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by sgeisler 6y ago
Since I had to implement something like that in rust for a base32 codec [1] a few years ago I really like the idea. Although my main concern was ensuring that invariants are checked by the type system, which might not be as much a concern i
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by sgeisler 7y ago
If you make it sound as if they didn't help on an individual level that's clearly misinformation (intentional or unintentional). That due to shortages there might be adverse societal effects is another matter. I'd argue that
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by sgeisler 7y ago
It's actually not totally insane anymore. If you could afford a Tesla Roadster you can build yourself a 4PB storage solution. With some high density top loading storage servers (4HE for 90 HDDs), 6TB HDDs and some SSDs thrown in for ca
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by sgeisler 7y ago
I'm aware of this workaround, but it's still a sad state of affairs, especially since POSTs have to be handled with more care because they aren't idempotent. So the browser will warn the user if they really want to resend the
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by sgeisler 7y ago
I once searched for a way to send PUT requests using HTML forms because I despise using JS for core functionality but still wanted to build a nice REST API. Somehow I stumbled across XForms which was part of XHTML2 and supports PUT and DELE
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by sgeisler 7y ago
My main disappointment was that it's synchronous. Synchronous BFT algorithms seem like an old and already solved problem, with many already existing implementations. So I don't see exactly why you'd develop your own, especial
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by sgeisler 7y ago
> But that's affected mostly by factors other than money supply? That's a good point. I think the "mostly" is highly dependent on the rate of "money printing" and where exactly this money goes. But the Libra
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by sgeisler 7y ago
The value in libra isn't in some novel technical concept. From what I have seen they made some ugly trade-offs to make the whole thing scale, invented their own not-state-of-the-art BFT algorithm and invented a new programming language
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by sgeisler 7y ago
Yeah, but that only works if you view your citizens as your "property" that works for you and doesn't move in and out of your country. If you view them as autonomous agents that move between jurisdictions to optimize their be
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by sgeisler 7y ago
That's only a problem if healthcare is taxpayer-funded. Otherwise it's your and your insurer's problem to price this in somehow, maybe even offering cheaper plans for people living healthy (e.g. meeting weight goals).
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by sgeisler 7y ago
I think this first model is for enthusiasts who can afford it and want to fund the development. It won't be perfect yet. If you think about it as a donation it makes a lot more sense.
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by sgeisler 7y ago
As someone who backed them in 2017 I'm so happy to finally see the specs. It's amazing to follow their progress, I love what they are doing with Gnome/Phosh, that gives me hope that there will be many native apps for the most
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by sgeisler 7y ago
These green interventionist policies proposed to deal with the problem are a greater threat to the lifestyle of many people than the problem itself.
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by sgeisler 7y ago
From my perspective the biggest thread to western lifestyle is the reliance on cheap labor in Asia (production) and Africa (mining). Their minimum livable pay might rise due to food shortages, need for AC etc. That could have a major ripple
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by sgeisler 7y ago
> There's a massive drive to consolidation: people don't want to have a lot of subscriptions to manage. Imo subscriptions aren't viable at all. For me to subscribe to something I need strong evidence that I will use it eno
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by sgeisler 7y ago
Let's see if they will allow non-custodial wallets for libra, that might make them the catalyst that enables real world bitcoin payments. There could be a service that pays libra invoices for you if you send them bitcoins. If this happ
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by sgeisler 7y ago
As I understand it Calibra is a custodial wallet. I'd guess that transactions between Calibra users never hit the libra blockchain, so reverting them should be possible.
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by sgeisler 7y ago
As a counterpoint: I live in Germany where we have such a system in place. When I went to the US for a few months not having such a system in place actually felt liberating. Suddenly I didn't have to worry about storing bottles, how to
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by sgeisler 7y ago
Maybe that will give them a reason to publish an official linux driver for the fingerprint reader. Currently there only seems to be a reverse engineered prototype: https://github.com/nmikhailov/Validity90
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by sgeisler 7y ago
The concept of micro transactions isn't the problem imo. The lack of automation is. If there was a browser plugin that automatically paid up to x$ if an authorized website asks for it, but never more than y$ per month that would be a g
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by sgeisler 7y ago
German student here: sure, university is mostly free, but that leads to people taking their time, resulting in regulations about how long you are allowed to study, leading to all kinds of bureaucratic tricks like switching majors, getting y
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by sgeisler 7y ago
That could even be used to return an enum instead of bool: Online, CaptivePortal with the URL as member and Offline.
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by sgeisler 7y ago
> Imagine telling someone they have the chance to spend an hour inside the world of a refugee. Who would agree, and who would avoid it? Chances are, people who don’t want to empathize wouldn’t want to enter an “empathy machine” at all. I
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by sgeisler 7y ago
> Is it also cruel to let one unvaccinated child endanger the lives of thousands? Right, that's immoral, but what I was getting at was that you can choose to not endanger anybody to a large extent even if you aren't vaccinated.
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by sgeisler 7y ago
That's just cruel, it takes away choice of people about their own bodies. I totally see the point of this proposal, but you could achieve a better outcome with less authoritarian rules: just forbid non-vaccinated kids to go to public s
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by sgeisler 7y ago
Not parent, but I'd think twice before contributing to a C code base I'm not completely familiar with in fear of causing some bug/CVE. Rust projects are much nicer for drive-by contributions to projects one uses but isn'
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by sgeisler 8y ago
Why are people so concerned about autism, aren't there much worse conditions? I know many genius people that would probably fall into the spectrum if ever tested. They are typically obsessed with some field of research and develop deep
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by sgeisler 8y ago
From an outsider's point of view (still a CS student): If you are a CS/Physics/Math person who loves to optimize systems then this is a good way to get paid for doing exactly that I guess. Many other problems/industries
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by sgeisler 8y ago
Yes, I understand that, but if there weren't copyright laws we wouldn't need a CC0 license for example, because it would be the natural state of affairs: you can do whatever you want. And afaik MIT, BSD and Apache just add the dut
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by sgeisler 8y ago
You can make this argument when it comes to GPL software, since it forces you to open source your changes if you want to ship them. But does it hold for MIT licensed software (or if you are picky about attribution CC0)? Couldn't the e

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