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by xoa 3y ago
> Feel free to chat with a lawyer, but truth can be defamatory Not in the US it can't, truth is an absolute defense against defamation. And while sure, absolutely lots of countries don't respect free speech or support robust c
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by xoa 3y ago
> If humans could live on laissez-faire capitalism, the US wouldn't have 11% of its population living below the poverty line. I think it might be a little more complex than that? "Living conditions in Europe - poverty and soci
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by xoa 3y ago
> If someone smears your name on billboards you're allowed to sue Sure, but you're not going to get anywhere with your suit unless it's defamation. "Smearing" your name with something you actually did is (and or
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by xoa 3y ago
> "Destroying a person's data" and "destroying Google's copies of that data" are two different things. Why? How many people may they share copies with before it's no longer allowed in your opinion? Wha
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by xoa 3y ago
> is being exercised to expunge demonstrably false information that We already have defamation law for that, have had it for literally centuries. If you can prove in court that something is defamation, you can then get court orders arou
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by xoa 3y ago
OK, so you're fine with being able to forcefully destroy people's diaries? Photographs? What about those with memory problems who depend on such external memories? > the former has a singular lifetime and there can only one ins
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by xoa 3y ago
A "right" to destroy other people's memories, and that it unironically goes under the shockingly Orwellian new speak "right to be forgotten", is one of the more horrifying recent things to see both spread and actual
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Critical vulnerabilities in Exim threaten over 250k email servers worldwide(arstechnica.com)
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by xoa 3y ago
Even ignoring a number of other tricks it could be using: > Jammers can use beam steering too. Beam steering doesn't make the beams curve though. The satellites know where the terminals are, and last I checked they do 8 or 16 bea
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by xoa 3y ago
Jamming ultimately works by known physics though, and Starlink seems like inherently an incredibly tough thing to jam (even ignoring anything in the future like optical). It's very high frequency, in LEO, using phase arrays and electro
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by xoa 3y ago
I'll be somewhat curious to see exactly what this entails, at least to the extent we ever get any details. One aspect could be another facet of Starlink that I think still hasn't gotten enough appreciation: the possibilities opene
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by xoa 3y ago
> The deployment is really easy to do I mean, fwiw here's what we do to deploy QuickBooks: double click on image or CD, drag/double click icon, follow any prompts, now it's done. Click on icon in dock to launch QB thereaf
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by xoa 3y ago
I wouldn't put them in the same bucket though exactly. Yes in the broad sense Challenger and Columbia were "organizational management failures", but the basic organizational failures was the whole federal process leading to t
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by xoa 3y ago
> Obviously there are people who can work without phone number, but the general population cannot. I think you're wrong in multiple ways. First, you are asserting a false dichotomy. Using phone numbers as one option for authentic
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by xoa 3y ago
> it's the lengths necessary in "the crypto nerd's imagination" that it's calling out As well as being a classic example of a strawman, how is the "crypto nerd" wrong? Encryption cipher in these cases
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by xoa 3y ago
> I think what you're missing, is the comic shows a scene with two guys, and the discussion shows the guy is in the other room. There are no guys in the other room 99.999999999% of the time. And it's mostly out of scope. >
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by xoa 3y ago
Sorry, I just edited to add that. But > I don’t see what’s wrong with this comic at all. Everything is wrong with that comic. > It’s saying that if someone really wants to get into your laptop, they can torture you for your credent
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by xoa 3y ago
Obligatory: that comic is one of the few (only?) times Mr Munroe got a topic completely, absolutely and utterly wrong and made a really, really bad comic. That it gets pushed an astonishingly high number of times on technical forums kind of
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by xoa 3y ago
> I have more faith in Bitwarden's ability to secure their servers than I do in my ability to secure my own server. Bitwarden has people who work on this full time, and I do not. First: E2EE. You're thinking in terms of a web
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by xoa 3y ago
I live in a rural area with indoor/outdoor cats and I've seen that too, honestly it feels like a pretty classic bathtub curve, or that curve showing experience vs survival whose name I'm spacing on, the one with the dangerous
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by xoa 3y ago
I'd assume the likes of airlines and cruise companies would all be cutting custom special deals with SpaceX, just like government, large enterprises etc? For SLAs, prioritizatoin and support if nothing else, if you're going to be
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by xoa 3y ago
> He's right. Usually you need an agreement to resell. That's not the argument though. The argument is if a few people living together in a building decide to just divide up a bill counts as "reselling". Or one perso
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by xoa 3y ago
> Since you ignored pretty much everything i said for whatever reason, i'll just say it again: it may be "just fine" in places that don't have extreme humidity and temperature deltas between night and day. All i can t
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by xoa 3y ago
> I'm unsure if you understood what i was talking about. outdoor ethernet requires a crimper, otherwise you can't guarantee water-resistance. No, it does not. I'm fairly sure you do not deal with outdoor networking of any
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by xoa 3y ago
> and dividing cost of service among several tenants could be considered to violate that Show me the caselaw where multiple people splitting a bill would be "reselling", not your head canon make believe if you're going to
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by xoa 3y ago
Additionally, holy crap has a lot changed in that time. Falcon 9 didn't complete its first landing until the very end of 2015 with Flight 20. What's now routine and key to their costs is a feat less than a decade old. SpaceX was
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by xoa 3y ago
> their router can be submitted to the elements, outdoors. good luck doing that with an rj-45 on the device Um, that's very, very easy to do actually. And indeed the original v1 Starlink cleanly separated the terminal and the route
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by xoa 3y ago
> Does Starlink offer a plan for multi-tenant buildings? I'm thinking condo with 30 units. It seems like it should be more efficient to run one high bandwidth connection than multiple regular customers. Could we share cost among all
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by xoa 3y ago
> Someone with physics knowledge please calm me down? All radio is non-ionizing EM, far lower frequency then visible light, thermal, etc. UV, Xrays, and gamma rays are in the opposite direction, higher frequency. Radio cannot do anythin
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by xoa 3y ago
Thanks for the reply. A few thoughts/niggles, though again this is not a huge deal, more of a "pour one out" moment. > What I find annoying is that lighting cables are rent-seeking proprietary Apple tech I don't thin

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