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by vageli 7y ago
> Seems hard to have any prominent integration without having libra related infrastructure on fb servers, and all infra with ”libra” on it is likely to get seized in a raid. > But sure, if libra is just an altcoin on unrelated hardwar
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by vageli 7y ago
> Either it works and you'll find it impossible to defend legalizing cryptocurrencies with money-laundering-as-a-service in front of Congress, or it doesn't work and prosecutors will slap money laundering charges on top of any
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by vageli 7y ago
> If you own bitcoins in countries where inflation is double digit and you think they will save your family, think again: they would most probably get you killed or robbed. How so? It's not like correlating who owns which address is
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by vageli 7y ago
> You are partially right but the issue is that E2E isn't even enough. E2E doesn't matter if they force a patched binary that also sends the data to the government. This is EXACTLY what the Australian laws saws they must do, oh
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by vageli 7y ago
> For pirates, the solution was multifaceted, but the most critical components were: * Profit sharing - The riches captured by a pirate vessel were split amongst the pirates in a remarkably egalitarian model. * Democracy - The Captain an
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by vageli 7y ago
> >It will still be owned by a private company you have no control over > I don't have any ethical justification to enslave or coerce or control a person. Why should I have any ethical justification to enslave or coerce or con
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by vageli 7y ago
Does that count when your government is undermined and overthrown by outsiders with more firepower than you? "I don't see why we have to let a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people." ~ Henry Kissi
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by vageli 7y ago
Ah, I was aware of a couple of suits in states. None yet heard by the Supreme Court, though (or slated for hearing). I wonder if the court would even hear arguments on what they consider to be settled case law.
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by vageli 7y ago
> You'll sing a different tune if you find yourself on the wrong end of that equation. (We all, eventually, end up on the other side of the equation.) Given that resources are indeed not infinite, there must be a limit to this plane
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by vageli 7y ago
> That’s not the primary purpose of government in the United States. And that’s not how government derives the right to execute laws in the United States. > We govern ourselves. The government is given the right to execute laws by the
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by vageli 7y ago
> Did Snowden try to go they official channels? I don't think he did, Snowden (mostly rightly) decided to bypass the existing reporting systems. I believe he was deterred from pursuing action through official channels after seeing h
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by vageli 7y ago
> > You have to define temporary or else it just becomes de-facto permanent. > Perhaps, once it becomes settled law. However given Roe v Wade is still up for debate means that defacto permanence is not really a problem. > The an
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by vageli 7y ago
> Anti-vaxxer refers to refers to someone who rejects the mountains of data (often having no data analysis skills themselves) based upon their "feelings". I thought it was someone against vaccination?
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by vageli 7y ago
Air strikes in Hong Kong? So the government would destroy the very thing they are attempting to keep from rebellion?
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by vageli 7y ago
> If you're a major player in a market space with huge network effects and you remove links that your users have posted (in-line with your user agreement on your website), that's anti-competitive behavior that has typically not
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by vageli 7y ago
As in, here on HackerNews? Because this site is not limited to tech topics? Here's another non-tech topic from the frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21117707
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by vageli 7y ago
My apologies for misinterpreting!!
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by vageli 7y ago
> Removing links to other platforms is anti-competitive full stop. Threatening de-verification due to links is even worse. > This is the behavior of monopolists. The FTC and existing anti-trust organizations would do well to return to
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by vageli 7y ago
> > As it's impossible to leave the building without a key in case of a fire. > Isn't that the case for most doors that lock? You can't leave through my (brand new, to-code) front door from inside without a key to un
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by vageli 7y ago
They signed an attestation, that is essentially using your authority to say something is yours. I would consider my ability to consent as something that belongs to me. This change indeed allows people to access my data (in this case, saying
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by vageli 7y ago
Good points. As a complete aside, your comment brought to mind one more group that might benefit: those in a relationship with someone whom they suspect is cheating on them.
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by vageli 7y ago
> Yeah. I'm ok with calling anything that looks weird a "paradox" (even stuff like "The Monty Hall problem"), but in this case describing the problem this way is precisely what's misleading about it: the per
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by vageli 7y ago
> In the U.S., there are laws that determine how many such spaces must be designated in parking lots, based on the size of the parking lot and/or venue. > I have a friend who is physically handicapped and very much needs to park
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by vageli 7y ago
> After that I just told her to either park in the disabled spots or the mother/child spots. She has more right to them than the lazy boomers and BMW drivers who consider them their private parking spots. I was with you till that st
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by vageli 7y ago
> As long as the dilemma to the user is presented as no privacy and get the job done vs privacy but don't get the job done, consent will be given. You also get to demand access to your data and can instruct them to delete it (and th
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by vageli 7y ago
> how do you inspect the cellular network traffic? You can investigate cell traffic with an SDR.
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by vageli 7y ago
> Afaics it doesn’t get you on locked devices. You can install custom firmware, but you’d still need the passcode or face/finger to unlock the actual content. It opens the door for an evil maid attack though. Replace firmware of tar
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by vageli 7y ago
> In this metaphor the colour of the wall is equivalent to the product. If that's the case, asking about the choice of implementation language sounds like asking about the spec.
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by vageli 7y ago
> Edit: I just noticed that Stephenson gives GPS fixes to absurd precision (10 microarcminutes, or about 1.6 cm—on the ocean with a civilian GPS receiver in 1996, before GPS Selective Availability was turned off). It would seem GPS Selec
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by vageli 7y ago
> I use Rainloop web-mail ( https://www.rainloop.net/ ) on a remote machine. > Integrates seamlessly great into all of my environments. How have you set this up? I looked at this solution briefly and toyed with the idea

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