saba2008

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by saba2008 5y ago
Chemical factory in the middle of heavily populated area doesn't have to be a bad thing, if it is properly managed and safety systems are operating perfectly.
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by saba2008 5y ago
The sun. Black is both best radiator and best absorber. So it works perfectly in space (where you minimize incoming energy by turning it perpendicular to sun), and not so good on surface. This material works by being reflective in spectrum,
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by saba2008 5y ago
Carboniferous ended 350M years ago. Today lignin is biodegradable and thus does not capture carbon past tree living mass.
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by saba2008 5y ago
It's a long way from bickering to violence, and then even longer journey from fights to wilful and purposeful killing.
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by saba2008 5y ago
Bank of England museum had a holdable gold bar. And yes, cage around it was probably for prevention of body damage, rather than theft.
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by saba2008 5y ago
Limit monthly cash withdrawals to 100 EUR Limit cash currency exchange to 100 EUR (or just outlaw it) Wait for some time Retract cash being mandatory debt settling tender Wait a little more And then pompously declare, that only criminals ne
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by saba2008 5y ago
Registering AppleID involves phone number checking. In some countries getting one without exposing personal information is not trivial.
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by saba2008 5y ago
Idea of some grouping tool, orthogonal to security and account managment, used to store personal preferences/notification settings/social network links sound reasonable. Idea of 'identity for the human' reeks of ghastly
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by saba2008 5y ago
There is also international perspective: once this mechanism is in place, forced by US, it will become normalized in several years. Then China will have much better leverage to implement their own scans. Once China does it, every powerful s
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by saba2008 5y ago
"say something, you have to stand by it." is great when it's against people you don't like. Just don't complain when it comes after you.
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by saba2008 5y ago
Got AEG CCM66400BX (~850 USD at today rate) with mechanical controls, which was my primary requirement.
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by saba2008 5y ago
>isn't really about lacking a trusted-party It's also about minimizing amount of trust to that party. Only thing bitcoin miners are trusted, is determination of correct chronological order of transactions. >smart-contract ap
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by saba2008 5y ago
>simply a policy in some implementations Reversals would mean that there is some authority that can declare arbitrary transaction to be valid or not, and cryptocurrency is exercise in creation of payment system without such trusted part
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by saba2008 5y ago
How is it different from just copy-pasting? It does add some degree of plausible deniability (accidental violation, instead of intentional), but I don't think it would matter much.
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by saba2008 5y ago
Users are not consumers, but product. And untracked users are lower quality, so culling them can be beneficial. So no problem here.
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by saba2008 5y ago
>We've come a long way from the 1970's. And going for a full circle. No more personal computers, just terminals connected to corporate systems, which have full control over data and usage.
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by saba2008 5y ago
I would call it tempered (forced to compromise on it's nicer features, like representation, to save core ones, like turnover of power) rather than failed (when even core features are no longer present). Even if you consider two-party s
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by saba2008 5y ago
> an average person having one username and password/authentication method that works across all services It's a bug, not a feature. It's people throwing away their privacy for convenience. It's proverbial dancing pig
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by saba2008 5y ago
Same way, trusted cash exchange intermediaries. localbitcoins seems to be exactly this. And for bitcoin it is much easier than for traditional systems, as trust only need to cover exchange operation.
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by saba2008 5y ago
Multiparty system has failure mode, when one party balloons in size, either by aggressive use of populist rhetoric (NSDAP) or by merging several smaller parties (United Russia). At this point rest either have to unite (producing two party s
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by saba2008 5y ago
Bitcoin is immune same way as hawala is immune. Regulators can push it underground, but it will still function and provide value, albeit on different scale.
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by saba2008 5y ago
On the other hand, two party system proved to be stable in long term, while ensuring rotation in government.
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by saba2008 5y ago
>Just to deny Roskomnadzor the joy? No, to minimize damage by calming down proverbial monkey with a grenade. Webmail, imap & registration blocking is trivial to avoid. MX servers ending up in some blocklist might cause much more prob
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by saba2008 5y ago
Imagine having employer, who has no qualms about killing people and for whom you are a loose end. You need to be either professional criminal (skill set completely orthogonal to IT, so chance of somebody possessing both at professional leve
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by saba2008 5y ago
'100 Continue' would probably be better example of breaking request/reply flow, as it provides useful functionality and requires non-trivial implementation and compatibility measures. While '408 Request Timeout' is
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by saba2008 5y ago
HTTP/1 simplicity comes not from text nature, but from it's clear concept and limited functionality. At core, it's just request-reply + key-value metadata. Whenever it's text, or binary, it does not matter much. But writ
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by saba2008 5y ago
In Erlang function definitions are '^function_name' in virtually every case.
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by saba2008 5y ago
And if statement is just syntax sugar over goto. After using mostly Erlang for several years, 'if' feels like ugly atavism.
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by saba2008 5y ago
Sybil attack has nothing to do with stealing keys. It's just sending guesses into the network as fast as you can, to maximize chance of your guess ending up as winner.
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by saba2008 5y ago
Please describe scenario, when that 'another dimension of geographic decentralization' has any effect.

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