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by thecrash 3y ago
> Then, say, Telegram in non-secret message mode, is just as secure, in the sense that you have to trust a third party. Not clearly informing the user of this trust is dishonest. The difference is that if Telegram was intercepting messag
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by thecrash 4y ago
It is said that a visitor once came to the home of Nobel Prize–winning physicist Niels Bohr and, having noticed a horseshoe hung above the entrance, asked incredulously if the professor believed horseshoes brought good luck. “No,” Bohr repl
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by thecrash 4y ago
Most people who first used a Segway thought of it as a fancy scooter. Most people didn't know what it was for. They had absolutely no idea what it was going to bring or how revolutionary it was going to be. (nothing much, and not)
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by thecrash 4y ago
> Like Larry Page and Serguei Brin before him, Moxie Marlinspike built the oppression tool he was initially trying to fight This hyperbole exposes that the author is out of touch with the real world stakes of mass surveillance which Sign
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by thecrash 4y ago
> are you arguing we can preemptively say they don't have to follow any law on the off chance one of them might come up in the performance of their duties? You're describing the principle of qualified immunity, which is already
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by thecrash 4y ago
A notable success story is the Mondragon Corporation. It's a federation of worker-owned cooperative businesses, and is the 7th largest company in Spain with billions in yearly revenue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by thecrash 4y ago
This makes sense in principle, but in practice police cannot both carefully adhere to the law and serve their intended function. Police are expected to be the security force of the powerful and influential against society's undesirable
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by thecrash 4y ago
I think it misunderstands the nature of illegal cartels. Although their business does involve agriculture, logistics and marketing, those are not a cartel's core business competencies. The core competencies are around smuggling, briber
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by thecrash 4y ago
As Doctorow says, the permanence of these institutions is taken for granted until it starts to unwind - and very quickly downfall becomes obvious and inevitable. It's not obvious to everyone yet, but he's saying it soon will be. &
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by thecrash 4y ago
> why does every food product have a "nutrition facts" label, mandated by the FDA The FDA can't compel you to say anything you don't want to. But they can refuse to let you sell your product. The right to sell food is
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by thecrash 4y ago
It's fine that the bar could occasionally serve you poisoned whiskey, as long as you know that going in. If those terms are unacceptable, walk away. If you do decide it's worth it, keep a friend with poison antidotes close at hand
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by thecrash 4y ago
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it." - Upton Sinclair
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by thecrash 4y ago
heh. I guess even if Bitcoin had been around for 3 years it could still technically be grammatically correct to use the plural ("0.3 decades"). But that would be tricky and only serve to exaggerate how long Bitcoin has existed.
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by thecrash 4y ago
"Bitcoin has been around for decades..." With an opener like that, you have to wonder about the quality of the rest of the research that went into this article...
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by thecrash 4y ago
The most important concepts which Rogue contributed to modern games are: - Abstract/symbolic representation over realistic/literal graphics - Systems (without documentation) as a primary aspect of play - Procedural content generat
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by thecrash 4y ago
The invention of breakthrough energy sources are not being blocked by efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle. They're being blocked by difficult thermodynamics, engineering, and materials problems. I'm hopeful, but as far as we kno
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by thecrash 4y ago
American agriculture is entirely dependent on petroleum, of which the US imports millions of barrels a day. Inland farmers require foreign oil as an input to the caloric production you describe, which means that to survive they need the por
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by thecrash 5y ago
> Just because something hurt your enemy does not mean it helps you get closer to your goal. I think that's a good general observation, but a key assumption of terrorism is that hurting your enemy /will/ pressure them to d
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by thecrash 5y ago
CO2 emissions are a chemical problem. We know the answer to the chemical/physical problem: stop doing the reactions which produce CO2 gas as an output. But what makes it so confounding is it's also a political problem: people get
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by thecrash 5y ago
Thank you for slacking, sincerely. Management tends to set a bar for effort based on how hard our peers work. In a competitive environment this can lead to an ugly race to burnout. By straining to meet expectations, devs inadvertently incre
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by thecrash 5y ago
This is an interesting exercise in legal argumentation, but it assumes that the US Government wants to push miners out of the US. It's not that they can't, it's that they don't want to. Outlawing mining in the US would n
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by thecrash 5y ago
LSD doesn't work the way you're describing, at all. I can think of other substances that do, but your treatment of "drugs" as a monolith suggests you don't really understand the particular topic at hand.
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by thecrash 5y ago
Wait, Bitcoin is moving to proof of stake? Citation needed.
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by thecrash 5y ago
I guess if you devote a lot of energy to researching a vulnerability and the developers explain to you that it's not actually a vulnerability, you only have two choices: - Accept that you misunderstood and have mostly wasted your time
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by thecrash 5y ago
It's an interesting idea, and being worked on by Nym https://nymtech.net/
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by thecrash 5y ago
Presumably your complaint is that cryptocurrencies don't have "economic value", but what theory of value are you using to decide that? Exchange theory of value says that a commodity has two values: a use value (what it can do
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by thecrash 5y ago
It's just awesome what a keen sense Snowden has for this kind of operation. He has an intuitive understanding that information is only one component of power - the other is the spectacle of how you present it. Blowing the whistle is no
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by thecrash 5y ago
My rough understanding is that in the US the State can compel silence but not compel speech. Warrant canaries take this reasoning to an untested extreme, but it seems safe to assume that ordering Signal to tell elaborate lies about its subp
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by thecrash 5y ago
> I would still not underestimate what these people are capable of. If they want to get you, they will find a way to get you. It's actually comforting to believe your adversary is so powerful that the only thing keeping you safe is
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by thecrash 5y ago
Even if you're not concerned with real-time redundancy, running across multiple clouds is the only way to ensure that a complex system is truly multi-cloud capable. If the system is theoretically multi-cloud but only runs on one in pra

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