any e
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by robryk 3y ago
Having the initial pass specify the public key that it accepts for updates would be sufficient. Having an association with an Apple developer account doesn't help for the updates problem at all AFAICT. The only reason I came up with fo
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by robryk 3y ago
That seems to have energy density lower than even batteries though. When you vaporize LN2, you apparently need 0.2MJ/kg of heat. The amount of mechanical energy you extract out of vaporizing that (when heat is provided by the environme
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by robryk 3y ago
I don't know what the law in California is, but such provisions are not very rare. The reason for them is to deal with e.g. landlords that rent without a written contact, or various complicated fraudulent situations (subletting when th
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by robryk 3y ago
What's the difference that you see between people that had a gap and ones that didn't? I would expect an analogous grouping (struggling to continue working without a break, being in the "groove", just being interested in
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by robryk 3y ago
I think that the reason is that waves only move water close to the surface, and FLIP's drag is centered way below it. It's clear to me how this should reduce rolling and lolling, but am less certain how it should affect bobbing.
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by robryk 3y ago
You'd want the delay between first publication of X and the microcode update making its way into releases of OSes to be smallest, for various values of X (mention of a vulnerability, microcode patch, description of vulnerability, PoC).
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by robryk 3y ago
I think you're missing his point. He does acknowledge that statements of facts and their proofs can be easily communicated, but claims that the understanding their discovery was a side effect of cannot be communicated easily. This is n
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by robryk 3y ago
In the late 80s many people were of a similar opinion about attempts to find extrasolar planets.
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by robryk 3y ago
Note that GP complains not about the request for IP addresses of user X, but the request for IP addresses of anyone who downloaded content uploaded by user X.
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by robryk 3y ago
One can also use ostracism to enforce a rule. I wouldn't classify that as violence.
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by robryk 3y ago
A natural way to cause positive reviews to appear is for landlords to point out the site to tenants. Sadly, this can very easily morph into basically requiring tenants to leave positive reviews (i.e. disadvantaging them until a positive rev
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by robryk 3y ago
It seems to me that the semantics are different: you return the security deposit ~at handover time, while last month's rent is counted as rent for the last month of the stay, so the tenant "gets it back" (in the form of not h
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by robryk 3y ago
But that doesn't limit the rocket size in any way, only the fraction of its mass that can be used for payload. That limit does not depend on total mass of the rocket. Is there something that makes larger rockets less feasible than smal
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by robryk 3y ago
What's the source of the constraint on rocket size that you refer to?
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by robryk 3y ago
If I understand your proposed world correctly (I understand it as morally equivalent to the escrow of ~all keys with k-of-n split across some well-chosen entities/people), I expect a person holding that view to support encryption-by-de
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by robryk 3y ago
See also http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/theory.html
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by robryk 3y ago
> in what way could it meaningfully be described as being private? You can broadcast encrypted statements: https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/#private-m... ~Everyone can tell how many of these you sen
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by robryk 3y ago
But they're not required to obey it, so they ignore it, presumably because they expect that more people will agree if they are annoyed with a dialog by each website they visit.
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by robryk 3y ago
The "everyone carries a smartphone that can talk to various information sources" part was an easy extrapolation of things that already existed in 1994: Motorola Envoy, a ~tablet (well, PDA using parlance from those times) with a w
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by robryk 3y ago
> Look, if people want to encrypt their chats on Telegram, they start a secret chat. That’s how it should be. Why should it be the default? Because you think people are idiots? Because everyone is an idiot once in a while (just after wak
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by robryk 3y ago
> The algorithm is public. It is a straightforward application of well known primitives. It is hardly proprietary. Note that its predecessor, was very much not that (e.g. https://words.filippo.io/dispatches/telegram-
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by robryk 4y ago
So "left blinker bulb" and "right blinker bulb" would be different products?
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by robryk 4y ago
How would the bulb know which one it is?
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by robryk 4y ago
There's always the first time you hear a particular story. There's a continuously increasing mapping from how likely such an event is to when you should expect to hear about it for the first time.

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