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by samhw 5y ago
There’s a reason I’m saying ‘digital cash’. I carry no water for current cryptocurrencies or blockchains. I’m interested in the goal , not any implementation (and what frustrates me about these crypto stans is their ego fixation on the imp
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, Arpanet was definitely a wide-area network, but the Internet Protocol was standardised in '82 and that was what created the Internet : a public network that was capable of spanning the globe. (I used the words "became pub
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by samhw 5y ago
> The internet isn't new. Its 'killer app' (The world wide web) came decades afterwards and took decades more for adoption. The Internet started in the mid 1980s and became available to consumers in about '89[0]. The
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by samhw 5y ago
Does anyone know how TAILS accomplishes this, then? It doesn't rely on a relay like Whonix does, but I'm not a networking expert or a Linux expert, so I'm not altogether sure how it does work.
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by samhw 5y ago
I would say performance is a (more or less) necessary but not sufficient condition. We've all heard of cases where managers promote useless schmoozers, but my sense is that performance is still very very useful for being someone your m
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by samhw 5y ago
That’s the thing: my guess is that the reason your model works well is because (respectfully) very few people stand to gain enough from gaming it. It’s an instance of Goodhart’s law: when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good m
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by samhw 5y ago
This is due process, per the laws of the countries their yachts are in.
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by samhw 5y ago
To be charitable, it's possible they meant "AirTags" in the way that you or I would say "Hoover" or "Marmite" or "Polaroid" - not to refer to Apple's specific product, but to internet-connec
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by samhw 5y ago
It's just bizarre. You end up paying your cut twice: once to convert it into crypto (paying the exact same card fees you'd pay for a direct card payment), and then once again to pay someone like Stripe for this. For either a bus
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by samhw 5y ago
Hahaha, this is the best thing I've read all day. That's fantastic. I knew there would be a way for rich people to get around it. (Like when my friend got around COVID restrictions travelling to Mexico by just taking his dad&#x2
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by samhw 5y ago
> probably not actually working This is how we got the hilarious "but I don't work!" clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXZ52-XgUjA
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm struggling to see what your point is here. > There must be some way to restrain this relentless desire to cocoon everything in layers of legal entanglement. It's very simple. We, in most countries, live in a legal system wh
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by samhw 5y ago
> They should change, not me. OK, they should change. Great. They won't, though, so your code won't be usable by them. If that's not a problem, then your code was never really relevant to this discussion. If that is a pr
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by samhw 5y ago
Backdoors are covert by definition. You're talking about an avowed feature you don't like. There's a difference (and finding some random blog post that makes the same mistake is not a proof of anything).
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I often read about porn sites for their engineering (I'm not being sarcastic, I mean that 100% sincerely). It's a shadow world that counts among it some of the most highly-trafficked sites on the internet - and then bear in
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by samhw 5y ago
> I mean, pretty much everyone associates puritanism with the right-wing, but ok my bad... The fact that the right wing is puritan doesn't mean that puritanism entails being right-wing. This is, like, Logic 101, 'Socrates is a
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by samhw 5y ago
> If people in (even small power) like HR drones abuse their position I call this the traffic warden principle: Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. A really tiny amount of power, in one specific area of your life, corrup
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by samhw 5y ago
So, an essentially impossible proposal, which you're proposing because ... why?
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by samhw 5y ago
This actually made me wince. It's the nerdiest thing to say, but this actually made me understand better. (And I say this as someone who does have porn of myself on the internet - without my consent - but I suppose I'm not the sor
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by samhw 5y ago
And more importantly: it doesn't matter what Pornhub.com does. If they develop ethical scruples, another site will simply spring up to serve that supply and demand. Like a gas, the market will expand to fill the legal space available t
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by samhw 5y ago
> Shouldn't it... Yes. Will it? No.
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by samhw 5y ago
What about this: Take their IP. Make sure that, to them, it displays as uploaded. They can watch it. It registers natural-looking traffic. It does whatever else is necessary to satisfy them that it's on the internet (besides Google SEO
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm amazed even to hear the words "an Ngrok employee", like it were Google or something. The last time I remember reading about Ngrok, it was just one guy's repo on GitHub. That doesn't even feel that long ago. I&#x
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by samhw 5y ago
But that's entirely fair: of course caching data uses up storage. But it's my choice - I can pay for what I use. The crucial part is that I don't need to download an app which is hundreds of megabytes large just in order to
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by samhw 5y ago
> And then the biggest mistake I see people make is getting a lot of the letters in the right spot early and then just leaving them there on subsequent guesses. I just heard about this game for the first time from this thread, went to pl
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by samhw 5y ago
Eh, have you ever tried writing a filesystem?
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by samhw 5y ago
Sure, in which case you're welcome to build every tool yourself. Me, I'll carry on doing what I specialise in for a living, and use a trivial crumb of my earnings to pay someone else for lovingly-made readymade products. Same way
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by samhw 5y ago
I'm pretty sure 'fast' is referring to the runtime performance rather than the download size. (The latter does sound less than ideal, but my hunch is that most people simply do not care about download size, in this day and ag
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by samhw 5y ago
Yeah, I 100% agree. It's rather tonedeaf to criticise that commenter for diminishing the cost, and then diminish in exactly the same way the work involved in creating this. And I'm so tired of the game of "describe a successf
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by samhw 5y ago
That works fine for purely client-side software, such as was common in the 90s. Photoshop would be a great model of that. For such software, the only, or main, cost is R&D, and you pay for their R&D for each new version. It doesn&#x

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