shockeychap

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by shockeychap 4y ago
This is a fair observation, but every time this comes up, I have to wonder, what advantage does Bitcoin offer over gold? - Gold has no dependency on electricity, computers, or any energy source. Bitcoin ceases to exist without these things.
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by shockeychap 4y ago
"But passivity also created risk. If there was a problem with the code, someone could exploit it directly, without needing to bypass any human safeguards. And limiting blockchain interactions to cut costs entailed a trade-off: When a s
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by shockeychap 4y ago
Does anybody know how this compares with other reverse proxies, like Caddy?
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by shockeychap 4y ago
"discovering vulnerabilities in devices in order to extort their owners, even if claimed as “research,” is not in good faith." If I had just discovered a vulnerability, and didn't have a written contract authorizing me to do
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by shockeychap 4y ago
How, exactly, when you qualify it with, "However, the new policy acknowledges that claiming to be conducting security research is not a free pass for those acting in bad faith. For example, discovering vulnerabilities in devices in ord
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by shockeychap 4y ago
> The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not be charged. > Accordingly, the policy clarifies that hypothetical CFAA violations that have concerned some courts and commentators are not to be char
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by shockeychap 4y ago
I wholly agree with this analogy. But it doesn't help that the populist press, schools, and various other institutions always try to paint every instance of failure, job loss, and economic pain as a referendum on a broken system rather
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by shockeychap 4y ago
I wholeheartedly agree about it not being unique to CNN. However, I don't think there's anything odd or misplaced about focusing on CNN, since the entire context is very specifically that of CNN+. I've seen many a similar com
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by shockeychap 4y ago
I think that the characterization of "free speech absolutist" is misleading and facile, and this is reinforced by the idea of testing it with "the most grotesque and offensive things". Very few people are absolutists who
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by shockeychap 5y ago
This just sounds envious and resentful.
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by shockeychap 5y ago
> Personally, I'm hoping all this share-everything is just a trend, that will pass by itself. Future users will look back at it with a sense of wonder: did people really post pictures of their food online? "Yep, and then we had
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by shockeychap 5y ago
> Why would you say that? Did you not see the second line that you quoted from me? I saw the second line. It was a reluctant acknowledgement that "they probably should not have covered the outrage itself until the later reporting wa
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by shockeychap 5y ago
> No, because that's pretty inaccurate and tendentious framing. I highly doubt they "lied." IIRC, the media, in general, reported on social media outrage which was actually happening and then later reporting corrected the
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by shockeychap 5y ago
This! Also, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21105625
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Book burnings were hardly exclusive to the Nazis. They just showed us how it can be part of the progress to something much bigger and uglier than ever imagined. And I have to disagree on your cigarette analogy. This is so much bigger than r
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Isn’t the goal - blocking access to certain content - the same? That’s not playing the victim. It’s the plain truth.
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I remember well an interview with a company where I was asked a lot of questions that pertained to scaling characteristics of algorithmic solutions. For example, I was asked to describe ways to implement a solution for determining all of th
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Please tell me that you don't consider the later appropriation of "Let's Roll" to somehow mean that people like Neil Young had committed the original sin of supporting the wars. By that logic, is Todd Beamer guilty of th
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by shockeychap 5y ago
You do know that left wing misinformation is a thing too, right? You understand that both ideologies can be taken too far and that they both have elements engaging in misinformation. You understand that, right?
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by shockeychap 5y ago
As I recall, that song came out in the days following 9/11, and was based on the account of Todd Beamer and others who fought back on United 93. It was not about support for the Iraq or Afghanistan wars. I could be mistaken, but I don&
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Are you seriously making an equivalency between child pornography and raising objections to masks? Given the rapid and profound spread of Omicron against all efforts, I also question the effectiveness of masks and other containment measures
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by shockeychap 5y ago
One think I don't see getting discussed in the pros and cons is the simple fact that you can't even tell what titles have been rewritten. Google gives no information in the search results to tell you what is original and what they
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I remember reading a while back something like, "It used to be that you could mostly pay for college with a summer job. Today, the only summer job that could pay for college is being Elon Musk."
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by shockeychap 5y ago
The real question is, do you think “Ridge Wallet” will continue to sponsor him?
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by shockeychap 5y ago
Okay, I get that "brand" means "reputation", but why should a highly useful technology be worried about it's "brand". Is the "car" brand out of vogue? What about HTML? I mean, that stuff was used
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I'm trying to figure out if this is serious or parody. You do know that RSS is a spec, not a brand, right? Right?
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by shockeychap 5y ago
The "we" is everyone who wants to build dense, multi-unit housing based on their own assessments of how it will perform, but can't because of single-family zoning laws. Expensive housing in many areas is a result of laws that
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by shockeychap 5y ago
I found this to be many words with little information. It largely boils down to "when Amazon increases wages, other employers follow suit, to varying extents." There was almost nothing about the myriad of other effects, including
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by shockeychap 5y ago
These "I'm not allowed" assertions are all over the map. You can't "recklessly speed" down a road, but are you not generally allowed to drive along any public road for any reason - or no reason - so long as you
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by shockeychap 5y ago
> Where are the anti-clothers protesting in state capitals? > Why is being required to wear a mask in public any different than being required to wear pants? I was one of the people defending the mitigations early on, speaking out aga

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