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811.
by x1798DE 12y ago
Hardly ironic. Companies that utilize customer data are the most at risk from reactions to government surveillance. Many people are much, much less concerned with a company having their data (which they will use to show you more effective
812.
by x1798DE 12y ago
Yes, that's what I'm saying. I'm saying the other sensors the parent post mentioned weren't actually important with regards to driving, just our ability to parse the visual data into a meaningful model of the world aroun
813.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I would guess that the processing power is all that matters. It's not difficult or particularly dangerous to drive without being able to hear. I would guess that people driving remote controlled cars with 360-degree views but no other
814.
by x1798DE 12y ago
"OK, just spitballing here, but how about instead of leaving a back door open, we just don't lock one of the windows? Is that a good compromise for everyone?"
815.
by x1798DE 12y ago
This post is not really making any argument for slow, just saying that some good things happen slowly - though he doesn't actually specify a timescale, rendering the word "slow" meaningless anyway. If you could have the thing
816.
by x1798DE 12y ago
Where the "jobs" are going seems like the wrong question to me, honestly. I'm fine with not having a "job" as long as I have access to wealth - jobs are a cost we bear in order o generate wealth. The fact that we
817.
by x1798DE 12y ago
Case studies in education as applied to non-atypical brains are essentially worthless. You'd think that someone with a newfound scientific disposition might realize that you probably shouldn't make sweeping prescriptions based on
818.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I don't know that it's plainly better than a QR code, but your point is presumably well taken that if a broad area were saturated in ID signals that would be better than a single fixed QR code, once the user knows that the phys
819.
by x1798DE 12y ago
How is this similar to pet microchip implants? If there were a way to robustly put a QR code on my pet instead of using a microchip, I would - you'd be able to identify easily that the pet is tagged, and the readout devices would be mo
820.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I feel like none of the people commenting on the ToS did buy the services. They were warning people who might not have read them that you're not necessarily getting what you'd expect. It's a perfectly reasonable comment to
821.
by x1798DE 12y ago
That's not necessarily true at all. Imagine in 1900 I said, "We'll never get better at making digital music players until we start making them!", and then poured a bunch of money into single-purpose digital music players
822.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I think this is a good long-term goal, but one thing that's missing from this analysis is the urgency of the thing. Right now, we've never even put one person on Mars, and keeping any significant Martian population alive would b
823.
by x1798DE 12y ago
Gaps are 2^n-2^(n-1) = 2^(n-1)*(2-1) = 2^(n-1) So yeah, the gaps are just powers of 2.
824.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I think there's a problem with this reasoning, which is that it may be that these bugs are discovered now only because they are open source, and many more such deep bugs exist in closed-source software. The flip side of the boon that
825.
by x1798DE 12y ago
Hardly sounds like a "crack down", more like closing a loophole. And, frankly, it seems like a loophole that needs closing - the airlines were essentially paying people to take longer flights.
826.
by x1798DE 12y ago
It's also similar to patent trolls in that the people doing it breath oxygen and have skin. In the case of patent trolls, they're leveraging asymmetries in the legal system and flaws in intellectual property laws to profit from no
827.
by x1798DE 12y ago
Why? It wouldn't fail on an IPv4 address, so what's the difference?
828.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I feel the same way, but I get the impression that "kids these days" love that kind of thing, so the fact that you or I wouldn't use this isn't necessarily a bar to success.
829.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I'm not even sure it would be illegal even if you just started using Javascript miners on every page as a condition for viewing the page - with or without notice. I don't think many people would consider it illegal to display an a
830.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I don't think the comments about JS are out of date at all. I use NoScript and it breaks a shocking number of pages that are serving essentially static content that shouldn't require Javascript.
831.
by x1798DE 12y ago
Well the point is that it's a knowledge problem of how to best allocate resources. It's certainly possible that it wasn't an over-investment writ large just because a given company went out of business, but the point I was
832.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I'm not sure it follows that because currently successful enterprises utilize the bargain-basement prices of over-enthusiastic early ventures that we're better off (as a whole) if there are a lot of over-enthusiastic early venture
833.
by x1798DE 12y ago
Do you know if they did anything to mitigate replay attacks? If not, you could potentially capture someone's first call-hope and replay it until they fail. Presumably no one would want to, but people still like messing with one another
834.
by x1798DE 12y ago
It is almost certainly the case that there is no readily available mechanism for easily changing the price on credit card only machines without changing it on cash + credit card machines. Presumably changing the default pricing structure wo
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I think it's a mistake to think that you need a "secure e-mail provider". You can't trust third parties, so we need trustworthy clients and a robust PKI. Then, as far as content goes, you can use NSA-spy-mail.gov.ru for
836.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I remember when I first installed it that draft behavior was the default, but there's a config option to have it encrypt drafts before sending them to the server. As others have mentioned, it's pretty bad about deleting them when
837.
by x1798DE 12y ago
What free market proponents are in favor of free trade but against free immigration? In my experience part of the libertarian ethos is about opening up immigration. The only way I can imagine a free-market proponent who is in favor of free
838.
by x1798DE 12y ago
It seems to me like the time horizon for an attack on git based on SHA-1 collisions would be much, much longer than other similar collision attacks (like signing binary executables), because of the sequential nature of version control. Pres
839.
by x1798DE 12y ago
I'm not sure there's a meaningful distinction there. Caffeine is the (current) end product of an evolutionary process. If we went out and killed every caffeine-producing plant in existence today but continued to synthesize caffein
840.
by x1798DE 12y ago
>Additionally, making "security questions" passwords in and of themselves is going to tremendously increase the volume of your support tickets. At some point, you need to make a cost/benefit analysis and make a decision in

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