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by thecrash 5y ago
You're fabricating complications which don't make any technical sense as a justification to be angry about this basically harmless gesture. If you are that averse to the idea of being even remotely complicit in jamming the surveil
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by thecrash 5y ago
In this (somewhat contrived) scenario where authorities are targeting your phone for surveillance solely to access a possible exploit file placed there by Signal, how would an opt-out option help you? Do you imagine that you could explain t
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by thecrash 6y ago
> why not create a separate "Signal Wallet" app or something? Although even that won't help the fact that it will tarnish the "Signal" brand in the eyes of many. Signal is not a startup looking to get acquired or
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by thecrash 6y ago
> your kids might do it or their children could finally make it so you could say that children are a good long term investment. This has some teleological problems. When you make an important breakthrough, there are innumerable factors w
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by thecrash 6y ago
Power is the input for a machine that performs calculations which can be used to get money. On a factory farm, power is the input for a machine that raises animals, which can be exchanged to money. If your animal-raising machine is profitab
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by thecrash 6y ago
As a miner, I'm running a machine that takes electricity as input and outputs bitcoin. Since I have to pay for the electricity in dollars, and since I sell the bitcoin for dollars, I'm actually operating a machine that takes dolla
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by thecrash 7y ago
All GOG games are easily available on the pirate bay and other free sites. Anyone who just wants to get a game without paying already has an easier path than buying and requesting a refund. This is in line with GOG's anti-DRM policy:
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by thecrash 7y ago
It's a compelling narrative - especially for social conservatives - but ironically it's without much basis in reality. Schizophrenia rates have declined significantly over the past century, and have been stable over the past 20 ye
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by thecrash 7y ago
I understand that the exchange can prove control of a certain amount of bitcoin, but how can they prove the amount of credit they have extended? By definition the credit is uncoupled from any blockchain, right? If I can't verify how m
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by thecrash 7y ago
> let's take a trip down the street to the teriyaki place close to work. EVERY TAKEOUT MEAL THEY SERVE generates more garbage than my earphones This is a superficial analysis of waste, because it only takes into account the finished
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by thecrash 7y ago
It's pretty hard to evaluate. If you're asserting that Tor is used more for criminal purposes than non-criminal purposes, I think you might be right. But that would be a simplistic way to evaluate the impact of Tor (or really any
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by thecrash 7y ago
Words are just a way of conveying meaning, and it's always possible to interpret someone's words as implying blame. A motivated listener can take the most impartial, detached observation and hear it as a blistering indictment. If
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by thecrash 7y ago
The more illuminating question is "what is the need for anonymity outside of illegal activity"? One answer is that you might someday like to say something which some other party would have a problem with. We might say that if you
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by thecrash 7y ago
Local cooperatives can form networks which operate similar to a conglomerate business, with the network helping to bring in business and direct it to participating coops, or even form supply chains where local coops are providing goods and
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by thecrash 7y ago
Some people believe that creating imaginary friends is a deliberate process, and can be done by anyone who comes across the idea: "You’ll create a tulpa by imagining a person in your head, and treating them as a person. The exact mecha
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by thecrash 8y ago
> Its 100% acceptable to jail someone who refuses to testify in a criminal case, especially if they have information about that criminal case. There is no criminal case. A prosecutor doesn't have to even bring charges to convene a
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by thecrash 8y ago
Why would a boss want to pay you more because you live somewhere expensive, unless living in that place is part of the job description? The only reason I can think of is they believe that you might quit in favor of a local job which pays m
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by thecrash 8y ago
>Even mentioning that men could have a problem that society could help solve will be met with great resistance. It's not mentioning the problem that's the issue, it's your framing: you discuss the progress of men and women
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by thecrash 8y ago
Yes, at the core of the "virtue signalling" philosophy is the idea that nobody _actually_ holds virtuous values. There are only two kinds of people: those who are honest about being selfish jerks, and hypocrites who disguise thei
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by thecrash 8y ago
> I don't subscribe to the idea that women are delicate flowers and need to be protected from a bit of swearing. You're right that women - like anyone - are generally capable of dealing with a harsh environment, but the differe
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by thecrash 8y ago
Your alignment: Lawful Neutral Your desire to organize society according to simple, elegant and absolute rules is understandable - it is in fact the quintessential engineer's mindset. But society is not a microprocessor, or a factory,
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by thecrash 8y ago
Try to look at it from a user perspective, though. It's not a question of whose fault it is when something doesn't work, it simply doesn't work. Signal is successful in large part because it provides complex functionality (s
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by thecrash 8y ago
Anarchism as a political philosophy does not "want a society with no laws or rules". It wants a society where power (social, political, economic, etc) is not distributed based on a hierarchy. Some misinterpret this as meaning that
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by thecrash 8y ago
There are plenty of online communities one can approach for general encouragement and moral support. People choose to Show HN specifically because they know appreciation isn't automatic here. They don't just want a pat on the hea
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by thecrash 8y ago
They are radical anarchists. If you're going to try to split this along ideological lines, at least get the ideologies right.
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by thecrash 8y ago
Having a meritocratic structure doesn't even inherently mean individualist. It could be measured at the team or project level. It also doesn't have to be (and typically isn't) exactly the measurable contributions ("load
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by thecrash 8y ago
"When the rubber meets the road, some engineers are better than others and it affects the end product." This is overly individualistic. A given engineer is not better or worse in some absolute sense. They are better or worse at
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by thecrash 8y ago
The conflicts in the New Left were rarely about actual political beliefs, which were actually fairly consistent across groupings. As the article says, it was more about individual personality conflicts, money/business issues, romantic
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by thecrash 8y ago
Exactly, I think the enlightenment in this case is being at peace with the idea that one cannot understand or fully manage everything in a technology stack. Success does not come from achieving total understanding, but from being able to cl
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by thecrash 8y ago
They are sensitive to collateral damage, though, otherwise they could just turn off internet access. It's actually pretty easy for a state-level actor. Why do you think they don't?

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