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by ta1243 2y ago
So your definition of free speech is different to others, for example JSG Boggs [0]. Unsurprising really, and not really "wrong", any more than people who have different opinions to you are wrong. [0] https://news.artne
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by ta1243 2y ago
You disagree with the ban on child pornography? Or counterfeit currency? You're anti-copyright? No problem with libel? You think that it's fine to incite vulnerable people to commit suicide, or other threats of violence? America c
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by ta1243 2y ago
I don't think that billionaires should be able to use the EM spectrum in countries they don't want to participate in
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by ta1243 2y ago
The US banns a lot of stuff too, from porn to sharing songs. A major problem with online discourse about "free speech" is that is so ameri-centric. American view on what's allowed is the only definition that counts.
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by ta1243 2y ago
I kept seeing this behaviour on some websites in to the late 00s and possibly even in to the early 10s, your comment mede me realise I haven't seen it recently though :(
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by ta1243 2y ago
Are you saying that there is massive numbers of empty housing stock in areas in high demand? Because when there are 15 people wanting to live somewhere and only 10 places, then the lowest the price will go is higher than 5 people are able&#
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by ta1243 2y ago
I used this to identify some intermittent loss in one direction from I think Kyrgyzstan to the UK, There was a claim that sometime flows were fine and sometimes they weren't. Problem was an ECMP in Pakistan or Iran which was using udp
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by ta1243 2y ago
What nonsense dictionary have you been reading? You can still commit murder, it's not forbidden, you just have to deal with the consequences?
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by ta1243 2y ago
America being the country which runs the war on drugs? Where mandated speed limits came in back in the 1970s and remain in place?
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by ta1243 2y ago
The whole point of saas is someone the CTO can blame when things go wrong. Doesn't matter if the downtime is higher, doesn't matter if there are more succesful attacks. If a CTO goes in-house, they carry the risk. If they outsourc
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by ta1243 2y ago
I always find insolation and insulation to be such an interesting pair of words I guess the equivelent of "change the units" is "change the language". French: insolation et isolation German: Sonneneinstrahlung / Iso
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by ta1243 2y ago
You have two choices, one has a risk of 15 units, one has a risk of 3 units. The outcome is the same. You go for the risk of 3 units. As Kirk says, "risk is our business". Doesn't mean you don't need to minimise the risk
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by ta1243 2y ago
Ideally the cost would include all externalities and thus allow people to judge the value and bare the full cost. But kWh, or grammes of glass, or carbon credits, or whatever you want. Normal glass is very recyclable and doesn't requir
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by ta1243 2y ago
Is it? Based on what metric. If a glass costs €1 and lasts 1 year, and an unbreakable glass costs €10 and lasts 5 years, that's not a big win.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Well yes. Companies get to write off expenses of existing People don't
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by ta1243 2y ago
Mortgage interest payments don't Your assets might inflate in value, but that's nothing to do with the mortgage
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by ta1243 2y ago
Clickbait would be > 14 health issues linked to dementia, you won't BELIEVE number 7
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by ta1243 2y ago
The impact on google losing $10m of revenue is exactly equal to the impact of John Doe losing $10m of revenue In a competitive market John Doe would go to one of googles competitors. We don't have a competitive market. We have winner
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by ta1243 2y ago
The entire economy is based on infinite growth, and most of it is based on exponential growth, which is of course a problem. Indeed the concept of the infinite growth may well explain the Fermi paradox through the concept of a "light c
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by ta1243 2y ago
> I don't know how Meta/Google can react to these fines How about by not breaking the law?
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by ta1243 2y ago
If the illegal practice raised $5b in extra revenue then that's just good business sense.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Based on how long this was going on, its about $5 per user per year.
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by ta1243 2y ago
It will be trivial to get users to opt in, just bury it in the "terms of service" for whatsapp/instragram/facebook/etc and you're set. Network effects mean you can't realistically say no.
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by ta1243 2y ago
The NTIA "serves as the president's principal adviser" in its field.
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by ta1243 2y ago
Another all-eggs-in-one-basket case, so soon after the last one. Meanwhile my pi continues serving what it needs to do unabated.
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by ta1243 2y ago
The number of single points of failure businesses have astounds me.
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by ta1243 2y ago
I'm still shocked that Brandenburg is actually open!
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by ta1243 2y ago
Diversity means a successful attack will take out part of your operation. Monoculture means a successful attack will take out all of your operation.
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by ta1243 2y ago
This could have been fixed by having a minimal baseline of machines not running the same software Resilience comes from diversity, in computing and in biology. Whether that's having critical workloads on multiple cloud providers or hav
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by ta1243 2y ago
Our systems worked fine, we expect things to fail - including software like sentinal one, crowdstrike, etc, and have DR systems which can keep us limping along. We have DR systems which will work should other things happen - say the Thames

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