seabass-labrax

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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
This isn't even close to true. The people who are serious about privacy and the open Web, and in the technologies posited to bring that about (such as self-sovereign identity and federation), tend to spend much more money. They buy ser
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Make sure you absolutely have fresh entropy for all ten of your encryption layers. Re-using secrets and randomness between different encryption algorithms can leak a lot of data!
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
I think even 111 years is being too cautious. One only needs to look as far as the numerous vagrancy laws in England to see how a citizen might be prevented from living "where he liked and as he liked". Persecution of minorities i
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
> ...powers of the government to require more identification for different things is orthogonal to the idea of digital ID > That's not to say there aren't risks of course, but other European countries seem to have managed to
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Alongside the environmental disasters that the USA and the rest of the world face, there is some good news to celebrate now and then. Like this HN story, but also things like the new 'wildlife bridge'[1] over Route 101. https:&#x
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
It's been a long time coming, but wild bison are being reintroduced to Britain right now: https://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/projects/wilder-blean https://www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/why-rewild&#
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Dear esafak, It is not entirely true that the usage has changed; I usually start my emails with this salutation, both to recipients close to me and those whom I do not know well. I address mailing lists with a simple "Dear all". N
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Is this actually to scale? If so, do the near-vertical moving dashed lines depict inclined lifts or escalators? Because they look very steep when you compare them to other metro escalators, such as those in the Brussels Metro's Porte
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
> Chernobyl was bad, but the real effect on human health was shockingly small. Fukushima is almost as well-known, and its impact was negligible. Was this not due to the expensive clean-up effort in each case respectively? Nuclear reactor
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Unfortunately for your proposal, the crawlers for training LLMs don't have the same censorship as the AI chatbots do when communicating with the end user. The censorship of chatbots is either done by means of fine-tuning (a technique w
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Gregg chose not to undergo surgery: > This is major life-changing surgery with a long and difficult "recovery". I have elected not to do this, due to existing co-morbidities from my sorted past and the expectation that the reco
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Full disclosure: I haven't read the book myself. Logically, however, expressing regrets does not say anything about whether a specific course of action is better. By definition, one can only regret living one's life in a certain w
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
The primacy of European Union law applies to member states of the European Union . That is part of what the countries agreed to in order to become a member state. Some countries negotiated opt-outs for specific laws that they felt shouldn&
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
That is factually untrue. While governments of member states of the EU no longer have a direct veto against proposed EU legislation in many cases, the EU does not claim any sovereignty over member states. If a member state fails to block a
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
> I think narcotics destroy the fabric of society. But the only realistic way to combat it is Singapore-style death penalties for possession exceeding certain amounts. HN's libertarian crowd may dislike this, but it's how Singa
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Some of the points you make are still true, but I think you're a little out of date. Migration is not solved, but it also doesn't suck - unless you're doing it every week nothing will break, and several people I follow have a
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
I wouldn't personally trust the Economist with this kind of thing, at least not compared to publications by technically-minded experts that have been shared elsewhere on this thread, such as the Register. The phone-snatching is real, b
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
They had to take the cumulative risk of getting caught though - one well-targeted burglary to take a designer handbag or diamond necklace would earn that thief as much as the indiscriminate 'stealing nwallin's gym clothes' th
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
That's would certainly be an awesome game, but did you know that your "Solar Mayhem" concept already exists? Children of a Dead Earth - it's probably a bit more austere by virtue of limiting itself to only somewhat-plaus
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Good point! Wasn't the Sony PlayStation significant for being the first console to ship with a C API from the manufacturer, or am I misremembering? I always thought that Net Yaroze sounded fantastic but never ended up getting one. Oh,
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
The article you link to is about radio navigation based on ground stations. The USA would have required at least an island near the Japanese mainland on which to establish such a ground station, or perhaps a ship if it could maintain an acc
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Maybe the Americans were still remembering the first World War, in which the Germans already had low morale by the time the USA joined the conflict. The USA joined in the thick of WWII when the Germans/Axis were doing considerably bett
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Wow, I didn't know that. I always assumed that there was only one Transit van. It looks like both the American models and the European models were sold in the UK, with the European models being significantly smaller; is that right?
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
I'm not sure - I certainly see a lot of Vauxhall/Opel cars about, and Ford Transit vans are pretty universal. Caterpillar vehicles are hard not to see on construction sites in Europe. The only sector where American brands seem t
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
That story is not representative of the American aerospace industry as a whole, though. Lockheed were producing among the highest-quality airframes in the world at that point. The British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) were desperate f
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
The hardware graphics acceleration stack is heavily shader-based now, so there's less and less graphics code being written in systems languages like C. In a way, people are still writing their own graphics engines, it's just for s
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
I'd really highly recommend the Uncle Albert series of novels by Russell Stannard: https://booksforkeeps.co.uk/article/visiting-uncle-albert/ The intuition you can develop about special and general relativi
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
Unfortunately, I suspect that any starship that could bring with it all of those services would also bring with it the economic and political strife of Earth. The are lots of examples of democratic states turning into oligarchies or worse i
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
I'm no sociologist, but a pet theory of mine is that lots of people have realized that one doesn't necessarily need to listen to others in order to achieve one's goals. For instance, in the past you could write a letter of co
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by seabass-labrax 1y ago
There is a component that is directly paid to the card schemes such as MasterCard and VISA. See this page from Barclays[1], for example: > Interchange: the fee we pay to the card issuer, i.e. your customers’ banks > Scheme fee: the fe

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