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by wtbob 10y ago
> If you'd sent it to the wrong wallet, OTOH, you'd just be at the mercy of the wallet owner to return the BTC. IIRC, a wallet is just a public key, so nearly any incorrect account number will be a public key for which no-one h
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by wtbob 10y ago
Seconded. It's nothing more than a nuisance, but one has to constantly carve up carcasses just in case, and constantly drop rotten meat. Not fun.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> If you don't have minimum standards for accessibility, you perpetuate a two-class system Reality is a multi-class system. It's always and everywhere going to be more difficult to get things done when one lacks a capacity w
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by wtbob 10y ago
This simply doesn't make sense. Yes, certainly, content should be made accessibly available. Yes, certainly, Berkeley's responsibility is to its enrolled students. But removing content from public access serves neither of those
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by wtbob 10y ago
> I thought it was interested that only a couple of years ago paying for IPs was very much against policy and now they even have pointers to brokers on the APNIC website. Selling things for what the market will bear is the only way we&
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Its been a few years since I left but when I was there all hardwired devices had a public IP address. Which is, of course, how it's supposed to be. I used to host a website from my dorm room. Every device on the Internet should
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by wtbob 10y ago
> just that the law accept that the "free speech" of a corporation and special interest groups will always overpower that of individuals. What about a body of individuals acting together — viz., a corporation? Do individuals
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> That's what we do, this generation buys drugs for the previous generation. Not really. Indeed, given voting patterns it's more like the older generation empowers enforcers to rob the younger generation and then empowers othe
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by wtbob 10y ago
> 2 years ago, she received a letter from her insurance company stating that because the FDA refuses to guarantee compound (made by hand) drugs, they will no longer cover her current nasal spray and she must move to one of the alternativ
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by wtbob 10y ago
> When I read this, it always makes me wonder what is going through your mind I don't think Snowden was right. He was, in fact, wrong as a matter of the law and the Constitution. His concerns were misplaced. Okay, that's fin
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by wtbob 10y ago
> oh no doubt, what was done to him is atrocious and repugnant. What has been done to Snowden that is atrocious and repugnant? He is the one who stole information; he is the one who absconded to adversary states. Nothing has been
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Pardonning Snowden while allowing the NSA to continue their business as usual would be strange. It would certainly not be symmetrical, since Snowden committed a crime while NSA has not (despite the rather theatrical claims of some).
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by wtbob 10y ago
That's how any economical selective-breeding programme is going to work. You gotta do something with the individuals not chosen to breed. Selling them for fur or food (or both), depending on what the market will bear is a rational
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by wtbob 10y ago
Are feral dogs and cats not, though? I.e., we accept the risk of pet cats and dogs escaping into the wild and reproducing, and they are quite savage hunters when they need to be (cats, IIRC, even kill just for sport).
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by wtbob 10y ago
> In my opinion, Snowden did something really patriotic He ignored the legal process for raising his concerns. He ignored the inspectors general. He stole information he had no legitimate need to access and fled to adversary states. H
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by wtbob 10y ago
Which I hate — it was so much cleverer when it was μBlock.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> Although I'm not sure how apparent this was in the 30s. I think in the 30s one could have said, 'fascists have killed their thousands, but communists have killed their millions' (the Holodomor was '32-'33). Ev
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by wtbob 10y ago
Mosaddegh died peacefully at home, despite his attempt to overthrow the Persian government.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> So she worked on freeing fascist aristocrats. Better fascists than communists.
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by wtbob 10y ago
The problem with mail-in ballots is that they can be (and often are) mailed in well before all the facts of the election are there.
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by wtbob 10y ago
The Congress could use its constitutional authority over weights & measures to prescribe a national system of ID numbers, administered by the states, with assignment at birth.
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by wtbob 10y ago
> That line of argument suggests you'd be happier with a human-readable format like JSON. Oh, that's rude. There's a huge difference between flipping a few bytes and committing a public indecency against God and man like
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by wtbob 10y ago
I have been a long-standing fan of the Hacker's Diet[1]. It makes sense, and it's easy to put into practice. [1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/
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Why HTML is inappropriate for email (2002)(avernus.com)
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by wtbob 10y ago
> To reinterpret a 64-bit number as 32-bit in BE, you have to add 4 bytes to your pointer. In LE, the pointer doesn't change. But one shouldn't do that very often: those are two different types. The slight cost of adding a poi
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by wtbob 10y ago
> The Cap’n Proto encoding is appropriate both as a data interchange format and an in-memory representation, so once your structure is built, you can simply write the bytes straight out to disk! Eh, I'd rather pay the cost of serial
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by wtbob 10y ago
> At this point those are given prerequisites. No, no they are not. JavaScript is a privacy-destroying technology. It is a security-impairing technology. It is also pretty neat: it can be great in self-hosted applications, and it c
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It's simply not even worth the time to cater to you. That attitude is evil. That attitude underlies much (albeit not all ) that is wrong with the Web in 2016. That attitude is wrong. Espousing that attitude evidences a profound
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by wtbob 10y ago
> It's amazing that in 2016 people still don't know to press left and right arrows (or spacebar) in an online presentation. It's amazing that in 2016 people still don't fall back gracefully in the absence of JavaScrip
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by wtbob 10y ago
I can't read it, because it requires JavaScript to display images and text. Apparently HTML isn't good enough for that anymore.

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