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by vageli 7y ago
> What if they just record you taking the package, follow you home, get a warrant based on probable cause, and search your house and find the package? What if you never opened the package before the warrant was executed? If you never ope
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by vageli 7y ago
> My thoughts exactly. People still have to provide some address to receive it, and if they are buying from a cop then when the package shows up the cops will be watching and when you grab it, you're busted. > Seems like you stil
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by vageli 7y ago
Could you back up this claim? Reading about fair dealing as it is called in UK law [0] leads me to believe otherwise, especially if the copy is used for archival purposes [1]. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_d
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by vageli 7y ago
This is exactly my point.
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by vageli 7y ago
Some network gear has this as a feature.
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by vageli 7y ago
> > We maintain our symbolic icons. > Until what the symbol represents starts to conflict with political ideology; then, the symbol gets dismantled to cut people off the undesirable heritage. Or coopted for use by the new ideology.
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by vageli 7y ago
> Privacy. > Don't want your picture taken all the time? Don't want everything you say recorded and archived? You might also not want everything you write to be archived. If you want control over your content, archives are a
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by vageli 7y ago
> Let's say you spend a few years building a site and then things change and you lose interest. You stop paying for hosting and let the domain drop? > Then someone catches the domain and recreates the site with your content, with
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by vageli 7y ago
But if it's online and not gated by login, it's explicitly public, unlike private correspondence.
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by vageli 7y ago
> This is a welcome step. I moved (back) to iPhone recently and one thing I miss from Android is Work Profiles that can be turned on and off and act as pretty much a separated user. It sounds like this is slightly more limited than that,
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by vageli 7y ago
I think _persistence of thought_ is the thing that separates us. We are able to look back on ideas first thought by thinkers thousands of years ago and continue to riff off/transform ideas of old. That enables us to keep a catalogue no
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by vageli 7y ago
But credit cards _do_ exist. Who cares about hypotheticals where they don't?
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by vageli 7y ago
> > Use self-hosted CAPTCHA with simpler solutions > My favorite CAPTCHA is the one on the Arch Linux forms but I realize this cant be used many places. > What is the output of "date -u +%V$(uname)|sha1sum|sed 's/
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by vageli 7y ago
> EU may end up dealing with it, they need complaints first. You’d be amazed how few people fill out complaints with the government. I just filed a complaint about this with the US department of justice antitrust division, feel free to d
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by vageli 7y ago
I'm frankly surprised there has not been an ADA-based lawsuit against Google. I can't tell you the number of times the audio captcha has been unavailable for "reasons".
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by vageli 7y ago
> Not far off from what it turns out (after investigation) really happened![1] > [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imran_Awan I don't see how that link supports your conclusion? From my reading of it, no d
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by vageli 7y ago
Preventing transacting with known "terrorists" as according to the OFAC list (in the US at least)? That's just one other legitimate purpose.
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by vageli 7y ago
> Your delivery address proves your jurisdiction in case of weed. What if that address is a mail forwarder? How do you prove that I reside at the delivery address?
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by vageli 7y ago
> The best solution in this case is to stop means testing them, and also convert every plausible benefit from stuff to cash-to-buy-stuff-with (i.e. UBI). Because at that point it's the same as voting, all you have to prove is citize
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by vageli 7y ago
> >Truly there are almost zero situations in which an entity needs to know your real identity. > 1000 percent this! > What entities really need to know to do their function is shockingly small compared to what they ask for. Here
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by vageli 7y ago
> A bank needs to be able to recheck every client's status any time the rules change (which happens on a weekly basis). If they don't hold adequate information about their clients, that would mean suspending their accounts unti
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by vageli 7y ago
> Even with banks, what they really need to know is that you are not laundering money and you pass KYC checks. Verifiable claims would be a way to pass those checks and get a bank account without the bank needing to store any of your per
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by vageli 7y ago
> You need decentralized apps for centralized identity to work I think. Ironic I guess. Can you expand on this? I don't see how that conclusion follows.
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by vageli 7y ago
> It's currently heavily focused towards The Netherlands, where citizens can obtain attributes from the Dutch civil registry, such as name, home address and age. These attributes can then be selectively disclosed directly to a relyi
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by vageli 7y ago
> perhaps performing computations is to studying computation as observing the universe through a telescope is to studying it. This is an interesting thought, but the two seem fundamentally different in nature (active vs passive).
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by vageli 7y ago
> While we’re talking about metaphors: this reminds me of the distinction between craft and art. Where one is the creation or something elegant and functional (craft, lisp), the other treats more important the ideas being put into practi
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by vageli 7y ago
> I've grown accustomed to switching on my exploding/disappearing messages when these topics come up. Every platform needs this for some semblance of privacy. In banking in particular, that is a no go (in the US at least).
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by vageli 7y ago
> I was surprised, when I tried Blendle, that there wasn’t an easy way to jump from a free article on a newspaper’s website to the paid version on Blendle. > Instead, if I followed a free or paywalled link on HN, I had to copy the tit
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by vageli 7y ago
> There was some music event recently that prevented vendors from selling water. > Instead they sold you a peanut for $2 and the water was for free. > Mind you the venue was selling water for like $8 a bottle. All it takes is one p
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by vageli 7y ago
This reminds me of how pachinko operates in Japan despite the ban on gambling.

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